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State-making Strategy and Regional Development from late Qing Empire to People’s Republic of China. Wensheng Wang Department of History UH Manoa. Lower Yangzi Delta: Economic and Cultural Heartland of China after the 11 th century. China’s loess plateau.
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State-making Strategy and Regional Development from late Qing Empire to People’s Republic of China Wensheng Wang Department of History UH Manoa
Lower Yangzi Delta:Economic and Cultural Heartland of China after the 11th century
Loess soil in north and northwest China(loess-fine wind-driven earth)
Building dikes on the Yellow River “SuspendedRiver” “
Hukou (residence card) Employment, medicare Retirement, housing, education, birth
A sculpture showing the start of the “Household responsibility system”November 24, 1978