Education in the People's Republic of China

are not inclined to answer directly. Money. The Chinese love money and talk about money. They truly believe in what the Chinese proverb says: “Money can buy a lot that is not even for sale”. Women. In the past women were always submissive to men in China, but the Communist Party freed them and announced equal to men. Now the old fights the new all the time in this regard, and the Chinese women want to get married and start family and also to get a successful career or business and make money of…

Together this combination of Neo-Daoism and Chan Buddhism put Confucianism on its heels and it became clear that changes had to be made if a Confucian revival was to be possible. The second interaction came when Neo-Daoism and Chan Buddhism’s increased popularity forced an intellectual reorganization of Confucianism that took place during the Song Dynasty (宋朝, 960-1279 A.D.). Thinkers like Zhu Xi (朱熹, 1130-1200 A.D.) refocused on the importance of self-cultivation to Confucian ethics while…

‘China and the United States are destined to be adversaries if China’s power grows.’ John J. Mearsheimer in his book ‘The Tragedy of Great Power Politics’ analyses this statement through and through using the lens of offensive realism. Mearsheimer uses his years of experience in the military to theorize about international politics. ‘He feels that international politics has always been a ruthless and dangerous business’. In this book he takes the cases of different great powers in history to…

Confucius was an influential Chinese philosopher that was responsible for the official ideology, Confucianism, of China. He wrote many books and one of them is called The Analects, which is believed to be written by his students. The Analects contains a collection of Confucius’ sayings and ideas. In this book, his teachings focused on creating ethical models of family and public interaction, and setting educational standards. In this book, readers can realize that Confucius had a good…

China went through several periods of turmoil and instability in the 20th century, among them the Great Leap Forward. Many books and articles have been written on this period. Among them is ‘Black Country to Red China: One girl’s story from war-torn England to Revolutionary China’ by Esther Cheo Ying, originally written in 1980. Esther Cheo Ying was born in China but raised in England, but returned to China in 1949 and stayed for 11 years (Vintage Books, n.d.). Set 30 years prior to 1980, her…

companies in the Chinese TV industry who has strong and powerful innovation teams. In 1998, it developed the first flat-screen TV in China. Additionally, based on TCL (2016), the partnership with the global appliance enterprise TCL is likely to improve the quality of Rowa’s products as TCL implements strict and higher standards.…

Case Study #3 – LVMH in China: Cracks Its Empire of Desire? Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH) is a leader in luxury products and the Chinese elite love to purchase the luxury products to flaunt their wealth and prestige. However, over the last few years, the Chinese customers have been traveling to France and other European countries to purchase their LVMH products in China are twice as expensive because the prices are lower in Europe and China has high luxury taxes and the euro is weak. With…

The relationships between intellectuals/students and the Chinese state have differed greatly starting from the Cultural Revolution to the Tiananmen Square Incident of 1989. During the Cultural Revolution, intellectuals and the Chinese state was disharmonious while the students’ relationship with the Chinese state was cooperative and harmonious. Intellectuals had the potential to poison the students’ minds with anti-revolutionary ideas and thoughts. The students were at the forefront of the…

years there has been there has been political strain psychologically between the United States and China. The Book Blah Blah by Peter Hayes Gries is a political Psychologist that has taken a deeper look into the relationship with China and the United States through a different lens. Gries is not a historian which allows him to use a different form of methodology to study the relationship between China and the United States. Gries uses applied social psychology to explore the topic further. The…

friend Luo get to read several books by many different authors. However, Dai chose to name his novel after the French Revolution era author, Honore de Balzac. The novel takes place during the Cultural Revolution; a mass campaign in the People's Republic of China, organized by the leader of the Communist Party, Mao Zedong, from 1966 to 1976. It directed against senior party officials and intellectuals whom Mao and his followers accused of betraying revolutionary ideals. When reading the…