EALC 120 Lecture 10: EALC 120 Lecture Notes All
7 Mar 2017
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East asia consists of china, mongolia, india, korea, japan. 90"s japan was the target of america"s bashings, lots of pressure because the reliability of the cars, the american cars, gm ford, shitty, unreliable. America considered japan a major rival in terms of production. Everyone copy cats others when they first start. Currently china rivals us in terms of production. It does not matter if the cat is white or black, as long as it catches the mouse. As long as a solution can come about. Since the 70"s china has reformed, currently largest manufacturer, 2nd exporter. The birth of civilization and the zhou feudal system. North and the south of the yangzi r. North is too cold to grow crops, south has lots of rain, many crops are grown there. Written language: radicals (214), compounds, ideograms, and pictograms. Majority of chinese characters are a combination of a radical or multiple radicals with a sound.
