macroregion

• “Due to the above-mentioned reasons, the book refers to the whole Yunnan-Guizhou macroregion in references to Yunnan before the Ming Dynasty.”

  Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)

• “Scholars in China have begun using the term xi'nan again, regarding it as a macroregion with local characteristics and identity.”

  Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)

• “See Dai 1996, 3-4; Herman's 1997 research has not given a definition of "the Southwest," but his paper mainly examines Yunnan-Guizhou and part of Sichuan and Huguang, following Skinner's Yun-Gui macroregion. back”

  Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)

• “He puts most of Sichuan in "Upper Yangtze," and he treats Yunnan and Guizhou together as an independent macroregion.”

  Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)

• “Xi'nan, to Skinner, lacks the connotation of the sort of internal homogeneity necessary for a physiographical region. 16 Many Western scholars accept Skinner's Yunnan-Guizhou macroregion (hereafter, Yun-Gui), sometimes under the term xi'nan.”

  Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)

• “For example, James Lee follows Skinner's Yun-Gui macroregion, which includes "the entire province of Yunnan, Guizhou Province south of the Wu River, as well as Xichang Prefecture and the Liangshan Semiautonomous Yi Region of Sichuan Province.”

  Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)

• “Skinner's macroregion pattern is based on physiographic features that naturally characterized each unit, while James Lee's approach is based on political economy.”

  Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)

• “As a self-contained unit, each of these macroregions had its own center and periphery, and the development of the center relied on the underdevelopment of its periphery, except for the Yun-Gui macroregion, which lacked an internal system because of the relative underdevelopment in this mountainous area.”

  Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)

• “With a long-term perspective, the whole Yunnan-Guizhou macroregion had occupied this middle space for ages.”

  Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)

• “First, Skinner's Yun-Gui macroregion does not pay appropriate attention to cross-regional connections between Yunnan and Southeast Asia and beyond.”

  Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)

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