Category: Asia

The Chinese region possesses approx. 5000 watercourses, widely exploited for agriculture: however, most of the basins are included in a large exoreic area that pays tribute to the Pacific Ocean, while the internal depression regions form endorheic basins equal to 1/3 of the total surface (especially in Xinjiang Uygur and Tibet), and very large areas…

MANCHURIA The Manchuria, partly made up of massive archeozoici, is marked as China Central by a wide depression between the mountain barrier of the Da Hinggan Ling, Eastern hemming the boards Mongols, the Xiao Hinggan Ling above the Amur valley (in Chinese Heilong Jiang) and the chains that close the Korean peninsula to the N…

The vast territory was affected by a series of corrugations from different periods, formed on the edge of the rigid archaeozoic element of East Asia, the so-called Sinic Shield, extended to the N of the Chang Jiang (Blue River) as far as Mongolia. Consisting of eruptive and metamorphic rocks that still emerge over vast stretches,…

As for the forestry heritage, the millennial agricultural exploitation has practically exhausted the forest resources in the central-eastern regions, while in the North and in the West of the country, the arid climate does not allow the formation of a real forest mantle. The largest woodlands are found in Manchuria and in the valleys of…

Given the climatic and pedological variety of the vast territory, there is an almost complete range of crops in China, many of which are in very high quantities. Since the 1950s, clearing and reclamation have earned more than 10 million ha for agriculture, subtracted from intense urbanization; at the same time there was the extension…

The secondary sector, on the other hand, with 21% of assets, has an incidence on GDP of 48.7%. Compared to the situation of the early 1980s, there has therefore been a further decrease in the weight of agriculture (whose low productivity is partially offset by self-consumption and other non-monetizable uses of rural production) and an…

To fill the country’s shortcomings, it was preferred to resort, rather than to imports, to the only immediately exploitable wealth, human potential: thus the ideological campaign called the “great leap forward” was launched in 1958, intended as an appeal to all forces operating to accelerate progress in the country. An attempt was made to insert…

As a country located in Asia categorized by Insidewatch, the People’s Republic of China represents an absolutely original and peculiar economic model, summarized in the definition of “market socialism”, which already covers, and increasingly appears destined to develop, a role of extraordinary importance on the world scene: this, not so much for the characterization geopolitics,…

The oldest surviving texts date back to the Yüan period (13th century). Ji Junxiang (13th century) wrote The orphan of the Chao family, Kuan Han-ch’ing (13th century), the greatest author of the Yüan period, left us The Garden of Tou Ou and The Old Organ. Always of the century. XIII are three other well-known playwrights:…

FROM THE SONG TO THE QING DYNASTY Replaced in the North by the nomadic art of the Liao and Qin, that of the Song (979-1280) continued to manifest itself with new developments in the South, where it had its major centers first in the capital of Nanjing then in that of Hangzhou Wan, the famous…

HISTORIANS AND SCHOLARS Chinese historiography has a unique feature in the world: there are official chronicles of the Twenty-Five Dynasties, written by court historians, spanning a period of time from 221 BC. C. to 1911 d. C. The first great Chinese historian was Ssu-ma Ch’ien (145-86 BC), who in his fundamental work entitled Historical Memoirs…

GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS The earliest forms of written expression, albeit crude and schematic, are documented by the finds of bones and tortoise backs found in Anyang. This kind of epigraphy is also found during the Chou dynasty (11th-3rd century BC), although more advanced and richer in expressions. In the meantime, the first, true literary documents were…

In 2004 Lenovo, the first Chinese manufacturer of personal computers, bought the PC division of the US company IBM, making it the third world group in the sector, while in 2005, although China has never been one of the major players in the production of cars, overall car sales exceeded those of Japan with 5.92…

China, as we have seen, has undergone a real “industrial revolution” since the 1980s. Until then, the manufacturing sector, with the partial exclusion of heavy industry, had been greatly undersized, from both a quantitative and qualitative point of view, by the economic policy strategies aimed at favoring integration with agriculture in the ” popular communes…

The ideology of the Sui hinged on the double motif of the classical rebirth and the somewhat sacred character of the empire in defense of the Buddhist faith; the three hundred years of the T’ang dynasty substantially reaffirmed this premise. They are characterized by a great civil development, as well as by notable territorial expansions:…

China had by now assumed (at least in its northern and central-northern parts) the typical features of a great peasant civilization, in which channeling was of exceptional importance, both in the cultivation of the soil and for the transport of goods to large urban centers. The period of the Warring Kingdoms, marked by an exceptional…

The greatest historical experience (for continuity in time and space) that is still known today is linked to the name of China; the reality that is summed up in this name is not only a cultural and social fact but, over a span of more than three thousand years, identifies a country and people who,…