Some Chinese researchers assert that Chinese flutes may have evolved from of Indian provenance. In fact, the kind of side-blown, or transverse, flutes musicians play in Southeast Asia have also been discovered in Africa, India, Saudi Arabia, and C Continue Reading...
After a series of uprisings, the people of Malaysia, non-Malays, Malays, the Chinese and others, all agreed to develop a country that was multicultural, especially in modern times when globalization is a topic of high-priority among many people's of Continue Reading...
20. China must consult Japan whenever foreign capital is needed in improving the infrastructure of Fukien Province. 21. China must give Japanese the right to preach in China. On May Fourth, some 3,000 students from Peking University and other sch Continue Reading...
Mao Tse-tung became both the political and spiritual leader of China, and the Cult of Mao developed as he led the Chinese people first in the Chinese Revolution and then in building a new and different China after 1949. The Chinese have a history of Continue Reading...
The process shows why silk is so expensive, because it is a very time consuming process. I did not know that silk was such an ancient enterprise, and that was very interesting. It made me wonder how people first discovered the process and the actua Continue Reading...
China and Europe have taken divergent views of religion, commercial exchange, and politics. However, there have emerged various points of commonality and intersection. Chinese and European society have both evolved through periods of feudalism and "w Continue Reading...
..crucial to Chinese calendrical calculation and astrological divination" (21). In principle, because the legitimacy of the emperor depended upon the harmony of the heavens, it was important that such early clocks be accurate, but they were not impor Continue Reading...
Asian Immigration In the decades before the Second World War, throngs of Asian immigrants came to American shores from China, Japan, India, Korea, and the Philippines. In many cases, these immigrants only planned on remaining in the United States fo Continue Reading...
Aryans came to dominate India. Aryan Invasion How the Aryans Came to Dominate India The general scholarly and historical view is that the first group of people to invade the indigenous people of India was the Aryans. The date given for this invas Continue Reading...
Oracle Bone and Traditional China According to ancient writings, the history of China dates back approximately 3,300 years. Studies by modern archaeologists provide evidence of ancient origins in a culture that was flourishing between 2500-2000 B.C. Continue Reading...
The acculturation model developed by Schumann (1978) consists of a taxonomy of variables that were developed based on the concept that both social (group) and affective (individual) variables are the primary causative variables as shown in Table __ Continue Reading...
power of China from the Shang Dynasty to the Western Han. There are eight references used for this paper. China has seen a number of changes in terms of history and power over the years. It is interesting to examine the changing nature of the assoc Continue Reading...
Olmec Although scientists found artifacts and art objects of the Olmecs; until this century they did not know about the existence of the Olmecs. Most of the objects which were made by this community were associated with other civilizations, such as Continue Reading...
The puppets enable Fugui to regain his self-esteem and give him a sense of creativity, as he is now capable of articulating his thoughts through the puppets. He is able to make a better living as a traveling entertainer than as a seller of needles a Continue Reading...
The British Empire gained significant land share within North America through its conquests and emigration. From the founding of Jamestown to the growth of the greater New England region, the North American territories represented a significant port Continue Reading...
Han Dynasty in China The Rise and Fall of the Han Empire In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. --Confucius The Han dynasty was one of China's longest a Continue Reading...
Alike Medieval Europe and Japan There is an old saying that familiarity breeds contempt. But does unfamiliarity breed similarity? In the Middle Ages, two civilizations at opposite ends of the globe evolved in a strangely similar manner. Western Eu Continue Reading...
Too often in history, Spence continues, the Chinese Muslim communities and their role in the rebel armies that helped topple the Ming dynasty, have been "slighted." On pages 170-172, essayist Morris Rossabi writes that Muslim leader Li Tzu-ch'eng an Continue Reading...
Sui, Tang, and Song Dynasties The Major Changes in the Political Structures, Social and Economic Life in the Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties One leading present-day nation that was home to one of the world's oldest and greatest civilizations and h Continue Reading...
One has to keep in mind that the practice of foot binding, which literally crippled many Chinese women, actually began around the same time that Shaojun was writing these memorial poems for her husband (Xue). A woman gained much of her identity from Continue Reading...
Foreign Policy of China (Beijing consensus) Structure of Chinese Foreign Policy The "Chinese Model" of Investment The "Beijing Consensus" as a Competing Framework Operational Views The U.S.-China (Beijing consensus) Trade Agreement and Beijing C Continue Reading...
Kabul is a cosmopolitan center and demonstrates a willingness to modernize but outside Kabul old traditions remain strong and there is little interest in these rural areas for any change. III. Social Factors The rural nature of Afghan society cann Continue Reading...
He argues that the exact thing happened in the case of paintings. The aim of the book "Superfluous things: material culture and social status in early modern China" (Clunas, 64) was simply to examine Chinese art in the light of material culture. Thi Continue Reading...
Vietnam and China: Acculturation's Apparitions And Certain Realities Behind Them" The Vietnamese people have a lengthy history that dates back at least two millennia. The ancestors of modern Vietnamese people lived in the Red River delta of Continue Reading...
Despite the high costs the Four Modernizations implied, China succeeded to enter "into the milieu of international bank loans, joint ventures, and whole panoply of once-abhorred capitalist economic practices." As it might be inferred from above, th Continue Reading...
These examples show how clothing and fashion generate and support the social construction of a particular reality in a certain historical period. The uniform of the Chinese people in the Maoist period was a factor in enforcing ideological perception Continue Reading...
Not only does this benefit them as a port destination, but the influx of trade goes through Taiwan with the majority of manufactured goods of the Pacific region flowing through their ports. Since Taiwan has a favorable relationship with the Western Continue Reading...
But given the substantial amount of other evidence about the Ming Dynasty, a more useful framing device would have helped locate the figures Clunas chronicles, and made their analysis seem less iconoclastic. Clunas persuades the reader that these pa Continue Reading...
Public Passions Shi Jianqiao became a media sensation in Nationalist China during the 1930s for shooting the ex-warlord Sun Chuanfang, a leading member of the Tianjin Qingxiu lay-Buddhist society (jushilin). She shot Sun three times on November 13, Continue Reading...
relationship of music and culture and history in Japan. The music of Japan is as rich and diverse as the culture of Japan's people, and it has a long place in Japan's history. Several different musical forms and instruments make up Japan's musical h Continue Reading...
Moreover, in the wake of the Shanghai massacre, the more radical idea that Chinese communism should actually pursue its own independent path began to take root. For example, while Mao continued to favor the creation of soviets (councils) and the lan Continue Reading...
. The Dao is the source of all power which embodies all beings and encompasses both the yin and the yang. Remarkable quiet and serene, the Dao is rarely detected by humans, but provides invulnerability to those who posses it. Dao philosophy calls for Continue Reading...
Ming Dynasty The three centuries that comprise the Ming Dynasty are not easy to describe in the course of twenty pages of text. However, the author of this chapter does a stellar job of conveying the essence of the Ming Dynasty via an engaging yet s Continue Reading...
Mirror of the Face of America Robert Takaki's book A Different Mirror is a history of the people of the nation of America. The book is not, however, a history of America that a reader might expect when he or she first opens an introductory text. Th Continue Reading...
democratic system for governing a group of people, small or large, must maintain the best interests of all the individuals involved. This general criterion must be upheld regardless of whether specifically what these best interests are cannot be una Continue Reading...
Akshobhya embodies steadfastness and battles anger. Ratnasambhava embodies compassion and battles desire and pride. Amitabha embodies light and is the antidote to malignancy. Finally, Amogasiddha embodies dauntlessness and battles envy. Tibetan Bud Continue Reading...
difficult for a person to be able to accept cultural values from a community that he or she is not familiar with. A person's cultural identity represents part of that person and shapes the way that he or she reacts to particular situations. The Chin Continue Reading...
In fact, the Ming rulers managed to remain in power as long as they did and manipulate the scholar-official structures because their rule was ideologically and organizationally reinforced by the supremacy of Confucianism as official state doctrine. Continue Reading...
The dead Emperor's right to exist undisturbed is more important than an unwelcome, common intruder's right to live. Kesner's central thesis, that the effort to create a 'real' world in terracotta sculpture to create a 'real' world for the Emperor i Continue Reading...
These ideas run in separate directions, but each seeks to provide a better understanding of what a human life is and why we should or should not serve a greater power than ourselves. In conclusion, we see that the Leviathan is an important piece of Continue Reading...
