Agenda 1-11 & *China TEST Thurs/Fri of next week!! Focus 1-11 & Use page What desert in Asia is twice the size of Texas? 2.What type of government does China have? 3.What type of economic system allows individuals freedom to chose….either what jobs they want or what to produce or what to grow and sell? 4.What two cities in China were once controlled by European countries (United Kingdom and Portugal)? Taipei Financial Center, in Taiwan Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai Gobi Communist Free Enterprise System Hong Kong and Macau *Get out: *G.R 6-1 & 2 *Red Pen

Hong Kong

Under the policy of "one country, two systems", the PRC's Central People's Government is responsible for the territory's defense and foreign affairs, while Macau maintains its own legal system, police force, monetary system, customs policy, and immigration policy. Macau Peninsula was originally an island, but a connecting sandbar gradually turned into a narrow isthmus, thus changing Macau into a peninsula. With a dense urban environment, Macau has no arable land, pastures, forest, or woodland. (wikipedia)

The Chinese writing system is an open-ended one, meaning that there is no upper limit to the number of characters. The largest Chinese dictionaries include about 56,000 characters, but most of them are archaic, obscure or rare variant forms. Knowledge of about 3,000 characters enables you to to read about 99% of the characters in Chinese newspapers and magazines. To read Chinese literature, technical writings or Classical Chinese though, you need to be familiar with about 6,000 characters. Strokes Chinese characters are written with the following twelve basic strokes: A character may consist of between 1 and 64 strokes. The strokes are always written in the same direction and there is a set order to write the strokes of each character. In dictionaries, characters are ordered partly by the number of strokes they contain.

This is an example of one from last year!! Ours will be “The Year of the Dragon” 2012

Dragons