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East Asia Key terms
East Asia Key terms list
Term | Definition |
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Tsunami | Seismic sea wave. |
Dynasty | A family or line of rulers. |
Sinicization | Bringing people who are not of Chinese descent under the influence of Chinese culture. |
Asian Tigers | The high-growth economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan. |
New Silk Road | A global infrastructure development strategy adopted by the Chinese government in 2013 to invest in nearly 70 countries and international organizations. |
Regional complementarity | A condition where two adjacent regions complement each other in economic geographic terms. |
One nation-two systems | A constitutional principle of the People's Republic of China describing the governance of Hong Kong and Macau since they became Special Administrative Regions of China. |
One-child policy | Antinatalist policy instituted by China in 1979 to slow population growth. |
High value-added goods | A change in the physical state or form of a product. |
Floating population | A group of people who reside in a given population for a certain amount of time and for various reasons, but are not generally considered part of the official census count. |
Hukou system | A family registration program that serves as a domestic passport, regulating population distribution and rural-to-urban migration. |
Gender imbalance | The social process by which men and women are not treated as equals. |
Dependency ratio | Number of people not working age (0-14 and over 65) relative to number of people working age (15 to 64). |
Special Economic Zone (SEZ) | An area in a country that is subject to different economic regulations than other regions within the same country. |
Economic geography | Describing and explaining the varied places and spaces in which economic activities are carried out and circulate. |
Overseas Chinese | People of ethnic Chinese birth who reside outside the territories of the People's Republic of China. |
Foreign direct investment (FDI) | An investment in the form of a controlling ownership in a business in one country by an entity based in another country. |
Buffer state | A small neutral country situated between two larger hostile countries and serving to prevent the outbreak of regional conflict. |
State capitalism | A political system in which the state has control of production and the use of capital. |
Conurbation | An extended urban area, typically consisting of several towns merging with the suburbs of one or more cities. |
Demographic burden | Accelerated economic growth resulting from country's declining mortality and fertility rate and subsequent changes in the age structure of the population. |
Urban systems | The area around a city, in which daily commuting occurs. |
Technopole | A high-technology cluster. |