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A Brief History of China

In: How the Chinese Economy Works

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  • Guo Rongxing

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Shaped as a rooster, and situated in East Asia, China has a 14,500 km coastline along the East China Sea, the Korean Bay, the Yellow Sea and the South China Sea. It has a total length of approximately 22,140 km land boundaries with North Korea, Russia and Mongolia in the northeast and north, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan in the west, India and Nepal in the southwest, and Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam in the south. Over the course of thousands of years of history, there have been many legendary stories about this huge nation, as well as about its people, culture and history.

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  • Guo Rongxing, 2009. "A Brief History of China," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: How the Chinese Economy Works, edition 0, chapter 1, pages 1-15, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-24568-6_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230245686_1
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