Prehanov thinks Marx’s geographical theory is that geographical conditions have effect on human society through productive forces and relations of production, which is usually regarded as a developing notion of Marxism.

Nature's Help to Literature Creation:Nature Environment Theory in Wen Xin Diao Long

For a long time, the role of nature has always been ignored in historical research, due to the influence of mechanical outlook about nature as well as environmental determinism, and little understanding of the ecoligical value of nature.

This paper looks back on the brief course about the discuss on of important theoretical issues of environmental determinism in China since 1983.

It expounds the contribution and influence of Liang Qichao,a representative figure of the Reform Movement of 1898, in the following aspects as introducing man-land interrelation and environmental determinism of western modern geography in the diffusion process of western technology and culture between the late of Qing Dynasty and the beginning of R.

Based on the history of the theory of the relationship between people and land this paper proposes one view about the person relations hypothesis called Geographical environment guidance theory, and thus using this theory to the explanation of the leadship and backwardness of China in Chinese history.