North China

immigrated to Oregon during the 1940’s and he majored in business in Linfield College and then he transferred to the University of Southern California. It was not very surprising for Henry to leave China, because of the type of beliefs that he had. According to David Henry Hwang his father “never much liked China or Chinese ways of thinking. He’s always been much more attracted to American ways of thinking. He feels Americans are more open – they tell you what they think – and he is very much…

The Han Dynasty of China was built on the backbones of the Qin Dynasty. During there was a huge revival of Chinese art. This was seen in their most prevalent forms of art, which were; pottery, jade carvings, silk weavings, bronze casting, and paintings. Paintings became popular in China because of the invention of paper, which replaced silk as the canvas. Each of these different mediums were used to create different pieces that served a certain purpose. An example of a ceramic, or terracotta,…

moved across a web of routes linking all of those areas as well as East Asia (particularly China). On the other hand, Central Asia was the largest empire in the world history, controlling Tibet, Northern China, and Persia. Also, Islam would flourish in Central Asia/The Chinese transferred the skill of paper making. Through the Mongols, Islamic mathematics and astronomy spread from the “Dar la Islam” into China where they found a receptive audience. Perhaps the most important technological…

brought Buddhism to China. By the time Buddhism hit China, the Indians had already practicing the religion for over five hundred years. The faith really took off when the Han Dynasty began to fall, which ended their strict beliefs of Confucius. There are two kind of Buddhism, the Theravada Buddhist have strict meditation and reading of teachings of Buddha. This kind of Buddhism is most popular in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia. The kind of Buddhism that is most popular in China is Mahayana…

Regardless of the geographically restrictive natural features and distance between India and China, there are several similarities between the Chinese philosophy of Confucianism and and the religion of Buddhism. However, there are some important differences as well. In this essay, we will compare and contrast the differences and similarities between Buddhism and Confucianism by analyzing their essential teachings, appeal and proliferation along with the impact they made. Like many other…

Pui Tak Center: 2216 S. Wentworth Pui Tak Center was once the On Leong Merchants Association Building where the On leong group used to be. The society also once resided in Mott Street in New York's Chinatown. The Chinese started coming to Chicago in smaller numbers after 1870, After the 20th century less than 1,200. Until the 1940s when federal laws only allowed men to enter with only a few exceptions, chinatowns over america were populated with chinese men. Groups called Tongs were formed…

went to build the railroads, and developed the agricultural industry. Now that the US constitution makes everything else being equal, people from all over of China would eventually come to America. However, the United States passed laws that made it illegal for the Chinese to come to the United States during 1882 and 1943. In 1943, China was allowed to send over 105 legal immigrants. This doesn’t mean…

A number of factors led to the European age of exploration. One of these factors was the Marco Polo book which had in detail what China was like at the time, the wealth and power of it. Another factor may have been the need to spread the religion of Christianity all throughout the world. The final reason they may have done this is so that they would not have to buy their spices from Italian traders at a very high price. The steps that Portugal took yo get to Asia via sea were many. The first…

Staff, We are looking to expand distribution of Shiney’s Scarves into 3 additional countries; China, Mexico and Sweden. All of our scarves are colorful and have an inspirational design or message embroidered on them. In order to honor the diverse range of cultures of the countries that we will be bringing our scarves to we must understand each countries tradition and symbolism of colors. As far as China goes, the color red is associated with good fortune therefore a red colored scarf with…

Chinese Americans The United States is a big country which has enormous influence on other countries. This in fact attracted many individuals to come out of their societies and move to the US. Thus, the US society can be explained as the salad bowl societies, where different cultures exists in one place, but they don’t overrule each other. One of the most important of these groups are Chinese Americans. However, being in a community with a majority of Chinese students attracted me to…