Southern Shaanxi Province Environment and American Crop Planting in the Qing Dynasty

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10.2991/iceemr-18.2018.132How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Environment history, southern Shaanxi, Qing dynasty, American high-yield crops

Abstract

In this article, we take American crops which introduced in southern Shaanxi as the research object. From the perspective of environmental history, literature analysis methods were used to understand the interaction process between the human and the natural environment of southern Shaanxi in the process of the introduction of American crops in the Qing Dynasty. The results indicated that: (1) The Qing government's population policy was the reason why corn has been widely introduced in southern Shaanxi. And corn has become an aid to the economic development in southern Shaanxi. (2) The problem of famine during the Qianlong years prompted the sweet potato to become the official introduced crops in southern Shaanxi. (3) Potatoes were the final choice of crops in the highland reclamation areas in southern Shaanxi.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xingying Wang
AU  - Jian Zhang
PY  - 2018/06
DA  - 2018/06
TI  - Southern Shaanxi Province Environment and American Crop Planting in the Qing Dynasty
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 2nd International Conference on Education, Economics and Management Research (ICEEMR 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 556
EP  - 559
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/iceemr-18.2018.132
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