1. This Is China!

2. Civil Society and Cleavages in China

3. Ethnic Regions of China

4. Physical geography map

8. Ethnic cleavages and religious cleavages in China
Han—91% of Chinese population (100% of the power)
55 other RECOGNIZED ethnic groups
Main religious groups
Tibetan Buddhists—6 million (18% of country Buddhist)
Uyghur Muslims—15 million (1.8% of whole population)
Christian—5%

9. Falun Gong Chinese meditative and spiritual practice
1999—About 70 million practices, until the crackdown
Labeled “heretical organization,” and made illegal

10. Autonomous regions—Tibet and Xinjiang
Both officially conquered in , but long time “colonies” of China
Granted some political freedoms
Guaranteed spot in National Party Congress
Some curriculum control
Some religious freedom (Buddhism, Islam)
Called “autonomous regions”
Exceptions to 1 child policy
All done to prevent conflict, increase legitimacy

11. What’s really happening
Chinese approach to autonomous regions
Try to increase development and infrastructure
Lessen regional cleavages
“Han-ify” the curriculum and education
Encourage migration to Western regions
Marrying minorities and cultural genocide

12. Urban/rural divide The US: 9 cities over 1 million people.
China: ___________
Rural areas falling behind development
Hukou system—Limited migration
200 million INTERNAL illegal immigrants (no housing, education, health care)
Hukou reform—2016
Aging population in countryside (and less revenue)

13. Gender Breaking the Iron Rice Bowl—Less opportunities for women
One child policy— Gender imbalance
Vice—One Child Policy

14. Social class
Communist China has one of the world’s highest levels of income inequality, with the richest 1 per cent of households owning a third of the country’s wealth, a report from Peking University has found.
The poorest 25 per cent of Chinese households own just 1 per cent of the country’s total wealth, the study found. China’s Gini coefficient for income, a widely used measure of inequality, was 0.49 in 2012, according to the report. The World Bank considers a coefficient above 0.40 to represent severe income inequality.
Among the world’s 25 largest countries by population for which the World Bank tracks Gini data, only South Africa and Brazil are higher at 0.63 and 0.53, respectively.
The figure for the US is 0.41, while Germany is The study from the university’s Institute of Social Science Survey is likely to bolster calls for more progressive taxation and increased social welfare spending in the nominally communist country.
The Gini coefficient has risen from roughly 0.3 in the 1980s. Rampant corruption and unreported income presents challenges for estimating income and wealth levels in China.

15. BIG QUESTION: How does a developing country industrialize in a safe, environmentally friendly way?

16. Pollution
You don’t
________ of the world’s 20 most polluted cities are in China
Ban gas cars?
Bikes!
Hydroelectric energy: 3 Gorges Dam
Displacement of 20 million people

17. Whatever this is!

19. Democratization
Economic liberalization without political liberalization
Tiananmen Square— 1989
Hong Kong—
Tank Man

20. Civil society Corporatist Censorship Necessary?
Huge government led organizations
Independent NGO’s— Let 100 Flowers Bloom
Censorship
Internet sites blocked (all google, American social media)
Necessary?