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Take a look at China's sunken courtyard houses, where people traditionally lived in pit homes carved into the ground
Also called "dikengyuan" in Mandarin, which means "pit courtyards," the homes are a type of cave dwelling ("yaodong") commonly found in the Loess Plateau in northern China. "Academic literature ...
The Maneater10d
REVIEW: ‘May the Soil Be Everywhere’ is an organic and touching portrait of a family’s long-lost ancestry
Together, director Yehui Zhao and the audience celebrate the survival of a  memory between a family and the land they were ...
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Onwards and upwards
A team led by IGGCAS researcher, Tungsheng Liu, a CAS member, has traced the history of aeolian dust sediments in northern China to tens of millions years ago by surveying the Loess Plateau and ...
中国日报网20d
A cultural landscape forged by nature
Terraced fields spreading across the Loess Plateau in Linfen, one of the highly recommended destinations in Shanxi province.ZHU XINGXIN/CHINA DAILY/LI YU/LI XIANJUN/FOR CHINA DAILY Shanxi is ...
The Star20d
Interview: China takes great strides in addressing climate change, says U.S. scholar
Cobb, an ecological economist, pointed to China's successful conservation initiatives in the Loess Plateau, located in north-central China, as a prime example. "The conservation measures in the ...