Geog597.01:East Asia Outline

=East Asia=

General Urban Characteristics

Historical Urban Development in China
-Culture Hearth (2000 BCE)

-Traditional (Pre-industrial) Chinese City

-Colonial Cities
 * Opium Wars
 * Treaty Ports

-Turmoil (1911-1949) -leaders:
 * Qing dynasty falls in 1911
 * Nationalist government comes to power
 * Sun Yat-Sen
 * Chiang Kai-shek

--leader: Mao Zedong
 * Communists eventually organize as a competing party


 * War with Japan (1937-1945)
 * Civil War between Nationalists and Communists resumes (1945-1949)

-1949
 * Communists gain control under Mao (PRC is established)


 * Chaing Kai-shek and followers flee to Taiwan (ROC is est'd)

Maoist Era (1949-1976)

 * Great Leap Forward (1957-1960)


 * Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)

Post-Mao Era (1976-present)
-Special Economic Zones (SEZs) -former colonies
 * popular control (one-child policy)
 * freer migration policy
 * economic "open door" policy
 * Special Administrative Regions (SARs)
 * Hong Kong (came under Chinese control in 1997)
 * Macau (came under Chinese control in 1999)