1. Yinghuan
(People and Culture/Major Cities)

NAME OF CITY:  Yinghuan   Yinchuan is the capital of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and lies to the west of the Yellow River and to the east of Helan Mountain. The landform is divided into two main ...

2. Urumqi
(People and Culture/Major Cities)

NAME OF CITY:  Urumqi   Urumqi is the capital of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and the most 'inland' city in the world. With a population of two million ethnic inhabitants, the city is set in the ...

3. Nanning
(People and Culture/Major Cities)

NAME OF CITY:  Nanning   Nanning the capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, lies on the southern rim of China. It has an area of 10 thousand square kilometers and a population of 2.6 million.   Topography: ...

4. Lhasa
(People and Culture/Major Cities)

... spiritual history that has helped to create the romantic and mysterious Tibetan religion.   Topography: As the beautiful capital city of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), Lhasa is situated in the South ...

5. Hohhot
(People and Culture/Major Cities)

NAME OF CITY:  Hohhot Hohhot is the capital of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.  It has a population of approximately of 1.41 million people and covers an area of 6,000 square kilometers.   Topography:  ...

6. Xizang Autonomous Region
(People and Culture/Provinces)

Tibet (Tibet Autonomous Region or TAR, and Xizang in Chinese). Area: 1,274,900 square kilometers 2nd in the nation Population: 2.77 million Ethnicity: Tibetan-92.8%, Han-6.1%, Hui-.3%, Monpa-.3%, and ...

7. Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
(People and Culture/Provinces)

Xinjiang is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. It is a large, sparsely populated area which takes up about one sixth of the country's territory. Area:1,655,800 square kilometers ...

8. Sichuan Province
(People and Culture/Provinces)

Sichuan is located in the Upper Yangtze Valley in the southwest part of the country. Bordering provinces are Chongqing Municipality, Tibetan Autonomous Region, Qinghai, Ganxu, Shaanxi, Guiahou, and Yunnan. ...

9. Qinghai Province
(People and Culture/Provinces)

Qinghai is a province of the People's Republic of China, named after the enormous Qinghai Lake. It borders Gansu on the northeast, the Xinjiang Autonomous Region on the northwest, Sichuan on the southeast, ...

10. Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
(People and Culture/Provinces)

Ningxia is a Hui autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, located on the northwest Loess highland, and the Yellow River flows through a vast area of its land. Area: 62,800 square kilometers ...

11. Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
(People and Culture/Provinces)

Inner Mongolia, China’s northern border autonomous region, features a long, narrow strip of land sloping from northeast to southwest. It stretches 2,400 km from west to east and 1,700 km north to south. ...

12. Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
(People and Culture/Provinces)

Located in southern China, Guangxi is bordered by the Yunnan Province to the west, Guizhou to the north, Hunan to the northeast, and Guangdong to the southeast, and Vietnam and Beibu Bay to the southwest. ...

13. Gansu Province
(People and Culture/Provinces)

Lying in China’s western inland area, on the upper reaches of the ellow River, Gansu Province borders Shaanzi Province in the east, the NingIa Jui Autonomous Region in the northeast, Qinghai Province and ...

14. China and Capitalism, a History of Business Enterprise in Modern China
(Resources and Reviews/Reviews)

... In fact, Faure notes that, “Toward the end of the 1980s, China’s encounter with capitalism had reached a new stage.  The command economy had been all but replaced by the autonomous, if not always private, ...

15. Achang
(People and Culture/People Groups)

... had few rights and no right of inheritance. Before liberation, Dai chiefs were feudal lords over the Achangs. Most landlords were Han while there were only a few Achang landlords. In 1952, an Achang autonomous ...

16. Bai
(People and Culture/People Groups)

The Bai People The Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture has an area of 34,000 kilometers and is ridged along the west by Hengduan Mountains. Eighty per cent of the Bai live here while the rest live in Sichuan ...

17. Baoan
(People and Culture/People Groups)

... to leave Baoan was made by the elders due to strife over religion and water. The area around Linxia is an autonomous region-the Jishishan Baoan-Dongxiang-Salar autonomous county. As the name indicates, ...

18. Bulong
(People and Culture/People Groups)

The Bulong People Bulong live in the Mt. Bulong, Xiding and Bada areas of Menghai County in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture in southwestern Yunnan Province. Some live in the Lingcang and Simao ...

19. Buyi
(People and Culture/People Groups)

The Buyi People The Buyi live on plains or river valleys in villages composed of several clans. They are located in the Qiannan (Buyi-Miao) Autonomous Prefecture, the Xingyi, Anshu area of Guizhou Province ...

20. Dai
(People and Culture/People Groups)

The Dai People The Lu Dai live in Xishuangbanna ("the beautiful, ideal wonderland") Dai Autonomous Prefecture located in the southwestern frontier of Yunnan province. Burma borders it on the southwest ...