China - West China Panorama (English)

Situated in the central part of the Asian continent, the western region of China is on the rooftop of the world. With an area larger than half of Europe, it has a favorable geographical location. From west China, one can easily travel westward to reach Central Asian countries and even Amsterdan in Europe. It adjoins Southeast Asia and the South Asian subcontinent in the southwest, and the Beibu Gulf and South China Sea in the south. The region encompasses one-third of China's administrative regions-Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, Chongqing Municipality, and the Ningxia Hui, Xingjiang Uygur, Guangxy Zhuang, Inner Mongolia and Tibet autonomous regions. Covering 5.4 million square km. West China equals 56 percent of the nation's total land area, and supports a population of 280 million, or 23 percent of the national total.

To get to know west China, begin with its most famous waterways, the Yangtze and Yellow rivers, both of which have nurtured the country s 5,000-year-old civilization. Taking melted glacial and snow water from the Kunlun and Himalayan mountains in the western region, the Yangtze and Yellow rivers flow eastward before emptying into the sea.

West China Panorama is an album with beautiful pictures and explanatory text, introducing places of cultural and historic interest, landscapes, religions and folk customs of West China.

Book title: Culture of China Series: West China Panorama
by Huang Wei (Text)
Published by Foreign Languages Press, 2002
Language: English
ISBN 7119031163 9787119031163
Hardcover, illustrated, dimension 190mm x 170mm, 107 pages

品名: 走进西部（英文版）
作者: 黄卫 编著，王燕娟 英译
出版社: 外文出版社
ISBN: 9787119031163
出版时间: 2002-01
装帧: 精装
开本: 32开
页数: 107页

内容提要 
本书主要讲述了中国的西部，来到这里饱览高山峡谷、田园牧歌、雪山圣湖、原始森林、草原牦牛、戈壁沙漠、历史遗迹等。美得让我们流泪，美得让我们心醉。要么读书，要么旅行，心灵和身体必须有一个在路上。

Tags: Chinese culture, ethnic minorities, West China, Chinese festivals, tourist sites, costumes