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    that he sickens away and dies.” (80) This may be what is conveyed in the musical, but in real life the king died of malaria. The King and I isn’t a typical Broadway musical. King Mongkut hired Anna Leonowens to help with his modernization of Siam. There’s more to his modernization then what the musical talks about, and it has had a very positive effect on Siam. The King and I might look like any old show, but it is based on the real life events of a king modernizing his country for the better. Now, a closer look at the character of King Mongkut, or rather, the real man he was based on. King Mongkut was born on October 18, 1804 and died on October 15, 1868 in Bangkok, Siam. He was the forty-third son of King Rama II. The first of the Chakri kings of Siam, he was the king of Bangkok from 1851 to 1868. King Mongkut was a monk for twenty-seven years and his ruling reflected his belief in Buddhism (Kiti’ asa). He hired Anna Leonowens, along with other foreign tutors, to teach his children. King Mongkut helped modernize Siam, especially in its economy, trade, education, technology, businesses, and its science and mathematical knowledge. He wanted Siam to be on the same page as the West, he didn’t want Siam to be colonized by Europe (Suksod-Barger), and he no longer wanted Europe to think of Siam as savages. His modernization had a positive effect on Siam and its people. He was called many things including “the father of modern Thailand” (Starkwell) or “the father of Siamese…

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    and falls of power. Each fall and rise was typically due to an awful king, war, or chaos: and sometimes it was a product of all three. Egypt excelled in most things to build a powerful empire; government, trading, leadership and a strong sense of religion (or belief in gods). All of these qualities could either build or destroy an empire; in which Egypt experienced both. Egypt tremendously influenced the Chinese way of leadership in relation to the rise and fall type of dynasty. In early Egypt…

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    I selected the Power Figure (Nkisi Nkondi) from The Brooklyn Museum’s Collections: Art of Africa. It was difficult to narrow the choice to only one. Each piece had so many eye catching elements. Each piece had its own story to tell and teach us about its history. The Nkisi Nkondi demanded my attention by the aggressive stature and glaring eyes. To fully appreciate this piece we need to learn its history. The Power Figure also known as Nkisi (in-KEE-see) Nkondi (in-CON-dee) came from the Kongo…

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    Suzanna Blier’s Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba: Ife History, Power and Identity examines the creation and expression of sculptures and other arts in the ancient city of Ife. The novel provides an interesting lens into the early civilization’s culture by examining the often perplexingly technical sculptures that have intrigued historians for centuries. The first chapter specifically address Blier’s theory that the looming potential of different risks bolstered the quality and technical complexity…

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    The development of sculpture are closely associated the emergence of human society. It is the history of human identity recording the thoughts, culture, and aesthetic concept of the people at that age, also reflects the pursuit of one generation to another generation. Commemorative Portrait of a Chief (Lefem), an African wood sculpture from 19th to early 20th century, is a portrayal of one of the ruler of Bangwa chiefdoms . In contrast, The Marble Statue of a Youthful Hercules, a Roman marble…

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    civilians. The Han rulers modified some of the harsher aspects of the Zhao dynasty; Confucian ideals of government, out of favor during the Qin period, were adopted as the creed of the Han Empire, and Confucian scholars gained prominent status as the core of the civil…

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    His writing reveals a sense of being robbed by history. “The persona of the Man Awakened from Dreams grows out of the contradictions between Liu’s vision of himself as an educated man and potential government official and his actual situation (19).” He even “traced his ancestry back to Liu Zhiyuan, a tenth century emperor of the short-lived later Han dynasty (21).” The holder of a provincial degree, Liu watched with dismay as the countryside began to wither under the slow but relentless assault…

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    Confucianism In China

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    Qin Shihuang, the ruler of the Qin Dynasty, is revered as the first emperor of China. His quest for immortality is well known and eventually led to his death from mercury poisoning. In 1977 his vast tomb was discovered near Xi’an and is today one of the most visited sites in China, for he left a vast terracotta army to protect him in the afterlife that is today known as the Terracotta Army. He was so convinced of his immortality that he left no successor and his empire only lasted 4 years…

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    Throughout time, style and fashion changed in China. Apart from being political figures, emperors and empresses were the ones who took the initiative to set out trends and the ones to decide who was permitted to wear what. During the ages of the emperors, fine robes were a sign of rank, lifestyle, esthetics and good taste. What one wore said where one stood in society and who one was to be. Styles change from dynasty to dynasty and the history is imprinted in the clothing. Depending on one’s…

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    temporarily confiscated and was therefore forced to exile in Japan briefly in the early 1910s. Thus, the Sheng family was in dire need of an attention-grabbing event as a public declaration to reconfirm Sheng’s worthiness as the icon of the day. Employees of various enterprises founded by Sheng and students from the Nanyang College were invited to partake in the procession as a showcase of Sheng’s status as a harbinger of China’s industrial, transportation, banking, and educational…

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