Essays on Qing

It was in 1839 when England and China went to war. The British were upset because the Chinese authorities closed its drug trafficking racket and shut down the country’s dope. The Qing Dynasty which was established by the Manchurians back in 1644, made the borders of China bigger and even reached Taiwan, Tibet, and Uighur Empire. However the Qing Dynasty refused the Western ambassadors because they could not accept the Qing Dynasty as its superior. Foreigners and trade ships were not allowed to enter China except in Canton. Foreigners could trade their goods in Guangzhou in exchange for ...

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Introduction China is home to the most ancient and enduring human civilization. This civilization flourished for thousands of years and have survived through many succession of rulers and dynasties. The study of China’s civilization is important in order to understand China’s contemporary society. Chinese civilization can be categorized into three broad historical periods: ancient China, Imperial China and modern China. These periods, however, only serves as an imaginary partition in order to identify a certain time in the history of China. But in reality, Chinese civilization is continuous and was never interrupted even through there ...

Britain took Hong Kong as a 99-year lease from the Chinese authorities through a treaty in 1898. This happened at a time when China’s Qing dynasty was at its weakest after the first Sino-Japanese war of 1895 and 1895. Thus, Britain presented the Convention for the Extension of the Hong Kong Territory as a means of gaining a strategic trading post that could give Britain power to operate within the Asia-Pacific region. The lease ended on 1st July, 1997 and Britain handed Hong Kong back to China. As of 1997, there was a completely different China from Qing ...

The Museum of Asian art in San Francisco is one of the must-see museums in the town. It is situated quite near to the Civic center and more than eighteen thousand pieces of fine art are exposed permanently in the arranged collections. Some of the exhibited articles are about six thousand years old. The arts and objects are collected from the entire Asian continent. Entering the museum, visitors can enjoy beautiful objects as paintings, furniture, sculptures, armor and textiles, and also there are represented objects from China, India, Turkey, the Philippines and Japan showing the culture of these countries ...

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The case of Taj Mahal and its popularity as the most recognized work of art is also explainable through this context. Taj Mahal is widely recognized as a symbol of love. The emperor Shah Jahan constructed this Tomb (Mausoleum) in memory of his late wife Mumtaz Mahal who died while giving birth to their 14th child. But unlike the Great Wall of China or the Pyramids of Egypt that too is overloaded with stories of griefs (such as the death of Pharaohs and thousands of slaves) there is something about Taj Mahal that makes it more appealing than everything ...

The modern world is changing up so quickly, and getting connected with a really crucial speed. One of such sufficient processes is globalization. Globalization in simple terms is usually known as the process during which the world is transformed into a single unified system. At the end of the last century, globalization has become a hot topic for debates all around the world and it has not yet stopped. However, globalization is not a new process, since it implies the integration of the economic, cultural, political and religious spheres. Today globalization caused both positive and negative consequences and this ...

It is an interesting aspect of history and that prior to the 16th century Europe and its various nations were merely a barbaric and insignificant periphery on the world stage. Great Asian powers dominated most of the known world, both militarily and economically. Following Columbus’s voyage in 1492, Europe slowly shifted to become the geographic, economic and military center of the entire world. In no small part due to its superior ships and superior seamanship, Europe was able to use its newfound capabilities to tap into the riches to be gained from both the New World and Asia. ...

The economy of China occupies the first place in the economies in the world by the nominal GDP, the first by GDP at the purchasing power parity (from 2014). The paper deals with the aim to consider the Chinese modernizing process and economy and to identify the main stages of evolution of the ideas of modernization. This research topic is very interesting, firstly, because of the rapid and successful development of China on the world stage (Songhua). Economic modernization process, acting as the main force of the growing in the sphere of economy and progress of the state is ...

The Ming dynasty in the 1600s made considerable and deliberate efforts in a bid to ensure that its regions remain under one ruler. A Buddhist monk who was also a peasant found the dynasty, rose to the rank of an army general and led a rebellion against the Mongols. The monk assumed the name of Hong Wu and made the decision to have Nanjing as the capital of China, but a latter emperor of the dynasty moved the capital back to Beijing. One of the major roles that Hong Wu assumed as the emperor include reorganizing every aspect of ...

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The works that the Chinese created since the Qing Dynasty marked the essence of its iconography. It gave the Chinese artists a specific place and space in world art, as they rendered subjects, materials and objects in a particular detail, and composition. The Qing Dynasty also gave rise to the portrayal of the Taoye tu that was commissioned by the Emperor Qianlong. The artwork particularly emphasized the manufacturing of the porcelain objects, but it emphasized the illustrations that were portrayed as “sequential viewed sets,” thus, it created a set of ordered visual illustrations. In light of this, it would ...

Comparison between the West vintage and Chinese vintage

The term vintage describes the most outstanding features from the past models. It is trying to outline the values and quality of the items of the past with the behavior of culture of that time. Vintage clothes are those that were produced and worn in the period after the year 1920 to the present day. To fully understand vintage, one should study the past lives of people and their contributions to the type of wear that time. Vintages contribute a lot to the kind of the present cloth designs or fashion, and therefore, it should be understood that the ...

The Opium Wars and Taiping Rebellion shook Qing China. Two armed conflicts between China and the states of West, known as the "Opium Wars" (1839-1842 and 1858-1860), led to a terrible Chinese national disgrace, completely loss of political independence and the separation of China to zones of influence between foreign powers. At first, the casus belli was closure of the vast China market for countries of West. All the foreign states were forced to market only to certain Chinese companies situated at the port area in the Guangdong Province, without possibility of trade within the city, this caused artificial ...

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Decoration of the porcelain

The Chinese have created different styles, plans and systems of enhancing porcelain since their assembly. The porcelains went from family rice dishes to vessels utilized as a part of magnificent customs. The Cloisonné was first not well known to local people as it was considered to have no taste and disgusting. As time advanced, the Chinese started to like the Cloisonné and it developed to be extremely well known, it was portrayed by glossy, enhancements, which were multi shaded, it was embraced for use in the sanctuary and royal residences. Metal vessels were utilized to deliver The Cloisonné ...

The imperial rule in China was a proclamation from the leaders, who wanted to establish good trade relationship with the foreign nations like the Great Britain and India. During the reign of emperor leadership of Qing officials, there was relevantly true that the dynasty was in unstable position. In retrospect, the Qing dynasty was the last imperial reign of China that existed for almost three centuries (Da-dui 2). The links that China established with India and Britain was quite lucrative with these nations, thereby making them more attached to it. This is what led to the feeling of maintaining ...

The story “The Jest that leads to disaster” is a Chinese short story that addresses the ways in which people make jokes and the dire impact that these jokes can have on people’s lives. These jokes can leads to a number of disasters. The persons who have made the jokes or who are the recipients of these jokes are often left to face these deadly consequences. This stems from the Huaben or Huapen genre which is a reflection of the Chinese narrative type that features a short and a long story within one story. But, these two stories ...

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For quite some time, the Western world had treated China as a minion. The relations between the West and China were frosty and that was attributable to the fact that western nations imposed reforms that they thought would work in China. However, the situation changed when Mr. Anson Burlingame was appointed head of Chinese delegation to the West. He made a passionate speech to the president, and his efforts were rewarded when he signed the first equal treaty between the West and China. In Mr. Burlingame’s speech, he said that no Empire had developed than that of China. ...

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China could have remained peaceful were it not for a group of revolutionaries who are located in the southern China. This group led a successful revolt against the Qing Dynasty in 1911. Their purpose was to end the imperial system that existed in China by establishing the Republic of China. The two Opium wars which were focused on the Western powers incurred a great loss to China. It was due to these wars that China lost Hong Kong. This played a key role to the 1949 revolution. This paper discusses elements of the Communists’ view of the revolution, identity ...

Spring in a Small Town is a Chinese film directed by Fei Mu in 1948, right after the Second World War. The marriage life of the main film characters, Liyan Dai and Yuwen Zhou, has been affected by the disastrous war. This movie represents how their marriage life is further turbulent during the visit of Liyan’s friend Zhichen Zhang, who was once Yuwen’s past lover. Although spring was criticized during the Communist revolution for its petit-bourgeois decadence, researchers find that many Confucian principles are embedded in this film. For instance, in the drinking scene at the birthday ...

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Throughout history, women have had to struggle to make their voices heard in the public sphere. In many ancient societies, including China, patriarchy was the norm and women were forbidden to be a part of the outside world. Because of the influence of Confucianism and its strict social codes, women’s voices were silenced in history. However, this very social environment gave women a chance to express their feelings, often camouflaged, through poetry. As a result, Chinese literature has become a wonderful storehouse of women’s experiences during the rule of the Ming and Qing dynasties. This essay aims ...

During the 17th and the 18th centuries, social and economic changes earmarked a new era of openness to cultural variety and innovative thinking. Major steps and changes took place in literature, education, religion, and family status (p.258) The Korean dynasty experienced numerous cultural developments that focused on improving the status within the society. Literature activity flourished during this period. Both the Chinese men and the Korean women used poetry to pass the time. The Hangul (HAN-gul) alphabet was used in composing the poems. During this period, short tales and long novels were composed the Korean women or the classical ...

At the beginning of the 18th century, the Chinese people consumed Opium on an everyday basis mainly adding it into the cigarettes, and it took a long time till people understood that opium was very addictive. The demand increased with every purchase. Countries made huge amounts of money on opium trade, while many civilians died from addiction. Until 1839, opium was announced illegal in China, but later on, two very important wars were triggered over the drug. Wars have always been a symbol of unresolved issues, far from straightforward, and well worth pursuing to learn about the inconspicuous motives. ...

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Alibaba Group Holding Limited is the largest e-commerce company of China and one of the largest online business to business service providers in the world. The company started its operation in 1999 when Jack Ma started a web portal named Alibaba.com. This was a business to business portal to connect Chinese local manufacturers and suppliers with global buyers. The company currently accounts for about 80% of all online sales in China (Zhang). Alibaba has more than 350 million active users, which is more than the entire population in the United States (Zhang). Alibaba made the world record for maximum ...

Impact of Liu and Ning experiences as a result of the historical events and changes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries The historical events and changes that occurred in the late 19th and early 20th century influenced many people in China. By using Liu as the protagonist, Henrietta Harrison, in her book The Man Awakened from Dreams: One Man's Life in a North China Village highlights that the Confucianism ideals, education system, and Boxer Uprising had a great impact on Chinese people. Similarly, in her book, Ida Pruitt observes that the challenges women went through during the ...

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The Chinese urban planning is based on a long history that can be traced back from the Ming Dynasty. For several years, the place has been famous for its architectural style that continues to attract many people across the world. One of the landmarks of the ancient Chinese architecture within Beijing is the Forbidden City (Hongkui 8). The Forbidden City housed the traditional Chinese emperor and empress from the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty. The old city of Beijing was first erected during the Yuan Dynasty and developed during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The place boasts of ...

The BYDF3DM

Question 1 This model of the car is manufactured in China (Qing hua da xue 98). Question 2 The car was first marketed to the general public on March, 2010. Question 3 Cumulative sales of BYDF3DM in China approximated to 3,248 units throughout October, 2013 (Qing hua da xue 98). Question 4 The car has been sold in the United States and approximately 1462 units purchased. Question 5 The car uses hybrid electric power train Question 6 The car gets 300 miles per gallon Question 7 The approximate selling price of this car is US$28,800 The ...

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Leadership is imperative for the functioning of any organization. The quality of leadership plays a significant role in determining the fate of the workers as well as their organization. According to Mills (2005), a leader ought to be fully committed to his/her vision, subordinates, and the organization. In essence, the commitment demonstrated by the leaders makes the subordinates have trust in them and, thus, they work hard toward the realization of the organization goals and objectives. Effective leadership facilitates the success of the organization. Ali (2012) suggests that leaders have an impact on the organizational performance. Specifically, the leaders ...

‘Call to Arms’ book is excellent collection of short stories, written by Chinese author Lu Xun. The author, through his stories, tries to describe the cruel realities of traditional Chinese society. ‘Call to Arms’ stories were originally written during 1920s by Lu Xun in Chinese language. All stories of ‘Call to Arms’ were translated by Y. Hasien-yi and G. Yang and were published in year 1960 for the first time. The stories introduce readers to social, health care and other problems, existing in the China. The author tries to act as a social critic by depicting social problems of ...

The 1850s were marked by the crisis of the European colonialism is Asia related to the struggle for national independence, civil wars, military coups, popular uprisings. Primarily, the uprising in Java against the Dutch colonialists, Indian sepoys' uprising in 1857-1859 against British colonial rule and the Taiping peasant rebellion in China in 1850-1864, which took at least 20-30 million lives and led to the Second Opium War. Numerous mass protests in the peripheral countries showed a deep economic and socio-political crisis of the colonial government. As to “The Opening to Japan”, it was held without the Europeans' participation. Moreover, ...

Question 1: Rivalries

Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping were all leaders in the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Prior to 1949 everyone generally followed Mao’s lead in setting policy. But Liu and Deng began to resist Mao’s ideas and power following the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. Whereas Mao believed that the CCP and government should remain focused on revolutionary agitation, public mobilization, collectivization and leadership appeal to advance the country; Liu and Deng believed that the country’s focus should be less on the personality of the leaders and revolution and ...

The treatise "Sun Tzu", the authorship of which, according to general belief, belongs to the famous military commander Sun Wu, has long been revered in China as the chief military canon. The title of "canonical" means, among other things, that the book is intended for not easy and superficial reading, but slow and in-depth, for memorization, almost soaking it in oneself to the last word. For "canon" in China - as in every cultural tradition - it is ultimately nothing else than a literary image of the infinite diversity of the creative abundance of life itself. It does not contain ...

Textbooks are an introduction to fundamental knowledge; they change over time because more knowledge is discovered. The discovered knowledge builds and clarifies existing or assumed facts. In other circumstances, new knowledge can discredit old knowledge. Revisions made to textbooks also alter the information in the books. The alterations also seek to add more information the existing knowledge. The Fairbank text differs from the Hevia text in terms of their argumentative approach. Fairmont chooses to explore the Qing rule from the methods applied by the Manchu in their reign; Hevia approaches the issues from the powers centers that Manchu created ...

Introduction

Journalism is a field that can have many faces. One may even go as far as saying that this industry is the best one when it comes to making perfect disguise. Throughout history, it can be attested that journalism and political science has been merged, perhaps subconsciously by the people working in these fields. In modern day politics, for example, a stage where democracy appears to be the dominant player, as evidenced by the fact that the number of counties that are based on a democratic and liberal type of government is far larger than those that are based on monarchy and ...