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East Asia
About: East Asia is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 17591 publications have been published within this topic receiving 274073 citations. The topic is also known as: Eastern Asia.
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TL;DR: In this article, the spatial and temporal relationship of drought occurrence and intensity between Korea and East Asia, the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), calculated from Climatic Research Unit (CRU) monthly precipitation data, was used from 1951 to 1996.
Abstract: To investigate the spatial and temporal relationships of drought occurrence and intensity between Korea and East Asia, the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), calculated from Climatic Research Unit (CRU) monthly precipitation data, was used from 1951 to 1996. It is found that the frequency of occurrence of droughts in Korea has significant time intervals of 2–3 and 5–8 years and has been increasing since the 1980s. Correlation and composite analyses showed that the occurrence of droughts over central eastern China, Manchuria, and the north coast of Japan was highly correlated with those in Korea. However, the time scales of occurrence of droughts over the three regions were different. Droughts in eastern China represented in-phase variations with those in Korea with a time interval of 5–8 years, whereas those in Manchuria occurred with a time interval of 15 years, and those in Japan had no coincident variations.
To assess the feasibility of usage of proxy climate data in eastern China for the research of droughts in Korea during the pre-instrumental period, dry–wet indices in six regions of eastern China were correlated to the SPI values in Korea for the period of 1951–92 considering several time scales. Dry–wet indices of region V showed a larger correlation and the most similar trend to the droughts in Korea with a time scale of 5–11 years. This suggested an effective utilization of historical records and other proxy data in eastern China to understand extreme climatic events in Korea for the past 500 years. Copyright © 2003 Royal Meteorological Society.
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TL;DR: Pomeranz as mentioned in this paper argues that the divergence between development and involution in Europe and China did not occur until after 1800, mainly because of the lucky availability of coal resources for England, and also of other raw materials from the New World.
Abstract: Kenneth pomeranz argues that “the great divergence” between development and involution in Europe and China did not occur until after 1800. Until then, Europe and China were comparable in population history, agriculture, handicraft industry, income, and consumption. Europe before 1800, in other words, was much less developed than the last two decades of scholarship have led us to believe, while China before 1800 was much less involuted. To make his case, Pomeranz spotlights England, the most advanced part of Europe, and the Yangzi delta area, the most advanced part of China. They diverged only after 1800, mainly because of the lucky availability of coal resources for England, and also of other raw materials from the New World.
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TL;DR: Panel data from three waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey confirm that no single one-child policy exists; policy varied considerably from place to place and within individual communities during the 1989-93 period.
Abstract: Of all the reforms and policies set in motion in the early 1980s in China, the one-child policy has been called the most far-reaching in its implications for China's population and economic development. Almost two decades later, little is known about what the policy looks like across local neighborhoods and villages. To sketch a more general picture of the one-child policy, this article presents panel data from three waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (1989, 1991, and 1993) collected in 167 communities in eight provinces. Local policy, including policy strength and policy incentives and disincentives, is detailed separately for urban and rural areas. These data confirm that no single one-child policy exists; policy varied considerably from place to place and within individual communities during the 1989-93 period.
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01 Jan 1982
TL;DR: Rice area by type of culture: South, Southeast, and East Asia, Rice area by kind of culture as discussed by the authors : South, SE, and EAST Asia, Southeast and Southeast Asia.
Abstract: Rice area by type of culture: South, Southeast, and East Asia , Rice area by type of culture: South, Southeast, and East Asia , مرکز فناوری اطلاعات و اطلاع رسانی کشاورزی
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