the people's republic of china the country with the world’s largest population
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The People's Republic of China The country with the world’s largest populationhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htm1lXZGYvkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQFEDdaG64o&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQFEDdaG64o&feature=related
News today, April 5, 2010
• http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/54511.html
• More than 100 Chinese miners were pulled out alive Monday after being trapped for over a week in a flooded coal mine, where some ate sawdust and strapped themselves to the shafts' walls with their belts to avoid drowning while they slept. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPKgAM9HbAk
Xi’an China, The Great WallTerra Cotta Warriors• http://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=RsUE-ZtcUFg
The Great Wall of China
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB4nXADdPPY&feature=channel
novel• Describes foot binding in a
painfully accurate way• Story centers on Nushu• “Nüshu is a syllabic script
created and used exclusively by women in Jiangyong Prefecture, Hunan Province, China. The women were forbidden formal education for many centuries and developed the Nüshu script in order to communicate with one another. They embroidered the script into cloth and wrote it in books and on paper fans.”
• Men could not read nushu.
The Cultural Revolution 1965 • Mao Zedong’s attempt to re-establish the original
concepts of communism in his country• Mao believed that “liberal bourgeois" ideals were
permeating the communist party and society at large and that they wanted to restore capitalism. Mao wanted these aspects of Chinese life removed. He enlisted young Chinese and formed Red Guard groups around the country.
• The first targets were culture and education. Students attending universities were the very first people affected by the Cultural Revolution.
Red Guards• The number
of ancient buildings, artifacts, antiques, books, and paintings which were destroyed by Red Guards were countless.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaz8sVaK8s4&feature=related
Religion• Freedom of belief is a
government policy, and normal religious activities are protected by the constitution. Confucianism & Taoism are native to China. Buddhism was introduced from India. Islam came from Arab countries, and Christianity was introduced very early (in 635).
St. Ignatius Cathedral, Shanghai
The cathedral was originally built in 1906, but was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution; it has just recently been restored to its original beauty.
Temple of Heaven, BeijingComplexof Taoistbuildings,Beijing
Where emporerand others went to pray for a goodHarvest
5.9 million dollarrenovationprior to the Olympics in 2008
Forbidden City• Imperial palace from the Ming
Dynasty (1368-1644) to the end of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)
• Located in the middle of Beijing
• For about 500 years it was the home for the emporer and his house
• Also the center of Chinese political and ceremonial life
• Built between 1406-1420• 7,800,000 square feet• Nearly 10,000 rooms• Landscaped gardens• Furniture, artifacts, etc.• Includes evidence of Manchu
Shamanism and its practice• Now is the Palace Museum• World Heritage site since 1987• Described as the largest
collection of preserved ancient wooden structures in the world by UNESCO http://whc.unesco.org/en/list
Smog in Beijing• http://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=5IglDxdmYY8
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psuta_Z7v9Y&feature=related
Olympic Stadium shrouded in fog