China

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• Modern China must be seen in terms of its past

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• China is an ancient land with evidence of
  habituation going back 200,000 years

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• Civilization arose in China almost 7,000 years
  ago along the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers. These
  early settlements were made by diverse peoples.

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• Three historical facts that have influenced
  China
• Never a homogenous country
• Confucianism
• Need for a strong central authority to function
  as a unified country

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• Geography has been a constant influence in
  Chinas history
• Mountains and deserts to the North and west
  influence has been to south and east into Annam
  or modern Indochina and the China sea.

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• There are three general periods of Chinese
  History
• Pre Dynastic period
• Dynastic period(Classical period)
• Modern Period

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• Pre dynastic period
• 5000BCE - 1700BCE
• No central authority
• Various states

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• Six dynasties that are of major importance
• Shang 1700-1027BCE
• Zhou 1027-771 BCE
• Qin 221-207BCE
• Ming 1368-1644
• Quing 1641-1911

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• Dynastic period
• Shang 1700-1027BCE
• -First logographic writing
• Zhou 1027BCE-771BCE
• Confucianism
• Deism

• Qin 221-207 BCE
• Unification
• Han 206BCE 220CE
• -Wu Dis reforms
• Chinas renaissance begins
• Ming 1368-1644 CE
• Quing 1641-1911CE
• Last Dynasty

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• The Twentieth Century Period
• The republic forms under Sun Yet Sun.
• Republican party KMT fails to unify the country
• Succumbs to corruption
• Local Warlords Dominate

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• The Japan War 1932-1945 unifies KMT and the
  Communist (CCP) led by Mao Tse Tung.
• 1945 KMT turns on CCP and is defeated 1950

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• China under Mao and the CCP
• Great leap forward an attempt to changes Chinas
  neo Confucianism culture led to the greatest
  famine of all time.
• Counter revolution reversed course and China
  began to pull itself economically forward

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• Modern Chinas Major problems
• Ideology Is it Capitalist or Communist?
• Will Central Authority Hold?
• Income Gap Average worker earns 994.00 per year
• Rural poverty is intense