Ancient Chinese Inventions Nancy LeFever Strayer University Dr. Rick Foster Hum111 World Cultures I March 2, 2014 Civilization dawned in China centuries before it took root in the West. Within these centuries many wonderful things came into being, things that today we use and sometimes take for granted. Ancient times could not have been easy; everything was done the hard way until something was created to make the task easier. “Necessity is the mother of invention” spoke Plato
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series” made in China, and explain my strategy to promote the sales in Japan. REnex is a Chinese company, specializing in Branding, Trade and Retailing, founded by a Chinese businessman who worked and lived in Japan for 15 years, including the job experience in HAKUHODO, STARDUST Promotion, and NHK. At the same time, the founder of REnex keeps working as the only advisor of UNITED ARROWS in China. REnex is created with Japanese concepts and gathering business team from Japan and China. The core team
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Introduction: During 1952’s, the Roaring Dragon hotel (RDH), a state owned enterprise (SOE), was one of the three-star hotel in China. In 2001, looking at the decreasing potential of RDH, the provincial government decided to modernize it. For that, Hotel International (HI) organization was selected considering its international reputation, brand name and credentials (Grainger, 2008, p.1). Background: Paul Fortune, the GM appointed by HI had aimed to bring the quality services, professionalism
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Tong Zhang Pre-Modern East Asian History China: Introduction Written records of Chinese civilization date back to 1200 BCE. Naturally many parts of China have become worldwide attractions due to historical richness. The Dynasties of China covered in this chapter will be: Shang (1600 – 1050 BCE), Zhou (1046 – 256 BCE), Warring States Period (475 – 221 BCE), Qin (221 – 206 BCE) Han (206 BCE – 220 CE). Henan Museum, Zheng Zhou Yellow River Valley (Shang) Today, Zheng Zhou is the provincial
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Case 2-9 Coping with Piracy in China Assume you are the CEO of a new firm that has perfected a package of software applications for medium-and lager-sized companies to help manage intellectual property applications (patents, trademarks, copyrights). Licenses for companies in the United States have sold briskly, at $2,000 per company for more than a year. Now you have heard rumors that your software is being pirated in China. Ironic, isn’t it? Write a briefing for your board of directors with a specific
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THE ROMANS AND CHINA Robert King HIEU 201-B05 September 29th, 2014 The West and East both had major super powers at the same time. The Romans in the West and the Han Dynasty in the East. Both had no idea how large the other was. The Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty both had created strong government systems, military and had vast technology advancement. Though they had major differences, they both made a lasting impression on Eastern and Western civilization as we know it today At the
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Coca-Cola re-entered china in 1979, after three decades after the Equity joint venture law was issued, and was the turning point for coca cola to China’s open door policy aiming to increase sales by 15% using effective strategy, “Think Local, act local” and to exceed USA i.e., the home market of Coca-cola and become the largest market in terms of capital consumption by 2020 (manufacturer., 2014). (Geert-hofstede.com, 2014) If we explore the Chinese culture through the lens of hofstede culture
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The countries of China and Japan share numerous similarities other than their geographical proximity. They both have established extremely rich cultures and great senses of national identity. Their histories have crossed paths during several periods since both civilizations have existed for such a long times. The countries also share similar religions and value systems, which have influenced each other. However, despite all of these similarities the recent history of these two countries has
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The decline of classical civilizations can be attributed to numerous factors such as internal conflicts, decreased size of armies, revolts, corruption, population decreases, declining tax revenues, economic decline, climate change, and external invasions. However, the one important factor that was instrumental in the decline and collapse was epidemic diseases which may have killed up to half of the population. The spread of epidemic diseases in the Roman Empire resulted in a shrinking population
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Even two countries whose geographic distance is close, their cultural differences may vary a lot, for example, China and Japan. From the graph I get on the website, the biggest cultural difference between China and Japan is on uncertainty avoidance, which is the degree to which people in a country are uncomfortable with unstructured, ambiguous, unpredictable situations. The fact that China has a comparatively low score on this dimension reflects that Chinese are adaptable and entrepreneurial, and
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