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Readings for Unit 1: Here's a State of Things
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Before class begins, you should have read a set of articles from The New York Times:
Come to class on the first day ready to discuss the view of China's environment, and of China's role in the world environment, that is presented in these articles. We will spend the first half of the class discussing these articles. We will also keep this catastrophic view in mind as we examine the facts in more detail throughout the quarter.
For the second half of today's class, we will look at the basic geography of China in terms of the relationship between population, land, food, water, and forests. To begin with, you need to acquaint yourself with the geography and history of China in terms of facts. We will thus go over a list of facts upon which you will take a quiz on January 31, as well as explain in basic geographic terms the reasons why China's population and subsistence activities are distributed as they are.
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