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Cultivation Development and Expansion in China's Colonial Realm in Central Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Herold J. Wiens
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Views of desert regions of the world as areas with little productive use for the support of mankind have always been tempered by the optimism expressed in the phrase “to make the desert bloom like the rose.” We also know that the concept of the “Garden of Eden” was evolved in a desert environment. Thus, it is well realized that in a temperate or warm arid region, the flow of water from springs or from exotic rivers or the availability of fresh ground water derived from distant rainfall or snow-melt may create green oases of productive agriculture. One such region is China's colonial realm of Sinkiang, and especially the Tarim basin in central Asia. Here, such land and water resources presently provide some seven million people with food and materials for clothing. This also is a region with valuable unexploited mineral resources both varied and substantial.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , November 1966 , pp. 67 - 88
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966

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