Chen Cheng-siang () (1922 – 2003)Biography of Chen Cheng-siang
was a

Chinese Chinese can refer to: * Something related to China * Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity **''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation ** List of ethnic groups in China, people of va ...

geographer from the

Republic of China Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast ...

. He was Professor of Geography and Director of the Geographical Research Center at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and

Taiwan University National Taiwan University (NTU; ) is a public research university in Taipei, Taiwan. The university was founded in 1928 during Japanese rule as the seventh of the Imperial Universities. It was named Taihoku Imperial University and served ...

of Republic of China. He wrote the entry on China for '' Encyclopædia Britannica''.Britannica Online Encyclopedia
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Works

*''Taiwan: An Economic and Social Geography'' (台灣地誌) *''Economic geography and geology of Guangdong province'' (廣東地誌, Cosmo book shop, Hong Kong, 1978) *''Yangtze River and Yellow River'' (長江與黃河, Commercial Press Publishing House, Hong Kong, December 1978 )

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1922 births 2003 deaths Chinese geographers Academic staff of the National Taiwan University Academic staff of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Scientists from Wenzhou Taiwanese people from Zhejiang Chinese expatriates in Italy Educators from Wenzhou Writers from Wenzhou 20th-century geographers Chinese expatriates in Taiwan Chinese expatriates in British Hong Kong {{Geographer-stub