...In 1930, Chinese officials began to have growing concerns about the increasing trade of opium with the British. China’s social and economic status started to decline due to the opium trade agreement. Chinese addiction to opium became overwhelming and eventually forced China to launch Lin Zexu’s Anti-Drug Campaign in 1839. As a result, this campaign was viewed as a violation of the trade agreement with Britain and helped led to the First Opium War. China isolated themselves from the western world, believing they didn’t need anything from foreign trade. For eight decades, the only port that China opened was called the Canton System. The problem was China only wanted silver in exchange for their exports to Europe. Unfortunately, Europe only traded in gold and silver was hard to come by. Desperate to resolve the foreign trade, Britain realized they can acquire such a commodity in opium from India to exchange for exports in China. The trade of India’s opium started as a medical drug in the early 1800’s between China and Britain. Eventually, it triggered massive dependences throughout China’s society that affected the rich and poor equally. Before long, the demand for the drug was overwhelming, resulting in China importing more opium than exporting trades. Thus, resulting in an imbalanced foreign trade and stability of China’s society. A decree issued in 1810 from the Chinese Emperor stating, “Opium is a poison, undermining our good customs and morality...However, recently the purchasers...
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...Did you know in the 1800’s in Hawaii there were about 180,000 chinese immigrants living and working there. Also, during the 1800’s was when many immigrants of china and the philippines came to Hawaii to work on the plantations. Life on the Hawaiian sugar plantations in the 1800’s for immigrant workers was not easy because their living conditions were unsanitary, their working conditions were brutal, and the plantation owners treated different races unequal. First of all the immigrant workers housing was very unsanitary and all just too small for the workers. Another reason why the housing was horrible was because the homes were usually surrounded by sugar cane and had no shade. Secondly, all the houses seemed extremely unsanitary. Finally all of the houses included only a bed, a homemade stove to cook on and some of the immigrants belongings. That is one reasons why the life of an immigrant worker in the 1800’s was not easy....
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...political situations in both China and Russia before their revolutions were much the same. Both had weak rulers and discontented people. In China, a succession of dynasties had ruled since ancient times. At the beginning of 1909, the Chinese emperor Kuang-Hsu had recently died. He left behind three-year-old nephew PuYi to rule the throne with the baby's father, Prince Chun, as regent. Kuang-Hsu's aunt had great power over the rule of her nephew, and she prevented him from taking measures toward the modernizing that China badly needed. China needed a strong, modern monarch to rule and not a three-year-old. Mother Russia had also hosted an absolute monarchy for centuries. By the 1900's, Nicholas II ruled all of Russia's vast territory. His father, Alexander III, ruled strictly but ended up stirring the kettle of discontent before passing the throne to his son. Nicholas ruled about one hundred years too late. Part of the problem was that he came after a series of rulers also in the wrong time. By the time he inherited the throne, there was little hope for Russia's monarchy. Nicholas II further destroyed that hope through extensive war and political entanglements with religious leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church. He participated in several wars despite the fact that his country could not really handle it. This destroyed the trust the masses of peasants and workers had in him, in the church he controlled, and in the government as a whole. Similarly, in China, war raged almost constantly...
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...Introduction Professor Elvin renders Chinese history through an economic perspective instead of using the common dynastic classification by attempting to answer three questions: -What contributed to the continuity of the Chinese empire? -Why was the Chinese economy the most advanced in the world from the Song dynasty (960-1279) up until the latter half of the Qing dynasty (mid-1800's)? -Why did China fail to maintain her technological advantage after the mid-fourteenth century while advancing economically? Part One In the first section of the book, the author elucidates the staying power of the Chinese empire was due to the following factors. The economics of defense in relation to the size of empire and the power of its neighbors never became an extreme burden that it rendered the state impotent for any consecutively long period of time. It was always able to reformulate itself after a short disunity or rule by a foreign power of the whole, which only happened twice within a two thousand year period (Mongol and Manchu rule). Two other factors that contributed to the continuity of the Chinese state include a relatively isolated existence from the rest of the Eurasian landmass and the important placed on cultural unity, beginning with the first emperor's destruction of local records in order to quell local loyalties (pp.21-22). Both of these factors had been built up over time through a revolution in communication and transportation. Part Two The second section of the book...
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...Experience records the history of the Chinese in the United States. The three-part documentary shows how the first arrivals from China, their descendants, and recent immigrants have “become American.” It is a story about identity and belonging that is relative to all Americans. The documentary is divided into three programs, each with a focus on a particular time in history. Program 1 describes the first arrivals from China, beginning in the early 1800’s and ending in 1882, the year Congress passed the first Chinese exclusion act. Program 2, which details the years of exclusion and the way they shaped and distorted Chinese American life, opens in 1882 and ends soon after Congress repealed the exclusion acts in 1943. Program 3 examines life during the Cold War, in the wake of immigration reform in 1965, through the years of the Civil Rights Movement, and to the present day with new opportunities and new challenges for Chinese Americans. These three themes discussing the history will be the focus of this paper documenting the journey of the Chinese American dream. Becoming American: The Chinese Experience Program 1 begins in the mid-1800s a time of civil war and famine in southern China. Young Chinese men left their villages to search for better opportunities in other parts of the world. When the news of a gold rush in California reached China in 1849, thousands headed for the United States. Like others from Europe and the Americas, very few became rich, but many remained...
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...Name Instructor Course Date World History Reasons why America and Japan became successful after 1860 The United States made many efforts to become successful in the earlier 1860’s; among them, they sought all means possible to control markets in order to multiply profits. Monopoly of markets control was achieved by the organization of trust. For example between 1868, when the first standard oil company was started in Pennsylvania, and 1900, Rockefeller’s oil company brought other companies under its control. Standard oil companies were in California, Iowa, Ohio, and New Jersey, but were brought together, and Standard Oil Company gained control of competing companies such as Acme oil, Atlantic refining among others. On the other hand, Japan became successful because of its revitalizing relationship with the United States. The combination of the Chinese ports to regular trade ensured that there was steady stream of maritime traffic between North America and Asia. The combination of its advantageous geographic position and rumors that Japan had deposits of coal increased the appeal of establishing commercial and diplomatic contacts with the Japanese. Reason for the decline of Chinese power after 1800 The imperial conquest of the British and Western countries led to a major fall of china’s power in 1800’s. This is because the imperial conquest was based on the militaristic nature of the imperial state, its non-reciprocal economic relations with overseas trading countries and the western...
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...What constitutes a migrant to be American in San Francisco? In the book “Making San Francisco American: Cultural Frontiers in the Urban West, 1846-1906” written by Barbara Berglund, focuses on all parts of the history of how San Francisco developed throughout the late 1800’s and the early 1900’s. In this book, the author discusses all cultural frontiers that had to be crossed to accommodate every person that had migrated to San Francisco. Migration to San Francisco was big during these times because of the start of the gold rush, many people migrated there especially people from other countries. People in San Francisco marginalized the migrant people. During these years San Francisco went through so many events which included a great fire that...
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...Experience records the history of the Chinese in the United States. The three-part documentary shows how the first arrivals from China, their descendants, and recent immigrants have “become American.” It is a story about identity and belonging that is relative to all Americans. The documentary is divided into three programs, each with a focus on a particular time in history. Program 1 describes the first arrivals from China, beginning in the early 1800’s and ending in 1882, the year Congress passed the first Chinese exclusion act. Program 2, which details the years of exclusion and the way they shaped and distorted Chinese American life, opens in 1882 and ends soon after Congress repealed the exclusion acts in 1943. Program 3 examines life during the Cold War, in the wake of immigration reform in 1965, through the years of the Civil Rights Movement, and to the present day with new opportunities and new challenges for Chinese Americans. These three themes discussing the history will be the focus of this paper documenting the journey of the Chinese American dream. Becoming American: The Chinese Experience Program 1 begins in the mid-1800s a time of civil war and famine in southern China. Young Chinese men left their villages to search for better opportunities in other parts of the world. When the news of a gold rush in California reached China in 1849, thousands headed for the United States. Like others from Europe and the Americas, very few became rich, but many remained...
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...Sadman sakib Ap English and composition Pd2 “Raise your voice for child labor” We American people fight for rights, fight for jobs, its been an anniversary for wall street protest. Student go for strike for budget cut. We people feel bad seeing bad condition for dogs and cat but none among us has fought for child labor that going on around the world. We Americans have closed our eyes pretending not to see anything’s behind our world. Americans wake up there is a vast work where young children’s are treated like back 1800’s some time even bad. From the first day I saw child labor in my eyes It sparked my heart to do something for them when I can do so. In 1800’s child labor started after industrial revolution. In back 1800 parents could not afford to send their children in school they were expensive, they took their children to work and children help their family by bringing extra money. Back then children were exposed to machines, bad working condition. Many children at that time had health issue because of bad working condition, many young people died at young age. After many years some raised their voice; in 1989 united nation convention on the right of the child outlines in iteration norms for the protection of children. The convention stated that “the right of the child to be protected from economic exploitation and from performing any work that is like to hazardous or to interfere with the child’s education or to be harmful to health” it’s been 32 years...
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...How did Western nations come to dominate much of the world in that late 1800’s? In the late 1800’s, Western Countries built overseas empires causing imperialism. Western nations had an advantage against the other nations that weren’t as strong. Europe had new economic and political powers that took over the world. The Europeans set out on an adventurous path to expansion known today as the “New Imperialism”. The domination was due to the motives that drove the New Imperialism, the western advantages, and the various forms of imperial rule that Western Nations used. This lead Europe to having an 80% influence on the world by the 1870’s. Economic interest, political and military motives, humanitarian and religious goals, and applying Social...
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...questions: What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)? How is GDP related to a nation’s total income and spending? What are the components of GDP? How is GDP corrected for inflation? Does GDP measure society’s well-being? 1 Micro vs. Macro Microeconomics: The study of how individual households and firms make decisions, interact with one another in markets. Macroeconomics: The study of the economy as a whole. We begin our study of macroeconomics with the country’s total income and expenditure. MEASURING A NATION’S INCOME 2 Income and Expenditure Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measures total income of everyone in the economy. GDP also measures total expenditure on the economy’s output of g&s. For the economy as a whole, income equals expenditure because every dollar a buyer spends is a dollar of income for the seller. MEASURING A NATION’S INCOME 3 The Circular-Flow Diagram a simple depiction of the macroeconomy illustrates GDP as spending, revenue, factor payments, and income Preliminaries: Factors of production are inputs like labor, land, capital, and natural resources. Factor payments are payments to the factors of production (e.g., wages, rent). MEASURING A NATION’S INCOME 4 The Circular-Flow Diagram Households: own the factors of production, sell/rent them to firms for income buy and consume goods & services Firms Households Firms: buy/hire factors of production...
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...1 Synopsis Today as the world around us continues to age more and more people have an interest for premium wines. As Australia’s economy continues to boom some industries have taken a major hit over the last decade including Australia’s wine industry even though it continues to produce some of the best wines in the world. The report will look into the history of Australian wine and look at where things have gone wrong. The reports key findings will reveal a relatively unknown winery in the town of Orange, called Belgravia that produces some outstanding wines. The results that have been presented have been researched on various Internet resources, newspaper articles and journals. The writer has also contributed to the report with his knowledge, as he is involved in the wine industry. Table of Contents: 1. Synopsis.............................................................................................................1 2. Introduction........................................................................................................3 3. Procedure...........................................................................................................3 3.1 History...........................................................................................................3-4 3.2 Orange Wine Region …..................................................................................5 3.2.1 Belgravia Vineyard…………………………………………………………5 3.2.2 Belgravia Winemaking……………………………………………………5-6 ...
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...nineteenth century. China and India were two independent nations, so similar, but yet also so different. Their imperialists had motives over raw material, resources, and power. Their thoughts of imperialism were fixed more on controlling and taking, then making relations and building up the country. This inequality led for a struggle of freedom and independence. From the struggles, the culture and the people had been impacted greatly from the foreign influences. Industrialism was halted for India and thrived in China. From the coasts China to the riches of India, imperialism changed the countries vastly. Across India and China, imperialistic motives of the Europeans ranged from rare materials to the immense voltage of power, however how they forced upon these motives was different. These nations were both imperialized by great European powers. Furthermore, they both had Britain as a strong imperialist. In China, Britain wanted luxury goods, like silk and porcelain. Britain also looked at India for luxury goods. Gems, gold, indigo, and spices were just several of the lustful items. Different Europeans nations, ruled different parts of these nations. For India, Britain was the only critical imperialized. Unlike India, China had Britain, Germany, France, and Japan. Russia also had taken the chance to imperialize China at their weak point. After China’s Opium War in the 1800’s, western influence was crowded all around. Spheres of Influence began to form in China. India always had the...
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...to receive €10bn financial assistance. • In exchange, Cyprus agreed to resolve the Popular Bank of Cyprus (Laiki), merging its “good” assets and insured depositors into Bank of Cyprus. • With the exception of insured deposits (below €100k) in both banks which will be safeguarded, all bond holders, equity shareholders and uninsured deposits in Laiki will be fully bailed in. Uninsured deposits in Bank of Cyprus will be converted into equity and suffer losses until the bank capital ratio reaches to 9%. Performance Global equity markets went up by 1.59% in March. Japan continues to be the best performing market with the Nikkei and Topix showing a monthly return of 7.25% and 6.05% respectively. US stocks had a positive month, with the benchmark S&P 500 posting a 3.6% gain while breaching its all time high level. Europe also rose with the Stoxx Europe 600 up 1.32%. Meanwhile, Asia was weak, with MSCI Asia ex Japan retreating 2.07%. The dips mostly came from Chinese equities with HSCEI and Shanghai Composite down -4.73% and -5.45% and Hong Kong (-3.13%). The Week Ahead The US will see the Vehicle sales (Tue), Factory orders (Tue), Manufacturing index (Wed), Unemployment rate and Nonfarm payrolls (both on Fri), ISM non Consumer credit (Fri) and Trade balance data (Fri) this week. In Europe, focus will be on the ECB and BoE decisions (Thu). Meanwhile Japan will see March BoJ Tankan survey and the business conditions DI (Mon). Also, the fist BoJ meeting under new leadership will be in focus...
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...In the late 1800s, people in many parts of the world decided to leave their homes and immigrate to the United States. Fleeing crop failure, land and job shortages, rising taxes, and famine, many came to the U. S. because it was perceived as the land of economic opportunity. Others came seeking personal freedom or relief from political and religious persecution. With hope for a brighter future, nearly 12 million immigrants arrived in the United States between 1870 and 1900 with such huge members arriving many Americans began to grow apprehensive and began to wonder if the presence of so many immigrants might somehow weaken the U.S. society. Coming to the United States was a difficult task. Usually only men would come. People would come in steerage because of lack of money. The conditions they faced there were devastating. People were crammed up together in dirty, small decks. Coming to America was a dangerous journey where many got sick, and some even died. But still, people from Spain, Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, and China, came to America. Push and pull factors are said to be the cause of Immigrants in the U.S. Once settled, immigrants looked for work. There were never enough jobs, and employers often took advantage of the immigrants. Men were generally paid less than other workers, and women less than men. Social tensions were also part of the immigrant experience. Often stereotyped and discriminated against, many immigrants suffered verbal and physical...
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