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| Asian in general as a continent |
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| largest land mass, population center, and economy throughout the last 5,000 years of human history |
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| Before the 1800s China was? in the 1800s what happened? |
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| China, Largest economy and population until 1800s. European industrialization, capitalism and imperialism allowed Europe to conquer part of China in the 1800s |
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| European colonialism in Asia, why? How did they do it? |
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| sought raw materials & markets for industrial products in large populations. Using indigenous elites to rule but followed existing boundaries created by earlier empires conquests |
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major colonial powers? Main difference? Who conquered china and south east asia? When? what did they lose? |
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Great Britain, France, Holland, Portugal, Spain, Russia, and Japan < main difference from Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. Japan conquered part of China and Southeast Asia during 1930s, but lost World War II |
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| Asia Since when has Asia gained Independence? begining with? allied against who? conflicts between? |
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since World War 2, with India in 1940s
2. China, North Korea, Viet Nam and USSR allied during Cold War against the U.S. and Japan
3. Many violent conflicts against core powers (e.g. Korean War, Viet Nam War), between Asian nations (e.g. India vs. Pakistan), and within nations (e.g. Cambodia, Sri Lanka) |
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| Asia's economys since independence? fastest growing economies in the world? worlds leading economic and political powers? Because of? |
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1.rapid economic development, Japan becomes the world’s second largest economy
2.Southeast Asian Tigers (Taiwan, South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand) since the 1960s
3.China 4.since opening to foreign investment and trade in the 1980s |
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| U.S. stereotype for Asia? truth? asian societs usually seen as? |
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1.all Asian nations and people are similar ("Asian-Americans")
2. tremendous diversity in culture, religion, economics, politics, and other social institutions
3. collectivists (oriented toward the group and the good of the group) vs. Western individualistic societies and cultures, but countries are very different, as we will see with China and Japan |
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| Natural Characteristics of China? causing? |
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. Large land area (larger than U.S.), Large climate and ecosystem diversity: from subtropical in south to temperate in north
3. Large areas of mountain and desert that cannot support many people. |
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| historically what divided the country china? |
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| Agriculture in large river valleys difficulty of transport, divided into distinct cultural and language regions. |
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| China's population? Population Issues in China? because? what about the rest of Asia? |
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1.2 billion people today, about 20% of the worlds population
2. 91 million (8%) are national minorities distinct from mainstream Chinese (Han) culture
a. minority population growing rapidly because government did not impose population control efforts on minority groups
b. many groups seek independence from China, including via rebellion, such as Tibet, Muslims in southwestern China.
3.Tens of millions of culturally Chinese peoples |
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| Chinese government considers groups opposing its rule as? what happens quite often to them? why? |
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| terrorists" and is seeking support from the U.S. and the West as part of the "war on terrorism" for its efforts to suppress minority populations. most are members of Chinese minority groups in other Asian nations (Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, etc.) that are often discriminated against and killed as scapegoats because of economic success via economic ties to families and businesses in China. |
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| Reasons why overpopulation wouldn't be so good? example? |
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lack of arable (farmable) land and large size of population seen as a major economic, social, and political threat by Chinese government.
2.large scale famines during great depression |
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| what happened in he late 1950s and early 1960s |
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Great Leap Forward b/c decline in farm production as government increase industrialization by using workers to build infrastructure and factories |
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| In 1979 what was partly successful in controlly the popultion? |
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6. "One-Child Policy" instituted to rely on financial penalties, public condemnation, and other punitive measures. |
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| Many government firms lost large amounts of money each year because of what? What did they do about this? |
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1. little enforcement of patient intellectual property laws, lead to lots of stolen material, outdated technology, cost of employees & lil effort to seell to private investors.
2. lay off workers/cut back on benefits (tens of millions job losses) |
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| What threaten to erode public support for the communist party? Easing restrictions on? This all lead to a growing number of what? |
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1. job loses-workers in government firms are the supporters of the communist party.
2. migration-search for work.
3. poor and homeless and entrepreneurs starting businesses in urban and rural areas.
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