Jiang Qing

Two thousand years ago both the Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty were thriving in Italy and China respectively. These two powerful civilizations had completely opposite religions and Government structures, but yet both were able to function as a thriving societies until. Although the Han Dynasty and Roman Empire were based on two completely different beliefs and Government structures, they both had corrupt Governments by the end of their reigns that lead to a weakened army, and lead to terrible…

Walls have been a part of human history for as long as we can remember. From the Great Wall of China to the Western Wall in Jerusalem to the Berlin Wall, humans civilizations have been building walls since the beginning of recorded history. After such a long time, the building of walls has become a tradition. The poem “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost questions the meaning behind this tradition. The poem explains how a force opposes walls, and reveals why we have a tradition of building walls even…

In 1644, The Qing Dynasty were not accepting any Western ambassadors because they did not want to proclaim as supreme above their own heads of state prohibited entry into Chinese territory. Although foreigners — even on trade ships — were banned from entering China, there was one exception to the rule, the exception was the southeastern region of China, Canton. Foreigners were allowed to trade in the Thirteen Factories district with payments made exclusively in silver. The British began to send…

doomed to fail from its conception primarily due to its divided and leaderless structure, was a reaction to a series of factors, most of the factors were caused by western imperialsm and Japanese imperialism and the weak and again also caused by divided Qing government. One of the most important factors for this rebellion was arguably the western religious influence in china. The rebells as the western called the rebels the boxers because they performed physical that the rebels / boxers believe…

INTRODUCTION Chinese mythology is very diverse just like China itself and its culture. China has different views of the creation story. Some believe that there is no myth exist and that no one can explain the world’s origin. However, this creation story of Pangu and Nü Wa is a synthesis of three stories from The Classics of Mountains and Seas, an anthology stories collected in the first century BC of Shan Hai Jing. STORY Long, long ago, the heavens and earth were still one and there was…

Multi-disciplinary, diverse and pervasive, Chinese culture encompasses a firm foothold in Eastern Asia. One of the most intellectual cultures in the world, this culture is responsible for major advanced technologies that took place in history as well as today. The axial rudder, the navigational compass and the heavy ploy, all responsible for the Industrial revolution, in fact were outcomes of the Chinese cultural intellectuality. This helps establish the view that Chinese culture is an…

Shortly after the collapse of the Tang Dynasty, a new empire known as the Song Dynasty unified and implemented a new government that ruled the Chinese empire for roughly three centuries. At the time when the Song Dynasty took over, they faced a major challenge regarding the old aristocracy. Adler & Pouwels (2017) stated that the previous aristocracy provided a substantial amount of skilled men who were recruited to perform duties in the government properties. However, they were brutally…

In this drama 101 class we went over a plethora of ancient periods of theatre throughout the world(aka Greek, Roman, ranassiance, modern, and musical etc.) and each had its focal point and has made a lasting impression on the face of world theatre as we know it today, But one period that we neglected to go over in the class was the art of theatre throughout Asia. This seemed like a very interesting topic since we hadn’t even had heard or mentioned it in class. Like many forms of theatre around…

The end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century were a venerable period for China. The nineteenth century for China was a time of turmoil. The Boxer and Taiping rebellions, battles over the concessions and trading rights, all followed by the loss in the Sino-Japanese War shook all of China. The people were confused with the results and management of these events and wanted to know what would happen next. China’s search for security and superiority led it to study the very…

Amitav Ghosh throws light on the imperialist modes of social, cultural and ecological dominance in his fourth novel The Glass Palace. The novel points out that how colonialization has brutally exploded in the South Asia and results into the environmental degradation. The novel is interlocked in the various historical events like colonization of Burma by the British, the First World War, and conquest of Japan over Russia, the intense changes wrought by World War II etc. It’s a story that…