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Imperialism is the imposition of one way of life on another. One example of this occurred in China, where Britain, one of the world superpowers at the time, traded the addictive drug opium with the Chinese people. When China requested that they halt the trade, Britain refused and the Opium War ignited. Another example of imperialism took place in the Middle East where western powers, namely Russia and Britain, took control of Persian oil fields. Finally, the third example of imperialism took…

second-rate world; Australians also feared of Asian “invasion”. Australian aborigines contacted with Asian people long before the “official” discovery of the continent made by James Cook in 1770. Chinese and Japanese fishermen visited Australia in 15th century for trade and usage of local sources. British colonists did not support trade relations with Asia. The Empire made active moves to strengthen positions in the region. Most of its citizens treated Asia as a second-rate world because of…

Singapore is a multi-ethnic society with Chinese around 77%, Indian around 6%, Malay around 15% and expatriates around 2%. Business in Singapore is formal and strict rules of protocol are generally observed. The group (company or department) is viewed as more important than the individual. People observe a strict chain of command, which comes with expectations on both sides. In order to keep others from losing face, much communication will be non-verbal and you must closely watch the facial…

Moreover, due to the scarcity of resources every nation has to prioritize some policies at the expense of others. In this paragraph, I will compare the elements of US grand strategy to the components of Chinese grand strategy. The elements of the US grand strategy has been changing and evolving over time. Paul Miller argues that there are five pillars of the modern American grand strategy: defending the homeland, maintaining the balance of power, punishing…

In the Ming period, Persian began to disappear due to the introduction of using Chinese to create an Islamic syllabus called the Han Kitab. Han Kitab synthesized Islam and Confucianism, believing that Islam could be understood through the scope of Confucianism. Even though Arabic was widely used, the Chinese Muslims still used many Persian words in their vocabulary. The rise of the Han Kitab Islamic syllabus in Chinese and the revival of Arabic studies in China in the late 18th century helped…

and Britain where British goods were being brought into India in various forms ranging from the typewriter to the bicycle. It is no wonder that many Indian activists feared and fought modernity in India since it was seen as an expansion of British rule (Arnold, 32). They saw British goods providing little to no improvement in their standard of living while maintain oppression through destroying their cultures and local industries. Technology did much more than just expand British control, It…

origin of the term “Silk Road.” The first to coin this phrase was a German geographer, Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen. Many students throughout the years learn of the Silk Road as a single route from Rome to China, exchanging goods, especially the Chinese silk. This is, however, is a false narrative and extremely limiting definition of the trading network, itself. The Silk Road transport was more than just objects, as well as, more than China. Some scholars have argued recently for a complete…

These include: Better economics, healthier lifestyle and peace. In China, the bigger and wealthier cities (Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong) have many pull factors which attacks Chinese internal migrants. The majority of the internal migrants are the Chinese farmers who were displaced and how to find a place to work, so they immigrated into the city with the most pull factors. These people are called migrant laborers. The migrant workers move from the rural areas of…

At present, Chinese NGOs are involved in many fields of work related to social development. According to a report by Professor Wang Ming of Tsinghua University, we can see that NGOs are active mainly in: social services (45%), survey and research (43%), industrial associations’ and societies’ work (40%), legal counseling and service (25%), policy consulting (22%) and poverty reduction (21%). 2.2 Hong Kong Hong Kong is on the eastern side of the Pearl River Delta on the southeastern…

The 1960 British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan once gave a speech in South Africa known as “The Wind of Change Speech”. Macmillan said, "The wind of change is blowing through this continent, and whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact. We must all accept it as a fact, and our national policies must take account of it” (Baker 179). Macmillan was reinforcing that decolonization is taking place in Africa. Most of the European powers had African…