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Other peoples of the world, communities, and social structure and change can be applied to the examination of China |
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China is connected to many other nations. Those it is connected to so far are listed below along with the peoples they principally belong to. [ Macedonia, Slovenia, Botswana, Gambia Guinea-Bissau, Gabon, Estonia, Mauritius, Swaziland, East Timor, Trinidad & Tobago, Fiji Qatar, Reunion, Cyprus, Guyana can be connected. ]
China belongs to Asiatic civilization along with nations such as Kuwait]
China belongs particular to the oriental peoples along with Taiwan and Hong Kong. Japan can be connected. South Korea can be connected. North Korea can be connected.
There are many connections with Central Asian peoples, many of which have been absorbed or are now dominated by it. Armenia can be considered.
Mongolian peoples including those of Mongolia have been closely connected.
Inner Asian peoples including those of Turkmenistan can be connected. Uzbekistan can be connected. Kazakhstan can be connected. Tajikistan can be connected. Kyrgystan can be connected.
West Asian peoples including those of Georgia can be connected. Azerbaijan can be connected.
There are strong connections to Southeast Asian peoples such as those of New Zealand.
Mainland Southeast Asia including Singapore can be connected. Vietnam can be connected. Thailand can be connected. Burma can be connected. Malaysia can be connected. Cambodia can be connected. Laos can be connected.
Southeast Asian Archipelagoes including Papua New Guinea can be connected. The Philippines can be connected. Indonesia can be connected.
The aborigines of Australia can be connected.
There are connections with South Asian peoples such as those of India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka
Connections to Middle Eastern peoples including Oman are weaker.
Persian peoples including those of Iran and Afghanistan can be connected.
Arabian peoples including those of the United Arab Emirates can be connected. Saudi Arabia can be connected. Yemen can be connected.
Mesopotamian peoples including Iraq can be connected.
Turkey can be connected.
Egypt can be connected.
Levantine peoples including those of Lebanon can be connected. Syria can be connected. Israel can be connected. Jordan can be connected. The Palestinian Territories can be connected.
North African peoples including those of Libya can be connected. Morocco can be connected. Algeria can be connected. Tunisia can be connected.
China had fairly minimal contacts with Western civilization until the modern period. Since then, it has undergone substantial cultural change as it has begun to adopt Western technology and ideas.
Kosovo can be connected.
Northest European peoples including Latvia can be connected. Russia can be connected. Ukraine can be connected. Poland can be connected. The Czech Republic can be connected. Belarus can be connected. Slovakia can be connected. Moldova can be connected. Lithuania can be connected.
Anglic peoples including Jamaica have influenced it significantly. Anglo-American peoples including those of Canada can be connected. The United States can be connected. British peoples including Ireland can be connected. The United Kingdom can be connected. Anglo-Australian peoples including those of New Zealand can be connected. Australia can be connected.
Latin peoples such as those of Panama have also been important.
Italic peoples including those of Italy can be considered.
French peoples including those of Haiti can be considered. France can be connected.
Hispanic peoples including those of Uruguay can be connected.
Spain can be connected.
Hispanic Mexican American peoples including those of Puerto Rico can be connected. Mexico can be connected. Guatemala can be connected. Cuba can be connected. The Dominican Republic can be connected. Hondurascan be connected. El Salvador can be connected. Nicaragua can be connected. Costa Rica can be connected.
Hispanic Colombian American peoples including those of Ecuador can be connected. Colombia can be connected. Venezuela can be connected.
Hispanic Peruvian American peoples including those of Bolivia can be connected. Peru can be connected. Chile can be connected.
Hispanic Argentine American peoples including those of Paraguay can be connected. Argentina can be connected.
Lusitanic peoples including Portugal can be considered. Brazil can be connected.
Germanic peoples including those of Switzerland have influenced it somewhat. The Netherlands can be connected. Germany can be connected. Belgium can be connected. Austria can be connected.
Balkan peoples including those of Albania can be connected. Romania can be connected. Greece can be connected. Serbia can be connected. Hungary can be connected. Bulgaria can be connected. Bosnia & Herzegovina can be connected. Croatia can be connected.
Scandinavian peoples such as those of Norway might also be considered. Sweden can be connected. Denmark can be connected. Finland can be connected.
There are few known connections to African peoples, represented by Namibia.
East African peoples including those of Eritrea can be connected. Northern East African peoples including those of Somalia can be connected. Ethiopia can be connected. Central East African peoples including those of Burundi can be connected. Kenya can be connected. Tanzania can be connected. Uganda can be connected. Rwanda can be connected. Interior East African peoples including those of Chad can be connected. Sudan can be connected.
South African peoples including those of Lesotho can be considered. Madagascar can be connected. South Africa can be connected. Mozambique can be connected. Malawi can be connected. Zimbabwe can be connected. Zambia can be connected.
Central African peoples including those of Congo (Republic) can be connected. Congo (DR) can be connected. Cameroon can be connected. Angola can be connected. The Central African Republic can be connected.
West African peoples including those of Liberia can be connected.
Southern Coastal West African peoples such as tnose of Togo can be connected. Nigeria can be connected. Ghana can be connected. Cote d'Ivoire can be connected. Benin can be connected.
Western Coastal West African peoples such as those of Sierra Leone can be connected. Senegal can be connected. Guinea can be connected.
Interior West African peoples such as those of Mauritania can be connected. Burkina Faso can be connected. Niger can be connected. Mali can be connected.
American Indian peoples such as those found in Jamaica can be considered.
Middle American Indian peoples including those of Panama can be connected. Meso-American peoples including those of Guatemala can be connected. Mexico can be connected. Southwestern American Indian peoples of the southwestern United States can be considered. Caribbean peoples including those of Puerto Rico can be connected. Cuba can be connected. The Dominican Republic can be connected. Haiti can be connected. Honduras can be connected. El Salvador can be connected. Nicaragua can be connected. Costa Rica can be connected.
South American Indian peoples including those of Uruguay can be connected. Andean peoples including those of Boliviacan be connected. Colombia can be connected. Peru can be connected. Argentina can be connected. Chile can be connected. Ecuador can be connected. Cono/Southern American Indian peoples such as those of Chile can be connected. Argentina can be connected. Amazonian peoples including those of Paraguay can be connected. Brazil can be connected. Argentina can be connected. Bolivia can be connected.
North American Indian peoples including those of Canada can be connected. Western North American Indian peoples including those of the western United States can be connected. Eastern North American Indian peoples including those of the United States can be connected.
Major cities are divided among the major regions of China. Those not yet assigned include:
Cities of other nations include Tokyo, Canton, Seoul, Shanghai, Mexico City, Delhi, New York City, Sao Paulo
The agricultural revolution can be connected. The agrarian revolution can be considered. Bronze age movements, early Iron age movements, later iron age movements, and modernization can be connected. The industrial revolution took hold late in China, but changes associated with the Early industrial revolution, middle industrial revolution, and late industrial revolution can be examined.
Institutional change can be connected. Cultural change can be connected. Demographic change can be connected. Natural change can be connected.
Innovation can be connected. Transmission can be connected. Adaptation can be connected. Extinction can be connected.
Parts of China have become industrial. I am not certain to what extent to consider late industrial society, middle industrial society, or early industrial society. It has been largely agrarian and has had modern agrarian society, late Iron age society, early Iron age society, and Bronze age society. I am not certain about the presence of horticultural society at present. I am not familiar with hunting and gathering peoples in China.
Social structure is particularly complex.
Community and regional structure is fairly complex. China is divided into a number of provinces and, unofficially, into a number of regions. These include North Central China, South Central China, South Coastal China, Southern Interior China, Northern China, Mongolian China, and Western China. Class structure can be considered. There is a peasant class, a middle class, and an upper class composed of the politically and economically influential. Institutional structure can be connected. Cultural structure can be connected. Anthropological structure can be connected.