Hunan

backgrounds anxiously eating, shopping and socializing. The biggest attraction to visitors are the large number of Chinese restaurants. These restaurants serve a variety of authentic cuisines that originated from all parts of China including Cantonese, Hunan, Szechwan and northern China. Residents will find themselves lining up for barbecued pork and can purchase fresh ingredients from the stalls lining the streets. Visitors to Chinatown will find a diverse range of shops that include herbal…

The Warring States lasted from 481 to 221 BC. These states became a part of the Zhao dynasty within the Yellow River Valley. In 223-221 BC that the forces of the of Qin under Qin Shi-Huangdi won over the states created the Qin Empire which become know as modern day China which encompassed the former seven warring states and the northern part of Korea. It was at this point also that the nation-state of China was born. The Chinese cultural core consists of two key component parts: the…

3.3.2 Market role in the home care services in urban China Market is increasingly involved in the direct services in China. In elderly care practice in urban China, some international policies referring to marketisation of care (i.e. contracting out services to private providers, cash for care, tax concessions, subsidies, etc.), have been applied for trials to encourage the participation of various social resources (Jing, 2009). For example, driven by the ideas of ‘small state’ and ‘indirect…

Androgyny in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando Ningxin,Sun What is androgyny? It says “Androgyny is the state of being neither distinctly masculine nor distinctly feminine” in the Collins dictionary. In Virginia Woolf’s Orlando (1928), Orlando was such an androgynous person who was a man at first, then became a woman and eventually, she had both male and female characteristics. Actually, this mind can also be seen in Woolf’s other works,…

“My Brilliant Friend” by Elena Ferrante and “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan” by Lisa See are bildungsroman novels which follow the journeys of two young girls stuck in the lower class of patriarchal societies, who both attempt to free themselves from their confinements and achieve self-actualisation. Abraham Maslow defines self-actualisation as “the desire for self-fulfilment, namely the tendency for him (the individual) to become actualised in what he is potentially.” In his theory proposed in…

world stage. On December 26, 1893 Mao was born to a peasant family in Shaoshan, here he was only able to receive minimal education before he left home to complete his academic training in the Hunanese capital of Changsha. After graduation from the Hunan First Normal School, Mao was employed at Beijing…

The Columbian exchange was the widespread transfer of animals, plants, culture, technology, and ideas between the America’s and the Old World during the 15th and 16th century. This global transfer has greatly affected most societies on earth in a plethora of ways. It brought destructive diseases that depopulated many cultures and it circulated a wide variety of new crops and livestock that were only native to the New World or the Old World. Additionally, as a result of the Columbian Exchange,…

The increase in demand for fireworks has intensified the domestic and foreign competition (Jiang and Beamish, 2011). As Peng (2014:36) states, ‘competitors of a similar size, market influence and product offerings’ often compete intensely with one another. This, together with rising labour and raw materials cost, has caused profit margins to decrease for many of the small, locally-owned manufacturers in Liuyang. The fact that designs are easily copied with no legal consequences, also lowers the…

Zhu Yuanzhang: Zhu Yuanzhang (1328-1398) was a peasant who became the leader of a nonconformity against the Yuan rulers (1279-1368) called the Red Turbans. Then became the first emperor of the Ming Empire. During his youth, he was extremely poor. Several of his brothers were sent or sold away, and then his family was killed by a flood. He was poverty stricken. He went to a Buddhist monastery where he learned to read and write when he was 24 years old. He established a capital in…

TAOSIM AND WARFARE In ancient China, a religious movement called Taoism began to rise up in 570 B.C. This religious movement was focused on the individual person’s ability to act or lack thereof. Around 600 B.C. a man referred to as Lao Tzu spear headed Taoism into China’s main stream religious ideology. As Taoism started to influence people in China, writers such as Sun Tzu who was a general in the Wu dynasty began to use Lao Tzu ideas on spontaneously and abjuring high ambitions to come up…