In recent years, China has been "experiencing the fastest growth in GDP per capita in human history" as well as a massive increase in its military capabilities (Gaugers and Latvian 2013, p.227). With the Afghanistan war coming to and end and the official closure of the Iraq war, U.S. president Barrack Obama has focused his national security team to the Asia-Pacific region in efforts to deal with the rise of China as a major global entity, which therefore calls for a redistribution of the superpowers military personnel (Gaugers and Latvian 2013, p.227). ... Since entering the WTO in 2...

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Furthermore, I will go in depth of the magnetic hegemony on why it works like magnetic hegemony' material, moral, and military management. ... Furthermore, to strengthen support from other nations, magnetic hegemony calls for the military deterrence capability.  ... Due to great military technology like gunpowder weapons and samurai strategies, Japan was obliterating Korea. ... China had the ability to deter the military powerhouse of Japan and prevented Japan universe or military elites from continuing imperialist conquest that the potential to ultimately bleed into the continent of E...

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Foreign concessions were ended, and, with the important exception of the Russians, British Hong Kong 香港 and Portuguese Macau 澳門, foreign influences were expelled. ... The fact that the Qing Dynasty was itself decidedly anti-foreign complicates this area enormously. ... But in this instance the Dynasty supported the actions of the rebels in the hopes that the foreign presence could be exorcised. ... " Qing troops supported the rebels against the foreign troops sent to rescue the besieged foreigners in Beijing 北京. ... The foreign powers increased pressur...

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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. A...

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Introduction As the world modernizes, the relationship between nations becomes increasingly important. Globalization has taken over, allowing countries to lower transactions costs across areas of economic trade and social interactions. This has prompted international governments to create trade, soc...

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Since the turn of the century, China had been accosted by revolution and internecine conflict, warlordism, foreign invasion, and chronic calamities like drought, flood and famine. ... Despite such resentment and animosity towards "barbaric- Manchu rule, the Qing dynasty effectively consolidated their power by implementing strong military organization, cleansing the political realm of society and with the rule of Emperor Kangxi, the central designer of Qing consolidation. ...

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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...

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