Music of China

Macartney proposed the famous “Macartney Mission”, and was rejected by Qianlong Emperor. It is because that China had totally different understanding of its diplomatic status from what the Macartney thought, and China was self-sufficient and thus not willing to expand import. However, some claimed that it was China’s “isolation” that resulted in the rejection. From my perspective, the idea that China was “isolated” was not totally correct. Instead, the East Asian was actively involved in…

focus on visual and material culture. My academic interests center on cross-cultural interactions during the early modern period manifested in visual and material culture. I am particularly interested in the relationship, fostered by trade, between China, Japan and the Netherlands. During the seventeenth and eighteenth century, Dutch society experienced a dramatic transformation with the establishment of the…

To begin with, Powell speaks on the immigrant experience in an interesting way. She explains how one of the main characters, Mr. Lowe, migrated from “his” homeland China to Jamaica in order to get a better life. While living in Jamaica, he lived treacherous life. He was a storekeeper in his community who sold goods to his community. One evening, Mr. Lowe’s shop burned down : “The shop burning Mr.Lowe... snatching doors…

there are also aspects of the text that suggests that the scripture is actually a Chinese product. The reason why it is hard to distinguish one from the other is because the scripture is both. Physically, the text most likely have been compiled in China. Yet, it consists of Buddhist teachings translated in a way that makes it both appealing and understandable to the Chinese. With that said, the Scripture in Forty-Two Sections is both a Chinese product and a translation of Indian Buddhism. The…

innovation of modern-day currency (Watson, Peter 2005). Trading between countries has been happening for ages. Trading around the globe effected how religion, culture and resources were distributed throughout the ancient times. Northern Africa and China, in Eastern Asia, had major roles and much experience when it came to trading in ancient times. While the Chinese and people of Africa were trading, the Mayans and the Aztecs were also trading with each other. The ways of trading was completely…

This played a key role in visitor number who came from different parts of the world and with a diverse background with China having the largest visitors. Disney provided the major show designs, real estate, engineering and production support including other services enabling it maintain its original theme of symbolizing fantasy, happiness and dreams. Like Disney, HKD focused…

factors. In this episode of “An Idiot Abroad,” Karl experiences life in China. Having never left England, he had very little knowledge and experience when it comes to other cultures besides his own. Throughout episode, Karl experiences culture shock on many levels. Mainly bad, but he eventually learns, accepts, and adapts with the Chinese culture. As mentioned above, Karl experienced…

When I first come to America When I first time came to America, I even never had spoken English before. So, English could be a big challenge for me, and it actually came true soon after I got up my flight. When we were about to cross American border, the crew gave us a form which needs us to fix it, but I didn’t know how to do it, by the way, my English was really poor at that time. I wanted to ask the passage on my left, but I didn’t know how to ask the question I want to express. That was so…

item in the trading world, considering it received a set of trading routes in its name. China was the first country to start producing silk and it remained the only country to do so until The Silk Road came about. Eventually, after some time, Japan learned how to produce it. After Japan, most other countries learned how to produce it as well. Despite the other countries learning how to produce silk, China continued to have the monopoly on the silk trade. Silk was wanted by everyone.…

Aside from not having this key piece of information many different forms of data have shown a variety of plausible ways that the religion made its way into China. It is believed that the Silk Road was another form for the spread of Buddhism; “opened in the second century BC, missionaries and pilgrims began to travel between China, Central Asia and India” (Buddhism and the spread along the Silk Road 1). One of the main factors for the decrease in Buddhism in India was caused by the fact that…