Education in the People's Republic of China

Shanghai, China Shanghai is located on the central coast of China. It is the country’s biggest city and a global financial hub. The heart of the city is the Bund, a popular waterfront promenade that is lined with colonial-era buildings. When you take a look across the Huangpu River you can see the fantastic futuristic skyline rising high into the sky in the Pudong district. The city also has many green spaces for rest and relaxation. A most symbolic part of the city is the Bund which at one…

made out of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal and has a blackish color. Gunpowder is the first explosive ever invented that was physical in the world. It is considered as one of China’s four greatest inventions. Gunpowder played a significant role in China and warfare throughout the world. Gunpowder was made by Chinese alchemists. According to an internet source, the Chinese alchemists were trying to discover a potion for immortality. Instead, they ended up with an explosive, which became…

Tibet, he tried hard to come up with methods to improve the relationship between the leaders in Beijing and Tibetans when Deng came to power, such as reestablish relations with Dalai Lama by achieving this in late 1978 when Deng became the leader of China . But this is not enough to reduce the hostilities and contradiction of Tibetan minority towards the Han majority stemmed from the cultural revolution in which Red guards and collectivization destroy Tibetan culture and Tibetan got bloody…

Part 2 Own Culture- Chinese Culture A1 .Social Customs Social Norm There are several social norms of the Chinese people that they follow, which are table manners, respect for old people or senior citizen, greeting elderly, and polite when talking with anyone, and so on. In the Chinese culture, table manner are very important. When you’re dining out, you should not make noise or talk too loud, it is very impolite in Chinese culture. Furthermore, when the food arrives on the table, you are…

Geoffrey Benjamin says “In order to demonstrate the distinctiveness of each of the four cultures their differences have to be heightened, their similarities underplayed, and expressive forms have to be developed to display their separate-but-equal status” (Benjamin, 1976). Even though his article was written in 1976, just 11 years after Singapore’s independence, I think that his view still holds to a large extent in relation to the Singaporean society today. Firstly, historically being a…

building strong links with China’s peasantry. Whilst based in the peasant province of Jiangxi, he forged strong links with 3 million peasants, who responded well to Mao's focused, peasant-based revolutionary programme during the period of his “Socialist Republic”. During the Long March to Yenan, he had a large influence among the peasant communities he met during the 6000 mile trek . It was the success of these peasant-based social programmes that Mao was rapidly able to rise to a position of…

Chinese strategic culture It is very hard to define the meaning of strategic culture. According to Andrew Scobell, it is a persistent system of values held in common by the leaders or group of leaders of a state concerning the use of military force (Scobell 1999). Strategic culture consists of common beliefs, cultural assumptions, and behavior of individuals, based on shared experience and collective identification of a group’s relationship (Delios and Henisz, 2003). Research by Nisbett…

Seemingly this approach originates from China as Feng Shui is a Chinese system/belief. In order to answer the thesis statement thoroughly sub questions had been formulated. The sub questions are: “How did Feng Shui came to existence?” This subquestion will provide the information to answer the…

ruled China under a Communist form of government. Throughout Mao’s reign, a number disasterous military, economic, and social endeavors should have buried him politically. Some of these endeavors include China’s involvement in the Korean War, the Great Leap Forward, division of the Communist party, and relations with the Soviet Union and the United States. However, his popularity and role as the ultimate leader kept Mao in power, so much so as to spark the Cultural Revolution that left China in…

It seemed that the locals were upset by a big American corporation extracting profits from a their market. In the year 2000, when Starbucks first opened its doors in both American and China, Big Macs were sold in Beijing and Boston, but as Yan Yunxiang has argued, "the experiences of eating them and even the meaning of going to McDonalds in these two locales was very different in the 1990s" page 21. In Beijing, a Big Mac was viewed as…