Overseas Chinese

Shanghai, China Shanghai is located on the central coast of China. It is the country’s biggest city and a global financial hub. The heart of the city is the Bund, a popular waterfront promenade that is lined with colonial-era buildings. When you take a look across the Huangpu River you can see the fantastic futuristic skyline rising high into the sky in the Pudong district. The city also has many green spaces for rest and relaxation. A most symbolic part of the city is the Bund which at one…

Throughout history, philosophers, kings, and leaders have all had different, conflicting views on how empires and kingdoms run effectively. Countries fight entire wars over the chance to instill the “correct” way of governing onto another people. Arguably, Fidel Castro created one of the most successful socialist governments in world history, yet the United States disagreed with his ‘communist ways’ and ended his regime. In the mid-20th century, Germans elected a man who established stable…

for problems within the state. As a result, the people felt compelled to diverge from Buddhist beliefs and became xenophobic to those who did not abandon those beliefs. In the beginning, the Chinese citizens were accepting of this relatively new religion and philosophy. In the mid-fourth century, a “Chinese scholar” wrote that “Whosoever…serves…

Double Dragon Restaurant Executive Summary Double Dragon Restaurant is a fast food Chinese restaurant located in Boston, Massachusetts. It offers a huge variety of menus that have been meticulously selected to appeal to weight conscious people. Chinese food not only has high nutritive value but is also very low in calories. With so many vegetables, rice, beef and chicken dishes, it is almost certain that health conscious people will come in numbers. Positioning Statement Double Dragon’s main…

Chinese strategic culture It is very hard to define the meaning of strategic culture. According to Andrew Scobell, it is a persistent system of values held in common by the leaders or group of leaders of a state concerning the use of military force (Scobell 1999). Strategic culture consists of common beliefs, cultural assumptions, and behavior of individuals, based on shared experience and collective identification of a group’s relationship (Delios and Henisz, 2003). Research by Nisbett…

5. The causes of the difference between Chinese and American family educational patterns 5.1 The Differences of Historical Background Chinese culture has a very long history. In 221 BC, through the "Shang Yang reform" and the powerful Qin finally unified the Chinese land. As a result, China's feudal system began. The feudal system lasted for more than 2,000 years in China. Because of this feudal system, most of the Chinese children instilled the concept: obedient. Thus China has a "tiger-mother"…

for quite a long time has certainly left its mark. Obviously, the laws and accordingly concept of rule of law in both of these countries have a long history and tradition. The problem for Hong Kong is the major differences with which British and Chinese societies were moving forward over the centuries. For both of those countries, the laws were established according to the society requirements. They were the result of a class war and were therefore in the interests of absolute majority of the…

Introduction Hong Kong, currently a highly developed city which is also one of the most important financial center on the global stage, has been experienced a series of historical incidents which finally created a very distinctive, complicated yet dynamic and investigable background for it. Due to the colonial era under the administration of British and hand-over to China in 1997, Hong Kong people, or Hong Kongers, have been showing the changes of their identity through the different period…

1. Provide a concise summary of the film. From its inception around 2000 years ago in Northern China, Tofu has evolved to be a vital part of the Chinese cuisine [1]. The art of making tofu spread to eventually reach the south western parts of the Chinese mainland and has become an integral part of the food culture of areas such as the Yunnan province. Making varieties of tofu, such as the hairy tofu has also become an art as it requires the mastery of microorganisms. For the Mongolian nomads in…

citizens. In the ancient Chinese society, scholars studied the Confucianism for the official examination. Hence, Confucianism became stepping stone for ordinary people got into the dominating class. The Five Classics and the Confucian vision that two books were advocated by ancient Chinese Imperial Government. Confucianism for maintaining social harmony and stability have a positive effect whereas some people argue that Confucianism may restrain the Chinese people's thoughts as Chinese…