GEOG215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Communist Party Of China, May Fourth Movement, Deng Xiaoping

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Geography and Environmental Management
• Course: GEOG215
• Professor: Jonathan Li

Document Summary

Chinese geopolitical review (cid:862)ce(cid:374)tral ki(cid:374)gdo(cid:373)(cid:863), the self-view of chinese culture and civilization. Until the 19thcentury, china was always a great asian power, self-satisfied with its position and role. From a 21stcentury point of view, two earlier chinese maritime trading expeditions were important events: during the 10thand 12thcentury, the song launched trading expeditions into the south. China sea: by the 15thcentury, the ming expanded the expeditions further to reach the african coast, headed by zheng he. Most chinese knew little about the rest of the world before the opium wars during the 19th century as the qing became increasingly weak and ineffective. 1894 1st sino-japanese war (the war of jiawu) 1911 founding of the roc, sun yat-sen. 1921 founding of chinese communist party (ccp) and the nationalist and communist party to form a united front (1st time) China has the (cid:449)orld"s oldest politi(cid:272)al s(cid:455)ste(cid:373). The qin first unified china in 221 bce;