GEOG 102 Lecture 10: geog chapter 9
4 Dec 2017
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Islands: japan, hokkaido cold, northern, kyushu warm, southern, honshu core area, shikoku smaller southern, taiwan, hainan, many smaller islands of east and south china seas. Human geography: chinese cities, 25 cities with > 2 million. Chapter nine: 61 cities > 1 million, tokyo, pyongyang, seoul, taipei. Revolutionary china: 1911 sun yat sen &nationalist movement overthrow qing dynasty, 1924 chiang kai-shek becomes nationalists" leader, 1949 mao zedong & communists defeat nationalist and establish prc. A geopolitical realm: china people"s republic of china (prc, dominant demographically, economically, and politically, 85% of realm"s population, japan, south korea, north korea failed state. Chapter nine: mongolia, taiwan republic of china (roc, sovereign state but not recognized by un. Japan"s economic miracle: 3rd largest economy on earth. The asian tigers: hong kong, south korea, taiwan, & singapore. China"s economic miracle: 1976 from mao to deng shao peng, china opened to foreign capitalist investment, 2010 passed japan to become 2nd largest economy on earth.
