China's beliefs and traditions, such as the mandate of heaven, the social hierarchy and Confucianism, played a pivotal part in restricting China's growth, and deterring China from acquiring Western technology and science. ... The rebels were however stopped after western intervention was requested from the Chinese government. ... However those inventions that were built were hidden from Chinese society. This was quite the opposite to the westerners, who had perfected the art of drawing in perspective, and when new inventions were made, they were quickly developed and put into use. .....

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The escalations of force between the two states held the distinct possibility of an all-out nuclear weapons confrontation. ... The Soviets utilized the threat of nuclear war and their sheer power to force Mao to back down, but it's quite possible that Mao and Brezhnev used Sun Tzu's tactics to deal with their mutual adversary: the United States. In Sun Tzu's Art of War first chapter, entitled Laying Plans, the eighteenth rule is as follows: all warfare is based on deception (Cantrell, 2003). ... To Western powers, the threat from communism seems to have diminished, but th...

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The first approach is titled the 'Hypodermic Syringe model', which is quite basic in its theory. ... Since the introduction of the television into the majority of households we all have a tendency to seek a common fix of entertainment from the 'idiot box'. ... In this light there is the creation of a culture of couch potatoes which is especially prevalent in Western societies. ... Examples of such occurrences are frequent and one such example includes the STAR satellite, capable of broadcasting from China to India. ... The outcome of such arrangement saw the introductio...

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Confucius sought a type of all encompassing unity for the world and for his people; his wisdom was intended to serve as guide. ... This later led to the conception of the idea of the Mandate of Heaven (Tian-ming) from which rulers derived all power and sense of legitimacy, due to the accordance of their behaviors with the norms of morality and ritual correctness. ... This is the only information about Confucius that is known to be unyielding fact; almost all of the biographical information on this man is derived from the Life of Confucius by the historian Szema Ch'ien. Nearly all the data...

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But in fact they are as different from each other mainly in pronunciation and vocabulary) as French or Spanish is from Italian, the dialects of the south-east being linguistically the furthest apart. ... South central region, in Hunan 4-Kan Shanxi and south-west Hebei. 5-Mandarin A wide range of dialects in the northern, central and western regions. ... Characters Chinese uses characters which are very different from an alphabet. ... All ...

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For example, when western managers run a company in Vietnam, they have to modify employee evaluation and reward systems because Vietnamese value group harmony greatly, so it is better not to praise employees by making him or her stand out from the crowd, which will embarrass him or her. ... All these affect the marketing performance of multinational companies and they must adapt their product and promotion to suit local cultures. ... Moreover, in order to adapt to Chinese customer's habits, IKEA in China has more service personnel and more vehicles for delivery, and due to the strong ap...

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Political Yang Jian sent military expeditions into central Asia and southern china, which by 589 the house of Sui ruled all of China. ... Tang Rulers maintained an extensive communications based on roads, horses,and quite sometimes human runners. ... Culture Buddhist concepts in vocabulary borrowed from Chinese cultural traditions, particularly daoism. ... Second, neo-confucianism enjoyed the status of an officially recognized creed from the Song Dynasty until early twentieth century. ... They printed copies of Buddhist texts, Confucian works, calendars, and agricultural treatises, and popular...

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