Takla Makan Desert: References & Edit History
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- Tarim Basin
- Xinjiang
Additional Reading
Information on the Takla Makan Desert is available in surveys of explorations in the area: Jack Autrey Dabbs, History of the Discovery and Exploration of Chinese Turkestan (1963), a comprehensive introduction with a bibliography; and Sven Hedin, Central Asia and Tibet, trans. from Swedish, 2 vol. (1903, reprinted 1991), and Across the Gobi Desert (1931, reprinted 1977; originally published in Swedish, 1928). Other records of archaeological and geographic explorations in the area include Aurel Stein, Ruins of Desert Cathay: Personal Narrative of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China, 2 vol. (1912, reprinted 1996), and On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks: Brief Narrative of Three Expeditions in Innermost Asia and North-Western China (1933, reissued 1982); Owen Lattimore, Inner Asian Frontiers of China (1940, reprinted 1988); Paul Pelliot, Les Grottes de Touen-Houang: peintures and sculptures bouddhiques des époques des Wei, des T’ang, et des Song, 6 vol. in 4 (1914–24); Peter Hopkirk, Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia (1980, reissued 2001); and Basil Davidson, Turkestan Alive: New Travels in Chinese Central Asia (1957). An overview of the contemporary economic and social situation is presented in Terry Cannon and Alan Jenkins (eds.), The Geography of Contemporary China: The Impact of Deng Xiaoping’s Decade (1990).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add new Web site: Nature - Nature Communications - Recent wetting trend over Taklamakan and Gobi Desert dominated by internal variability. | Nov 26, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: UNESCO World Heritage Centre - Taklimakan DesertPopulus euphratica Forests. | Oct 14, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Frontiers - Frontiers in Environmental Science - Ecologic Service, Economic Benefits, and Sustainability of the Man-Made Ecosystem in the Taklamakan Desert. | Jun 11, 2024 | ||
| Added map that depicts the geographic extent of the Takla Makan Desert. | Nov 02, 2017 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Nov 02, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Encyclopedia Iranica - Taklamakan. | Feb 20, 2014 | ||
| Media added. | Nov 14, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: World Wildlife Fund - Taklimakan Desert. | Feb 21, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fact Monster - World - Taklimakan. | Feb 21, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Cultural China - Scenery - Taklamakan Desert. | Feb 21, 2011 | ||
| Bibliography revised. | Mar 29, 2007 | ||
| Article thoroughly revised. | Mar 29, 2007 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 28, 1999 |