customers and suppliers without going through costly middlemen. Alibaba.com now claims to have 57m users, including some in nearly every country. It is sometimes likened to eBay, but is more like an online Yellow Pages. Related topics * China * Science and technology * Internet * E-commerce * Business Another venture, Taobao.com, sells to consumers. It has 300m customers and shifted $29 billion-worth of goods in 2009. It is like a scrappy cross between Amazon and eBay:
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ventures | Job creation with hard currency levels | 3. Disadvantages The most appropriate way of looking at disadvantages is by using Medcoff’s (1997) ‘4Cs’ model for JV’s. 3.1 Compatibility * Highly Political nature of doing business in China was very frustruating for Chrysler and as their biggest problem: 2. Cumbersome bureaucracy 3. Having accept local suppliers recommended by local government 4. Increasing involvement of National government * Difference in accounting
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5. Gunpowder: Discovered in the 9th century by Chinese alchemists that were searching for an elixir of immortality. Zeng Gongliang and Ding Du in the Song Dynasty have the earliest recordings of three formulas for making gunpowder. In ancient China, gunpowder and weapons the used gunpowder were invented and were commonly
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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
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Hans Steinmüller and Wu Fei wrote the article titled, “School killings in China: Society or wilderness?” for Anthropology Today Volume 27 NO 1, February 2011. The article starts by first describing the stabbing of thirteen children who were waiting for the gates of their school to open and then goes on to discuss five other school killings that occurred between March 23, 2010 and May 12, 2010. The six cases share similarities, middle-aged men using knives, hammers, or cleavers to inflict harm on
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Confucian Philosophy of Man More than a million years ago, primitive human beings lived on a land known as China. China is recognized as one of the four greatest ancient civilizations of the world, together with ancient Egypt, Babylon, and India. It is known for its rich history based on the written records that were found nearly 5,000 years ago. From 475 BC to the end of the 19th century, China went through a long feudal period. It experienced two seemingly contradictory and paradoxical phenomena.
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Buddhism in China DBQ Depending on the political stability, the responses to Buddhism in China were different. Between 220 CE and 570 CE, a time of political instability, most people had positive attitudes towards Buddhism, and after 570 CE, a time of political stability, most people had negative attitudes towards Buddhism. Most positive attitudes towards Buddhism occurred between 220 CE and 570 CE due to a need for a sense of salvation. According to Buddha, Buddhism is all about sorrow. Buddha
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Influences of writing systems and literature from ancient worlds Writing systems, by definition, are representations of units of language—often done by visible signs or letters. The process of imprinting information, in ancient times, were valuable to the societies because it saved information that would not have to be memorized, and also allowed for alternative means of communication. Different cultures developed their own style or writing system that eventually led to enhanced features such
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is Turning Away from the West and Rediscovering China BEN SIMPFENDORFER Basingstoke, Hampshire, and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 201 pp. $42.00 ISBN 978-0-230-58026 doi:10.1017/S030574101000072X The New Silk Road is an insightful, concise (173 pages of text), and thoroughly readable book. The focus is not on energy investments and flows or on government policy, but on business and cultural strands of the Sino-Arab relationship. As a China economist for both JP Morgan and RBS in Hong Kong
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element of the culture during the Tang and Han dynasty as many people travelled by camel under order of the emperor to go west, in the process creating the Silk Road. The result of exploring the west resulted in a great exchange of ideas and culture for China. The west and east were finally connected. A rather striking piece that existed in the museum was the pottery horse-drawn cart with a driver standing at 168 cm, created during the Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 CE). The chariot was one that carried
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