Communist state

Inopportune: Stage One is a famous artwork created in 2004 by the contemporary artist, who is known for using gunpowder and explosives in his artwork, named Cai Guo-Qiang. It can be viewed at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, Massachusetts. It consists of nine white Ford Tauruses hanging vertically in a large rotunda. Each of the nine white Ford Tauruses is being pierced with numerous neon flashing light tubes. The nine white American cars are placed so that it seems that cars are…

Submitted by- Imran Ahmad Khan Sun tzu and The Art of Business Approximately two millennia ago the famous Chinese general Sun Tzu wrote the classic work on military strategy, The Art of War. In the modern world, it has now been established that Sun Tzu's strategic principles can be applied to twenty-first century business. Interestingly, it was suggested to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to have an in-flight reading of Sun Tzu’s classic en route to China, The Art of War, the book which Chinese…

Is Karl Marx theory of class conflict relevant for understanding contemporary Chinese society? Since China started the economic reform in 1978, Chinese economic influences and power are stronger than before. But in the meanwhile PRC/CPC governors also felt the great anxiety about rapid change of society structures. The major reason was after the reform, China is not simply made by labor and farmer classes, but more and more people getting wealthy and joined bourgeoisie class. That challenges the…

“Je suis Je” or Let Me Be Myself: six thoughts for the elites of the 21st century to ponder about First time I heard about the elite theory in my class on Foreign Political Thought while doing my graduate studies in China. Even though Moska’s book “Elements of Political Science” had its drawbacks, it surprised me that I was introduced to this theory in China rather than in my, what I thought “far more democratic country”. It got me thinking about my country, the EU, the Northern America and…

represents falsehood, as the speaker recognizes that the gilded reality that the Communist Party conjures is based upon lies. Moreover, the "drifting shadows of the dead" reflect the speaker's bitter tone and stir resentment in the…

to fully understand China, western countries as a whole, must assimilate ourselves into their culture and customs to understand they are not a nation state but a civilization state. The western countries and China have different perspectives on several pressing issues. One of the reasons for their differences in opinion is because the United States has difficulties seeing the difference between our nation and China.…

the following questions in her piece: how did each of these peoples [Han and Rome] redefine political authority to suit a new level of world mastery, and what do their views of imperial authority tell us about the ways in which they understood the state and its power? The answers are simple, the people needed to be told how to think. Using the military, they kept the citizens in fear and made it easier to get whatever they needed done, done. Both Han…

change that the government leaders (the Emperor, the President, or the Chief Executive) of the state no longer enjoy the superior status. In ancient China, the powers of the emperors come from the ‘Heaven of Mandate’, as mentioned in the chapters. That is to say, they are with the support of the Chinese gods. When the quality of the emperor greatly falls, and loses the ability to maintain the balance of the state; people could rebel and establish a new government. In modern Chinese society,…

I would rather live in rural china described in Sandalwood Death than in Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China because of my likelier chances of survival. In Thaxton’s work, China undergoes attempts at changing economic and political structures within the country. Politically, the CCP now controls the country’s central government and forces its’ citizens to follow the rules and laws and rules they set forth. One hotly controversial rule was the amount of grain the government can procure.…

Comparative paragraph – the two long journeys The two greatest leaders, Hannibal Barca and Mao Zedong, both made the remarkable journey. The first one, Hannibal Barca, was born in 247 B.C. He grew up to be a bold and fearless warrior like his father, who was a general in the army. He decided to march about 2,415 kilometers across the Pyrenees and the Alps. Incredibly, he led the army of about 90,000 men and 37 elephants by walking around 16 kilometers a day for 5 months. Their five-month journey…