...The rise of modern china Student’s Name Name the course Instructor’s name Date Erez Manela immediately after world war one, started writing on international and transnational arena, his writings revolve around 1919 Paris peace conference from the perspective of an outsider. Erez chose not to focus on the subsequent peace process that followed after the war and its impact on the main powers like European powers but rather he focused on the impact of the peace process on the side states like Korea and china. These countries didn’t play a major or rather significant role in the peace process in fact they were largely ignored. Central to his thesis is the Wilsonian message of national self-determination and equality among states. To be well conversant with the encumbrance and openings implanted in China's the excellent place to start is on Jonathan D. Spence's good new book. ''The Search for Modern China,'' a detailed account across centuries from the fall of the Ming dynasty in 1600 up to the point of death of the democracy movement in June 1989, will educate everybody students and public alike of Chinese history. The effect and similar causal sequence of Wilson's discourse from 1918 up to the end of Paris peace conference is what Manela defines as the "Wilsonian Moment. As per Manela, Wilson radical ideals was based on his need and determination for all the nations of the earth to become self-governed and to embrace colonial ideologies. Wilson was directing his message to Europe...
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...The Modern Womanhood in China and Korea Yang Zhang March 29, 2007 The Modern Womanhood in China and Korea I was born in the generation when the one-child policy was on its second round, Deng Xiaoping’s economic reform was just on its way for the creation of better and richer China, and China started to set its way for the formation of pioneered "Socialism with Chinese characteristics" and the "socialist market economy". I am a woman, a young Chinese woman who has not yet experienced so much bitterness, yet enough for becoming aware the lives of women in modern Chinese society as well as other eastern Asian countries. Chinese had a long history of believing that males had the aptitude to think critically, whereas females had long hair but limited perception. While I have been educated in the United States of America, my perception has been broadened by reading through the novels about women’s lives in the past and present times. By closely reading, I precede my interpretations according to author’s words. Like any other children born after 1979 in China, I am the only child, the only heir to my dear parents. My father could be allowed to have a second child if he didn’t stay in the city with my mother. Unlike in some rural areas of the China where they are not under the restriction of Planned Birth Policy, urban parents overprotect their children, especially they are girls. Instead of being viewed by pearls or precious gifts, I personally think this is the...
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...China was originally ruled by Manchu.However,the inability of Qing government had aroused social discontent.As a result,more and more people chose to engage in the revolutionary activities.Dr Sun Yat Sin,one of the leader of the revolutionaries,had initiated 1911 Revolution.So was 1911 Revolution a turning point of modern China history?To a large extent,I agree with this statement. To commence with,1911 Revolution had contributed to the end of the monarchical form of Chinese government.Before 1911 Revolution,China had been ruled by the monarchical form of government for over two thousand years.Emperor possessed the highest power in the country and the general public must show absolute obedience on his demand.People were deprived of their political rights as most of them were never granted a chance to become a government official.In the 1911 Revolution,Yuan Shikai,with his military power,forced the Qing emperor Xuantong to abdicate.All the previous Qing officials soon lost their political powers.With the downfall of Qing dynasty,the monarchical form of government seemed to come to an end.On 12 February 1912,268 years of Manchu rule ended.After 1911 Revolution,the head of the country was called president rather than emperor.Instead of monarchism,republicanism was practiced.Every Chinese could have a chance to vote for their leaders.People could also have a chance to speak up for themselves.Electoral elements were introduced to the political system.Comparing with the autocratic...
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...Quality Practices in Modern China Issue 1. Do you see any parallels between today’s Modern China and post-World War 2 Japan? What differences are evident? Parallels • Both cultures are rich and traditional, unified or nationalistic, and have similar religions, and values (Padmalingam, 2002). • Rapid urbanisation – the move from an agricultural based society to a manufacturing (and thus urbanised) society. • Democratisation – from a centralised government to capitalist, moving from an insular to outward looking culture. • Both Japan and China have imported their technology, relying upon imitating the inventions and ideas of others. This is changing however as modern quality management is embraced. • Preference for high growth over low growth. Chovanec (2011) says of Post-W2 Japan that “Inflation was low, and there were no external constraints”. Further, he states that Money Supply and Private Fixed Investment factors are paralleled between post WW2 Japan and China today. He infers that this “high growth has spending “out of control”. With such money to spend, quality systems are easily afforded. The subject of Chovanec’s article is that the growth is unsustainable and dangerous, with China set to follow Japan’s lead and head into recessionary financial territory. • Fast growing economies that are encouraged and supported by governments. • Both countries have economically benefited from conflict and wars, as the rate of technology improvement and economic benefit...
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...principles and practices in China ARTICLE in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF QUALITY & RELIABILITY MANAGEMENT · NOVEMBER 2003 DOI: 10.1108/02656710310500833 CITATIONS READS 34 452 3 AUTHORS, INCLUDING: Alistair R Anderson The Robert Gordon University 112 PUBLICATIONS 3,104 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE Richard T. Harrison Queen's University Belfast 81 PUBLICATIONS 2,427 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE All in-text references underlined in blue are linked to publications on ResearchGate, letting you access and read them immediately. Available from: Alistair R Anderson Retrieved on: 02 February 2016 The Emerald Research Register for this journal is available at http://www.emeraldinsight.com/researchregister IJQRM 20,9 1026 Received May 2002 Revised November 2002 The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at http://www.emeraldinsight.com/0265-671X.htm NEW RESEARCH Total quality management principles and practices in China Jin-Hai Li International Business School of Nankai University, Tianjin, People’s Republic of China Alistair R. Anderson Charles P. Skene Centre for Entrepreneurship, Aberdeen Business School, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK, and Richard T. Harrison School of Management, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Keywords Total quality management, Private ownership, China Abstract Considers the role and practices of total quality management in China. After a brief overview,...
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...Out of all the readings, Fiske is perhaps the most pedagogical, but I really like the way that he distills popular culture down to something ultimately created by the people. He also argues that people can be redefined simply as a shifting set of social allegiances, and the aggregation of people converging together is more or less culture, but in a very fluid and uncontainable way. I think that these statements really reflect back upon the Chinese government’s failures during the revolutionary and post-revolutionary period, because they assumed that they could simply neatly package up a cultural ideology for the masses, in a “ready made” fashion, for mass consumption, within a containable and controllable space. In the aftermath of this forced cultural ingestion, it was almost natural that a form of entertainment would arise that rebelled against the strict ideological norm of the 1960’s and 1970’s. Prior to this period of time, Chinese music had been more strictly traditional or politically rooted. But Teresa Teng's music was entirely different- it was at once musically soothing, with clear elements of western influence, and also rejected China's previously inward-tending and ideological music. This new type of music represented a rejection of China's previous isolation from the world, and was impelled by and through the development of new technologies (such as the cassette and tape recorder) that allowed for the mass dissemination of this newer free, "alternative". I actually...
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...Chinese Immigration in Africa To talk about Chinese immigration in Africa we have to present first the ties that link China with the continent. Modern political and economic relations began in the era of Mao Zedong, the first leader of the Chinese Communist Party, following the Chinese Civil War. His Chinese international policy paved the way to both modern Chinese-African relations and immigration trends. In 1956 China signed the first official bilateral agreement with African countries (Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Sudan, and Guinea); it focused primarily on trade relations. By the 1960s, 19 African countries had official ties to Beijing. To help cement new diplomatic relations, Mao sent a number of Chinese to the continent in the 1960s, as well as 150,000 technicians between the 1950s and 1970s, to work in agriculture, technology, and infrastructure. Most returned to China after completing their contracts. Those were not the first wave of immigrants coming from China to Africa. For that we have to go way back in the 17th century. The first Chinese immigration took place in South Africa. They were prisoners, usually debtors, exiled from Batavia by the Dutch to their then newly founded colony at Cape Town in 1660. From that time until the late 19th century the number of Chinese people in the Cape Colony never exceeded 100. Chinese people began arriving in large numbers in South Africa in the 1870s through to the early 20th century initially in hopes of making their fortune on the...
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...www.GetPedia.com History of China: Table of Contents q q Historical Setting The Ancient Dynasties r r r Dawn of History Zhou Period Hundred Schools of Thought q The Imperial Era r r r r r r First Imperial Period Era of Disunity Restoration of Empire Mongolian Interlude Chinese Regain Power Rise of the Manchus q Emergence Of Modern China r r r r r r Western Powers Arrive First Modern Period Opium War, 1839-42 Era of Disunity Taiping Rebellion, 1851-64 Self-Strengthening Movement Hundred Days' Reform and Aftermath Republican Revolution of 1911 q Republican China r r r Nationalism and Communism s Opposing the Warlords s Consolidation under the Guomindang s Rise of the Communists Anti-Japanese War Return to Civil War q People's Republic Of China r r Transition to Socialism, 1953-57 Great Leap Forward, 1958-60 r r r r r Readjustment and Recovery, 1961-65 Cultural Revolution Decade, 1966-76 s Militant Phase, 1966-68 s Ninth National Party Congress to the Demise of Lin Biao, 1969-71 s End of the Era of Mao Zedong, 1972-76 Post-Mao Period, 1976-78 China and the Four Modernizations, 1979-82 Reforms, 1980-88 q References for History of China [ History of China ] [ Timeline ] Historical Setting The History Of China, as documented in ancient writings, dates back some 3,300 years. Modern archaeological studies provide evidence of still more ancient origins in a culture that flourished between 2500 and 2000 B.C....
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...congestion. It was also used to heal toothaches and all types of coughs. The modern use of opium has led to the formation of very strong narcotic painkillers. Opium is mainly associated with Morphine and Oxycodone, which are very strong narcotics. Opium is used in the modern age to treat diseases like spasms or diarrhea, although it is not commonly used (Bioweb.uwlax.edu). Opium use for medicinal purposes may have adverse effects on some people. People who have seizure disorders, lung, liver, and heart or kidney problems should inform the doctors about it before opium is administered to them. Opium has many side effects like nausea, constipation, drowsiness or itching. Some of these side effects are short-term while others are long lasting. Opium use overdose can cause anxiety, chills, coma, constricted pupils, depression or usual weakness. It is a very addictive drug, making it very important for proper monitoring of its use (Lovell, 5). Two Opium in China was not first introduced by the British. Opium was first introduced in China by both the Turkish and the Arab traders in the early 7th Century. The British only helped in the growth of the opium trade in China. They developed the various opium traffics in the 18th and 19th centuries. The British took advantage of the opium grown in India and sold it in the growing opium market. The British only used the trade of opium in China to have their hands on the Chinese silk, pottery work, and tea. British used...
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...Helen Shen Professor Elizabeth Parke EAS 394H1 Film Analysis #1 21 May 2014 Guns and Fists: The Depiction of Chinese Struggles Against Foreign Aggression and Injustice Director Tsui Hark's Once Upon a Time in China was pivotal to the recognition of martial arts and Wuxia films as a medium that was highly capable of conveying an emotionally moving, artistic and politically relevant story. The climactic and tragic fight scene between Huang Feihong and the Westerners at the opera house, resulting in the deaths of countless innocent Chinese, not only infuriates Huang Feihong, but emotionally moves viewers as well. It illustrates the jarring contrast of the high calibre fighting skills of the Chinese and the ruthless use of guns by the Westerners and portrays the hopelessness of the Chinese people to symbolic Western guns. Through low angle shots, close-up shots, pace, sounds and other cinematic features to mark the importance of the powerful and well planned fight sequences, Tsui Hark shows the complex struggles of the Chinese people against growing foreigner influence and presence in their home and shows the contrast and conflict between the Chinese and the foreigners through the stark contrast of Chinese and Western combat styles. A key element to showing the importance of this scene was the use of low camera angles, especially on Huang Feihong and the Chinese audience being killed. The low camera angles on Huang Feihong highlighted his superiority and importance in...
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...Valuable Chinese Inventions Strayer University Valuable Chinese Inventions The Chinese have made many useful inventions that have advanced their culture and others around the world. If it wasn’t for such great ingenious inventions, life even today would be drastically different. Think of that beautiful silk scarf you have being nonexistent. Imagine wars being fought today without guns and grenades. Think of enjoying delicious dishes such as soup and spaghetti without those stringy satisfying noodles. The Chinese people have made spectacular inventions such as great fabrics like silk to innovative combat aids such as Gunpowder and possibly even noodles. In my quest to win a trip to china, this essay will expose the inventions I find to be of the greatest significance to society (Henry, 2011). Gunpowder, was accidentally invented, the intended use of the substance was to create immortality in humans. Gunpowder did not create immortality, but was lethal if used in explosives. It was made from potassium nitrate, charcoal and sulfur. The Chinese learned of the mixtures power, and soon used it in fire explosives such as hand grenades (Clark, 2013). The Compass was originally designed to point the “true south”, but had since been used to point to the North. The first Compasses were made of magnetic iron ore, called lodestone. Lodestone becomes highly magnetized when struck by lightning, and points between the North and South Pole. Men would balance the device on a flat surface...
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...Relationship Between the Individual and Society From the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China, China was in the social transformation era. More accurately, people was in the alternating period of the feudal traditional conservative ideology and emerging modern thoughts. Hence, the authors always wrote the stories about how individuals reacted to such social changes. Like three stories, Lu Xun’s “A Madman’s Diary,” Yu Dafu’s “Sinking,” Mao Dun’s “Spring Silkworm” which depict how the individuals’ respond when they face two totally different ideologies or moral codes. These three stories show three different conditions, three different choices, and lead to three different results. One common thing is that all protagonists are suffering in that old society. First, Lu Xun’s “A Madman’s Diary” describes a madman who is the first rebel in modern literary history. The madman was born in the feudal scholar-bureaucrat family, everyone lived around him was bound by the feudalism. However, he was not one of them, he had modern thoughts and yearn for a just society. Unfortunately, he could not find a person with a like-minded goal, and everyone else saw him as a madman. He thought that society was an “eat people” world. For example, he read history intently half the night until he saw the whole book was filled with the two words “eat people”. He thought the history were all wrote about how the powerful people oppress the poor. And he felt sorrow that such merciless history...
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...dishes, they, like everybody else, could not get along without cooked cereals.” “For in ancient as in modern China, cereals have been assigned the function of nourishing and sustaining life” (Kiple & Ornelas, 2000). I really agree with this statement that cereals play a really huge and important role in Chinese food culture and history. From ancient past to present, Chinese usually have cereal as the basic ingredient in their daily meals. Chinese commonly think that cereals are the essential ingredient to make them alive, and they will have cereals in every daily meal. Chinese usually see the dishes as the supplement for the cereals, so they usually won’t only have dishes without any cereal. There are a variety of cereals, like rice, wheat, millet, and maize. According to Kiple & Ornelas (2000), “Two of them, rice and wheat, are the most highly valued, with millet and maize less appreciated.” “From an agricultural point of view, wheat, various millets, and maize are the typical cereals of the north, whereas rice is characteristic of the regions south of the Yangtze River and of western China” (Kiple & Ornelas, 2000). Therefore, the southern Chinese usually have cooked rice as their daily staple while the northern Chinese have breads, noodles, dumplings, and pies as their staple. In addition, many foreigners may think that dumpling is the traditional food for China. This...
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...mmKublai Khan was a ruler during the thirteenth century. He was a Mongol dreamer, visionary, and had the desire to unite different nationalities, religions, and cultures together under the Yuan Empire. Kublai Khan was a great sympathizer for the Chinese people, even though he was Mongolian by birth. He didn’t necessarily always trust the Chinese people, but he was fascinated with their traditions, culture, and arts. Conservative Mongolians would get offended and would repeatedly cause Kublai Khan problems because conformed so well to the Chinese ways. Kublai’s grandfather was the infamous Genghis (Chinggus) and the fourth son of Toluia and Sorghagtani. From the day he was born on 1215, his mother, Sorghagtani, raised him because his father was away on military campaigns. Kublai’s mother had one ambition for all of her sons, and that was for someone to regain the throne that had been taken by her husband’s brother. Consequently, she groomed Kublai and his brothers for the throne. She was a fervent Nestorian Christian and saw that plundering a nations resources would soon backlash, and she knew it would not be helpful to anyone. She obviously had a great effect on Kublai. When Kublai Khan’s eldest brother, Mongke (Mangu) gained the throne, his mother’s life dream was fulfilled. She never lived to see Kublai become khan as she died a year after his brother ascended the throne. While demonstrating his military brilliance during several battles he caught his brother’s attention....
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...materialism of his predecessors and established the system of Simple Materialism. He believes that the world is material; material is primary and eternal. Wang Fuzhi (1619–1692) was a Chinese philosopher of the late Ming, early Qing dynasties. Wang Fuzhi inherited and further developed the materialism of his predecessors and established the system of Simple Materialism. He believes that the world is material; material is primary and eternal. Zhu Xi (1130 – 1200) was a Song Dynasty Confucian scholar who was the most influential rationalist Neo-Confucian in China. His synthesis of Neo-Confucian thought long dominated Chinese intellectual life. He assigned special significance to the The Four Books and emphsized on the investigation of things (Gewu), and the synthesis of all fundamental Confucian concepts. Zhu Xi (1130 – 1200) was a Song Dynasty Confucian scholar who was the most influential rationalist Neo-Confucian in China. His synthesis of Neo-Confucian thought long dominated Chinese intellectual life. He assigned special significance to the The Four Books and emphsized on the investigation of things (Gewu), and the synthesis of all fundamental Confucian concepts. Huang Zongxi (1610 – 1695) was a Chinese thinker during the latter part of the Ming dynasty and the early part the Qing Dynasty. Huang was well-known for being one of the first Neo-Confucians to stress the need for constitutional law. He also openly advocated the belief that ministers should be openly critical...
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