http://www.gnxp.com/new/2008/08/31/the-wealth-of-communities/ Genetics Tue, 03 Apr 2018 05:20:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.27 http://www.gnxp.com/new/2008/08/31/the-wealth-of-communities/#comment-17846 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:31:26 +0000 #comment-17846 Also in northern China, per unit land production is much lower than south due to short summer season and dry climate. Low yeild per unit limit population density. Meanwhile, each family need larger piece of land to produce enough food to feed themself. Thus horse become very important farm animal in northern China, which is needed for farming and long-distance travel.

]]> http://www.gnxp.com/new/2008/08/31/the-wealth-of-communities/#comment-17847 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:12:18 +0000 #comment-17847 Personal experience in Central and South China told me that Chinese farmers are highly produtive in small lot of lands which negate needs of plowing large animals like bull or horse. Also Such effeciency of land use for human food leaves very little grass land for herding animals like sheep or cattle. However, pigs eating like human can be fed by human food extra or left-over of dinner. 
 
In northern China, north of yellow river (where I came from), population density is much lower with large land to handle, where the farming animals like horse, cattle or even sheep are common. No human labor can take care of hundred acre of land without animal help. Also there are pleny of grass land for sheep and cattle in northern china.

]]> http://www.gnxp.com/new/2008/08/31/the-wealth-of-communities/#comment-17848 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:18:10 +0000 #comment-17848 The Transformation of the Chinese Earth is spotty but worth a look. I haven’t looked at it for a long time, but significant parts of Northern China have been almost completely agriculturalized for three thousand years. At one point people could only speculate about the original vegetation in some areas, though I think that pollen studies have changed that. Despite the nature poetry, China humanizes everything.  
 
There’s not much eveidence that either the local Chinese or the Chinese government wants to incorporate SE Asia, much less Korea, into China. They do talk about various archipelagoes once under Chinese control, and Mongolia and maybe parts of Siberia. They probably want to establish an old-fashioned sphere of influence, though.

]]> http://www.gnxp.com/new/2008/08/31/the-wealth-of-communities/#comment-17849 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:10:20 +0000 #comment-17849 Thanks. 
 
This has geostrategic relevance because one obvious question about the rise of China to global economic dominance is: What do they want?  
 
Do the current Chinese boundaries enclose the vast majority of all Han people? Why didn’t Sinicization continue into southeast Asia?

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