China

China’s People and Culture

• World’s most populous country• Policy to control population growth

– rewards and punishments• Largest ethnic group – Han• Atheist state (Communist)–

– many practice Confucianism

One Child Policy

• Restricts urban families to only one child

• About 36% of China’s current population falls under the policy

• Families are fined based on income levels– Lead to female babies being much less

desirable– Abandonment or infanticide

China’s Agriculture

4 REGIONS

• 1.North East• 2. South East• 3. North West• 4. South West

North East• Administrative &

industrial Center• 1 of the world’s

largest cultural hearths

• Beijing – 20 million people

– Capital w/ problems• Pollution• Dust storms

The Forbidden City

Tiananmen Square

The Great Wall of China

Why is the Huang He called “yellow river”?

• Loess that is washed into river

• Nickname: – “China’s

sorrow” – Flooding has killed

over 1 million people

Yellow River

Yangtze River

South East

• Agricultural center due to climate

• Intensive farming (double cropping)

• Yangtze River– China’s eastern

hwy• Shanghai

– Largest city:•23 million people •(port)

Shanghai Skyline

North West

• Barren land• Gobi Desert• Silk Road

crossed this landscape

• Nomadic herding

The Silk Road

South West

• Plateau of Tibet (Xizang)

• Traditional society of Tibet, led by Dalai Lama

• Invaded by Chinese• Tibet is an

autonomous region – but little self government.