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Take a look at China's sunken courtyard houses, where people traditionally lived in pit homes carved into the ground
Also called "dikengyuan" in Mandarin, which means "pit courtyards," the homes are a type of cave dwelling ("yaodong") commonly found in the Loess Plateau in northern China. "Academic literature ...
Dust dynamics and atmospheric circulation shifts in the Tarim Basin during the Glacial–Holocene transition
Between 15,000 and 8,000 years ago, the Earth experienced significant climatic changes, including the rapid retreat of ice ...
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Topographic Features in China
China's topography was completely formed around ... The second step includes the gently sloping Inner Mongolia Plateau, the Loess Plateau, the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, the Tarim Basin, the Junggar ...
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‘Only rain and snow for water’: Chinese filmmaker charts her family’s rise from harsh rural roots
In a pocket of the Loess Plateau, in central China's Shanxi province, Zhao found her way to the village of Xi Jiao Gou - and into the centre of a family story embracing revolution, famine ...
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Interview: China takes great strides in addressing climate change, says U.S. scholar
Cobb, an ecological economist, pointed to China's successful conservation initiatives in the Loess Plateau, located in north-central China, as a prime example. "The conservation measures in the ...