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- 81: One Thousand Years of Chinese Footbinding: Its Origins, Popularity and Demise
- ... less contorted manners that "merely" kept the toes compressed or limited the growth of the foot without breaking any bones.[8] In some areas and among some social groups, such as the Hakka in southern China, women's' feet were generally not bound and even among the imperial courts of the Ming and Qing dynasties the practice was not strictly observed.[9] Despite these exceptions, however, footbinding was more commonly practiced ... a long-standing or strongly-held institution linked to other practices, such as the work of Hakka women in the fields and their early employment in the tea industry. In the rice- farming areas of China, women played more part in field agriculture and were naturally resistant to the pressures of footbinding from north China.[28] For Chinese men, bound feet were associated with higher-status love and sex, carrying strong connotations of both modesty and lasciviousness. Bound feet became a sexual fetish and were said to be conducive ...
- 82: Computer Software Piracy and it's Impact on the International Economy
- ... the most technologically advanced regions of the world. As the software market continues to grow and flourish so does the black market of software piracy ("The Impact..." Internet). The worst countries in this area are China and Russia. Named "one copy countries" two years in a row (1995 and 1996) by the SPA, studies show that ninety-five to ninety-eight percent, virtually every copy, of U.S. business software is illegally pirated, which costs U.S. software companies an estimated five-hundred million dollars a year ("SPA names..." Internet and "U.S., China..." D1 - 2). In Russia the latest statistics from the SPA show that ninety-five percent of business software is illegally copied, that cost the U.S. $117 million in 1994 (“SPA names...” Internet). Although Asia has extremely high piracy rates, SPA Executive Director Ken Wasch comments "China, Russia, and Thailand (the three countries in Asia with the highest piracy rates) deserve credit for enacting copyright laws that specifically protect computer programs and other software..." Russia and China enacted copyright protection statutes ...
- 83: China Cities' Great Progress' In Manned Space Program By Daniel Southerland
- China Cities' Great Progress' In Manned Space Program By Daniel Southerland (c) 1986, The Washington Post PEKING - China has made "great progress" in developing a manned space program and the day it launches a man in space for the first time is "not far off," an official newspaper said Sunday. The overseas edition of the People's Daily, the leading Communist Party newspaper, said China has "already begun the work of choosing its first team of astronauts." Although it gave few details, the article made it sound as though China is preparing to launch its first men into space ...
- 84: The Economic Growth of Asia
- ... Asia World War 2 in the mid-90's drew a hard blow and left a serious and lasting effect to many Asian countries. This however, did not hamper the growth of countries such as China, Japan and Vietnam as their government were taking serious steps to recover economically. Thus, the global market cannot deny a place for these 'Asian Dragons', because these countries are growing at a tremendous pace to the extent of being capable in emerging as global market leaders. China's capitalism and boom was born when their president, Deng Xiaoping permitted the provinces to dismantle their communes and collective farms. This led China to venture into free-market economics, although they were still under the communist political system. When President Deng announced that they needed Western money and expertise, China flung their trade doors wide open and ...
- 85: Movie Analysis - Sand Pebbles
- ... was on the flag. The flag was not only a symbol of a nation, but of nationalism, militarism and imperialism. During the 1800's and early 1900's there was a severe foreign influence in China. During this time period the European nations wanted to trade with the Chinese, but the Chinese had no interest in the European products for at the time China was self sufficient. The European nations in order to keep from losing all of the money to the Chinese decide that they would start an Opium trade them. Against the wishes of the China, the European nations continued to sell the Opium to the Chinese. Finally war erupted because of this. The European nations were victorious in a series of Opium Wars against China. From these Opium Wars ...
- 86: Indonesia Crisis As An Example
- Indonesia s Crisis: The Lesson for China introductionIndonesia, as we have long predicted, is coming apart. This process has a great deal of relevance to China, whose army, like Indonesia s, was accustomed to making lots of money and now resents the fact that the good times are over. In both countries, making money became the basis for military loyalty to the regime, which in turn needed the army as guarantor. But in China, as in Indonesia, the military is no longer making money, and China has banned its officers from business. Now Beijing is creating international tension to soak up the military s energy and resentment. But ...
- 87: Indonesia Crisis As An Example
- Indonesia’s Crisis: The Lesson for China introductionIndonesia, as we have long predicted, is coming apart. This process has a great deal of relevance to China, whose army, like Indonesia’s, was accustomed to making lots of money and now resents the fact that the good times are over. In both countries, making money became the basis for military loyalty to the regime, which in turn needed the army as guarantor. But in China, as in Indonesia, the military is no longer making money, and China has banned its officers from business. Now Beijing is creating international tension to soak up the military’s energy and resentment. But ...
- 88: Gateway To Heaven" - Tiananmen
- ... As I walked toward school, I listened to the distinctive chatter of my fellow civilians, smelled the exhaust fume filled air and listened to the bells and whistles of another pristine day. This was Beijing, China on another busy workday, no time to talk, money is to be made, there is always somewhere to go and some place to be. It seems that this is the ideology of all Chinese; as ... spend 5 years slaving away at a substandard job provided by the government, whose main emphasis of which is on the working class and how much money they can make for the economy to lift China into the Modern Western World. "Mei Ling, what are you doing?" yelled my best ‘pong yo’ I looked up in shock; I hadn’t realized that I was standing in front of my locker staring ... know?" "No, just tell me!" "Well, he died of a heart attack today." I froze: this man was one of my sister’s hero’s, he was an actual respectable Chinese dignitary, and he understood China’s need for change. I stumbled and replied, "Oh really? It must be all over the news, Ching Ching, I will probably hear about it later." With that, I slouched away looking like a ...
- 89: From Communism To Democracy
- From Communism to Democracy Gradualism is naturally the most feasible approach to any situation. Since the fall of the iron curtain, these two Communist power houses have chose to move towards democracy. China has chosen to take the natural, more gradual approach to democracy where as Russia has chosen the fast-paced, more dangerous approach. These two nations have chosen to change their economies from a collectivized command one to a market oriented one in order to increase the standard of living in their countries. As we have seen in recent years, China is booming and becoming more and more successful, while Russia seems like it is regressing back to parochial ways. It is impossible to compare anything but Russia and China's approaches to change, and the results that incurred. The two nations have vastly different economies and to compare one economy to another would be illogical. China and Russia's approach to change are ...
- 90: Families In China
- Families In China Although in the past the influence of the family in China was weakened due to Communist leaders, today it is the basic structure of Chinese society. The Chinese family has managed to survive the vast changes of the past quarter century. It still remains the basic social unit. China's population is extremely large, therefore it adopted the one - child - per - family policy( Ahmad,93). To enforce this policy the Government set up strict penalties and rewards. Families that insisted on having more ...
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