Education in the People's Republic of China

China is experiencing a remarkable religious renaissance that includes dark ages during Mao Zedong period, and revival and also reform in many traditional forms (Madsen 2011, p. 18). Religions not only in terms of organizations and conflicts, but also individual belief and convictions shaped the many of transformation of the history with continuous influence on society for the past few centuries (Dubois 2011, p. 1). Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Legalism have major impact in Asian society,…

pyrite, quartz, tourmaline, mica, limestone and so on. Xintai city Yang Liu Zhen yanlingguan are buried in the vicinity of the Archean period of komatiite, is recognized by the world around Tibet.（2）water resource：The average surface water resources in China is 460 million cubic meters, the development and utilization rate is 30%., the amount of groundwater resources is 280 million cubic meters, and the utilization rate of development is 80%.（3）Land resources： in mountainous, hilly, three basic…

K’ung Fu-tzu (Confucius) was a Chinese philosopher that was born in the 6th century B.C. (Bio). During his lifetime China was in complete disarray. The dynasty that ruled at the time (Zhou Dynasty) was overtaken with states fighting against each other (China Highlights). The morale of the country was at an all-time low. However, along came Confucius and, with his teachings, helped transform an entire country with his beliefs. His message helped restore harmony and stability to a country that…

local retailer Alibaba. “U.S. retailer Costco Wholesale Corp plans to open an online store in China using Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's fast-growing Tmall online marketplace, entering the country's booming e-commerce market to combat slowing sales at home (Ramakrishnan, 2014).” The organization will also have to focus on getting representative offices established. The representative office established in China will effectively act as a liaison office for Costco Wholesale; ensuring operations…

Since Ai Weiwei’s birth in 1957, his complete life story has sculpted him into the profound artist and social activist that he is today. After his father, a well known poet, was exiled during the anti-rightist campaign, Ai spent his first years in a labor camp. The circumstances of his childhood instilled a voice inside of Ai that would later invigorate his art. Ai explains the conditions of his children as having “no personal rights, no freedom of speech or expression” (Weiwei, 2008). Ai came…

China in the later half of the first millennium during the 8th and 9th centuries experienced a tremendous growth in land during the Tang dynasty. This came with a great cost of supplies, money and people, almost all the burden of which fell onto the poor. Many poets during this time wrote on the duality of China's expansion from both positive and negative viewpoints. While China's constant wars hardly, if at all, affected nobles, they drained the poor almost to the point of bringing China's…

subject that has influenced me the most is AP Environmental Science (APES). The class focuses on the world we live in and explains how people’s actions can either harm or benefit the environment. With each chapter, the teacher provided real world examples,along with important analysis, to describe how humans affect their own ecosystems. Such an example is how China continues to deplete the world's resources and how there are many different types of sustainable ways to get energy through which I…

We tend to generalize tourism as an international industry specialize on their host country as a whole. For example, when we think about people going to Rio de Janeiro, we always picture international people going and that these tourists are enhancing tourism in the whole country. While this is true, what most people tend to forget it that Rio also receives every year a huge amount of domestic tourists. That is not an isolate “phenomenon”, countries benefit a lot from domestic tourism, just as…

Canada and Mexico and the state of Alaska is in the northwestern part of North America and the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. On the half-way of the world, Vietnam is located in the South East Asian, the country is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest. Each nation has its own advantages for developing economy, while the United States has the advantages for developing economy in every part, Vietnam has the advantages for…

Safe Spot Again, I'm sitting in the same Chinese Restaurant for the third time this week, supposedly the first ranking Chinese restaurant in my city. The worn out Chinese red decorations hang unbalanced on the entrance door, as always. In freshmen year, a Chinese student invited me to a Chinese meeting spot, where we spoke in Mandarin. Our interests and complaints were all similar. I began to think that it was a safe corner for me. Preferring to be with people of a common culture and language…