Chinese History Essay

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    the twenty-first century B.C.- humans inhabited the regions around the Yellow River and the Yangtze River in central China. As the time advanced, the Chinese population, culture, and beliefs evolved into a society. Then, in 1949- merely sixty-nine years ago- the country of China was officially established. However, the culture developed by the Chinese people had long been created; the beliefs of their culture had been established within their lives, well before China had even been founded. Some…

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    Canadian is a multicultural and cosmopolitan country. Chinese Canadian has a large population. They are the third largest ethnic group in Canada, approximately 1.5 million.4 The history of Chinese Canadian was complicated. The first Chinese landed in Canada from 200 years ago. At first, Chinese immigrants were unwelcome. They were isolated physically, socially and culturally from Canadian society. 1They were treated differently and unfairly compared to other ethnic groups. For example, while…

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    Pascal's Triangle Essay

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    Introduction I’m going to start this paper with introducing the history of Pascal’s Triangle, time ranging from 2nd century BC to 18th century AD. Among all the academic works by ancient mathematicians, I’m going to focus on Jiu Zhang Suan Shu [Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art] composed by Chinese scholars around 2nd century BC-10th century AD. I will use the binomial expansions derived from Pascal’s triangle as an example and then illustrate the coefficients expansion in general. After…

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    Buddhism Dbq Analysis

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    while others thought it was the greatest thing in Chinese history. The people in China respond in different ways to the Buddhism. While, some Chinese scholars praised and defended the belief because it offered comfort and justified sorrow (Doc 1 & 2). Confucian scholars sided with the emperor in rejecting the belief and saw it as barbarian cult that would hurt the Chinese society (Doc 4 & 6). Others tried to place Buddhism on the same level as Chinese philosophers in the hopes that all three…

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    appearances and relatively low intermarriage rates. They have intermarried with Han Chinese, and have similar appearances. They are less distinguishable from Han people, especially a growing number of ethnic minorities are fluent at a native level in Mandarin Chinese. In addition, children often adopt “ethnic minority status” at birth if one of their parents is an ethnic minority, even though their ancestry is overpowering Han Chinese. There are concentrated pockets of foreign residents and…

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    History Day Rough Draft California became a land of opportunity for Chinese immigrants who were driven out of their home country due to poverty and overpopulation. From the Gold Rush of 1849 to the building of the California railroad, more and more Chinese immigrants began taking Californian jobs, which resulted in white nativists who resented the Chinese. Because the Chinese immigrants brought along their customs and culture, they became more vulnerable to prejudice. The differences of…

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    Chinese Appellations

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    special titles of ancient history and only are used in the palace. Empresses in the Palace depict a story of ancient women in the palace where happened. There are many special appellations, which are different from foreign countries that don’t have the word than can express the same meaning. Therefore, the special appellations must be translated by using a variety of translation strategies. Table 1: culture-loaded words translation of appellations Appellations in the Chinese version Translations…

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    in views between cultures and counties throughout history. Each party will have their own version of what happened. In Peter Perdue’s China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central, Nationalist bias is exposed through the Russian and Chinese account of the eradication of the states of the nomadic Mongols in the eighteenth century. The Chinese’s views of Qing’s pursuit were not in a positive light. Nationalism was slowly captivated by the Chinese during the transition from post – modern, to…

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    “ Chinese cosmology pictured the heaven round and the earth as a stable cube. Space was conceived as a series of imprecated squares, at the center of which lay the capital of the empire strictly oriented toward the points of the compass. And in its center the palace commanded the main north- south axis, facing southward (as did all important buildings) in the direction of the Red phoenix of summer and fire. To the east was the region of the blue Dragon, of spring and growth and the upright tree.…

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    Chinese Americans After the Exclusion Acts in the United States Chinese immigrants coming to the United States faced many challenges due to not being naturalized citizens. The difficulties they faced included developing their own ethnic community, being denied equal rights to whites, and being placed into segregated communities. Since they were not considered citizens, they also did not have the right to vote, and own property. Asian immigrants went through many obstacles in order to obtain…

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