Qinghai means "blue lake," and indeed the name of the province comes from the pristine waters of the vast Qinghai Lake high on the plateau-the "roof of the world"

The Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region is situated in the northwest of China. Ningxia is one of the five provincial-level autonomous regions in China

The history of the Mongol people was forged on horseback, history full of concuests and archievements, producing the most outstanding hero of his age-Genghis Khan

В своих путевых очерках автор рассказывает об истории заселения страны европейцами, об освоении ее огромных природных богатств, о сегодняшней жизни коренного населения Канады - индейцев и эскимосов, об их борьбе за свои права

Посвящена обсуждению одной из наиболее актуальных проблем современной науки - проблеме эвристической ценности использования гуманитариями методов Естественных наук

It is a guidebook for roughly half of the country"s provinces, autonomous regions and municipialities

The Qinghai-Tibet train can reach a spee of 100km/hour across a permafrost landscape, 120 km/hour on regular sections, which is currently the fastest speed cross-plateau trains can reach

Many Chinese feel like they are on another planet when they visit foreign countries of completely different cultures. Probably the same is true to foreigners who visit China

This book focuses on China"s past, from the beginning of the Chinese civilization to the 1911 Revolution, mainly reflecting the changes in the country, its population and territory, national features, philosophies, religions, ways of life, politics, economy, culture

THis book is about the geography of the USA. And although we look at the country`s physical geography, our central interest is not landforms, climate, soils, or vegetation but the human imprint on the landscape