china. china’s people and culture world’s most populous country policy to control population...
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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.