Historical Survey of the Yellow River and the River Civilizations

Jianxiong Ge is a famous Chinese Historical Geographer and an expert in the studies of Chinese history and demographic history. He is Professor and Former Director of the Institute of Historical Geography of Fudan University in Shanghai, and Director of the Fudan University Library. He is one of the first two recipients of the doctoral degree in humanities in the People’s Republic of China. He is Member of Chinese National Committee for the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (CNC-IGBP). He is Editorial Board Member of HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY, etc. His research interests include historical geography and human geography. Yunsheng Hu specializes in the research into the Hui Nationality in Henan Province, China. He is an expert in Huisology and has visited agglomerations of Hui nationality in more than 100 counties in Henan and collected almost all the ethnographies and inscriptions in these areas. Yunsheng Hu has published more than 40 theses on Huisology. Qingyong Wang is Professor of Tianjin University of Technology and is the invited translator of The Commercial Press and Routledge in the China Perspectives series and the translation instructor in the Yellow River Xiaolangdi Project. His research areas include Chinese culture and its translation into English, Chinese history translation, English and American literature, nineteenth century and twentieth century American novels. He has published more than 20 papers on China’s core journals.

• Foreword.- Introduction: Rivers and the River Civilizations.- The Yellow River and the Yellow River Civilization.- The Yellow River Civilization and the Yangtze River Civilization.- The Yellow River Civilization and the River Civilizations of the World.- The Yellow River and Its People.- The Yellow River and Its Sustainable Development.- Bibliography.