China

Land and people

Physical geography is surveyed in The Physical Geography of China, 2 vol., trans. from Russian (1969), prepared by the Institute of Geography, U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences; The Soil Atlas of China (1986), compiled by the Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences; and Shih-hsun Ch’en, The Climate of China (1962). Studies of minority populations include June Teufel Dreyer, China’s Forty Millions (1976); and S. Robert Ramsey, The Languages of China (1987). Also useful are Judith Banister, China’s Changing Population (1987); and The Population Atlas of China (1987), on the 1982 census, prepared by the Population Census Office of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Daniel L. Overmyer, Religions of China: The World as a Living System (1986), is an introduction to religion in everyday life.