Economy of the People's Republic of China

Legalism. Most aristocrats were ok with the rule of Legalism because it was all for force and power. All of the ideas led to cruel punishments for the Chinese farmers. Hanfeizi believed that the government needed to have cruller laws for everything. In China Legalism was a different perspective offered to create order. “Many aristocrats liked Legalism because it favored force and power, and did not require rulers to show kindness or understanding” (Spielvogel…

The Great Wall of Ancient China: Did the Benefits Outweigh the Costs? The Great Wall of Ancient China was first built by Emperor Qin because he wanted security and to protect cities and towns. However, the benefits of building The Great Wall of China did not outweigh the costs. According to Document B, there was no benefits for the costs on The Great Wall because they still had to pay tribute. Due to paying tribute, Document B, showed that when they were paying tribute the cost raised as the…

The Open Door Policy is a term in foreign affairs initially used to refer to the United States policy established in the late 19th century and the early 20th century, and dispatched to the major European powers. The policy planned to keep China open to trade with all countries, keeping any one power from total control of the country, and calling upon all powers, within their circles of power, to refrain from meddling with any treaty port or any bestowed interest, to permit Chinese authorities…

influenced America’s relationship with China. Because the Chinese were willing to work with low wages, they had become one of the key labor forces in the Central Pacific Railroad Company. At one point, Chinese labor increased to as many as 10,000 to 15,000, representing 90% of the workforce (Chang). To encourage more immigration from China, the American government negotiated a treaty which is now called the Burlingame Treaty with the nation. (Brinkley) The treaty gave China most-favored-nation…

Ideology in Anthem According to the Human Rights Watch, The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) is an unequalled source of human rights violations in the modern world. Lacking almost all basic freedoms, North Korea finds itself as the archetypal oppressive dictatorship. In Rand's novella Anthem, communist and socialist ideas present in North Korea are portrayed as fundamentally backwards and regressive. The ideologies that the Kim family has latched onto in order to justify…

Have you ever seen the Great Wall of China and wondered what it REALLY took to build such an amazing world wonder? Well, even though the Great Wall was designed by multiple dynasties to protect China from invading mongols thousands of years ago, it took more than just hard work and time to construct. The Great Wall of China’s costs can heavily outweigh the benefits of how it caused China to go hungry, out of debt, and how it costed the lives of many workers and peasants forced to build it.…

These Mongol military campaigns had a few positive effects on Eurasia, but overall the negatives far outweighed the benefits, because in the long run, the Mongols left nothing but destruction in their wake. By connecting Eurasia and unifying China, the Mongol’s positively impacted the Eurasian world. The Mongol empire…

proper education and equal opportunity based on racial identity. For example, the Chinese in Canada struggled for over 100 years before the country granted them equal rights such as voting. The early Chinese settlers could have benefitted the Canadian economy and society through higher education and learning the language Chinese Americans, and Chinese Canadians were treated very similar in their host country. For example, both…

that USSR was no longer fully reliable. The 1971 Ping-Pong Diplomacy can be viewed as the demonstration of a friendly gesture to America Facing the deteriorating relationship with the Soviets, China set aside their ideological differences and other issues, such as the Taiwan problem, agreeing on the Sino-American Rapprochement. For the next part of the essay, I will focus on the how various historians’ viewed the significance of Nixon’s speech and his trip. The orthodox historical analyst of…

Are Women in China Weak or Strong? For years, it has been debated, contemplated, and even tested on whether or not women in China were weak or strong. Women in China were advertised as the lesser gender with men far more superior to them. Yet, does that necessarily mean that women in China are weak just because they because they are advertised as so? There are facts supporting both opinions that Chinese women are weak and that Chinese women are strong, but I believe that upon further studying,…