1. Chapter 5
East Asia

2. Figure 5.03

3. East Asian Miracle
 Reemergence as a world political, economic,
and cultural force in late 20th century.
 24% of world’s population
 20% of world’s economic output
 Present conditions based on millennia of
cultural and technological development

4. East Asian Miracle
 From Poverty and Defeat to Renewed
Eminence
 Mid-20th century:
 Poverty
 Political disruption
 Cultural confusion
 Late 20th century:
 Growth of economies of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan
and China

5. Figure 5.04
Percentage of global economy these economies form.

6. Cultural and Political
Influences
 Chinese Empires
 Foundations of Chinese Cultures
 Confucius (Kong Fuzi)
 Daoism
 Mongol Invasions
 Later Empires

7. Figure 5.07
Historical migrations of Chinese influence into parts of Asia.
(note also the influence of India into S.E. Asia).

8. Cultural and Political
Influences
 Japanese Isolationism
 Shinto
 Pantheistic religion
 Korean Origins
 Responses to European Intrusions
 China Resists Colonization
 Disrupted Chinese Republic
 Japanese Aggression

9. Natural Environments
 Subtropical and Midlatitude Climates
 Monsoon climatic environment
 Midlatitude east coast climatic environments
 Mountains and Major Rivers
 Himalayas
 Tibetan Plateau
 Karst
 Major rivers
 Huang He (Yellow), Chang Jiang (Yangtze),
Zhu Jiang (Pearl)

10. Karst towers - Guilin, China.

11. Figure 5.10

12. Natural Environments
 Forests, Grasslands, and Desert
 Country Boundaries
 Buffer state
 Natural Resources
 Environmental Problems
 Natural Hazards

13. Figure 5.12

14. Natural Environments
 Human Impacts and Responses
 Diseases
 Pollution
 Environmental Policies

15. Globalization and East Asia
 East Asian Governmental Contrasts
 Huge Numbers of People
 1.5 billion people
 Japan’s urban concentrations
 Tokaido megalopolis
 Suburbanization & Counterurbanization
 Japanese city landscapes
 Urban focus in the Koreas
 Urban vs. rural population in China
 Shantytowns

16. Globalization and East Asia
 Huge Numbers of People
 Global City–Regions in East Asia
 Population Pressures in Japan and the
Koreas
 Chinese Population Dynamics
 Overseas Chinese
 Transnational Chinese economy

17. Figure 5.16

18. Table 5.02

19. Table 5.01a

20. Globalization and East Asia
 In the Economic Forefront: Japan, South
Korea, and Taiwan
 East Asian Multinationals
 The Example of Toyota
 International Tourism
 Recent Entry: China
 China and the World Trade Organization
 Will Miracle Growth Continue?

21. Globalization and East Asia
 Global and Local Culture
 Human Rights

22. Japan
 Japanese Ethnicity
 Japanese Identity
 Economic Development
 Agriculture
 Manufactures
 Reconstruction
 Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI)
 Increasing costs and “Just in Time”
 Global Investments
 Renewed Economic Challenges and Services Growth

23. Japan
 Japan’s Regions and Cities
 Hokkaido
 Honshu
 Shikoku
 Kyushu
 Ryukyu Islands

24. The Koreas
 Korean peninsula divided following World
War II
 North Korea (People’s Democratic Republic of
Korea)
 Communist
 Dictatorship since inception
 Kim Il Sun, Kim Jong-il
 South Korea (Republic of Korea)
 Became an urban-industrial country linked to the West
 Democracy and dictatorship
 Chaebol

25. The Koreas
 South Korean Economic Development
 Reconstruction and Economic Growth
 Manufacturing and the Chaebol
 Developing Broader Interests
 Economic Stagnation in North Korea
 Isolationist
 Poverty and famine

26. China, Mongolia, and Taiwan
 World’s most populous country (1.3 billion)
 Political, Economic, and Social Ups and
Downs
 Ethnicity in China
 Collectivization and Communes
 The Great Leap Forward and Cultural
Revolution

27. China, Mongolia, and Taiwan
 China Joins the Wider World
 Household responsibility system
 Internal Political Tensions in the 2000s

28. China, Mongolia, and Taiwan
 Economic Development
 The Chinese Economy, 1949–1976
 New Policies and New Growth after 1976
 Farming and Rural Living in the 2000s
 Water Resources
 Chinese Energy Policy
 Growth in Chinese Manufacturing
 Increasing Steel Output
 China’s auto-making Industry
 Expansion of Tertiary Industries
 Attacking Poverty in China

29. China, Mongolia, and Taiwan
 Regions and Cities in China
 Eastern Coastal Regions
 Interior behind the Coastal Regions
 Deep Interior Regions
 Hong Kong
 Macau’s New Approach to Gaming
 Mongolian Isolation
 Mongolian People
 Mongolia’s Limited Resources
 Taiwan
 Taiwanese Economy