| Summary: | Walter Christaller's thesis, translated into Chinese, has been published in 1998 and reprinted in 2010: 德国 南部 中心 地 原理 / Déguó nán bù zhōng xīn de yuán lǐ, Beijing: The Commercial Press, 2010, 456 p., edited by CHANG, Zhengwen, WANG, Xingzhong et al. The translation is complete, unlike Carlisle W. BASKIN's English, which concerns only two-thirds of Christaller's thesis. This Chinese translation is preceded by a foreword by an author who is not one of the translators.The following text, after an introduction on the dissemination of Christaller's ideas in China from 1964 to the present day, examines from a historical, practical and epistemological point of view the way in which his ideas are presented in this preface, before specifying the links between the main Christallerian notions and their equivalent in ancient and contemporary China. A French translation of the Chinese preface is proposed in a first appendix. A second appendix gives biographical information on the main Chinese geographers responsible for disseminating Walter Christaller's ideas in China.
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