Beautiful Heilongjiang

Name: Beautiful Heilongjiang
ISBN: 9787509412701

董恒年Blue Sky Publishing House · ChinaApr 2015

3.4

Word count: 93K words
Chapters: 64
ISBN: 9787509412701

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Summary

Beautiful Heilongjiang is the most authoritative, comprehensive, and accessible popular-science geography book on Heilongjiang published in the past three decades. In this book, Heilongjiang — China's easternmost and northernmost province — is examined and interpreted in depth. Here mountains ring the waters and peaks embrace one another; the vast plains have nurtured the simple, warm-hearted people of Heilongjiang; the magical black earth is a heaven-sent soil for life, and the minerals hidden underground have driven the growth of local heavy industry... All of this is told in vivid language. Beautiful Heilongjiang offers readers a basic geographical overview of the province while presenting its beautiful natural scenery, cultural and historical sites, and unique characteristics. Exquisite photographs and fluent writing create a distinctive reading space — a window for entering Heilongjiang, understanding it, and coming to love it.

Editor's review

This is a popular-science book structured around the geography of a province, with nature and culture as its flesh and blood. Rather than reducing Heilongjiang to dry place names and statistics, it begins with the landforms of mountains and rivers, the vast plains and black soil, then extends to underground minerals, heavy-industry development, and local life, helping readers understand why this land developed its particular industries and character. Illustrated with fine photographs and written in fluent prose, it offers both an overview of the geography and a presentation of natural scenery, cultural relics, and local features—a journey from nature to culture on the page. For those planning a trip to Heilongjiang, it builds background understanding beyond the itinerary; for readers interested in geography, regional culture, and photography, it is an illustrated book to browse casually and revisit.

Who it's for

A good fit for

Travelers planning a trip to Heilongjiang who want advance knowledge of its geography and culture
Students and general readers interested in Northeast China's geography, black soil, and regional development
Primary and secondary school teachers needing local-geography readers or classroom enrichment materials
Casual readers who enjoy illustrated books and want an easy introduction to a province

Not a good fit for

Professional geographers seeking in-depth academic research, detailed data, and citations
Readers who prefer novels and stories and have little interest in popular geography or illustrated text
Short-term tourists wanting only practical travel tips such as accommodation and transport

Reading tips

Start with the table of contents and images to build an overall impression, then read selectively by theme: nature, culture, industry, and so on.
Before traveling to Heilongjiang, read the relevant chapters alongside a map and note places you want to visit.
When reading about minerals or industry, take simple notes linking the content to regional-development knowledge from geography textbooks.
It need not be read all at once; keep it in the living room or by the bed and browse according to interest.

About the publisher

Blue Sky Publishing House China · Founded in 1989

Blue Sky Publishing House is a publisher known for its travel geography and historical and cultural reading materials. Public information about it is limited, but the books in our catalog show that its publishing focuses mainly on travel, world history, foreign literature, and history reading. Representative titles include Beautiful Tibet, Beautiful Yunnan, Beautiful Jiangsu, Beautiful Hong Kong, and Beautiful Taiwan from the "Beautiful" series, as well as Illustrated World: Lost Civilizations and Greek Myths: Youth Edition, covering geographical features, the history of civilizations, and classic reading for young people. In terms of authors, the Geographical Society of China, the editorial board of the Illustrated World: National Geography Series, and authors such as Zhang Miaodi, Dong Hengnian, Wang Yue, and Gustav Schwab support its popular geography and humanities content. Overall, the publisher emphasizes accessible, illustrated presentation and brings geographical and historical-cultural knowledge to general readers.

版权信息
总序天人协和，穷极造化
黑龙江省行政区划图
01印象黑龙江
山环水绕，平原辽阔冰天雪地，银色世界
从肃慎古地到共和国行省
独特的边疆文化
商品粮基地，重工业发达
数字黑龙江
02自然奇景
漠河
漠河极光
五大连池
镜泊湖与吊水楼瀑布
兴凯湖
三江平原
伊春
嘉荫
扎龙自然保护区
双峰林场
二龙山
五营国家森林公园
03文明奇迹
鸡西
上京龙泉府遗址
卜奎清真寺
瑷珲城
塔子城遗址
圣·索菲亚大教堂
极乐寺与七级浮屠塔
哈尔滨文庙
大乘寺
虎头关帝庙
太阳岛
04最炫民族风
火炕
东北秧歌
古老年俗
赫哲族鱼皮文化
跳萨满
二人转
05特色聚焦
哈尔滨冰雪节
冰雪食品
乱炖
响水大米
关东三宝
哈尔滨红肠
猴头菇
美丽的雾凇
06风情小镇
亚布力镇
朗乡
乌苏镇
太阳岛俄罗斯小镇
07红色记忆
东宁要塞
虎头要塞
江桥抗战纪念馆
东北烈士纪念馆
第四野战军前线指挥部旧址
林海雪原威虎山风景区
侵华日军第七三一部队罪证陈列馆
美丽黑龙江地理名录

FAQ

Is this book a travel guide?

No. It mainly introduces Heilongjiang's geography, natural scenery, cultural relics, and local features, helping you understand the destination, but it generally does not include real-time practical information such as transport, accommodation, or ticket prices; for travel, check the latest information separately.

Can I understand it without a geography background?

Yes. The book introduces provincial geography in accessible language with images, so the threshold is low. When you encounter an unfamiliar place name, locate it on a map first, then read the text—this makes it easier to build a sense of space.

Is it suitable for reading with children?

Yes. The images and content on landforms and products easily spark children's interest; parents can use a map to have children find mountain ranges, plains, and rivers, turning the reading into a geography lesson on paper.

Will the information in the book become outdated?

Basic geography, natural scenery, and cultural overviews are relatively stable and remain useful for reference; for content involving industrial data, administrative divisions, or tourism facilities, it is advisable to cross-check with the latest sources.

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About the author

董恒年 Author

Dong Hengnian is an author whose work focuses mainly on travel books. Public information about him is limited, and details such as his nationality, dates of birth and death, and educational background are not recorded in the available sources. Eight of his works are known so far, including Beautiful Yunnan, Beautiful Hong Kong, Beautiful Macau, Beautiful Gansu, Beautiful Guangdong, Beautiful Heilongjiang, Beautiful Liaoning and Beautiful Xinjiang, all belonging to the "Beautiful" series of regional scenery books. These works show that his writing centers on various parts of China, with particular attention to western and border provinces such as Yunnan, Gansu and Xinjiang, as well as coastal and northeastern regions including Guangdong, Liaoning and Heilongjiang, while also covering the two special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau. Books of this kind typically present local natural scenery, cultural features and travel information in an illustrated format for general readers and travel enthusiasts. Overall, Dong Hengnian's works connect travel knowledge along regional lines, offering a measure of practicality and popular appeal and forming a fairly consistent series within the field of travel literature.