Between the years of 221-206 BCE, the Qin Dynasty rose as a superpower. During this time period - the Warring States Era - Chinese civilization was impacted tremendously in almost every respect. These hallmarks in history vary from the spreading of Legalism to the birth of the Great Wall of China. ...
Government Censorship Censorship is a topic that has brought about much controversy. There have been many different arguments, however the question still remains as if it should be censored or it should not be censored. The governments censoring of the violent, pornographic movies, MTV, TV p...
His thoughts had strongest influenced in china society over two thousands years that disciplined every individual characters to value of life which including humanity, love, moral and ethics. ... Since none of philosopher has mentioned about life after dead, Buddhism assumed life of spirits were endless which is called the "life of cycle" if one who had good moral to follow the founder to achieve the state of "Nirvana" (discipline of meditation), the follower would rebirth after dead or rewarded to live in the heaven. ...
"What is Literature?" Defining literature is very subjective but can be well defined as a piece of written art that possesses some sort of educational, moral, or personal value when read. Value being the key point from a piece of work which would classify it as being a piece...
The Qingzang Plateau, in the southwest of China, has long enjoyed the reputation of being "the Roof of the World", where the Tibet Autonomous Region, with an average altitude of over 4,000 meters and an area of 1.2 million square kilometers, occupies a major portion. The majestic Tibetan highlands s...
Today we are going to be talking about the rise of militarism in 20th century Japan and also the Koda-ha and the Tosei-ha. Being the two rival factions of the military who fought for power of Japan during the 1920's and 30's. Well we are going to start with the rise of militarism. Japan over a perio...
China incorporated three ancient philosophies within their lifestyles during the time periods of 600 BCE and 200 BCE. These three philosophies were Legalism, Confucianism and Daoism. Each philosophy had its own way of viewing the nature of human beings, civilization and the world. Legalism believed ...
Whenever my father has the time, he will sit down with me and discuss how to improve my way of life. He would teach me how to tackle disagreements, sort out problems I encounter and pass on skills that I will need when I enter the working society in future. Among these discussions, the best examples...
English 305 Asian-American Film The Joy Luck Club A Semiotic Critique The Joy Luck Club as an exercise in semiotic critique. Luckily, the film lends it's self very well this discipline. There are four main subjects of the semiotic method: Rhetorical is the film's intentional meaning or messag...
Sun Yat-Sen (Sun Yixian) 1895: Guangzhou: Attempted Uprising Sun Yat-Sen had revolutionary ideas after returning from Beijing, and formed the "Revive China Society" while living in Hawaii. The society established a branch in Hong Kong where it was posing under the name of "Agricultural Study S...
Nowadays, the fast advancement of science and technology and the enormous growth brought about unprecedented progress of human civilization and profound social change. Based on advanced technology and sustained innovation, high-tech industries made swift transformation of knowledge into products and...
One of the reasons that China's GDP has been growing at a yearly average of ten percent for the past two decades is the large amount of Foreign Direct Investment coming from Hong Kong, Taiwan and the West. However, China's GDP growth rate dropped to 8.7 percent during 2012 with a slow down in export growth from 26% to 7%. A lot of economists started to doubt that this might be the end of the phenomenon of the Chinese export miracle. With other developing countries emerging in East Asia, many investors have begun to consider moving their factories and investments out of China and into...
China has been the scenario of political, social and economic turmoil during the past decade. The handover of Hong Kong to China on June 1997, after over a century and a half of British colonial rule, as well as China's recent accession to the World Trade Organization are milestones in our era. They...
Confucianism in Japan and China The Japanese people had little civilization of their own until, during the fourth century AD, they began to have contact with the Chinese. From them, they borrowed a great deal of their culture, including their ideas of philosophy and their form of government. Although the Japanese government owed much to the ideas of the Chinese, the two cultures would go in very different directions over the next two centuries. The Chinese adherence to Confucianism eventually led them to stagnation and collapse, while the Japanese moved on to a new, more warlike mode of...
Preface Marriage and families founded through marriage constitute the basic cells of the society. It involves a multi-layer relationship between neighbors and other elements in the community, and it is so regarded by the Chinese as the top issue of the morality of human kind. Wedding ceremony is the ritual conducted when the couple decides to establish a marital relationship and through which they can win over the approval, recognition and protection of the community. The procedure of the wedding ceremony actually reflects the various social and cultural notions. The wedding customs in anci...
The Purposes of Every Day Make Up and What Does It Express Introduction Beauty is an abstract term, whose issues are related to human tastes. With a more complete definition of this term deals the aesthetic, a discipline within philosophy. Like any emotional assessment, establishing beauty i...