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Table 10-1
(
Continued
)
Century
Y ear
Dynasty
Important Events
17th-20th c AD
1644-1911 AD
Qing (Ch'ing)
Largest China-centered empire ever. Incorporates vast
(Manchu)
area including much of T Turkestan, Mongolia, Xizang
(Tibet), Burma, Indochina, Korea, and Taiwan. The
Qing map of this expanded territory justifies China' s
claim to Tibet. Retains Ming administrative framework
and officials. Population pressure, land concentrated
with big landowners, floods, and famines. European
powers force concessions. Opium War 1839-42. Britain
acquires Hong Kong. Taiping Rebellion 1850-65. First
railroad out of Shanghai in 1875. Boxer Rebellion
1890s-1901. T reaty ports number 100 by 1910.
1911-1949 AD
20th c AD
Collapse of Qing Dynasty . Period of Warlords. Sun
Yat-sen forms Nationalist Party . Civil war between
Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalists and Mao Zedong
and Communists. People' s Republic declared.
RUSSIA
KAZAKST AN
NORTHEAST
PLAIN
MANGOLIA
JUNGGAR
BASIN
TIAN SHAN
KYRGYST AN
Sea of
Japan
NORTH
KOREA
SOUTH
KOREA
TURP AN
DEPRESSION
Bohai
Sea
T ARIM BASIN
T AKLA MAKAN DESERT
ORDOS
DESERT
China
Frontier
NORTH
CHINA
PLAIN
SHANDONG
PENINSULA
Y ellow
Sea
LOESS PLA TEU
QAIDAM
BASIN
China
Proper
MIDDLE
AND LOWER
CHANG
BASIN
TIBET AN PLA TEAU
QIN LING
SICHUAN
(RED)
BASIN
East
China
Seaa
BHUT AN
YUNNAN
PLA TEAU
BANGLADESH
Taiwan
INDIA
LOWER
XI BASIN
MYANMAR
(BURMA)
VIETNAM
South
China
Seaa
LAOS
0
150
300MILES
Hainan
THAILAND
PHILIPPINS
0
150
300
KILOMETERS
Figure 10-2
Physical geography of East Asia. Study this map carefully and use it in reference to the text. Y our
atlas map will give more detail. Notice how mountainous China is and how distinct lowlands are.
Look at a population distribution map and check the relationship between population distribution
and China Frontier and China Proper .
From Douglas S. Johnson, Viola Haarmann, Merrill
L. Johnson and David L. Clawson,
W orld Regional Geography ,
10th edition, 2010, p. 508.
New York: Prentice-Hall.
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