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Bogdan John Pauline Peter Georgios |
KALEIDOSCOPE
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(Georgios Paraskevopoulos)
PEOPLES
REPUBLIC
OF CHINA
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| Arise! All who refuse to be slaves!
Let our flesh and blood become our new Great Wall!
As the Chinese nation faces its greatest peril,
All forcefully expend their last cries.
Arise! Arise! Arise!
May our million hearts beat as one,
Brave the enemy's fire, March on!
Brave the enemy's fire, March on!
March on! March on! On! |
(Lyrics: Translation: obtained from Wikipedia)
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Geography
China's land drops off in the escarpments eastward to the
ocean, letting in humid air currents and leading many rivers eastward.
Population
China is the most populous country in the world, with
1.25909 billion people at the end of 1999, about 22 percent of the world's
total. (Hong Kong, Taiwan Province and Macao excluded, Special Administration).
The population density in China is 130 people/ km2.
Males 50.8 %, females 49.2 %.
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Enjoy - Handicaped Chinese Children's Contribution
Ethnic Groups
The largest ethnic group is the Han Chinese, who constitute about 91.9% of the
total population. The remaining 8.1% are Zhuang (16 million), Manchu (10
million), Hui (9 million), Miao (8 million), Uygur (7 million), Yi (7 million),
Mongolian (5 million), Tibetan (5 million), Buyi (3 million), Korean (2
million), and other ethnic minorities.
Language
There are seven major Chinese dialects and many subdialects. Mandarin (or Putonghua), the predominant dialect, is spoken by over 70% of the population. It is taught in all schools and is the medium of government. About two-thirds of the Han ethnic group are native speakers of Mandarin; the rest, concentrated
in southwest and southeast China, speak one of the six other major Chinese dialects. Non-Chinese languages spoken widely by ethnic minorities include Mongolian, Tibetan, Uygur and other Turkic languages (in Xinjiang), and Korean (in the northeast).
Capital: Beijing (Peking)
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Shanghai -A cosmopolitan town
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Hong Kong - Searching for heaven
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Terrain
China has a
diversity of land formations including mountains, hills, highlands, plains and
basins. The highlands and hill regions account for 65 percent of the country's
land mass. The highest mountain peak is Qomolangma (Everest), 8,848 metres
above sea level; the lowest point is the Turpan Basin, 154 metres below sea
level.
Major mountains: Himalaya, Kunlun Mountains, Tien Shan
Major rivers: Yangtze, Yellow River, Mekong
HISTORY OF CHINA
China, with a recorded history of 5,000 years, was one
of the world's earliest civilizations. China was one of the countries where
economic activity first developed. As early as 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, people
in the Yellow River valley had already started farming and raising livestock.
In the 21st century B.C., China established a slave
society with the founding of the Xia Dynasty, thereby writing a finale to long
years of primitive society.
In 221 B.C., Qin Shihuang established China's first
centralized autocracy, the Qin Dynasty, thereby ushering Chinese history into
feudalism, which endured in a succession of dynasties until the Opium War of
1840.
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The Bourgeois Democratic Revolution of 1911 led by Sun
Yat-sen toppled the rule of the Qing Dynasty, putting an end to more than 2,000
years of feudal monarchical systemm.
Potala Tibet - Spirit of Buddha
Click above - Lhasa and other places in Tibet.
CHINESE DYNASTIES
Xia Dynasty 21st century BC-16th century BC
Shang Dynasty 16th century BC-1066 BC
Zhou Dynasty:
Western Zhou 1066 BC-771 BC
Eastern Zhou 770 BC-476 BC
Spring and Autumn 770 BC-221 BC
Qin Dynasty 221 BC-206BC
Han Dynasty:
Western Han Dynasty 206 BC-23 AD
Eastern Han Dynasty 25-220
The Three Kingdoms:
Wei 220-265, Shu Han 221-263, Wu 222-280
Western Jin 265-316
Eastern Jin 317-420
Southern and Northern Dynasty:
Southern Dynasty 420-589, Northern Dynasty 386-581
Sui Dynasty 581-618
Tang Dynasty 618-907
The Five Dynasties 907-960
Sung Dynasty:
Northern Sung 960-1127, Southern Sung 1127-1279
Liao Dynasty 907-1125
Western Xia Dynasty 1032-1227
Jin Dynasty 1115-1234
Yuan Dynasty 1271-1368
Ming Dynasty 1368-1644
Qing Dynasty 1644-1911
Republic of China (Guo Ming
Dang) 1912-1949
The People's Republic of China 1949-the present
OLYMPIC GAMES 2008 in Beijing - WE ARE READY
We are ready - Enjoy the 29th Olycmpics - They may be the last
Kindly regards
Georgios