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  BRIEF OUTLINE / 4 CLASS THEMES Chapter 9 EAST ASIA   DEFINING THE REALM 426 PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY: Natural Environments 428 HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY 430 Early Cultural Geography 430 REGIONS OF THE REALM 434 REGIONS China Proper Xizang (Tibet) Xinjiang Mongolia Jakota Triangle Japan Korea Taiwan   China Proper 435  PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY: Relative Location 436 Extent and Environment 436 HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY Evolving China 437 A Century of Convulsion 438 A (Lost) War on Drugs 440 A New China Rises 440 Nationalists and Communists 442 Japan in China 442 Communist China Arises 443 CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY: China's Human Geography 443 Political and Administrative Divisions 444 Population Issues 445 The Minorities 446 SUBREGIONS OF CHINA PROPER 447 Northeast China Plain 448 North China Plain 449 National core area Inner Mongolia Basins of the Chang/Yangzi 453 Basins of the Xi (West) and Pearl River 457   Xizang (Tibet) 459   Xinjiang 460 ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY of China China's Pacific Rim: Emerging Region 462 Geography of Development 462 Transforming the Economic Map 463 China's Pacific Rim Today 464 Guangdong Province and the Pearl River Estuary 464 Hong Kong 466 The Other SEZs 468  China: Global Superpower? 468   Regions of the Realm (continued) Mongolia 469   The JAKOTA Triangle 470 JApan KOrea TAiwan   Japan 470 PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY Spatial Limitations 471 From Realm to Region 473 HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY Early Directions 473 A Japanese Colonial Empire 475 Modernization 476 ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY Relative Location 476 Japan's Spatial Organization 477 Areal Functional Organization 477 Leading Economic Regions 478 East and West, North and South 480 Food and Population 480 Japan's Pacific Rim Prospects 482   Korea 484 High-Risk North Korea 486   Taiwan 488 Regional Issue: Chinese Rule or Independence for Taiwan? 490

DETAILED OUTLINE CHAPTER 9 The East Asian Realm  MAJOR GEOGRAPHIC QUALITIES OF THE REALM East Asia is encircled by snowcapped mountains, vast deserts, cold climates, and Pacific waters. East Asia was one of the world's earliest culture hearths, and China is one of the world's oldest continuous civilizations. East Asia is the world's most populous geographic realm, but its population remains strongly concentrated in its eastern regions. China, the world's largest nation-state demographically, is the current rendition of an empire that has expanded and contracted, fragmented and unified many times during its long existence. China today remains a mainly rural society, and its vast eastern river basins feed hundreds of millions in a historic pattern that continues today. China's sparsely peopled western regions are strategically important to the state, but they lie exposed to minority pressures and Islamic influences. Along China's Pacific frontage an economic transformation is taking place, affecting all the coastal provinces and creating an emerging Pacific Rim region. Increasing regional disparities and fast-changing cultural landscapes are straining East Asian societies. Japan, the economic giant of the East Asian realm, has a history of colonial expansion and wartime conduct that still affects international relations here. East Asia may witness the rise of the world's next superpower as China's economic and military strength and influence grow-and if China avoids the devolutionary forces that fractured the Soviet Union. The political geography of East Asia contains a number of flashpoints that can generate conflict, including Taiwan, North Korea, and several island groups in the realm's seas.   DEFINING THE REALM East Asian is comprised of six "political entities": 5 states (countries) + Taiwan China Mongolia North Korea South Korea Japan Taiwan Question: Is Taiwan a "state" (country)? http://geography.about.com/od/politicalgeography/a/taiwancountry.htm http://geography.about.com/cs/politicalgeog/a/statenation.htm NOTE: our textbook (p. 21) says that a state (small "s") is a country and about.com says that a State (capital "S") is a country East Asia is the hub of the "Pacific Rim"   PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY: Natural Environments Physiography Total Area Is About 3.6 Million Sq. Mi. Longitudinal Extent Is Comparable To The Us; Latitudinal Range From Northern Quebec To Central Caribbean. Bordered (Surrounded) By Ocean, High Mountains, Steppe Country, And Desert Vast And Varied Topography   Climate Climate types include: B (Dry); C (Humid Temperate); D (Humid Cold); And H (Unclassified Highlands) Includes the largest area of (H) Highland climate in the world Desert conditions prevail in the northern interior Coastal, peninsular, and insular East Asia boast more moderate climates than the interior regions  HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY ancient culture hearth early plant and animal domestication, as early, or earlier than in the Middle East early cultural regionalization state formation (first: Xia Dynasty 2200-1770 BC) early dynasties with rulers succession determined by family ties dynastic rule expanded empire and continued into the 20th century - Qing [Manchu] Dynasty sinicization: Chinese acculturation: making the lands conquered by China culturally more like China     DEFINING THE REALM: CHINA Concentration of population, cities, agriculture, and industry in the eastern part of China   ISOLATION of an advanced culture made possible by it's physical geography Natural Protective Barriers: almost encircled by high mountains and dry deserts keeping outsiders out Distance: far from other centers of development Chinese interacted little with rest of world: Inward Looking (Central Kingdom) with Minor incidences of cultural diffusion A History of emperors who restricted use of the coastline, except in local circumstances still few overland roads and railroads connect China with neighboring realms as recent as the early 1970's only a few dozen foreigners were in China China's isolation began to change with US President Richard Nixon's visit to china in 1972 Now, for the first time in it's long history, China is a major player on the world stage. Today the ocean is playing a major role in the economic (and cultural) transformation of coastal China.   PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF CHINA: Extent and Environment China - US Locational and Size Comparison (China in Red, the US in black) China is slightly smaller than the US including Alaska China is considerably wider latitudinally, extends further north (colder climate) and further south (more tropical ) than does the US   China - US Climate Comparison similar climatic pattern Large area of C climate in the southeast D climates in the northeast both drier, B climates, as you go west then highland , H, climates further west differences China has no west coast and therefore no C climates in the west China's northwestern D climates extend further south and are more severe than in North America.   QUESTION: Compare the physical geography (climate) and size of China with the physical geography (climate) and size of the United States.   HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF CHINA  Evolving China One of the world's great culture hearths Continuous civilization for over 4,000 years "People of Han" Han Dynasty reigned 2000 years ago (206 BC to 220 AD) breakdown of the old feudal order rise of military power unification of a large empire; added Xinjiang and Vietnam institution of property rights flourishing of architecture,, the arts, the sciences, development of trade along the Silk Road to Rome feudal periods, but always followed by a more united China rural society ruled by dictator View of China as the center of the civilized world Inward Looking Closed Society sinicization: Chinese acculturation: making the lands conquered by China culturally more like China   Kongfuzi (Confucius) China's most influential philosopher and teacher 551- 479 BC- Took on spiritual proportions after his death- Confucianism Focused on the suffering of ordinary people during the Zhou Dynasty Emphasized that human virtues, rather than godly connections, should determine a person's place in society Teachings have dominated Chinese life and thought for more than 20 centuries   A Century of Convulsion: Europeans arrive China believed it was superior to the Europeans and cared little about their arrival Initially China kept the Europeans isolated in small coastal enclaves like Macao therefore, Europeans had little effect on the Chinese economy Later the Europeans improved their products and were able to compete with, and beat, Chinese industries British imported the drug opium into China where it had a devastating effect When the Chinese government tried to stop the opium trade in 1834 armed combat with the British began First Opium War - 1839-1842; China lost British got Hong Kong 5 ports were open to more trade Opium flooded into China Second Opium War - 1847 Extraterritorially A doctrine of European International Law Employed in China during the late 1800s Afforded Europeans immunity from Chinese laws An erosion of Chinese sovereignty Extraterritorial Enclaves established: port areas, the best residential areas, certain parks and buildings were reserved for Europeans only Colonial Spheres Germans on the Shandong Peninsula France in the far south Portugal in Macau Russians in the north and Manchuria in the northeast Japan annexed Korea, the Rykuyu Island and island of Formosa (Taiwan)   Recent History anti-colonial uprisings as well as uprisings against the Manchu (Qing) emperor in 1911 the emperor was overthrown After Word War I Japan took over Germany's holdings in China   infighting between the "Nationalist" Chinese and the Chinese Communist Party Nationalist leader Chang Kai-shek fought the foreigners and the Communists Driving the communists into the interior, by 1933 it looked like they would be victorious   The Long March 100,000 communists marched 2000 miles in 1934 3/4 were killed by the nationalists along the way as new recruits joined the Communist Party   The Japanese took advantage of the fighting between the Nationalists and the Communists Japan takes control of Manchuria - The Northeast established a puppet state called Manchukuo full scale ware breaks out between the Chinese nationalists and the Japanese in 1937 Japan conquers more of China China was then divided into three areas controlled by the Japanese, the Nationalists, and the Communists "The Japanese committed unspeakable atrocities in their campaign in China." (p. 442) including the "Rape of Nanking"   Communist China Japan defeated in 1945 ending WW II Civil war in China resumes Mao Zedong leads the Communist to victory in 1949 Chiang Kai-shek retreats with nationalists to Taiwan taking control of the government there and proclaiming Taiwan to be the independent country of the Republic of China Mao Zedong, Oct. 1, 1949, proclaims the birth of the People's Republic of China (Communist China)   Reorganization Under Communism: The Great Leap Forward 1950s- 1976 Communist Regime Launched Massive Programs Of Reconstruction And Reform Based On The Soviet Model Land Was Expropriated (taken from the rich) Farming Was Collectivized = socialized agriculture Industries Were Reorganized As State-Owned Communal Enterprises. Emphasis On "Heavy Industry" Dramatic Social Changes- Education, Religion, Population Growth  "Terrible mistakes" (p. 443) emphasis on heavy industry and reorganization of agriculture removed incentives to produce food as a result 10-30 million starved to death between 1958 and 1962  Mao refused to recommend controls on population growth resulting in large increases in China's population Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 1966-1976 Mao's campaign against emerging elitism in Chinese society organized youth into "Red Guard" brigades who attacked opponents to Mao's ideas all schools were closed intellectuals were persecuted anarchy, terror, and economic paralysis followed food and industrial production declined and 30 million died from violence and famine CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY OF CHINA China's Political Map 4 Central-government-administered municipalities called shi's Beijing (Capital); Tianjin (Port City); Shanghi (Largest City); Chongquing (Interior River Port)   5 Autonomous Regions to recognize the non-Han minorities living there Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia); Ningxia Hui; Xinjiang Uygur (Nw); Guangxi Zhuang (South); Xizang (Tibet) 22 Provinces Grow In Size From East To West like US States   Two Special Administrative Region (SAR) Hong Kong - returned to china from the British in 1997 Macao - returned to China from Portugal in 1999   Population Issues Read: http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa071497.htm China's population in 2006: 1,323,000,000 (1.323 BILLION) most populated country on earth slow population growth rate of 0.6% per year still adds 8 million every year after Mao's death in 1976 - vigorous population control program: "one-child policy" Population growth rate declined from 3 % to 1.2 % in the mid-1980's to 0.6 % in 2006 Results: may have prevented a "population explosion" population growth should equal 0 % around 2050 and then start to decline rapid increase in the proportion of the population that is elderly and needing care with fewer workers to care for them excess of males over females implying selective abortion, female infanticide and female child neglect   China's Minorities China is still an empire see map below showing where the minorities are located China Proper is the home of the Mandarin speaking Han Chinese Minorities constitute only a small percentage of total population Han Chinese 91.9%, Zhuang, Uygur, Hui, Yi, Tibetan, Miao, Manchu, Mongol, Buyi, Korean, and other nationalities 8.1%   Religion Daoist (Taoist), Buddhist, Muslim 1%-2%, Christian 3%-4% note: officially atheist ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY  China's Population 1.306 Billion Annual Natural Increase 0.6% (1970s - 3%) Doubling Time: 100 Years Life Expectancy: 70 (Males), 73 (Females) Fertility Rate 1.8 Born/Women (1997) Arithmetic Density: 353 People/Sq Mi Physiological Density: 3,524 People/Sq Mi Only 10% Of The Land Is Arable And 69% Of The Population Lives On This Land Distribution: Western 2/3's Is Sparsely Populated (Minorities)   Urban China 38% Urbanized Largest cities are insignificant on a global scale Urban environmental problems Air pollution Congestion Water pollution   Economic Problems Problems Stemmed From The State Controlled Economy. Serious Energy Shortage Transportation Infrastructure Poorly Developed Popular Resistance And Changes In Central Policy Have Weakened China's Population Control Program. Environmental Degradation   Agricultural Regions     Deng Xiaoping Era Took Power In 1979 As A "Pragmatic Moderate" Attempted To Wed Communist Political Rule With Capitalist Economic Practices Opened China To Foreign Science And Technology Permitted Students To Study Abroad Introduced Economic Liberalization Measures Decentralized Decision-Making Shifted To The Responsibility System In Agriculture Created SEZs, Open Cities, Open Coastal Areas Attempted To Create A "Socialist Market Economy"   Economic Initiatives Special Economic Zones 5 SEZs Established; 3 In Guangdong Province Investment Incentives: Low Taxes, Import/Export Regulations Eased, Land Leases Simplified, Etc. Open Cities Included 14 Coastal Cities Scaled Back To 4 Cities National Investment Focused On Shanghai Open Coastal Areas Also Designed To Attract Foreign Investments Concentrated Along Pacific Coast Deltas And Peninsulas Special Economic Zones Investor Incentives Low Taxes Easing Of Import And Export Regulations Simplified Land Leases Hiring Of Contract Labor Permitted Products May Be Sold In Foreign Markets And In China (Under Certain Restrictions) Location Was Prime Consideration   Open Cities Size Overseas Trading History Links To "Overseas Chinese" Levels Of Industrialization Pool Of Local Talent And Labor Confined To Coastal Areas REGIONS OF THE REALM China Proper China's Pacific Rim: Emerging Region? Xizang (Tibet) Xinjiang Mongolia Jakota Triangle China Proper China Proper contains most of the Chinese population REVIEW: Where do people live and why Read Online lecture: Where do People Live and Why? East Asia is one of the world's three major population clusters 5 Criteria: 1. near coasts 2. along rivers / near fresh water 3. flat terrain 4. temperate (C) climates (55% of pop.) 5. fertile soil (river valleys, volcanic soils, other)   Read pp. 447-448   Near coasts? Near Rivers? [Four major river basins contain more than 75% of China's 1.3 billion people} C Climate ?   Flat Terrain ? QUESTION: Know where most people live in the China and assess how well the 5 reasons discussed in the online lecture explain the population distribution.   Subregions of China Proper Northeast China North China Plain Basins of the Chang/Yangzi Basins of the Xi and Pearl Rivers Northeast China Used to be called Manchuria former (1950s-1970s) industrial heart of China, but now looks like a rust-belt former Japanese colony of Manchukuo cold climate thin soils as you go north mineral and oil wealth (iron ore, aluminum, oil, lead, zinc declined with the structural restructuring of the post-Mao era still has potential North China Plain flat fertile (loess) farmland: wheat heavily populated national core area capital city: Beijing port of Tianjin Inner Mongolia northwest of the core along the border with the state (country) of Mongolia drier more and more Han Chinese have migrated here so that the Mongol nation is now a minority Basins of the Chang/Yangzi variations in elevation and relief port of Shanghai 18,500 miles of navigable rivers: navigable to oceangoing ships for 600 miles to the city of Wuhan, further for smaller ships, several navigable tributaries rice and wheat 1000 mile long canal to connect this breadbasket with the northern core Three Gorges Dam (New China Dam) 600 ft. high 1.3 miles across 380 mile long reservoir controversial, displaced millions of people The Sichuan Province Basin west of the Three Gorges Dam agricultural region (rice, wheat, corn, soybeans, tea, sugarcane,fruits, vegetables) city of Chongqing, inland port, new growth pole 120 million people Basins of the Xi and Pearl Rivers subtropical China somewhat dry double-cropping of rice economically growing coast Guangdong Hong Kong Shenzhen   Xizang (Tibet) A harsh physical environment; mountainous Sparsely populated Came under Chinese control during the Manchu Dynasty in 1720 Gained separate status in the late 19th century China's Communist Regime Took Control in the 1950s; uprisings crushed by China Buddhism, the Buddhist leader is called the Dalai Lama The Dalai Lama was ousted in 1959 by Chinese military Harsh rule by Chinese as they tried to destroy the Buddhist culture some relaxation of harsh control after Mao's death in 1976 Formally annexed in 1965 and administered as an Autonomous Region many consider it to be an occupied territory and there are "Free Tibet" organizations around the world Two subregions core area between the Himalayas and the Kunlun Mountains (see map below) lower, some valleys down to 7000 feet more mild climate main population cluster includes capital of Lhasa Chinese economic development mineral deposits Qaidam Basin east of the Kunlun Mountains (see map below) nomadic pastoralists newly found oil and coal fields     Xinjiang China's northeastern corner, north of the Kunlun Shan (mountains - see map above) Xinjiang-Uyghur Autonomous Region Comprises one-sixth of China's total land area A region of high mountains (Kunlun. Tian Shan, Altay) and basins (Tarim, Junggar) Takla Makan Desert Chinese only account for 40% of the population, but control most economic and political activity Muslim Uyghurs account for half of the population majority Muslim leaders have called for succession (balkanization) from China; al-Queda and the "war on terror" ? Boasts extensive reserves of oil and natural gas oasis and irrigated agriculture Unresolved boundary disputes with Tajikistan and India   China's Pacific Rim: An Emerging Region   A New Region? rapid economic growth in the eastern, coastal, provinces of China creating wide differences in income between the newly rich and the poor AND between the coastal provinces and the interior provinces China is a low-income country with a GNI per capita of $4990 BUT the average incomes of Chinese in the coastal provinces is above this average and the average incomes of people in the interior is way below $4990 These coastal provinces are more similar to the Jakota Triangle countries Therefore geographers may consider creating a new regions out of these Pacific Rim Provinces   Geography of Development: WHY is the Pacific Rim doing so well economically? REMEMBER: Geography studies WHERE? and WHY THERE? WHERE in China is the economy growing the faster? [THE PACIFIC RIM] WHY THERE? [SEE BELOW] Rostow's Stages of Economic Development traditional society preconditions for takeoff takeoff drive to maturity high mass consumption In China takeoff conditions exist in much of the Pacific Rim, but not in the interior WHY THERE? The Pacific Rim of China has always been more open to the world and to new ideas See online lecture: China-A Land of Contradictions Most Chinese who migrated overseas came from the Pacific Rim provinces especially in the southeast and their links with their home provinces facilitated foreign investment   Transforming the Economic Map REVIEW Online lecture: Economic Geography: Economic Change or GLOBALIZATION A Comparison of Command Economies and Market Economies NOTE: a "Command Economy" is a "Communist" Economy China's transformation of their economy (structural adjustment) occurred WITHOUT a transformation of their communist political system (NOT a movement toward democracy) HOW? by spatially separating the market economy areas from the command economy areas done by setting up Special Economic Zones (SEZs), Open Cities, and Open Coastal Areas Where? Four SEZs Shenzhen (close to Hong Kong) Zhuhai (close to Macao) Shantou (close to Taiwan, home of many Chinese living in Thailand) Xiamen (home of many Chinese now living in Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia) Two more added in 1988 and 1990 Hainan Island (island near Southeast Asia) Pudong In these areas: lower taxes easier to import and export (freer trade) simpler land leases private hiring of labor allowed foreign investment encouraged profits can be sent to foreign owners   China's Pacific Rim Today   Guangdong Province and the Pearl (Chang Jiang) River Estuary includes the Pearl (Chang Jiang) River Estuary Hong Kong and Macao located just off the coast Core of this economic area is the Pearl River Delta (PRD) includes: Guangzhou - the province's capital city Hong Kong SAR Shenzhen SEZ Zhuhai SEZ Macao SAR Zhongshan (city) PER CAPITAL INCOMES ARE 10 TIMES THE NATIONAL AVERAGE Problems do exist causing some investment to move to other areas in China, especially The city of Shanghai in the Xi/Yangzi river Delta further south Example of a "Regional State" as defined by economist Kenichi Ohmae "natural economic zone" shaped by the global economy   Hong Kong means "Fragrant Harbor"- An excellent deep water port great economic growth during the Korean War in the 1950s 6 million people within 400 sq. miles Economy is larger than half of the world's countries 1 July 1997- British transferred control to China "one country, two systems Hong Kong renamed Xianggang Acquired a new status as China's only Special Administrative Region (SAR) WHY has there been so much economic growth THERE? during Korean War trade with China was prohibited so this British Colony specialized in producing textiles for world export the industrial base diversified also became a world financial center and available to help finance development in china when the communist government began its "open door" policy became and "economic tiger"   The Other SEZs Chinese government granted special economic advantages also made investments in infrastructure Pudong in Shanghai has surpassed the economic development seen in Guangdong (Shenzhen) the other four SEZs have not been able to compete with Pudong and Shenzhen   China: Global Superpower? growing military power largest standing army of nay country nuclear power US vs. China in the 21st century? -- potential problems the Taiwan issue American troops in Japan and South Korea Eastern culture vs. western culture: grounds for misunderstanding possible remedies: cultural exchanges trade education to better understand each others culture and history   Mongolia Landlocked, isolated country Steppe and desert physical environment Sparsely populated with an estimated 2.6 million inhabitants Part of the Chinese Empire from late 1600s until 1911 Became a People's Republic (Communist) in the 1920s Functions as a buffer state between Russia and China Economy is focused on herding and animal products Free elections in 1990 Close ties with Russia declining and ties with China growing stronger   The Jakota Triangle Japan Korea Taiwan   Future of East Asia?   Characteristics Great cities Rapid economic growth Enormous consumption of raw materials state-of-the-art industries Voluminous exports Global links Trades surpluses Rapid development Challenges Social problems Political uncertainties Vulnerabilities   Japan   HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY: Outline of Japanese history Ainu people, Caucasian, inhabit all four island 600 - 800 Chinese cultural influence 1000 -1300 War, medieval society arises, shoguns evolve 1600 -1867 Tokugawa Shogunate isolation prevented European colonization foreigners and Christianity expelled individualistic culture emphasis on Shinto belief system "stagnant and tradition-bound" society 1853 -Americans arrive Commodore Perry acquires new treaties with the outside; "one-sided trade agreements"; use of force Meiji Restoration 1868 Rebellion brought in reformers Reinstated the emperor and began to transform Japan from a feudal society with pre-machine age technology to an industrial power Adopted aspects of the British model Launched a systematic study of the industrialized world Focus was on industrialization and education system strong military Expansionist Japan: Creating a Japanese Empire; need for natural resources Ryukyu islands 1879 Taiwan 1895 Korea 1910 Pacific Islands Post W.W.I Manchuria 1931 China 1937 Hong Kong 1939 Southeast Asia 1941   Japan's Post W.W.II Transformation 1945 Japan lost the war and it's empire BUT the Europeans lost their colonies in the Pacific Basin 1945 -1952: Allied Occupation Economic Reshaping: became an industrial giant today: second largest economy in the world Labor Legislation Constitution Civil Rights Land Reform US "Helping Hand" Policy   PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY: Spatial Limitations four large islands plus slightly smaller than California high relief topography therefore only about 18% is habitable; habitable area is about the size of Indiana Population: 127.9 Million arithmetic population density 876.5 people per square mile physiologic population density 8101 people per square mile earthquake prone only narrow coastal plains; need to build artificial islands and shoreline limited and fragmented farmland few natural resources: little iron ore, some coal, no oil Climate   ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY Highly developed country; economic giant on the Pacific Rim Population growth rate = 0.1%; will begin to decline around 2010 Population: 127.9 Million Birth Rate: 9 Births/1,000 Death Rate: 8 Deaths/1,000 Growth Rate: 0.0% Life Expectancy: 78 (M), 85 (F) Urbanization: 78% beneficial relative location: access to oceans well protected Seto Inland Sea well educated work force currently some economic problems resulting is slower economic growth collapsing economies in neighboring southeast Asia more competition from the other economic tigers: Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and more recently China's pacific coast CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY Nation state; homogeneous Shinto Religion   Korea Peninsula of Korea: size of Idaho population of 73 million   North-South Contrasts: A Divided Nation North Korea South Korea % of Korean Peninsula: 55% 45% % of Korean Population: 33% 66% Population: 23,100,000 48.700,000 GNP (Billions) $ 21.3 $ 508.3 GNP/Capita $1000 $17,930 Agriculture Inefficient Good Agriculture As % Of GNP 25 % 8 % Agriculture % Work Force 36 % 20 % Life Expectancy 64 years 76 years Economy poor, Communist economic tiger, Capitalist Government Communist Democracy HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY Turbulent political history: Once a dependency of China Once a colony of Japan's Divided along the 38th parallel by Allied Powers after W.W.II (1945) creating two countries North Korea, communist, aligned with the Soviet Union South Korea, democratic, aligned with the United States Korean War (1950-1953) 1950 North Korea invaded south Korea UN troops (including the US) fought on the side of South Korea China entered war on the side of the North Koreans TV show: M*A*S*H Cease-Fire line established in 1953; heavily fortified de facto boundary; DMZ   South Korea: ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY Regional complementarity between North and South Korea, but separated by history/politics One of the economic tiger's rapid economic growth after the war State capitalism   Seoul Capital of South Korea 9.9 Million People Located in the northwest corner of South Korea - just south of the DMZ The urban-industrial center! Textiles, clothing, footwear, electronic goods   Taiwan   HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY: original inhabitants: Malay-Polynesian people A Chinese Province for centuries; settled by Han Chinese who displace the original inhabitants in the plains but not those in the mountains Colonized by Japan in 1895 Returned to China after W.W.II 1949 - Chinese Nationalists (Supported by the US) led by Chiang Kai-shek, fled from the mainland and established the Republic Of China (R0C); initially an authoritarian state recognized as the legitimate government of ALL OF CHINA State or "wayward" province? / two Chinas Taiwan controlled by Chinese nationalists after the Chinese Revolution of 1949 Taiwan, or the Republic of China (ROC) Taiwan (ROC) had a seat in the UN the mainland was controlled by the communists the communists establish the People's Republic of China (PRC) President Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1971 the PRC replaced Taiwan (ROC) in the UN US recognized the PRC as the legitimate government of ALL of China including Taiwan   PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY Mountainous interior in the east; dense forests wide fertile coastal plains in the west facing the Taiwan Strait   ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY Territory - Approximately 14,000 Square Miles; smaller than Switzerland Population - 22.8 Million 77% Urbanized per capita income of $15,000 economic tiger irons and steel industry nuclear power plants shipyards chemical industry electronics   CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY / Political Future? now democratic thoughts of independence Chinese government threatens that any move toward independence could provoke military intervention Question: Is Taiwan a "state" (country)? http://geography.about.com/od/politicalgeography/a/taiwancountry.htm http://geography.about.com/cs/politicalgeog/a/statenation.htm NOTE: our textbook (p. 21) says that a state (small "s") is a country and about.com says that a State (capital "S") is a country   Four Economic Tigers  Hong Kong  Singapore  Taiwan  South Korea