Chinese Geography in Seventeenth Century

The seventeenth century was not only the social change period of late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty,but also the period which was affected by the capitalist mode of production since the middle of Ming Dynasty.Chinese geography gave birth to new academic ideas in all aspects,and produced a lot of famous scholars and a number of important geographic books with significance beyond the age.They proposed the statecraft theory and the relevant theory;paid attention to the geographical study;researched the geographical laws deeply,promoting the transformation of traditional geography to modern historical geography.It is worth a careful summary.Unfortunately,the harsh and feudal regime of Qing Dynasty destroyed the shoots of capitalist mode,causing obstacles and retrogression of history.In the cultural sector, vigorously feudal literary inquisition were produced.It also spread to the field of geography,and end the advanced one to several centuries in the West,the idea died of modern geography,the geography field work together with the rigorous methods have been stifled.Geographic scholars have fall into desk research,divorced from reality astray.The result of our modern geography of advanced ideas and methods of work interruption.The ideas of modern geography which was more several centuries advanced than the West died,along with rigorous methods of field work in geography stifled.The result of our modern geography of advanced ideas and methods of work was interrupted.It is worth a careful summary.