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Southeast Asia and Foreign Policy of China

borders between China and the other nations were subsequently determined, some as recent as the mid-1990s (Gancheng, 2003). The o...

The Dream of the Red Chamber and Gender

men have very similar qualities to one another and the women also share similar features but may be split between two prototypes a...

US Chinese Immigration During the Nineteenth Century

In seven pages this paper discusses the 'push and pull' issues pertaining to the immigration of Chinese to America. Six sources a...

Contemporary Chinese Poetry's Thematic and Linguistic Structure

Chinese poetry is replete with metaphor, simile, comparison, and personification as well with other linguistic contrivances which ...

Five Questions on Chinese Politics

situation. Yet another major point of contention had to do with the respective parties inability to come to terms on doctrinal aff...

Pearl Buck's Dragon Seed

"Dragon Seed" details the circumstances surrounding Japanese invasion and occupation of mainland China during World War II as they...

Chinese Cinematography and Women's Portrayals

in to the Japanese and be captured, however, eight of these women chose to drown in the Mulan River. One of the most...

Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Puritan Beliefs

a result Europe was not loner unified to the degree that had existed for almost one-thousand years. While Martin Luther would ina...

Harmony and Balance in Chinese Art Works

opposites."1 Art is perhaps the most obvious place that one can envision the true nature of this balance as presented by the Chine...

Hong Kong and Hip Hop

in its early days was solely the province of black youth, who took a combination of social comment, alienation and African roots t...

China's Gift Economy and Guanxi

to foreign investors. However, the country is still run by anti-capitalist leaders, and the way in which business is conducted in ...

Belief and Disbelief in an 'Accidental Century'

and the use of technology in the form of the atomic bomb laid waste to the concept of an egalitarian Utopia. The postwar world us...

A 1587 Chinese Emperor Recommendation

something about our vulnerability. It is also hoped that he Emperor will heed my warnings and take my advice on what should be don...

AI and the Chinese Room Experiment

of Chinese writing, but this time there is accompanying it a set of instructions in English which explain how to put the two sets ...

Reason and Religious Belief An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion by Michael L. Peterson

corporate, organized around a concept of ultimate reality" (9). The reality conjured by these beliefs, actions and experiences ca...

Egyptian and Chinese Art Compared

in the reigning powers influence over art. In addition, art was commonly used to glorify those in control at the time, a reality n...

Revolutionary Beliefs of Albert Einstein

moon. This was possible because, Einstein theorized, that the same laws that govern the physics of nature must be true of things...

Belief Formation and Induction

may base a belief. Those who most support induction as the framework for forming beliefs think of it as a logical process that inv...

One Child Policy in China

increasingly replaced by more coercive measures. By 1983, mandatory IUD insertions, abortions, and sterilizations were reported" (...

Color Symbolism

Color One author suggests that "It was to be expected that as primitive man developed the weaving art, the introduction of ...

Knowledge and Belief

is "claiming that they think that it is the truth" (Wikipedia). However, it may turn out that they were mistaken in their belief,...

Dorothea Orem and Florence Nightingale on Nursing Theories, Beliefs, and Values

prepared for this role" (McKenna, 1997, p. 87). Perhaps most significant of all was Florence Nightingales belief that env...

Freedom of Knowledge and the Courage of Learning

a violin that is found among their belongings. The headman condemns it as "a bourgeois toy" and commands that it be burnt (Sijie ...

Alleged Belief Conflict Between Christianity and Science

(Livingstone 52). This had some benefits for society in that in helped to remove superstition, prejudice and bias from the process...

Increasingly Secular World and Beliefs

these religious belief systems is very purposeful. Freud demonstrates this in his definition of the German term Weltanschauung, w...

The Time for Acupuncture

the skin (Kuhn, 2000). Then, the practitioner may flick, manipulate, or rotate the needles to achieve the desired effect (Kuhn, 20...

Healing and the Significance of Ritual and Belief

does not register the injury, then the pain is not perceived or at the very least, is not as severe. Pain is therefore subjective...

China's Modernity and the 'Crucible' of Shanghai

other areas of Shanghai are marked Chinese" (Goodman, 2004). Researchers have discovered that studying Shanghai in particular "sh...

Transformation of Modern China

essentially ripe for takeover so in 1644 the Manchus invaded and took Beijing. This was when the Qing dynasty, the last dynasty of...

Belief in God and Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard

when he has found what he sought, he wanders before every mans door with his song and with his oration, that all may admire the he...