How the Chinese discovered the ice : China's first expedition to Antarctica, 1984-1985

• Main Author: Forêt, Philippe
• Format: Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Indiana State University 1995
• Subjects: cultural studies; Chinese Antarctica; Chinese scientific expeditions; King George Island (Chile); cultural landscape; geomancy; Antarctic; Drake Passage; King George Island; Nelson Island; The Antarctic; Wanglong Yan; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/215111/

This is a short but intriguing piece on the "humanizing" of the Antarctic landscape by the First Chinese Expedition to Antarctica. Readers are invited to consider what may be learned by contemplating the superimposition of geomantically-loaded names like "Wanglong yan" on a lands...