festival’s name should really be. There are several versions story about the origin of the Lantern Festival, but no one knows which one is true. The most plausible origin states that the Lantern Festival is from Buddhism, and it began from Han dynasty. The emperor Ming of Han dynasty believed Buddhism, and he knew there was some tradition that Buddhists lighted lanterns to show their respect to Buddha’s relics in every fifteenth of lunar January. So the emperor Ming let people light lanterns in the temples
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Authoritarianism Authoritarianism is a form of social organization characterized by submission to authority. It is usually opposed to individualism and democracy. In politics, an authoritarian government is one in which political authority is concentrated in a small group of politician. Characteristics Authoritarianism is characterized by highly concentrated and centralized power maintained by political repression and the exclusion of potential challengers. It uses political parties and mass
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New Yorker Dan Mintz moved to China as a freelance film director with no contacts, no advertisingexperience. DMG had emerged as one of China's fastest growing advertising agencies. Mintz attributeshis success in part to what the Chinese call guanxi: Guanxi means relationship and through businesssetting it can be better understood as connection. Guanxi has its roots in the Confucian philosophy of valuing social hierarchy and reciprocal obligations. Confucian ideology has a 2,000-year-old history inChina
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Ancient Chinese Contributions Elizabeth Finch Professor Karen Lewis HUM 111-World Culture 1 November 26, 2011 Ancient China has played a significant part in many famous inventions that have had a major impact in our lives from day to day. No matter how small they seem to be their inventions have helped us in so many ways that we have taken for granted. How many of us have ever given a thought to those that have made our lives easier by their inventions? There are quite a few from the
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Immersion Program: Case Analysis (Winter 2011) Luna Pen Key issues The most important issues are that the Luna pen contributes the major sales of Global that reached to one fourth of total sales and Global is ready for a major expansion. It showed that there is already a good base of customers in Asia for the Luna pen, and it would be detrimental if Global were to lose the product. Whereas Luna pen produced a lot of profit to Global, DGG doesn’t want to be in the fountain pen business
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values and circumstances of its maker, calligraphy seems to be one of the most remote and inaccessible arts to the outsider who does not read Chinese. It was during the Tang Dynasty that calligraphy first began to flourish as an art from. By the Later Han, the basic script types had been created, and no new types developed after this time. The first writings to evaluate calligraphic style also date from this period. These texts reveal a notable shift toward seeing an expressive quality in writing that
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A lot of people wonder how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids. They wonder what these parents do to produce so many math whizzes and music prodigies, what it's like inside the family, and whether they could do it too. Well, I can tell them, because I've done it. Here are some things my daughters, Sophia and Louisa, were never allowed to do: Enlarge Image Erin Patrice O'Brien for The Wall Street Journal Amy Chua with her daughters, Louisa and Sophia, at their home in
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你好 第一课 （一） 陆雨平： | 力波，你好。 | 力波： | 你好，陆雨平。 | （二） 力波： | 林娜，你好吗？ | 林娜： | 我很好，你呢？ | 力波： | 也很好。 | 你忙吗 第二课 （一） 林娜： | 陆雨平，你好吗？ | 陆雨平： | 我很好。你爸爸、妈妈好吗？ | 林娜： | 他们都很好。你忙吗？ | 陆雨平： | 我不忙。你男朋友呢？ | 林娜： | 他很忙。 | （二） 丁力波： | 哥哥，你要咖啡吗？ | 哥哥： | 我要咖啡。 | 弟弟： | 我也要咖啡。 | 丁力波： | 好，我们都喝咖啡。 | 她是哪国人 第三课 （一） 哥哥： | 力波，那是谁？ | 丁力波： | 那是我们老师。 | 哥哥： | 她是哪国人？ | 丁力波： | 她是中国人。我们老师都是中国人。 | （二） 丁力波： | 陈老师，您好！这是我哥哥，他是外语老师。 | 陈老师： | 你好。 | 丁力波： | 这是我朋友。 | 陈老师： | 你好！你也是老师吗？ | 朋友： |
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Growing Internet Use in China Reflects Changing Society Internet Use Explodes in China Internet use in China is exploding. According to Kai-Fu Lee, President of Google, China, the growth of the Internet is 40 to 50 percent in the last two years. Today, the number of Chinese using the Internet is greater than the number of Internet users in the United States, and Kai-Fu Lee anticipates that by the end of the year, about a quarter of China’s 1.3 billion people will be online. However,
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ECRM 2007: 6th European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies Using PEST Analysis as a Tool for Refining and Focusing Contexts for Information Systems Research Guo Chao Alex Peng, Miguel Baptista Nunes Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, Sheffield, S1 4DP, UK lip05gcp@sheffield.ac.uk, j.m.nunes@sheffield.ac.uk Abstract It is common for inexperienced researchers and research students to aim at investigating very wide contexts
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