Chinese thought

Chapter 5.3- Democracy and Greece’s Golden Age Pericles’ Plan for Athens: Pericles, a general, politician, and speaker, led Athens for the most part of its Golden Age. His goals were to strengthen Athenian democracy, hold and strengthen the empire, and glorify Athens. Pericles increased public officials who were paid salaries in order to achieve his first goal. During his rule, Pericles introduced direct democracy to Athens. To strengthen the Athenian empire, Athens needed a stronger navy.…

national boundaries. For example, to mark the handover of Hong Kong to China, he created "United Nations: Hong Kong Monument: The Historical Clash," which consisted of a Chinese hair Flag, a Union Jack of British hair, and hair threads from Hong Kong scattered on the floor, which is installed in 14 country. His chain of thoughts mostly starts from the hammurabi tablet that inscribed with the code of law in the 18 century and the ancient Chinese’s way to record history and embracing it. He…

poetry and chinese. I found his presentation interesting, and intriguing because of the passion he carried throughout his presentation. I could tell he could've gone on for hours on end presenting all of his knowledge, he jumped around quickly in his presentation trying to give everyone as much information in the short time he had. Arthur started by showing the group some chinese letters, and describing how the chinese write. There are 214 Chinese radicals, which is the term chinese use…

Entry Type: Academic Focus SLO: Reflective Communicator Artifact Description: Mandarin Padlet Assignments In my Mandarin class Ms.Wang will give us a word in Chinese and we have to learn how to use correctly in a sentence. Recently we learn the word 错(cuo). We have to write three sentences using that word but we have to use a verb before cuo. Before writing sentences using the new word we learned she will give us a sentences and we have to guess what the word means in English first.…

democratic thinking which is the basis of the West’s emphasis on economic development to improve citizens’ life. While Chinese ideology during this time was highly conservative, limiting their ability to improve Chinese innovations during this time and their ability to participate in a competitive world. In contrast to Western thinking, the Chinese have a widely divergent train of thought…

Confucianism played a significant role in shaping the political and social structure of the traditional Chinese society of the imperial period of Chinese history. It is not easy to define Confucianism because there are noticeable differences and sometimes contradictions among the phases of Confucianism. Rather than to say Confucianism arose unexpectedly, it arose in response to the status quo of society. At different periods of time, Confucianism established relative order, unified the minds of…

themselves to create a harmonious society. The second one delves deeper into the influence of Chinese political and cultural guidance in early Japan. These influences were so vast that they almost paralleled the han Dynasty and borrowed from later Dynasties however this does not mean they did not also fuse Chinese thought with their own beliefs. These changes meant that although they assimilated chinese culture with theirs it became a unique meld. The last was about Nara Buddhism, which was made…

‘When the Chinese prepare a meal, they always have a Yin-Yang point of view. If a dish or two is heaty, Yang, there is always another dish that is cooling, Yin, to complement it and to maintain a Yin and Yang balance,’ said my friend’s mom whom I have interviewed about her perception on the idea of Yin and Yang. In my friend’s point of view, 'Yang is male and Yin is his counterpart. This may be arguable for the minority but it is true for most people’. ‘Yin represents the winter, the cold,…

contradicting Chinese community. Deeply rooted to have solitary life. In the Chinese culture majority members of the community are related by bloodline or marriage. Chinese families take honor and pride in their lifestyle and find strength in family ties. The traditional Chinese culture beliefs are for the wife to join her husband’s family to form unity. The common goal was the survival of the family name and honor. The narrator is sharing a tale told to her defining a historic Chinese cultural…

break a negotiation in an instant. As the article entitled, "Scaling the Great Wall: The Yin and Yang of Resolving Business Conflict in China  states, as Americans with aspirations of obtaining a piece of the Chinese-market pie, we must invest the time to understand the sources of Chinese culture and not just the culture itself. Because…