1. © T. M. Whitmore Today China  Population  Mobility  History  Economic geography

2. © T. M. Whitmore Last time China  Scale & isolation  Physical environments  Agriculture

3. © T. M. Whitmore Chinese Population Issues Population growth- sizesize  Revolutionary changes  Mortality Mortality  Fertility Fertility Ethnic composition  Han Chinese  Others Spatial distribution  mostly in east  Urbanization/transport

4. © T. M. Whitmore Chinese Mobility Shift from bicycles to carsbicycles Maoist structure – small urban collectives Highway construction Highway Now #3 producer of cars Shift to suburban structuresuburban  “Big Box” storesBig Box

5. Population Cartogram (size on map proportional to population)

8. © John Wiley & Sons

9. © W.H. Freeman & Co.

11. Population Pyramid of China, 2000 Note “excess” males

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16. N China Plain

17. © John Wiley & Sons

18. South China

23. What world city since 1990 has built almost 3,000 buildings with 18 or more stories? © Bret Wallach

25. © T. M. Whitmore

28. Ng Han Guan, AP, USA Today

30. www.lutherie.net/sold.jpg

32. © T. M. Whitmore Chinese history (briefly!) Chinese dynasties from 200s BC to ~ 1800dynasties European trade and influence 1700s onward European trade Japanese empire Japanese Post WWII - rise of Communists

33. © T. M. Whitmore

35. Silk and Porcelain Products Desired by Europeans - Chinese traded for silver/gold

37. Opium Wars – British push for control of trade

38. © T. M. Whitmore Japanese Empire in WW II

39. © T. M. Whitmore Post WW2 – Rise of Communism Communist takeover in 1949 led by Mao Zedong Centrally planned command economy 1960s – stamp out capitalism Mao died in 1976

40. © T. M. Whitmore Chinese Economic geography China’s North (Manchuria)Manchuria North China plain Lower Yangtze river basin (Shanghai)  Industrial development Sichuan basin South coastal region

41. Sichuan Hong Kong

42. © John Wiley & Sons

44. © T. M. Whitmore "Socialism with Chinese characteristics" Since the 1970’s - market-oriented economic reforms:  State-owned to private enterprises  Closed economy to foreign investment  Feudal agriculture to collectives to household responsibility system These have led to increased growth, inequality, rural-urban migration and pollution. inequality SEZ (Special Economic Zones) SEZ

48. Suzhou Industrial Park – in Jiangsu province (near Shanghai) www.sipac.gov.cn/english

49. Shenzhen SEZ (Special Economic Zone) - in Guangdong Province

51. © T. M. Whitmore Perspectives and problems Strong economic growthgrowth Chinese business diasporadiaspora Agriculture vs pop Pollution etc. Pollution

57. © 2002 Manfred Leiter China town in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

58. www.trekearth.com