North China

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…

their rendering of negative space? In the following pages, I hope to give enough historical context to understand the practices and beliefs that surround and form a basis for landscape painting in 11th century, Northern and Southern Song Dynasty, China. Then I hope to observe Famous art historical pieces in order to illustrate my main points of interest, religious and philosophical influence and the meaning of this specific form of art. I will introduce contrasting western practices and…

Ming Dynasty I'm going to talk about the Ming Dynasty. I will take a closer look at the Government, the Religion and Lifestyle. I want to compare the Government in the Ming Dynasty to the Government in modern China. I also want to know if there were any big differences in Religions in China itself, in the Ming Dynasty and today. I'm also interested in how the Ruler and his People lived. As well list his good and bad leading qualities and my opinion on his ruling and his laws. Additionally I…

Executive Summary Xiaomi is a privately owned Chinese electronics company. It was founded in April 2010 by its CEO Lei Jun in Beijing, China. In 2014, Xiaomi has sold over 60 million of smartphones in the world and it has over 8000 employees in many countires, such as China, Singapore, and Malaysia, also the planning new market India, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Xiaomi’s CEO Lei Jun, he is the 23rd richest person to Forbes for the latest ranking. According…

its roots in some of China’s most revered philosophers. Honor in martial arts has evolved from two primary philosophies; loyalty and universal love. Loyalty is the sense of devotion to a group i.e. family, temple, or even gang and its teachings in China can be traced as far back as 551 BC with Confucius. The notion of universal love is slightly more complicated and can be considered an extension of loyalty. It comes from a source whose opinions…

immigration and emigration are oftentimes considered useful. Immigrating is an agonizing process that takes years to adjust. I was born in a small city named Johor Bahru in Malaysia, but I never really stayed there as a child. My parents moved to China to seek economic advantages when I was five years old. my parents settled in Guiyang, a city in the western great plateau with a population of three millions. my parents enrolled me in a local public school there, showing their intention for me…

The collection of fortifications now known as "The Great Wall of China" has historically had a number of different names in both Chinese and English. In Chinese histories, the term "Long Wall(s)" (長城, changcheng) appears in Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian, where it referred to both the separate great walls built between and north of the Warring States and to the more unified construction of the First Emperor.[7] The Chinese character 城 is a phono-semantic compound of the "place" or…

The fall of the Sui Dynasty in 618 C.E resulted in an obvious decline in harsh conditions and limited privileges for women and led to the changes that took place in the Tang Dynasty from 618-907 C.E. These changes are what allowed the women in Tang China to be considered some of luckiest women based on open-minded and liberal ideals that changed the norm for the women of the Tang. Northern influences and religion seemed to be the leading factors to this change in ideal because of…

goods including tea and silk with almost no demand for western good from China mainly because China was a self-sufficient nation and the fact that foreign trade was so tightly restricted. After a series of requests and demands from both the British and the Chinese were ignored by the other and some extreme aggression by the British the First Opium War started. Britain's demands were seemingly simple to those on the outside of China and unquestionably intrusive to those inside of…

my father Moua Thao about our family history and the origin of the ethnic Hmong. I have been informed that I look a lot like my mother from my sisters and friends tell me that I look different from my siblings. My ancestors originated from Northern China where they lived off the land alongside the Yellow River prior to the Chinese Dynasty. During this period of time Hmong people had a king who helped maintain the balance of harmony before this war between the Chinese and Hmong people. After the…