1. © T. M. Whitmore Last Time China  Scale & isolation  Physical environments  China’s 3 regions  China Proper (4 sub-regions)

2. © T. M. Whitmore Today China “proper” Chinese Agriculture Chinese Population

3. © T. M. Whitmore China “proper”: Manchuria to Vietnam China sub-regions  Northeast China Plain/ Manchuria  The N. China Plain  Huang He (formerly Yellow river)  Basins of the Chang Jiang (formerly Yangtze river)  Tropical southern China

5. Manchuria

6. N China Plain

12. Loess soils in the Guangzhong Basin © Bret Wallach http://www.greatmirror.com/

13. © T. M. Whitmore Major issues  Huge population  Little arable area  Population is about 70% rural 4 Agricultural Regions  NE / Manchuria  North China Plain  South China  Western oases and arid-semiarid grazing Chinese Agriculture

15. © Bret Wallach Guangzhong Basin

16. © W.H. Freeman & Co.

17. © Bret Wallach Guangzhong Basin

18. © Bret Wallach Guangzhong Basin

19. Guilin © Bret Wallach

20. Guilin

21. Yunnan Village: Hengdi © Bret Wallach

22. © John Wiley & Sons

23. © T. M. Whitmore Agriculture reform  Pre-Communist (pre-1949)  Communist changes  Current reforms Nearly self sufficient despite 1.3 billion  Agriculture is very intensive  10 persons to feed per ha  Urban pops increasing and so is wealth => demand increasing faster than pop growth Chinese agriculture II

24. Rural Chinese family’s week’s food © Peter Menzel

25. Urban Chinese family’s week’s food

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

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

30. © John Wiley & Sons

31. © W.H. Freeman & Co.

36. © John Wiley & Sons