A recent travel writer summed up this challenge with the title to his book Lost On Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man’s Attempt to Understand the World’s Most Mystifying Nation. Many Westerners have difficulty understanding China, which makes what one sees on the landscape even harder to comprehend.
As a result, Americans have an extremely limited, often inaccurate, perception of the structures in China’s everyday built environment. For example, geography textbooks often present students with a limited range of Chinese images such as terraced rice fields, a modern city skyline, or historical landscapes such as the Forbidden City or the Great Wall. Most Americans lack accurate mental images of what China looks like. Twenty-nine photos accompany this article. High population densities and limited land resources lead to little idle land, Anhui Province.
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