Problem and Solution?

Stop 4: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

We will be investigating

Not only is the use of nuclear power dangerous socially, politically,

The Natural Resources and the Language of Mongolia.

The administration and consolidation of the vast Mongol Empire were

and economically, it obviously does damage to the environment. For South

Korea especially, living next to North Korea, one of the more unstable and

closely tied to the use of the horse. Genghis Khan established an imperial

dangerous countries in the region, the use of nuclear power is a powerful

circuit of communications similar to the famous Pony Express of the

risk. There is the argument that it is necessary for South Korea to use

American West. Genghis Khans system had way stations for post riders

nuclear power so much as defense against North Korea, specifically as a

established in strategic locations across the empire. This system enabled

threat that North Korea will not want to go up against, thus ideally

commands to be rapidly dispersed and news to be brought swiftly to the

preventing any conflict. While I do not know if proposing the decrease in

capital. When Mongol leaders assembled, their horses were hitched in

usage of nuclear power in South Korea is practical or even truly possible; I

established locations to facilitate communication and to avoid quarrels over

do believe that decreasing the amount of nuclear power used would be

lost and stolen horses. Even in the twenty-first century, Mongolia remains a

beneficial to the environment. Certainly as it would decrease the need for

horse-based culture and retains its pastoral traditions. Its 2.4 million people

nuclear waste disposal sites (which harm the local environment including

are semi-nomadic and support themselves primarily by breeding five

the human and animal populations), and it would also ideally help the

domestic species. These are invariably spoken of in a set order: horses, cattle

society of South Korea.

Geological Adventures of
East Asia

(including yaks), camels, sheep, and goats.

The horse, which is used for travel, herding, hunting, and sport, is the

Document URLs and Source URLs

most prized. In the words of a herder who lives outside Ulaanbaatar,

MONGOLIA: http://www.amnh.org/explore/science-bulletins/bio/documentaries/the-last-wild-horse-the-return-of-takhi-to-mongolia/article-the-horse-

Mongolia's capital, We Mongols respect horse as our companion of night

in-mongolian-culture)

and day. The horse is the source of joy and pride of a Mongolian herder. And

KOREA: http://www.everyculture.com/Ja-Ma/South-Korea.html)

we are nothing without our horses.

TAIWAN: http://www.aabri.com/manuscripts/09297.pdf

Mongolians have lost many things between China and Russia. Even

China: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cnat/hd_cnat.htm

the language is lost in a long time; Mongolians figured out using the Russian

China: http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/7695.html

letters to represent the original pronunciation of the language. Inner

PICTURES:

Mongolia of China also have some small percent of people can speak and

http://www.mafengwo.cn

write the traditional way. But as for the official language, the Modern

http://www.afs.org.in

Mongolian is the one that internationally recognizes it.

(Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia)

(Original Mongolian Lang.)

www.wangchao.net.cn

http://travel.sina.com.cn

http://www.coxandkingsusa.com/

Presented by:
Field Trip Group Number Two
Pai Liu
Sarah Lopez
Candice Symboriski

Stop 1: Tokyo, Japan

Stop 2: Jeju, Korea

Stop 3: Shanghai, Sanya, Lhasa, Urumqi, Xian, and Beijing

We will be investigating the

We will be investigating the

We will be investigating the Environmental Issues in China that are

Language and Religion of Eastern Japan.

Politics and Natural Resources of Southern Korea.

associated with Natural Resources and Politics.

Modern Japanese is the official language of Japan. It is a language

Traditionally, land, especially farmland, was the main form of wealth,

based on Chinese. The people that once first moved to Japan in the 3rd

and tenants had customary rights that allowed them to farm the same plots

century starting to create their language based on the Chinese during that

year after year. The land survey and tax structure under colonial rule changed

In no other cultural tradition has nature played a more important role

time. Around the 17th century, the people of Japan started to create their

the nature and extent of land tenure, forcing many owner-farmers to sell their

in the arts than in that of China. Since China's earliest dynastic period, real

unique language that is the modern Japanese that lasted until today.

land to the Japanese. Some people argue that the violation of tenants'

and imagined creatures of the earthserpents, bovines, cicadas, and

customary rights predates the Japanese incursion. The majority of the

dragonswere endowed with special attributes, as revealed by their

agricultural population became impoverished, landless tenants by the end of

depiction of bronze ritual vessels. In the Chinese imagination, mountains

the colonial rule.

were also imbued since ancient times with sacred power as manifestations

Tokyo, Japan

Japanese

Besides many vicissitudes of an economic and political nature, the

In a country where natural resources are scarce, the efficient use of

of nature's vital energy. They not only attracted the rain clouds that watered

the land is essential. Government land development projects started in the

the farmer's crops, but they also concealed medicinal herbs, magical fruits,

1960s with the 1963 Law on Integrated National Land Development, the

and alchemical minerals that held the promise of longevity. Mountains

1964 Export Industrial Estates Assistance Law, and the 1967 National Parks

pierced by caves and grottoes were viewed as gateways to other realms

Law.

"cave heavens" leading to Daoist paradises where aging is arrested, and

Kunisaki Peninsula lost most of its economic basis allowing it to survive at

Those laws were followed by the 1972 Law on the Management of

this level, and gradually fell into disrepair. The separation of Buddhism and

National Land and the 1973 Law for the Promotion of Industrial Estates. In

Shinto cooked up by the nineteenth-century ideologies gave it a powerful

addition to the development of large-scale industrial estates at Ulsan, Pohang,

blow. The postwar period finished it. It is now the least populated area of

and elsewhere, a superhighway linking Seoul and Pusan and large-scale

Japan, a Quasi-National Park of extreme beauty and poverty. The only

water resources development projects such as the Soyang Dam were

industry is oranges and mushrooms. That is why the Japanese government

constructed. A basic land price pattern was officially determined to allow an

considered placing its latest nuclear energy installation there. In the

equitable distribution.

inhabitants live in harmony.

Pollution in China

Beijing, China

meantime, many of the elegant statues representing the words of the

Scripture of the Lotus have found their way into museums and private

China's Environmental Challenges, tells of a great nation at a critical

collections. Nature and culture have been estranged, and I would submit

crossroad: moving toward leading the world's markets but already number

that we suffer of this estrangement in every aspect of our being. Futagoyama:

one in pollution by a wide margin. Between 70 and 90 percent of the

The Twin Mount. Its gentle slopes are covered with extraordinary rock

country's flora, for example, was endangered by 2008, and by 2013, around

formations and a luxuriant vegetation changing with the four seasons in a

80 percent of its major rivers were so degraded that they were no longer

well-patterned rhythm. But they are also covered with about fifty Buddhist

Seoul, Korea

Jeju, Korea

supported aquatic life. Commercial pursuits have exacted heavy

temples and many more Shinto shrines, which have been erected during the

environmental tolls, and those deferred tolls are starting to come due for a

classical period of Japanese history, from the ninth century on.

culture not used to paying them.