Thnx!
2007-02-13 14:18:57 · 14 answers · asked by myann5544 2 in Travel ➔ Asia Pacific ➔ China
There are about a billion and a half of them living and breathing over there. We usually call them people. Just kidding.:)
1. Five major languages, 3000 dialects.
2. Great Wall
3. The Three Kingdoms period
4. Mongol Rule
5. The Silk Highway
6. The Peoples Liberation Army and Mao Tse Tung
7. The Nationalist Chinese Army and Chaing Kai Shek
8. Communism
9. Imperialism
10. Republic of China (Taiwan)
11. Cultural Revolution
12. The Gang of Four
13. Land mass little larger than the contiguous 48 states here.
14. Hong Kong on lease to Great Britain for 150 years. If I recall it was returned to China in '97
15. Three Gorges Dam, largest hydroelectric dam in the world. It even moved the earth about 1.5 degrees off its axis.
And finally not necessarily in that order. And this is not even scratching the surface.
2007-02-13 14:58:56 · answer #1 · answered by eks_spurt 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Confucius
Mencius
Lao-tzu
Sun Tzu
Qu Yuan
Qin Shihuang
Liu Bang
Ts'al lun
Zheng he
Bi Sheng
Sui Wen Ti
Li Bai
Du Fu
Cao Xueqin
Mao Zedong
2007-02-13 16:14:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'll try to make a simple equation, it may or may not be balanced in the end for some of us depending on from which angle trying to look at it. It has always and has been the easiest way to put the blame on politicians. That's in our nature put the blame on others. I do too, but isn't it us who put those politicians in power without thoroughly looking into their agenda. It is us why they are in power and it is us again who can take the power away and bring them down. What does it make you to buy products made outside of the USA mostly made in China these days. Price tags, aren't they? Nobody pushes you to buy things made in China you, me & them we all do it voluntarily. They are so cheap and yet don't last very long. That is why they are cheap. If you go to any store you see anything made in China, Pakistan, India etc is sold 1/3 of the price of the same item made in the USA.. Because people in the USA cannot survive with 1 dollar a day as opposed to the people who can especially in China. Almost all of the goods are sold in Walmart, Sears, Target..etc made in China. Those companies want to make profit. If the goods were to be made in the USA they will be expensive so the companies they cannot make quick sales turnaround. When these corporations cannot sell they cannot make money therefore their share price drops down in the stock market and investors (could be you, me or anyone) would be so unhappy because people lose money on their investments. That is why they ship the jobs outside of the USA to gain the benefit of cheap labour. Also, there are international trade agreements in between those countries that is the countries like USA is obligated to ship out some of the small jobs to Asia and South East Asia in return to sell heavy goods to those countries. So that way they can help their economies and eliminate receiving the number of refugees in here. What is most interesting to me that the people who immigrate from China they can multiply as many as they want in The USA whereas they can only have one kid if they were to stay in China, obviously that is making a big change in the demographics of some of the cities in North America drastically. Anyone who is born and raised in North America is having a hard time finding a job although they successfully fill the requirements of any specific job they apply. If we don't buy things made outside of our own country then the jobs will stay where they are belonged to. "Every supply in the market creates its own demand" so don't buy things made outside of North America, especially if you want to keep your own job and also - if you want your own unemployed country fellow men to get a job quicker...
2016-05-24 08:16:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Um, rice. Oh, and China has the fastest growing economy in the world. They're also the world's largest contributor to air pollution. They also are the world's most populous country. China does not allow freedom of religion and this forces many groups (most notably christians) to hold church services in their own homes to avoid detection by the government. They recently relaxed a law that made it illegal to have more than 2 children. Also they're backstabbers. You know they're condemning the US in their secret talks with North Korea.
2007-02-13 14:29:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
China's overall population exceeds 1.3 billion
Has the world's longest continuously used written language system.
China is the source of many of the world's great inventions, including the Four Great Inventions of ancient China: paper, the compass, gunpowder, and printing.
The most spoken dialects are Mandarin (spoken by over 70% of the population), Wu (Shanghainese), Yue (Cantonese), Min, Xiang, Gan, and Hakka.
The People's Republic of China is officially secular and atheist but it does allow personal religion or supervised religious organization.
The most popular sports are martial arts, table tennis, badminton and more recently, golf.
Archaeological evidence suggests that the earliest occupants in China date to 2.24 million to 250,000 years ago.
Today, the Republic of China continues to exist on Taiwan, while the People's Republic of China controls the Chinese mainland.
Etc. etc.
2007-02-13 14:30:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
the population in Shanghai is 2/3 of the entire population of Canada.
Two most popular religions: Buddhism and Muslim
Strong industrial as well as agricultural. Compare their current state of being and economy to our own industrial revolution.
google it, learn alot! It is a great country with a rich history and promising future...it has it's problems (like pollution), but eventually it will begin to regulate.
2007-02-14 05:14:26 · answer #6 · answered by mamacatto2 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They built the great wall of China to keep the invaders out.
And I can't think of something else.
2007-02-13 14:28:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
longest canal, great canal. great wall, panda, long history, not very religious country. Has to be ruled by iron fist since democracy wont work with large population. first emperor united the country by having one written language and measuring system. ...
2007-02-13 14:29:53 · answer #8 · answered by cliffo2027 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
china is cool.
i like china.
i've never been to china.
its very big.
one of the biggest countries.
its in asia.
its captial is beijing. thats all i can think of. GOOD LUCK!
2007-02-13 14:33:30 · answer #9 · answered by May E 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Good Lord!!! You're on the INTERNET!!! Google China and you'll find millions!!!
2007-02-13 14:22:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋