China

By Daniel Jung

Contents 1

• China’s Physical Geography Land and Water Climate and vegetationNatural resources

Contents 2

• China’s Cultures and HistoryHistoric TraditionsPeople and CulturesTransformation

Part 1Physical Geography

China’s Physical Geography (Land and water)

• China has one of the oldest civilization in the world

• Two thirds of china is mountains and deserts.

• One of the highest mountains belongs to China. (Picture on right)

• Along the banks of the Huang He more than 400 million people live there. (Picture on right)

Climate and Vegetation• The northern interior in China is very dry,

the temperature can only change from very hot to very cold.

• Strong storms called monsoons affect some of the climates in East Asia. (Picture at right)

• In Japan and Southern China, Bamboos grows extraordinarily fast at wet seasons. (Picture at right)

Climate and Vegetation(2)

• The Huang He (Yellow River) got it’s name from the loess that got blown from the deserts. (Picture at right)

• During monsoons the Huang He can be flooded so Huang He got a nickname called China’s Sorrow.

• The worst flood was in 1998 which killed 4,100 people and also caused 30 billion dollars of damage. (Picture at the bottom)

Natural Resources

• In a land called Takla Makan scientists estimate that there might be 74 billion barrels of oil. (Picture on right)

• Unlike Korea and Japan, China has a variety of natural resources like copper, tin , and iron which they have been mining for more than 2000years.(2 Pictures beneath)

Natural Resources (2)

• Naturally China other Asian countries will import wood.

• Farmers in China use hydroelectricity which allows you to make free electricity by running water. (Picture beneath)

• People also try to do aquaculture (sea farming) which is raising fishes in bays at cages and catching fishes. (Picture on right)

Natural resources(3)

• Farmers in China uses terraces to get a few of the soil for crops. (Picture beneath)

• Farmers also use a method called double cropping to crop twice a year but some parts in the south farmers try triple cropping because they can only use 10% of their land to crop. (Picture beneath)

Part 2China’s Cultures and History

Historic Traditions

• The Confucius lived in 500 B.C., he taught everyone the responsibility that doing the right thing will make peace. (Picture at the right)

• In the 600 B.C. the great wall of China was made which was made to protect their land from enemies invading. (Picture at the right)

Historic Traditions(2)

• A long time ago China believed that their civilization was the greatest among all the countries. That was because they made gun powders, silk weaving, a magnetic compass, a printing press, clockwork, the spinning wheel, and the water wheel. (Picture at right)

• The people in China were also experts at digging canals, making dams and bridges, and producing water in dry land by ditches and canals . (Picture at right)

Historic Traditions(3)

• Also before any other countries china found important discoveries in mathematics and medicine. (Picture at right)

• On the ancient times China wasn’t ruled by a leader but an emperor. I will show you a picture of a legendary emperor, his name was Huang –Di which was called a Yellow emperor .(Picture at the beneath)

Historic Traditions (4)

• Because Korea’s is attached China land in the 1200 B.C. when there was trouble in China some people in China migrated to Korea.

• And these migration led to a chance to China to know about the history and the custom of Korea.

• And the Chinese people lived in Korea for thousands of years.

Historic Traditions(5)

• A long time ago China was ahead of all countries in the world in inventions and discoveries. Since China, Korea, and Japan are close countries the discoveries of China spread to them.

• Marco Polo which was an Italian merchant went to China and told the Europeans everything about China how good that place was. (Picture beneath)

Historic Traditions(6)

• In 1853 Matthew Perry sailed to Japan with 4 warships to force them the grant trading rights. But Japan used as their chance of knowing Western inventions

• When they went to China the country wasn’t strong enough, so the Dutch, British, French, Russians, and Japanese all gained part of China.

• And after the world war 2 China broke up into part Nationalists and Communists .

People and Cultures

• A Chinese game called Weiqi is more important to China then a game, Buddhists have used it to look who is greedy or selfish which the one who loses.

• The time when the Communists took over China, they created communes which is communities where members live and work together.

People and Culture (2)

• So farmers had to work together in a small land which caused the food production to fall, so China suffered terrible food shortages.

• So the Communists try keep the population slowing down like people are not supposed marry until 20 and a family with one child will gain special privileges.

People and Cultures(3)

• The women’s rank increased like they could choose their husband and divorced if they wanted to and many other special privileges .

• Still now there are some vestiges of the old China like the street is still filled with three wheeled cabs and tiny shops sell many old things.

People and Cultures (4)

• Most people in China has an ancestor related to the Han.

• A long time ago there minority groups then just a whole country with different ancestors , there was 55 groups and 93% percent of the people were the Hans.

Transformation

• During the 1980s the street was really quiet and peaceful now China has more than 11million cars and has high apartments .

• The communists had few friends in America so they backed up on the Nationalists.

Transformation(2)

• It did not work well when the communists took control, but when Mao Zedong became the leader everything changed and China made changes. (Picture at the top)

• In the 1950s Mao Zedong introduced a policy called “The Great Leap forward” and the Communists tried to increase production. (Picture at the right)

Transformation(3)

• Mao introduced introduced a another policy called “The Cultural Revolution” which was to make a new society with no same thing happening at the past.

• A band of students formed a band called the “Red Guard” Like Mao’s aim the Red Guard destroyed building and painting and they beat up and imprisoned many artists, professors , and doctors. (Picture beneath)

Transformation(4)

• The Red Guard got over controlled and tried to threaten the government, but at eventually they got imprisoned.

• After all the Nationalists had fled to Taiwan and they formed a government called “Republic of China” . The Nationalists allowed free enterprise which was that a people was free to get jobs, start business, and make profit. And they sold inventions like computers and their economy soon became the best. (Picture on right)

Transformations(6)

• In the late 1970s the Communists realized they needed a different policy and Mao died in1976 and a new leader called “Deng Xiaoping and allowed some free enterprise

• The China’s new leader “Jiang Zemin” leads on with Deng’s policy.

The End!

It’s Done!

• It would have been boring (a lot) but I really worked hard so I hope you enjoyed my project about China

• I hope this information helps when you go to China.

Cites I Borrowed

• Google images

• http://www.ilankelman.org/flags/chinaflag.jpg China’s flag

• http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/china/environment/pictures/china.kongur.gif Himalayan mountain

• http://www.regenttour.com/china/geography/sanxia2.jpg The Huang He

• http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/resources/oceanography-book/Images/arizonathunderstorm.jpg monsoons

• http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b314/snow_man0202/wallcoocom_bamboos_GA085f.jpg bamboos

• http://piru.alexandria.ucsb.edu/collections/geography3b/misc/loess2.jpg loess

Cites I borrowed(2)

• http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44029000/jpg/_44029950_gall_flood9_china_ap.jpg flood

• http://www.shinyglobe.com/asia/asiagrafixx/silkroadtwo/_takla.jpg Takla Makan

• http://www.ststephens.it/biology/p/RON28.JPG Iron

• http://webmineral.com/specimens/Copper.jpg copper

• http://www.radford.edu/~wkovarik/envhist/RenHist/2.water.pix/itaipu.better.jpg hydroelectricity

• http://www.compassonline.org/marinescience/content/images/p_solutions_aquaculture_lg.jpg aquaculture

• http://www.waterhistory.org/histories/terraces/terraces1.jpg terraces

• http://www.fao.org/ag/agl/swlwpnr/reports/y_ta/z_my/my_photo/myph6103.jpg double cropping

Cites I borrowed• http://zionistwatch.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/confucius_1.jpg Confucius• http://spiritualtravelman.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/great_wall_of_china.jpg great

wall of china• http://www.global-b2b-network.com/direct/dbimage/50100289/Gunpowder_Tea.jpg gunpowder

• http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/faq8266/$FILE/ditches.jpg

Ditches

• http://www.eastwoodzhao.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/britishmath.gif

Math• http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/images/_35043_image_medicine.jpg medicine• http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/images/mlw_0001_0004_0_img0207.jpg emperor• http://elementaryteacher.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/marcopolo.jpg Marco polo

• http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/projects/renaissance/graphics/marcopoloone.jpg Marco polo’s route

• http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/china/images/mao-zedong-2.jpg Mao

Cite I borrowed

• http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1018/700307471_bf7f104b1a_m.jpg The great leap forward

• http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=38629&rendTypeId=4 red guard

• http://www.8asians.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/taiwan.gif Taiwan’s flag