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'''Wen Huanran''' (文煥然) (1919/1920 – 1986/1990) was a Chinese [[historical geographer]], who pioneered study in the history of China's natural geography.
==Life==
Wen Huanran was born in [[Hunan province]] in 1919<ref name="Harris2014"></ref> or 1920.<ref name="HsiehHsieh2009"/> He studied history and geography at [[Zhejiang University]], where he was influenced by the historical graographer [[Tan Qixiang]]. After graduating in 1944, he joined the Institute of Geography at the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences|Academia Sinica]]. His research traced the distribution of plants - such as forests, bamboo and citrus fruits – as well as animals - such as Chinese alligators, peacocks, giant pandas, horses, donkeys, camels, gibbons, rhinoceroses and Asian elephants.<ref name="HsiehHsieh2009"></ref> His demonstration that wild elephants were once widespread across China, and his charting of their retreat to the [[Yunnan]] area, influenced [[Mark Elvin]]'s book ''The Retreat of the Elephants''.<ref name="Trautmann2015"></ref>
Wen died in 1986<ref name="Harris2014"/> or 1990.<ref name="HsiehHsieh2009"/> A posthumous collection of Wen's research was published by his son, Wen Rongshen, in 1995.
==Works==
* (ed. Wen Rongshen) ''Zhong guo li shi shi qi dong ban nian qi hou leng ai bian qian''. Beijing, 1995.
==References==
[[Category:Environmental historians]]
[[Category:Historical geographers]]
[[Category:Chinese geographers]]
[[Category:1919 births]]
[[Category:1986 deaths]]
==Life==
Wen Huanran was born in [[Hunan province]] in 1919<ref name="Harris2014"></ref> or 1920.<ref name="HsiehHsieh2009"/> He studied history and geography at [[Zhejiang University]], where he was influenced by the historical graographer [[Tan Qixiang]]. After graduating in 1944, he joined the Institute of Geography at the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences|Academia Sinica]]. His research traced the distribution of plants - such as forests, bamboo and citrus fruits – as well as animals - such as Chinese alligators, peacocks, giant pandas, horses, donkeys, camels, gibbons, rhinoceroses and Asian elephants.<ref name="HsiehHsieh2009"></ref> His demonstration that wild elephants were once widespread across China, and his charting of their retreat to the [[Yunnan]] area, influenced [[Mark Elvin]]'s book ''The Retreat of the Elephants''.<ref name="Trautmann2015"></ref>
Wen died in 1986<ref name="Harris2014"/> or 1990.<ref name="HsiehHsieh2009"/> A posthumous collection of Wen's research was published by his son, Wen Rongshen, in 1995.
==Works==
* (ed. Wen Rongshen) ''Zhong guo li shi shi qi dong ban nian qi hou leng ai bian qian''. Beijing, 1995.
==References==
[[Category:Environmental historians]]
[[Category:Historical geographers]]
[[Category:Chinese geographers]]
[[Category:1919 births]]
[[Category:1986 deaths]]
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