Exam 9: East Asia

Which war was a naval engagement between China and Japan?

Name one of the two most devastating natural hazards in China, both of which result in part from overgrazing, irrigation, deforestation, overpopulation, and urbanization.

The post-Mao policy that decentralized decision making and put it into the hands of farmers, households, and communes is known as the ________________ system.

Which two reformist groups arose in China in the early twentieth century?

According to the textbook, which of the following customs explains the higher status of females among ancient native groups in Southern China, such as the Dai?

How many times per year do Japan and Taiwan receive monsoon rains?

Which of the following is defined as the ability of a country to supply basic food to all the people consistently?

During the period following the introduction of market reforms, regional disparities in wealth between China's regions were increasing.

Most of China's population (around 90 percent) is concentrated in the well-watered southwest.

Another term for the area that China refers to as Xizang is:

What was the name of the Japanese military rulers that held power from 1600 until 1868?

Which statement is NOT true of Taiwan?

Which of the following areas has the lowest population density?

Mao Zedong's government became the most powerful China ever had.

Which East Asian country does NOT belong to the United Nations and thus does NOT submit national data for the computation of GDP and the HDI?

The concept of special economic zones has been applied only to cities in China's eastern coastal region.

Which group constituted the main early beneficiaries of the Communist revolution in China?

What dramatic population-control policy did China adopt by 1979?

China's Uygurs live in the autonomous region of:

Which statement is NOT true of Shanghai?