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© T. M. Whitmore
Chinese agriculture II
•Agriculture reformPre-Communist (pre-1949)Communist changesCurrent reforms
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Chinese agriculture III
•Nearly self sufficient despite 1.3 billion
•Agriculture is very intensive 10 persons to feed per ha
•Urban pops increasing and so is wealth => demand increasing faster than pop growth
•Significant imports but also significant exports
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Chinese Population Issues•Population growth
Revolutionary changesMortalityFertility
•Ethnic compositionHan ChineseOthers
•Spatial distributionmostly in eastUrbanization/transport
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Chinese history (briefly!)
•Chinese dynasties from 200s BC to ~ 1800
•European trade and influence 1700s onward
•Japanese empire
•Post WWII - rise of Communists