AN INITIAL SURVEY OF ANCIENT CHINA GEOPOLITICS SPACE STRUCTURE COURSE AND PATTERNS
YAO Xiao-rui1,2
1. School of Tourism and Environment Science, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710062, China;
2. History Departmemt, Ningxia TV University, Yinchuan 750002, China
Abstract Within a long cycle of repetition situation, the course of ancient China geopolitics development got formed with the influence of the specific geographical environment and the internal space structure characteristic of ancient China geopolitics. And the development of the structure was within the internal logic. This formation was the result of long mutual interaction between the geographical environment and ancient political activities.
The geographical environment was the giant controller and the basic condition for the space structure existence which produced a great impact upon the location characteristic of ancient China political geography areas due to the latitude features and longitude changes. The ancient China geopolitics space structure was in a changing state, forming, developing and then gradually evolving into structures. This process had two stages including geography political changes and political geography changes. The early structure forming stage from scattering pattern to diverse trend core structure was the initial stage of the emerging structures. It reflected the ancient culture distribution from the Paleolithic Period to the Neolithic Age. The forming characteristic of the diverse-trend-core structure had a tendency of becoming three kinds of structure development. They were structures developing around the Central Pains with one core, being the main tendency, and the multiple spots and confronting structures. The latter two were of alienation due to the geographical environment influence. This was the process of geopolitics. And the period was the Ancient Times and the Warring States (475-221B.C). It was during Qin-Han Dynasties and Ming-Qing Dynasties that the structures gradually came into being with the repeated blending and mixing, mainly through space spread and internal reorganization, with one core structure changing into structures with a core on their own. However, this was the political geography process.
From the static analysis of the structure patterns, it is not hard to find out the key function features of the structures, including the strong whole function, the unique geography effect and the stable complex display which was shown by the structure repetition.
Anyhow this analysis of the ancient Chin geopolitics space structure is an outline of the whole. And the research is preliminary and exploratory. With the further going on of the research in detail, the characteristics of the ancient China politics process would be revealed in structuralism. And the ancient China political history would be further studied by the author to enrich the history studies of ancient China politics.
2008, Vol. 23 
