The Future of Chinese Cities Two weeks ago, I went back to my hometown Tianjin. ... First of all, we can have a look at the present development of Chinese cities. ... The consequence may be highly developed cities with advanced high technology but without history. ... And the characteristics are based on the history, culture and tradition. ... The areas with historical culture features and the excellent historical buildings are parts of landscape and are the evidence of Chinese longstanding history and splendid civilization. ...

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In Russia, history teachers used to teach their students information that scholars knew to be false. ... To help change the curriculum, the Central Education Establishment decided to include more information in the courses about religion, cultural life, the role of the individual, and the role of choice in history. ... The individuals that are modeled in the Chinese texts books are the people who are dedicated to building a new society in China. ... (Ibid: 141) The Chinese stress the importance of manual labor in their texts. ... (Ibid: 145) In China, politics are taught through the...

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As China's entry into the WTO since 2001, it seems gradually obvious that the concussion, the collision, the combination and development between Chinese traditional value and the importing western cultural value has become nationwide recognized. Confronted with the enormously coming western culture and product nowadays, my point is that, we Chinese are having a kind of attitude that combined with partially acceptance, partially refusal and partially development. ... China is an ancient country with a history of more than 5000 years. ... With the principle of self-center in this process...

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Spence concentrated his novel on county of T"an-ch"eng in the seventeenth century, and referred to examine the Chinese social structure from the bottom, rather than at the top. In this way, Spence attempted to recreate social history as seen through the eyes of the people who not only constituted the majority of the Chinese population, but who were the most adversely affected by the fixed structure. ... Jonathan Spence painted a dark, but brutally realistic portrait of Chinese society in the seventeenth century. It spoke volumes in terms of explaining why China has long languished behind othe...

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At the same time, the movie depicts the social issue of the oppression of women and power of men, a long history in China and as racial minorities in America. ... An-Mei one of the mothers in the movie, tells her beloved mother's story where her mother experienced multiple oppression due to her status as a woman in a long deep-rooted Chinese history. ... This depicts the values and cultural norms of Chinese traditional beliefs. ... Ironically, she is repeating the same path from China. ... Her character is very clearly illustrated as traditional Chinese wife. ...

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The sported imported clothing and dined at tables laid with English china and gleaming silverware. ... In conclusion we can see that sometimes things never change and the history can and will eventually repeat itself....

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For example, in various parts on Mainland China, the expression "someone has culture" means someone has received an extent of formal education. ... For instance, most of the artifacts, "traditions," or past events we see in the typical art, culture, or history museums represent the vision or interpretation of the curators who have their own sets of ideology and preference; their selection is determined by a privileged class of people. ... The meaning of symbols, all kinds of symbol (such as Chinese or English writings), is socially constructed. People assign meanings to the symbols they create...

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The history of my people is what I am interested the most about because it informs us of how people act nowadays due to the teachings of back then. ... If I never learned Chinese, I would've never been able to understand the true meanings of the literature. ...

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Making the first steps in business abroad and establishing business relations with partners, for example, in Germany or China, one should take into consideration the cultural, economic, and social peculiarities of this country. Even if a businessperson has a feeling that German or Chinese culture is close to him and the new means of communication help him/her to communicate quickly and easily, he should not forget about the fact that there are differences. ... Moreover, to make sure that it is a right decision to start a business abroad, one just needs to see what goods and services the compa...

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In contrast to what has been said about possibility to classify human behaviour, Dilthey proposed that "what man is, only his history tells" , thereby rejecting all possibilities of prediction. ... Is it just for the society to disrupt moral values of its individuals, trying to benefit the community as a whole, taking into account China's one-child policy? ... In view of the fact that we cannot be certain about history and really understand what actually happened, present generation - being at the end of the echelon - further distorts the judgements. ...

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The recurring theme in Maxine Hong Kingston's short story was that of gender inequality and its acceptance in Chinese culture. ... Each story has its own separate histories, languages, customs, and mentality. ...

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Part A In the The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, the main character Balram writes a letter to the Premier of China, Wen Jiabao. ... Part B "Never before in human history have so few owed so much to so many, Mr. ...

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Digital communications has changed the paradigm, and we now live in a world where information is not restricted by physical boundaries, except for a few exceptions such as China and Saudi Arabia. ... Twenty-one years later, the American Psychological Association published its 1993 report, "Violence & Youth," and concluded, "The greatest predictor of future violent behavior is a previous history of violence." ...

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Although China is emerging as a rival nation, the U.S. is still the Pax Americana with its strong military, economy, vast land, and centralized language. ... Many sports teams, for example, use the term Native American, without educating what true meaning or the history of Native Americans mean. ... We teach and commemorate the Civil rights movement and racial discrimination, and I believe the history of the Native Americans should be emphasized as just as important piece of history. ...

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