Cantonese, the first language of 4% of the Chinese speaking world, is the most widely known and influential variety of Chinese other than Mandarin. ... Chinese (Cantonese) is in Sinitic type. Because there has long been a single method for writing Chinese, and a common iterary and cultural history, a tradition has grown up of referring to, the eight main arieties of speech in China as dialects. ... Manchu transcriptions of Chinese words are very valuable to the study of Chinese phonology of the Ching dynasty. ... The difference here is that there is no article in Chinese and there is no...

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Throughout human history there have been many migrations of diverse people to diverse lands, in search of food, shelter, work, money, opportunities, freedom, religion and success. Today, America is known for it's rich immigrant history. The history that was made by the people of hundreds of nationalities, who came to the United States to seek a new life style, a new job and a new home. ... In our precious American history there has been discrimination against the immigrants that resulted in laws, which were passed by the legislature and affected the civil liberties promised by our beloved...

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History Essay: China The weakness of the Chinese empire by the nineteenth century can be explained as much by the superiority of the westerners as by the traditional Chinese society. ... The social structure of traditional China was a major cause of China's weakness in the nineteenth century. ... However the result of the movement was yet another failure in China's history, as the movement collapsed around the mid-1890. ... The Taiping Rebellion was possibly one of the bloodiest conflicts in history. ... This didn't work however with the Boxer's being crushed miserably, ...

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The Chinese had a long history of culture, which very often intrigue many, including myself. ... "Culture is all the historically created designs for living, explicit and implicit, rational, irrational, nonrational, which exist at any given time as potential guides for the behavior of men" Indeed, many of the cultural practices we see today, regardless of nationalities, saw its roots back in history. ... Confucian philosophy is distinctively Chinese, a culture of the Chinese that had been practiced since ages ago. ... In the Chinese business scene, one can see numerous Chinese associations an...

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Chinese American families often celebrate traditional Chinese holidays such as Chinese New Year and the moon festival. ... Many elderly Chinese have a strong belief in Chinese medicine. ... Chinese American parents send their children to Chinese language school to learn Cantonese. ... -born Chinese American lamented, "I am reminded that I am Chinese although my orientation and lifestyle are more American than Chinese. I have littel knowledge about Chinese history, language, of culture" (Wong 85). ...

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The Opium War of China, beginning in January 1840, was a major Turning Point in history which subsequently affected a great number of the Chinese population of 400 million. ... China was an agrarian country, and was ruled over by an Emperor. ... The official history of the Ming had described how the Portuguese used to boil and eat Chinese children. ... The British have always considered using conflict to force trade upon the Chinese, but a total war with China was not an initial plan. ... The prospects of extraterritoriality in China was also appealing to the British, where although they w...

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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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The Indus had an extensive trade history with the Deccan Plateau, Persia and Mesopotamia. ... Unlike China, they didn't (ew!). The Chinese instead focussed on scientific advancements. ... The Chinese most notably had extremely large palaces (forbidden city) and the Great Wall of China. ... As a result of these two civilizations, the advances in science, art, architecture and trade advanced throughout history. ...

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Contributors include the ideology of Confucius, a wise Chinese philosopher; the alleged principles behind the status of women in Chinese society; the first emperor to govern a united China, Shi Huangdi; and the numerous religious beliefs, which the people adopted during the era of Traditional China. The ideas and teachings of the most respected philosopher in Chinese history, Confucius, have had a major impact on the beliefs, customs and culture in Traditional China. ... According to Traditional China, such experiences practised on Chinese women proved that they truly were inferior. ... Chi...

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China has for many years been a major contributor in the role of technology. ... But China is indeed better than at any time in its modern history. ... This would not be a good way to approach the Chinese. China bases their decisions more off actions than verbal promises. ... Chinese negotiations are generally well thought out and take time. ...

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How much impact did the GLF have on the economic development of China? To a certain extent the GLF's impact on China's economy was a failure overall because of Mao's poor economic planning, he thought that if China increased their industry and agriculture it would make China's economic situation flourish and it would make China 'leap' ahead of the world's leading countries and it would be done through a second five year plan running from 1958 to 1963. ... At Mao's command the Chinese people went to build their furnaces, 600,000 backyard furnaces were s...

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A Brief History After a century of wars and epidemics that left serious damages; the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949. ... Then the average Chinese family had over four children. ... Veritable or not, the policy has caused many irreversible problems for China. ... In Chinese culture, boys are viewed as culturally preferable, resulting in gender imbalance. ... The birth of females in China often results in abortion, abandonment and infanticide. ...

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Although many things divide them today, Communist and Nationalist Chinese agree in their admiration for Sun Yat-Sen, known as the father of modern China. ... In 1912 the Republic of China was proclaimed. ... China joined the Allies in World War I, and at the Versailles peace conference the Chinese demanded an end to foreign spheres of influence in their country. ... The years from 1928 to 1937 are known as the Nationalist era in Chinese history. ... But Communist China was admitted to the United Nations in 1971, and in 1972 US President Richard Nixon visited China, beginning the normalization ...

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Therefore, with a few words, China's imperial history collapsed. ... The replacement of the Ming dynasty by the Qing dynasty was a crucial moment in the history of late imperial China. ... Ethnic anti-Manchuism sentiments resounded throughout China as the alien dynastic order began their rule over China. ... This very developed system was implemented upon the Manchu's acquisition of China, thereby making China structured and orderly. ... He worked to redefine and fortify China's southern, eastern, northern, and northwestern borders, he reinforced the Chinese examination syst...

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"What do the Chinese Communists want? ... They want the world" - Statement from Richard Nixon in 1960's Kennedy-Nixon President TV debates in Waugh,S., (2001), Essential Modern World History, Thomas Nelson: UK Yet if the US were to try and contain China, it would need the support of at least some South East Asian states. ... In Chinese eyes, this was a provoking and totally unwarranted interference in a purely Chinese affair. Because of this interference of USA in Chinese foreign affairs, China sees that the US stands in the way of her strategic goals . ... However, the Vietnam War ge...

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First and foremost, China's legal system is rather different from the western countries' on account of China's characteristic system of socialism. ... In some places of China, English has not been popularized; hence, many people cannot speak English. ... The best way to solve the problem is to employ those Chinese with good English. ... China, with 5000 years' antiquated history, has a series of specially ancient, traditional and conservative culture, which is in conflict with the modern and open western culture. ... Solutions to the above problems are to try to localize...

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Throughout history, China has always been known for its great strength in its number of people. However, in the past 20 or so years, China has been fervently trying to reverse this characteristic. ... In order to clearly see these problematic facets, one must first examine the history of China and its birth control policies from the time at which it became a significant issue right up until the present, while also predicting what the future might entail. Recently, a new law was imposed that affects this policy greatly, but it cannot be scrutinized until first examining the history behind it. ...

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In the book "Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China," the authors enlighten the reader about opium use and trades in China. ... It enlightens the reader by bringing the written words to life with examples of the people, culture, and history. ... This 'disease theory' of addiction further reinforced the movement towards prohibition, which angered the many people of China, as well as the Chinese-American immigrants. ... He uses the novel to compare our society with drugs today, to that of China back then. ... His conclusion includes the idea that political leaders are not taking...

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POLITICAL AND LEGAL STUDIES RESEARCH AND ORAL PRESENTATION AUSTRALIA AND CHINA Australia and china both have very independent political and legal systems. Both countries political and legal systems are heavily influenced through their history and development in society to form a national identity. ... China's political and legal system is now socialist although it was a dynastic dictatorship before the people of china's republic was formed in 1949. ... CHINA: In china the national peoples congress and their standing committee exercise the legislative power of the state. ....

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Over time China adapted this belief into their own culture by blending it with their native beliefs, producing a distinct version of Chinese Buddhism. ... The north kingdom of China was taken over by a non-Chinese government who was having a difficult time blending the diverse population of a native Chinese and non-Chinese society. ... Due to China's presence in the early stages of Korean history through military motives and trade, evident continuities between the two cultures were established. Of these continuities, the Chinese political system of kinship was burrowed by Korea since they...

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In the early morning hours of 2 March 1969, Soviet border security personnel spotted a platoon-sized element of Chinese soldiers crossing the frozen Ussuri River, which forms a natural boundary between China and the USSR. The Soviet border outpost situated on the Ussuri launched a small contingent to intercept the Chinese element. ... China dismissed Moscow's aggressive posture and Mao was reluctant to respond to peace negotiations. ... The evidence for Reisel's assertion was based upon information obtained from intelligence agencies in other Asian countries regarding joint Chinese-S...

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-Why have the approaches to the construction of history changed over time? This essay was originally to deal with debates regarding Soviet Russian history. ... This seemed to be a trend for many aspects of Russian history. Consequently, this subject was dropped in favour of studying the history of the Chinese Communist Party, as it was an area which I was keen to learn about, overlapped in many places with Soviet history and had a relatively large amount of data published about it. ... The subject is also advantageous as at several points the Sino-Soviet histories overlap. ...

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Two of China's early philosophers, Laozi and Zhuangzi, believed that Dao is the law of nature. Daoism, also commonly referred to as Taoism, is a native Chinese religion often associated with the Daode jing. ... Having influenced many different Chinese religions, the Dao de jing is one of the most important texts in ancient history. ... Although the two are the oldest philosophies in China, the similarities between Daoism and Confucianism are very slim. While simultaneously existing in China for nearly 2,000 years, the share common beliefs in the universe, man, and society. ...

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Although Buddhism was a major influence on both Chinese and Japanese history, key political and social circumstances led to the rise and rapid decline of Buddhism in China, while it remained a dominant religion in Japan. There are many political and social reasons that help explain why the period of history in China between 500 and 1200 was not compatible with Buddhism influences on Japan. ... Buddhism was able to come to China because at that point of time in history during the Sui, China was not unified. ... Buddhism brought over the use and spread of Chinese characters and many Chines...

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STUDIES OF CHANGE: The Chinese Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution in China was the result of years of discontent among China's people at their outdated government and society, but what were the efficacious, particular motives and conditions for cultural revolutionary Mao Tse-Tung to bring about such major reforms? China; Asia's leading economic power and its most populous country, is a highly diverse and complex country with an equally diverse and complex history. ... Throughout his school life, Mao and his peers read radical newspapers, studied world history and, accordi...

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