China, pt. 1 -- Making the Middle Kingdom
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The Great Monsoon Pattern in China
Every year enormous masses of melt water pour down from those high mountains. They run their way through streams and rivers, eventually converge into three large river systems each of which empties separately into the ocean. And all of these river systems frequently flood and often fan out uncontained across the plains. The yellow river in particular, which runs through those hundreds of miles of flat plains, has actually changed its path multiple times in history. Then, as for air, the systems of winds in china follow basically a monsoon pattern, shifting in different directions over the course of the year. But it is less predictable and regular of a pattern than one sees in india. There generally are warm, wet
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