orientation
What country are all these in?
China
DPRK
ROK
Japan
Taiwan
sticky political situation
China: Complicated
Mao Zedong
1949: Mao becomes head of chinese state
People's Republic of China
Post-1949: Great Leap Forward
melt all the shovels into steel
everyone starves
Post-1949: Cultural Revolution
boot out the ideology of capital
1976: Mao dies.
1979: China opens to international capitalism
Autonomous Regions
Tibet is on of these allegedly autonomous regions
Xinjiang
Ningxia
Guangxi
Inner Mongolia
What that means is another question
Taiwan
Japanese colony
Formosa former portugese westernization
Is it a seperate country?
Language
Taiwanese
Mandarin Chinese widely spoken
Pop. Density
High on coasts
High in cities
1949: Mao rises to power, nationalist Chinese power brokers fled to Taiwan
Extremely Tense, Volatile relationship with China
the United States recognized Republic of China for a few years before PRC
Economics
Major financial center of the world
Major manufactoring
Hong Kong
part of mainland china
British Colony for over a century
1997: China takes over Hong Kong
Economics
Fully capitalist
major financial center of the world
Geopolitics and Environment
Population
Dense? No.
But where people live, they live very densely
Extraordinarily concentrated people
1.3 Billion folks
Industrialization
China is going through this process with a billion people
50 new coal factories per year
1 new coal factory per week
Sulfer levels in Chinese diesel are astronomical
Pop. of USA
1850
23 mil
1890
63 mil
1920
100 mil
Japan
physically quite small
influence and money, extremely large
Japan can afford to send all their pollution to poorer countries
Tsunami
Cultural Landscape
Nuclear danger
Nuclear danger is part of the cultural landscape of Japan
Cultural landscape
economically powerful
they have these powerful tools
Three Gorges Dam
completed 2006
Displacement
1 million people moved forcibly.
Environment
aquatic species
plant and animal species
soil erosion
Film recco: Up the Yangtze (2007)
Korean Peninusula: Division and Conflict
Sino-Japanese War (1894)
Dynastic China and Empiral Japan
Japan wins, controls Korea until WW2
1948: Post WWII split
divided between support for Soviet Union and the United States
DPRK
ROK
tha rock
Geopolitical conflict
Korean War
1950-1953
North invades South
United States, United Nations intervene
This war is only been ceased
DMZ is most heavily armed area in the world
Panmunjom
village in the DMZ
you are not allowed to take any photos of the DMZ
JSA
Shared area of DMZ for talkin, shittin'
Vice Guide to DPRK
DPRK does not want anyone murkying their homogenous society
2 mil soldiers on DPRK side
500k soldiers on ROK side
Tunnels built by DPRK to avoid the mine fields
United Nations cartoons and barbed wire
The barracks are shared 50% DPRK and 50% ROK
DPRK indoctunates
ROK indocturnates
DPRK built these giant concrete monuments that are tank barriers
Panmujumn
DPRK and UN signed peace treaty.
All DPRK mouth pieces are based around how they defeated the Americans
Re-unify Korea