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- 101: China 2
- The Roots of Communist China To say that the Chinese Communist revolution is a non-Western revolution is more than a clich . That revolution has been primarily directed, not like the French Revolution but against alien Western influences that approached the level of domination and drastically altered China's traditional relationship with the world. Hence the Chinese Communist attitude toward China's traditional past is selectively critical, but by no means totally hostile. The Chinese Communist revolution, and the foreign policy of the regime to which it has given rise, have several roots, each of ...
- 102: Feng Shui And Building Structures
- Feng Shui And Building Structures Throughout history, Chinese architects have incorporated the Taoist concept of feng shui into the structures they are building. Taoism, which was formed in China's classical period, is based on the philosophies and teachings of Lao-tzu. An integral part of Taoism is feng shui, which is translated as "wind and water." The concept of creating harmony between man ... happiness, is known as 'chi'. Though feng shui comes in many forms, the concept of it still expresses the same message of togetherness between man and nature. In the construction of the Great Wall of China, The Temple of Prayer for Good Harvests and typical Chinese homes, feng shui had an important place in China. Feng shui shows it's face in "The Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests", which is more commonly but inaccurately called the "Temple of Heaven". This temple, second in importance to the Forbidden City, ...
- 103: China Between The Fall Of The KMT and Mao Tse-Tung's Death
- China Between The Fall Of The KMT and Mao Tse-Tung's Death The time from 1949-1976 was a time of transition for China. Many social and economic changes occurred through this period. When the Kuomintang government collapsed and Mao Tse-Tung assumed control, this marked the beginning of massive reformation for what would become the People's Republic ... and the land was divided among the peasantry. Equality prevailed for women and attacks where made on official corruption. Efforts were made to improve sanitation and literacy among the people. These changes generated patriotism during China's involvement in the Korean War. While social reforms proved to be beneficial to China, attempts for industrial and agricultural growth were not as successful. From 1953-57 industrial production was expanded and agriculture ...
- 104: A Reborn Nation by a New Democracy (Mao Tse-Tung)
- ... to build a new society and a new state for the Chinese nation. The new society would have a new political system, a new economy, and a new culture. Basically, Tse-tung wants to change China altogether, to shift it into an entire reformed nation. He wants the ignorant old culture to be enhanced into innovative China (Tse-Tung, 1). A significant turning point took place in China’s bourgeois-democratic revolution after the wide spread of the first imperialist world war in 1914 and the founding of a socialist state on one-sixth of the globe as a result of the ...
- 105: The Correlation Between Chines
- The numerous cultures of Mainland China are both intricate with their systems of deities and traditions, and yet humble with their ways of life and survival. China is located in the midst of high lands, plateaus, canyons and numerous river systems. In coinciding with the difficult landscapes in which they live, the Chinese people have managed to generally abide by the natural ... Throughout their approximately five thousand years of civilization the Chinese have concocted many traditions which are based upon their thriving in their environment. These traditions are what produce the intricate social structures of most of China. Every aspect of the Chinese culture is interrelated and therefore necessary for the continuance of the civilization. These qualities are what have confirmed China as not only a grand civilization but also one of ...
- 106: Genghis Khan & The Mongol Empire
- ... The Mongol Empire By Brent Monroe Pergram The Mongol Empire extended ultimately from Korea in Asia to the borders of Hungary in Europe, and within its vast area of military conquest was the whole of China under a brief period of Mongol domination known as the Yuan Dynasty. But to grasp the significance of the extraordinary growth of this nomadic people, it is necessary to look at Genghis Khan (1167-1227 ... Kereits, who made him his heir. Temuchin and Toghrul, launched a joint attack on the Tatars in 1196. In the spring of 1196 the combined forces of Mongols and Jurchens of the Chin Dynasty of China administered a major defeat to the Tatar tribes. Victory gave Temuchin the opportunity to plunder the booty of his enemies, taking weapons, horses and food to increase his power and prestige. In 1197 his tribe ... their duty, or do not come when summoned by the Khan are to be killed thus insuring control of the military.(Lamb,pp.201-3) Genghis Khan\\'s military fought the Jin dynasty of north China for several years, conquering Peking in 1215. By 1221 he had conquered central asia, including Turkestan and north China. Genghis Khan was persuaded not to destroy the Chinese peasants and their agriculture, but instead ...
- 107: Imperialism 2
- ... the “Unfair Treaties” forced the Chinese to allow the English ships into their ports and to allow them to have a major role in the trade market. The English wanted tea, porcelain, and silk from china. The Chinese however didn’t want to gods the English offered in return. The English began trading opium in return for the goods. Although it was illegal, many of the money hungry merchants excepted the opium in return for the things that were valuable to the English. Because of this, the first Anglo-Chinese war erupted. China underestimated the power of England and was defeated. At the end of the war, they were forced to sign the Treaty of Nanjing (1842). The treaty was one of the first treaties known as the “Unfair Treaties.” Under this treaty, china gave up the island of Hong Kong, abolished the licensed monopoly system of trade, granted English nationals exemption from Chinese laws, and agreed to give England whatever trading concessions that were granted to other ...
- 108: The Imperial Woman
- In 1852, a Manchurian girl, Orchid, clan name Yehonala, was summoned to be viewed by the Emperor of China. On the twentieth day of the sixth moon, the last Empress of China was chosen. By right, her cousin, Sakota, was the Emperor s consort, but she gave birth to a girl. Yehonala gave birth to a boy and became the Empress, Tzu Hsi. Once the Son of ... Tzu An, became the Empress Mother and Regent. Since Tzu Hsi was the stronger of the two, it seemed as if she was the only Empress. Her son grew up to be the Emperor of China. All his decisions were still made by his mother, but he died young. Tzu Hsi had to find the next heir before any trouble started. She took her sister and the sixth prince s ...
- 109: Shih Huang Ti
- Shih Huang Ti In the year 221 B.C.E., there was a great ruler over the Ch’in kingdom in China, named Shih Huang Ti. Shih was power hungry and wanted more land so he gathered his army and captured the surrounding kingdoms. As the ruler of so many kingdoms he became "the first emperor" of China. Shih showed his tyranny when he burned all history books to insure that his people and future generations would only remember him and none of the earlier rulers. He had a strong army but the fierce tribes north of China, the Mongols and the Huns, were stronger. These nomadic tribes would come into China and steal crops and animals and then destroy everything left behind. Shih was very disturbed with these invasions, so in ...
- 110: Mao Zedong
- Mao Zedong In the early 1900’s as China emerged from a half of a century of revolution and moved toward a place of economic development and social change, Mao Zedong (Wade -- Giles: Mao Tse Tung) its principle revolutionary thinker and for many years ... not his alone. Looking at the period from the establishment of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921 to Mao’s Death in 1976, one can justly consider Mao Zedong the principle architect of the New China (McHenry 1992). Mao Zedong was born in 1893, in the village of Sao-Shan, Hunan Province. He was the son of a poor man who had become affluent as a farmer and grain dealer,(McHenry ... in Chang-Sha (McHenry 1992). Mayo’s goals were formed in the matrix of the May Fourth Period. Along with many of the young Chinese of his generation he was concerned with how to maintain China’s integrity in a time when the world was dominated by the great powers and how to use for his own purpose the knowledge and ideas which had led to western superiority. He wished ...
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