1. China

2. CHINA’S RELATIVE LOCATION
ISOLATION
Natural Protective Barriers
EFFECTS OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN
A history of emperors who restricted the use of the coastline.
Today the ocean is playing a major role in the economic transformation of COASTAL CHINA.

3. China’s Physical Geography
China has a vast variety of climates. Everything from deserts to tropical rainforests.
Major Rivers: Yellow River, Yangtze River
Major Deserts: Gobi Desert

4. Buddhism
Taoism
Buddha
Lao-tzu

5. CHINA’S POLITICAL MAP 4 CENTRAL-GOVERNMENT-ADMINISTERED MUNICIPALITIES
BEIJING (CAPITAL); TIANJIN (PORT CITY); SHANGHAI (LARGEST CITY); CHONGQUING (INTERIOR RIVER PORT)
5 AUTONOMOUS REGIONS
NEI MONGOL (INNER MONGOLIA); NINGXIA HUI; XINJIANG UYGUR (NW); GUANGXI ZHUANG (SOUTH); XIZANG (TIBET)
22 PROVINCES
LARGER IN THE WEST

6. China Political Geography
Most populated country in the world. Pop: 1,321,851,888
Capital: Beijing
Major Cities: Shanghai, Hong Kong, Macao, Nanjing

7. China’s Government Government: Communist
Economy: Mixed (socialist/market) Fast becoming the world’s largest economies.
Has had problems with human rights issues.

8. Historical Perspectives: China
One of the world’s greatest cultural hearths
Continuous civilization for over 4,000 years
View of China as the center of the civilized world.
Historically China is a closed society

9. CONFUCIUS
CHINA’S MOST INFLUENTIAL PHILOSOPHER AND TEACHER BC.
EMPHASIZED THAT HUMAN VIRTUES, RATHER THAN GODLY CONNECTIONS, SHOULD DETERMINE A PERSON’S PLACE IN SOCIETY
TEACHINGS HAVE DOMINATED CHINESE LIFE AND THOUGHT FOR MORE THAN 20 CENTURIES

10. China’s History China has a long and ancient history.
The Great Wall of China built to keep out Mongols.
Gunpowder was invented in China. (First used for fireworks)

11. The Great Wall

12. The Forbidden City

13. ETHNIC GROUPS

14. LANGUAGES Chinese is one of the world’s oldest active languages.
Spoken Chinese varies dialect to dialect although the characters (over 50,000) used to represent the language remain the same.
Since Chinese is written in characters rather than by a phonetic alphabet, Chinese words must be translated so foreigners can pronounce them.

15. PINYIN THE MOST ACCEPTED SYSTEM OF ROMANIZING CHINESE
Chinese Translation
Bei North
Nan South
Xi West
Dong East
Jing Capital
Shan Mountain
He River (in the north)
Jiang River (in the south)