1. State-making Strategy and Regional Development from late Qing Empire to People’s Republic of China Wensheng Wang Department of History UH Manoa

4. Lower Yangzi Delta: Economic and Cultural Heartland of China after the 11 th century

6. China’s loess plateau

7. Loess soil in north and northwest China (loess-fine wind-driven earth)

8. Building dikes on the Yellow River “ “Suspended River”

9. Granary System: Transporting rice to famine area

10. Geographical pattern of population growth

13. Route of Taiping Advance 1851-3

14. Taiping Regime at its Height Taiping Regime at its Height

15. Nian rebellion in North China (1852 – 68)

16. Muslim Rebellions in Xinjiang (1854–73, 1866-77)

18. The People’s Commune is good!

19. Speed up the mechanization of agriculture, 1960

20. Developing Heavy Industry

21. “Steel industry is the foundation of all industries”

22. Hukou (residence card) Employment, medicare Retirement, housing, education, birth

23. A sculpture showing the start of the “Household responsibility system” November 24, 1978

24. The rise of Township and Village Enterprises

25. State ‑ owned factories

26. China's Signing World Trade Agreement, 2001

29. Shenzhen at Night

32. Go West Initiative

33. Hydro stations planned for construction from 1987 on

34. Water Availability Per Capita, 2007

35. Muslim Province of Xinjiang

37. Peasant migrant workers in cities

40. China: urban population