Review Questions

1 . Where and when did the Chinese State develop? How did the Chinese State expand from its initial core area? What factors prompted the expansion of the Chinese State?

2 . Chinese history has been characterized by cycles of dynastic change proceeding through several phases. What are these phases?

3 . Describe the organization of the traditional society of China? What ideas form the basis of traditional Chinese society?

4 . Describe the events which led to the Opium War? What were the major results of the Opium War?

5 . Describe the significance of the Long March?

6 . What were the major features of China’s development after the death of Mao in 1976?

7 . How is China’s political system currently organized?

8 . Describe the major development problems facing China today?

9 . What were the reasons for the fall of the last dynasty which ruled China?

10. Explain the various phases in China’s development since 1949?

11. What caused the Chinese students to demonstrate in Tianamen Square in 1989?

12. Discuss the major human rights violations in China. Describe the pattern of dissident movements in China?

13. Describe the major contrasts in physical, cultural and economic geography of northern, southern and western parts of China.

14. Describe and explain the geographical pattern of industrial concentration in China.

15. China has gone through four different kinds of agricultural organization since 1949.

Briefly describe them.

16. What factors limit the expansion of cultivated area in China? Discuss the relationship between food supply and population growth in China?

17. Given China’s expanding population, what can be done to increase food production in China.

18. What are the important considerations for foreign companies which are setting joint ventures in China? Describe the geographic pattern of foreign investment in China.

19. Discuss why state owned and operated firms (SOEs) have not worked well in China? What are TVEs?

20. National policy in China permits only one child per family. Contrast this policy’s

success in urban and rural areas. Discuss the consequences of sex-selective family planning practiced by most Chinese?

21. Describe the various phases of demographic transition in China?

22. Discuss the terms of transfer of Hong Kong from Britain to China in 1997?

23. Discuss the reasons for Tibet’s demands for more autonomy or independence from China?

24. Explain why the Pearl River Delta region of China is often called the ‘economic

frontier’ of China.

25. Discuss the internal structure of the city of Beijing?

26. Which group fled to the island of Taiwan, and established the Republic of China there after their defeat in 1949? Discuss the political and economic relationships between Taiwan and China?

27. Industrial development in China is currently based on the availability of what natural resource? What type of environmental problem does this create?

Key Terms

Culture hearth
Core Area
Manchu (Qing) Dynasty
Boxer Rebellion
Loess Plateau
Treaty Ports
Sichuan Basin
Long March
Huang He (Yellow River)
Nationalist Chinese (Kuomintang)
Entrepot
Cultural Revolution
Communes
Responsibility System
Confucious
Theory of Demographic Transition
Township and Village Enterprises (TVEs)
State-owned firms (SOEs)
Han
Deng Xiaoping
Human Rights
Dalai Lama
Mao Zedong
Laogai
Chang Kai-Shek
Industrial Restructuring
Internal Structure of the City
Ethnic minorities