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Crash Course In History Notes

Crash Course Video Notes: 9/16/2014 Jeremy Tetreault 21 Columbus, de Gama, and Zheng He! 15[th] Century Mariners. Crash Course: World History #21 * Zheng He (China): + Greatest Admiral in Chinese history. + He was a Muslim. + 1405-1433 Zheng He, led 7 voyages through the Indian ...

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Hong Kong Transferring Hands

When one look’s at Hong Kong there are many of questions that come to mind. How is China going to respond to citizens of Hong Kong holding protests? Will Hong Kong’s citizens be taken back by their lose of rights? Or will this more liberal form of government led the rest of China into a more ...

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One Thousand Years Of Chinese Footbinding: Its Origins, Popularity And Demise

One Thousand Years of Chinese Footbinding: Its Origins, Popularity and In addressing the subject of footbinding, one primary difficulty becomes apparent - that much remains within the realm of the unknowable. Any factual knowledge about the practice may only be drawn from 19th- and 20th-century ...

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Three Gorges Dam

This report examines the Three Gorge dam project and its impacts on the environment, the people it will effect and measures that can be taken as an alternative to the dam. I will discuss the Chinese government's reasoning for constructing the dam and the negative aspects of such a construction. ...

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Asia 2

Asia, largest of the earth's seven continents. With outlying islands, it covers an estimated 44,936,000 sq km (17,350,000 sq mi), or about one-third of the world's total land area. Asia has more than 3.2 billion inhabitants. Its peoples account for three-fifths of the world's population. Lying ...

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Shih Huang Ti

In the year 221 B.C.E., there was a great ruler over the Ch’in kingdom in China, named . 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 ...

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Shih Huang Ti

In the year 221 B.C.E., there was a great ruler over the Ch’in kingdom in China, named . 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 ...

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About Funerals and the Influence of Traditional Ideas of Death

About Funerals and the Influence of Traditional Ideas of Death By Shine Sapphire Abstract: Different countries have different funeral customs, which will reflect the values of a nation. Typically, Chinese and western people hold two different ideas about death that are embodied in their ...

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Chinese Foot Binding

The ancient Chinese custom of footbinding caused severe life-long suffering for the Chinese women involved. When researching the subject of footbinding, one of the difficult things is finding factual knowledge written before the 20th century. Most of the historical data has been gathered from ...

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Confucianism And Christianity

Philosophy of Religion The premise of Confucian teachings are centered around the idea of Jen or the ³virtue of humanity (Ching 68).² To accomplish this divinity, five relationships must be honored: ruler and minister, father and son, husband and wife, elder and younger brother, and friend and ...

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Mao’s Last Dancer

Mao’s Last Dancer Li had no way out of his tough times. He was born into a large broke family. Li lived in the Li Commune, a poor village near the city of Qingdao in the Shandon province. When Chinese officials visit his village in search of potential ballet dancers to attend the Beijing Dance ...

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Japanese Arts

This chapter discusses the arts of Japan from the Jomon culture of 3000 B.C. through the Western influences of the late 19th century with emphasis on architecture. It chronicles the history of garden design, sculpture, painting, and printmaking in addition to architecture. In the architecture of ...

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Immigration Into Canada

Abstract This paper is concerned with the recent wave of Hong Kong immigrants into Vancouver. The stage is set for this discussion by first explaining some background behind Canadian immigration policy and then discussing the history of Chinese immigrants in Vancouver. From these discussions we ...

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The Avant-Garde Architecture O

The Chinese-American architect Ieoh Ming Pei (I.M) is known as one of the greatest architects of the Twentieth Century. His long, brilliant career was highlighted by several internationally famous structures. While many of Pei’s buildings were generally accepted by the public, some of them ...

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Chinese Pottery

The earliest of which we have any records is the Neolithic ware from the river plains and loess highlands of north and north-west China. It was made between 5000 and 2000 B.C. and contains bowls, jars, pots and beakers of low-fires earthenware. This pots were not turned on a wheel but were buildt ...

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Islamic Ceramics/Pottery

Islamic ceramics/pottery go back to approximately 622. Historical evidence of early Islamic pottery is extremely shady and believed little of what might have survived is not worth finding or possible. Unknown reason point to a lot of medieval potteries disappearance unlike tiles which safe due to ...

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Filial Piety

  I The Scope and Meaning of the Treatise (Once), when Zhong Ni1 was unoccupied, and his disciple Zeng2 was sitting by in attendance on him, the Master said, "The ancient kings had a perfect virtue and all-embracing rule of conduct, through which they were in accord with all under heaven. ...

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Filial Piety

I The Scope and Meaning of the Treatise (Once), when Zhong Ni1 was unoccupied, and his disciple Zeng2 was sitting by in attendance on him, the Master said, "The ancient kings had a perfect virtue and all-embracing rule of conduct, through which they were in accord with all under heaven. By the ...

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