From AD 1000 to AD 1600, China was united under the Song dynasty. The Song dynasty began in 960 and persisted until 1279. During this era, China became the first government in world history to nationally issue banknotes and was the first government in China to establish a permanent-standing navy. The Song dynasty is divided into two distinct periods, Northern and Southern. Following the Song dynasty was the Yuan dynasty, also known as the Great Yuan. This dynasty lasted from 1271 to 1368 and was…
the dramatic growth of Internet creates a great number of powerful companies and billionaires. To a great extent, Ma Yun is a legendary one of them in China, because of the significant growth of his company, Alibaba Group. Alibaba was founded in Hangzhou in 1999 (Alibaba-Group, 1999) and it is one of the largest platforms for online trade and business communication now. Alibaba is based on online platform and started in e-commerce B-to-B (Business to Business) model but it is Alibaba is no…
To meet customer demand, Riordan’s [pic]supply chain process must concentrate on inventory management process in the system to fulfill the orders requested (Chase, Jacobs and Aquilano, 2006,). Riordan currently tracks its inventory manually at many points in the supply chain. With the implementation of an integrated inventory management system Riordan would be able to improve cash flow, inventory visibility, and decision-making as well as manage all the resources utilized to meet customer…
Company Profile Alibaba is an e-commerce giant, the largest in world to be exact, with 80% of China’s marketplace and available internationally, making this company one of the top most valuable tech companies in the world, ahead of big names like Facebook, IBM, and Samsung (Profile). In April 4, 1999, Ma Yu, also known as Jack Ma, founded Alibaba, with a vision to serve a non-existed market at that time in China, Alibaba was created to help facilitate the connection between merchants and…
Born in Beijing in 1920 to a family of Song imperial descendant, Zao Wou-ki grew up in Dantu, Jiangsu Province and spent his childhood learning calligraphy and Chinese literati traditions. Zao’s father was an amateur painter and his grandfather a former naval gunner of the late Qing Dynasty and a devoted Daoist disciple. Since Zao was still a child, the Daoist thoughts, a theme that would permeate throughout his oeuvre, had been rooted in his mind when he just started exploring the world of art.…
The Sui and Tang Dynasty Legacies In 581 C.E, after centuries of great turmoil, China was finally reunited under one ruler. Founded by Yang Jian, the short-lived Sui dynasty not only made great advances but laid the foundation for the highly formidable Tang dynasty that followed in 618 C.E. These two dynasties have left China with a rich legacy of innovation, including papermaking, woodblock printing and the Grand Canal. This time was the height of Chinese imperialism and is considered by many…
friends for a book about all of his expeditions. In “The Travels of Marco Polo”, Polo writes, “The city is beyond dispute the finest and the noblest in the world” (Strayer 316). He was discussing the Chinese city of Kinsay, which is known as Hangzhou. Hangzhou participated in vast amounts of importing and exporting from India and other foreign places. There are so many people in the squares wanting to purchase and trade that many people did not believe there would be enough food for them. Polo’s…
Wu Guanzhong is a contemporary Chinese artist was born on August 29, 1919 and died on June 25, 2010. His works emphasize form and artistic conception through a combination of western and eastern aesthetics. In general, western art focuses on objective and established facts. However, eastern art pays more attention to mood. Wu shows both aspects in his work. Furthermore, Wu explored how to make oil paintings fit Chinese nationalization and the modernization of Chinese Painting. To answer these…
Everyone wants to be success, especially businessman. Any successful things can be attributed by getting a better way to do it. Innovation is the key to find out new methods of improvement. The core of entrepreneurial is innovation Based on the definition, entrepreneur is the person who sees an opportunity or gets an idea, would like to take advantage of that opportunity or idea to start a business. As a company, it is necessary to meet the demand of customers, when it comes out a new product or…
The Ming Dynasty began with the overthrow of the Mongols in china 1368 A Peasant's son Hongwu, commanded the rebel army that drove the mongols out of china China extended its rule intro Mongolia and central Asia, and briefly re-conquered Vietnam under the Ming emperors. Ming rulers ran an effective government, using a centralized bureaucracy staffed by officials who had taken the civil service examination Ming emperor set up a nationwide school system They completed the grand canal, on which…