1. China
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2. Chinese Inventions
Ice cream was invented in 2000 BC by placing rice and milk in the snow.
They created the oldest known calendar based on the cycles of the moon.
They were the first to use natural gas as fuel.
Paper, the compass, gunpowder, printing, parachutes, umbrellas, fireworks, kites are all inventions by the Chinese.
The oldest silk artifact also comes from China.

3. Compass, crossbow

4. Grenade and fire lance

5. Dynasties
Xia BC
A dynasty is a series of rulers descended from one family.
Shang BC
Zhou BC
China has a long history of dynasties(I didn’t include them all); which ones have you heard of?
Qin BC
Han BC
Tang
Song
Ming
Qing

6. Terra Cotta Warriors from the Qin Dynasty

7. Great Wall from the Qin, Han, Ming Dynasties

8. Communism and the Republic of China
Chiang Kai-shek (warlord) and his Kuomintang army (the Chinese Nationalist Party) defeated the Qing Dynasty ruler in 1928 and established and the Republic of China.
In 1948 he tried to eradicate the communists and was defeated by communist leader Mao Zedong who established the People’s Republic of China.
The Great Leap Forward
The Great Chinese Famine 1960’s
The Cultural Revolution (Red Guards)
Mao died in 1976 and was succeeded by communist Deng Xiaoping

9. Chiang Kai-shek Mao Zedong

10. Jiang Qing (Mao’s last wife) and the Red Guard of the Cultural Revolution

11. The Little Red Book - Maoism
How should we judge whether a youth is a revolutionary? How can we tell? There can only be one criterion, namely, whether or not he is willing to integrate himself with the broad masses of workers and peasants and does so in practice. If he is willing to do so and actually does so, he is a revolutionary; otherwise he is a nonrevolutionary or a counter- revolutionary. If today he integrates himself with the masses of workers and peasants, then today he is a revolutionary; if tomorrow he ceases to do so or turns round to oppress the common people, then he becomes a nonrevolutionary or a counter revolutionary. - Mao Zedong

12. Philosophy in China I Ching – Book of Changes (divination)
Confucius BC
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. If you enjoy what you do, you'll never work another day in your life. Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm. A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart. Ignorance is the night of mind, a night without moon or star. They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

13. Religion in China Pluralism Ancestor Worship and paganism
Daoism (Taoism) 30%
Tao Te Ching by Laozi
Compassion, Moderation, Humility
Traditional Chinese Medicine, qidong breathing, martial arts, fengshui, vegan
Buddhism %
Christianity 4%
Islam1.5%

14. Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism are one

15. Chinese Facts
4th largest country in the world – slightly smaller than the U.S.
Population of billion
One fifth of the world’s population lives in China
Current President Hu Jintao (since 2003)
2009 is the year of the Ox
298 million web users (surpassed the U.S. in 2008)
Sell more than 10 mil cars in 2008
73.36 mil members of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 2007
Hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics in the capital - Bejing

16. China/U.S comparison statistics