1. China, Japan, (South) Korea, (North) Korea, (Taiwan,) Mongolia
GEO317 – East Asia
China, Japan, (South) Korea, (North) Korea, (Taiwan,) Mongolia

2. Three Major Geographic Qualities
China’s rocky 20th century
China’s meteoric economic rise
China’s uneven development

3. Population Cartogram

4. Size and Latitude Comparison
China = USA in area

5. Physiographic Regions

6. China’s Rocky 20th Century
See textbook pp , 525, 528
Civil War
Communism (Mao) victorious
The Great Leap Forward (industrialization at the expense of agriculture) and Great Cultural Revolution (kill all Mao’s enemies) = 60 million deaths!
Command economy
Regional self-sufficiency=Inefficiency
Mao died 1976
Deng Xiaoping’s market reforms begin 1978 with significant geographic implications
“Crossing the river by feeling the stones”
Tiananmen Square 1989
Video clip
One child policy
Enforcement?
Abortions/Sterilization
Infanticide
119 boys for every 100 girls
Mao Zedong
Deng Xiaoping

7. China in the 21st Century Autocratic government
Press censorship; internet filter
Tibet 2008
Just beginning to “experiment” with elections!
Human resource = 1.3 billion!
Natural resources limited - Africa
Relaxing the one child policy?
One dog policy!
Economic Growth
Free(?) market
Consumerism
Might be world’s largest economy in 2016
72% of U.S. shoes
80% of U.S. toys
What has caused China’s meteoric rise?

8. Globalization What is it?
Australian aborigines
Globalization
What is it?
China’s rapid advance not possible without it.
Internal vs. world markets
Foreign investment
Freedom of movement = lower friction of distance
Transnational corporations
Where are clothes made?
Where are Toyotas made?
Pudong, China

9. Globalization
Disneyland Hong Kong
Masai herder in Tanzania

10. Development contrasts
See textbook pp
Regional contrasts
E.g., per capita GDP in Guangdong = 5x Guizhou
Rural – urban contrasts
What forces drive China’s rapid and geographically uneven development?
Shanghai
Yichang

11. What accounts for spatially uneven development in China?
Hong Kong
Macau
Globalization
Coast easiest access to world markets
Policy changes = capitalism
Decentralized economic decision-making
Household responsibility system of agriculture (1978)
profit motive/self-interest (e.g. apples vs. grain)
China goes from famine to food exports
urban demand increases rural incomes
Encourage regional specialization = income disparity
“To get rich is glorious” = gov’t advancing business interests over common man!?
SARs
What is “special” about them?

12. China’s Pacific Rim See textbook pp. 519-529
SEZs (1979) = Export processing zones
What is “special” about them?
Open costal cities (1984)
Foreign investments
Lowered trade barriers
Infrastructure/services
Hong Kong, Macau investment into mainland China
Domestic advantages
Employment
Local linkages
Experiment with capitalism
Steal technology
Disadvantages
Low wages at first, rising, then too high?
Pollution
Squeezed by competition