Chen Cheng-siang

Chen Cheng-siang (simplified Chinese: 陈正祥; traditional Chinese: 陳正祥; pinyin: Chén Zhèngxiáng) (1922 – 2003)[1] was a Chinese geographer.

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Chen.

He was Professor of Geography and Director of the Geographical Research Center at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He wrote the entry on China for Encyclopædia Britannica.[2]

Works
  • Taiwan: An Economic and Social Geography (台灣地誌)
  • Economic geography and geology of Guangdong province (廣東地誌, Cosmo book shop, Hong Kong, 1978)
  • Yangtze River and Yellow River (長江與黃河, Commercial Press Publishing House, Hong Kong, December 1978 )
gollark: You can, in general, reduce total badness. If we eliminated all cancer, say, this would probably lead to net happiness increase.
gollark: That's one of those stupid "balance"y proverbs.
gollark: WRONG!
gollark: This seems like more of an argument against killing existing ones than against not having new ones?
gollark: If your children are less likely to do well, just have more of them to increase the probability of one being well off or something? Or so you can have lots of them support you a bit in old age.

References
  1. Biography of Chen Cheng-siang (in Chinese)
  2. Britannica Online Encyclopedia


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