Belső-Kína mint természetföldrajzi táj a kelet-ázsiai gazdasági régióban

Abstract

This is very difficult to eliminate East Asia and define it as homogenous either as a landscape or as an economic, geopolitical or cultural region. While political borders of today countries cannot delimit an integrated area in any sense, physical geographic features clearly determine the frames of agriculture and as its counterpart: human behavior’s influence on the environment is evident from a regional viewpoint. Nevertheless, there is a secondary interconnectedness between the historically developed and modified physical and economic area. Various cultural influences, for instance rice cultivation, created an agriculturally homogenous region including Japan but also contributed to the spread of many related cultural traits in the area. This process also formed human relationship to environment and mentality, which finally had feedback on the economy even not related to agriculture at all. In this study we are going to draw the borders of the physically, economically and politically interrelated East Asian region and landscape – more narrowly China Proper –, and find those points where these different systems of aspects are closest to each other.

Keywords

• east asia
• regional boundaries
• china
• japan
• korea