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- 191: Japanese Aristocrat
- ... period, but it was during the Nara period that many new forms were introduced and worshiped. The imperial court of the Nara period was taken with the Chinese religion of Buddhism. Students were sent to China to gather and retrieve new information on Buddhism. Buddhist monks from China were even opening temples in Japan. The Japanese missionaries not only brought back new ideas of Buddhism, but also new arts and crafts, lifestyles, Confucianism, and a degree of sophistication unknown to Japan before . This must have been a very exciting time to be a Japanese aristocrat. The aristocratic society decided which parts of Chinese culture would be integrated into Japan. The new centralized Japanese government was modeled after China's. Although Japans government was modeled after China's it had some very distinct differences. The Japanese seemed to modify Chinese concepts and make them unique to Japan. They did not only do this ...
- 192: Chinese Occupation of Tibet
- ... Tibet's most sacred lake, Yamdrok Tso, is currently being drained for a Chinese hydroelectric power plant. This problem has not been dealt with for nearly 60 years. The United Nations has failed to punish China for any of its human rights abuses. Major corporations from around the world continue to do business with China. Last year, despite continuing pressure, the United States renewed China's Most Favored Nation trading status. Unfortunately, since China represents such a potentially gigantic market, politicians are reluctant to impose any trade sanctions. The Chinese government claims to be helping the Tibetan culture, but ...
- 193: Technology Transfer
- ... railroad helped eliminate the difficulties of inland transportation for Europeans in India. The steamboat and the Railroad were two important technologies of the nineteenth century that changed many aspects of life in India and Africa. China’s rulers controlled European influence rather tightly, yet there was trade of course. And through the opium war there was an influence of European technology in China. In the twentieth century the transfer of technology from industrialized to the less industrialized is still happening. Yet it is happening a slightly different manner instead of being forced upon a nation it is being ... 1960s is was adapted to the local conditions, therefore it was transferred from the United States and stimulated in India and that is why it was successful. This type of local stimulation also occurred in China and Africa. Many stimulating factors of the nineteenth century remain factors of the twentieth century. In the nineteenth century there was major shipbuilding out of wood, which lead to iron shipbuilding. Natural resources as ...
- 194: Dalai Lama
- ... a vast audience of monk scholars. In 1950, at age 16, His Holiness was called upon to assume full political power as head of State and Government when Tibet was threatened by the might of China. In 1954 he went to Peking to talk with Mao Tse-Tung and other Chinese leaders, including Chou En-Lai and Deng Xiaoping. In 1956, while visiting India to attend the 2500th Buddha Jayanti, he ... plan calls for the designation of Tibet as a zone of peace, an end to the massive transfer of ethnic Chinese into Tibet, restoration of fundamental human rights and democratic freedoms and the abandonment of China's use of Tibet for nuclear weapons production and the dumping of nuclear waste, as well as urging "earnest negotiations" on the future of Tibet and relations between the Tibetan and Chinese people. In Strasbourg, France, on June 15, 1988, he elaborated on this Five-Point Peace Plan and proposed the creation of a self-governing democratic Tibet, "in association with the People's Republic of China." In his address, the Dalai Lama said that this represented "the most realistic means by which to re-establish Tibet's separate identity and restore the fundamental rights of the Tibetan people while accommodating ...
- 195: On The Chinese Dynasty
- Dear Editor, I am a 16 century trader. I have been to China. I have seen all the things Marco Polo has seen. I know that he was not telling a lie at all. I am very angry that you did not believe him. I am writing to defend him. There are three Chinese beliefs, which are Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism. All beliefs were taught during the same time. Buddhism was taught during 563 to 483 b.c. Buddha came to China in 200 b.c. He believed that suffering and pain was caused by wealth. Daoism was taught during 606 to530 b.c. It was taught by Laozi. He believed that humans were apart of nature ... focus on your behavior, respect for your parents and peace. These were some just some examples of the beliefs. There are a lot of Chinese achievements. One of the achievements was the Great Wall. of China. It provided protection for the people. It allowed farmers to live along the border and away from the nomads. But it took over 30,000 people to build it. Another achievement was the currency. ...
- 196: An Analysis of Fukuyama’s “The End Of History”
- ... are given universal rights and are governed by the consent of the people. Fukuyama gives three examples which is supportive of the trend towards free market activity. The first example he speaks about is communist China and how it has opened up 20% of its economy to the free market. Secondly, he speaks about Russia’s attempt at reform, know as perestroika. Thirdly, he points out the fact that newly developing ... stage in Hegel’s dialectic? Marx would have to disagree. First off, Marx would say that many people misinterpret his writings. This was the case in the formation of the communist system of government in China and Russia. He would say that communism should never have been implemented in China nor Russia. The reason being, Marx said that communism would rise out of a fully developed and capitalistic nation. When China and Russia were made Communist their economies had not even come close to ...
- 197: Was Khruschev's Foreign Policy Successful?
- ... military alliance that after 1955 stood opposed to Nato across Europe. The Soviets also worked to mend their fences with communist nations in an attempt to reunite the communist world, including a 1954 treaty with China. The soviet leaders enjoyed great success in their approach to the newly independent non-aligned nations in Asia an area Stalin had rejected. The Soviet Union seemed to provide a glittering example of rapid economic ... populous Arab country when the Soviets agreed to build the Aswan High Dam after the withdrawal of the United States from the project. Soviet influence also grew in Asia. India looking for a counterweight to China and grateful for Soviet economic aid proved to be a worthy object of attention. There was also some success in the sub-Saharan Africa as it emerged from the European colonial rule. Overall under Khrushchev the Soviet Union increasingly made its weight felt as a global power. Foreign policy difficulties especially the United states and peoples Republic were an area of concern. The dispute with China had deep roots some going back to the 19th century tsarist territorial expansion at the expense of the crumbling Chinese Empire. Other causes were of more recent vintage. China was a militant have- not ...
- 198: Overpopulation And The Economi
- ... miniscule. The population is projected to reach 16.4, more than double today’s population by the year 2060. Right now there are only about 30 million people in Canada, itself, whereas a country like China is home to 1.2 billion people. As it is seen, China has a very large proportion of the world’s population within it’s own boundaries and this has created many problems throughout the country. It is possible, that with the knowledge of the problem, with ... With the high population unable to buy these products, the cost of such technology as computers and television, remain at an inflated price. (Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, pg42) China In Asia, over 50% of the population are currently living in a one-room dwelling. In a country like China, which is very overpopulated, yet very secure economically, it is hard to see where ...
- 199: The History of Thailand and Malaysia
- ... mid 1800’s. The Mon and the Khmer were the first people to migrate to Southeast Asia as early as 300 B.C. They migrated from an area in central Asia that is now southwestern China, to a region that is now Cambodia. After the first people migrated to this region, many others also migrated here. The people known as the Pyu arrived in the A.D. 600’s. Then the ... ago. Thailand first settlers migrated their over 5,000 years ago. The ancient people of Thailand settled in an area that is now the village of Non Nok. These people migrated to Thailand from southern China between the time period of A.D. 100’s and 900’s. In 1238, the Thai formed the first Thai nation. They named it Sukothai, which translates into Dawn of happiness. King Ramkhamhaeng was one ... largest countries in Southeast Asia was first occupied about 4,000 years ago. Their settlements were found in what is now Peninsular Malaysia. About 4,000 years ago, people migrated to this area from southern China. The peninsula became the crossroads for trade between China and India. Through the years Chinese and Indian People settled there. Several small city-states had been formed along the east and west coasts of ...
- 200: The Political Career of Richard Nixon
- ... the South, which had uneven success in defending itself. In a move to cut off military supplies to Hanoi, Nixon ordered the mining of North Vietnamese ports and the bombing of overland supply routes from China. In October 1972 an accord for ending the war was reached with North Vietnam, but South Vietnam's government opposed it. Despite the continuing conflict in Vietnam, Nixon remained determined to inaugurate an era of negotiation with the Communist countries that were supporting North Vietnam. He attended summit meetings in the People's Republic of China in February 1972 and in the Soviet Union in May. Tensions were lessened between mainland China and the United States. With United States flags waving over the Kremlin, Nixon and his Soviet hosts signed accords that had long been in preparation. The most important agreement limited the manufacture of nuclear ...
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