China Survey Summary

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Brief summary of China Survey classes

Kamyshnaya Svetlana (M2016106)
School of Political Science and Public Administration
Shandong University

During the China Survey course we had 8 different subjects: Human Geography, Politics, History, Philosophy, Literature, Media, Economics and Higher Education.
Human Geography:
During this class professor Li gave us brief information about China’s
• Topography: Tibet is a roof of the world, Huanghe is a river of life, China has 5 sacred mountains: Taishan (Shandong), Huashan (Shanxi), Hengshan (Shanxi), Hengshan (Hunan), Songshan (Henan).
• Population: China has more than 1400 million people including Taiwan. To stop the growth of population government made family plan as a national policy. It means …show more content…

Dao means road or way. Laozi and Zhuangzi thought that Dao to be universal, holistic and cannot be known through analytical methods (seeing, touching, hearing etc.)
Chinese Literature
During this classes professor Fu characterized Chinese literature. It is the longest continuous literary tradition the world, influence on East Asian literature, for example, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese. Professor Fu briefly told us about different Chinese poems, for example, “Blue Blue Your Collar” and “The Yue Folk’s Song”. The interesting thing about Chinese literature is that there are a lot of dialects, but the same written language. Chinese also invented civil service examination where candidates had to write poems and essays.
Media
Professor Ling read us the introduction of China Media. The Media consists of history of China media, system and characters, Main Stream media and new media blocks. The earliest feudal official press dated the Tang Dynasty in Chang’an (now Xian) and was known as “Kaiyuan Newspaper”. China’s the oldest news agency is “Xinhua News Agency” (former “Red China News Agency”) was established in 1931 in Jiangxi province. “Renmi ribao” or “People’s Daily is the main newspaper presenting the opinion of CCP, was established in 1948 in Hebei

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