such as, the military and in technology. Japan and China were suffering under the pressures to surrender to outside forces and open up trade with foreign merchants. With the increase of imperialism, the western forces/countries were pushing harder for trade. They wanted to increase trade and therefore vied with Eastern Asian countries to have accessible and open boundaries and an expansion of ports. The West was backed with military that China and the other Eastern counties could not combat.…
Mimi grew up in China and is able to speak both Mandarin and a local dialect. The fact that Hathaway Jones is opening up stores in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou her ability to speak these two languages could be highly beneficial as much of the business sector in all of these cities speaks Mandarin. Mimi has also successfully relaunched two different company brands, which Hathaway and Jones is in the need of doing in the near future. In addition to this she worked in the West Coast Regional…
country, two systems” policy, because China has a socialist system that Hong Kong does not want. Basically, the “one country, two systems” policy allows for each country to maintain their own government systems, obviously with a few exceptions. For example, the Central People’s government will take control of Hong Kong’s foreign affairs. Although, they do allow the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to conduct a few relevant affairs. The Central People’s Government also is responsible…
The rise and the fall of the Han (206 BCE - 220 CE) and the Sui (581 CE - 618) dynasties in post-classical China was followed by the life of the Tang (618 CE - 918), a dynasty which was the first to rebuild the Chinese empire after the fall of the Sui, which was then followed up by the short-lived Song (960 CE - 1279) dynasty. The fall of the Han dynasty brought about a time of turmoil. The broken pieces left by the Han were then picked up by the Sui who was also short-lived, similar to that of…
30 centigrade and the winter temperature of Qingdao is about -5 centigrade, so Qingdao is very suitable for living in. A certain number of years ago, Qingdao was still a little fishing village. But now it become an important economic center city in china, and has a population of ten million. Qingdao was hailed as Eastern Switzerland. Qingdao is a famous seaside tourist city, Qingdao is famous for it’s climate. Because it is located in the warm temperate monsoon climate zone and was influenced by…
The Roaring Dragon Hotel was a three star hotel in the south-west of China. It was a famous enterprise which was owned by the state and 40 years of history. Roaring Dragon Hotel had a good reputation but started fading as there was a change in management to Hotel International. This organization had a good reputation and suitable enough to buyout the management of the Roaring Dragon Hotel. After the takeover, Hotel International took steps and changed the policies both internally and externally…
The novel Dream of Ding Village by Yan Lianke tells the grim story of China’s blood-selling frenzy and the ensuing AIDs epidemic which wiped out entire villages in rural Henan province. Beginning in the early 1990s, the booming biotech industry in China raised demand for plasma donations, to which the provincial Henan government responded by heading a campaign for blood plasma donations in exchange for money. For more than 3 million rural and impoverished Chinese, the opportunity was too good to…
As the representative work of the 1985 Fine Arts New Wave, Xu Bing’s, Book from the Sky, aka. An Analyzed Reflection of the World: The Final Volume of the Century, made between 1987 and 1991, incorporates long scrolls and four volumes of books with 604 pages, filled with about 4000 entirely meaningless glyphs. Xu Bing designs them to make no sense, whereas in the form of Song and Ming style, representing the orthodoxy of Chinese culture. Since firstly publicly exhibited in 1988, the installation…
Chinese and Their Work Culture China consists of 56 different ethnic groups (Wang, 2015). The Han constitutes majority of the total population, with sub groups such as Cantonese and Hakka (Erbaugh, 2000); the other 55 groups are generally referred to as the minority groups (Wang, 2015), such as the Mongols, Hui people and Tibetan people (Dwyer, 2005). According to Heathfield (2016), work culture refers to values, beliefs, thought processes, attitudes and behaviours shared by a group of people,…
got her first ever role as an extra in the film The Red Lantern (Corliss 3). He later found out about it. “He told me I was disgracing the family, and I told him I was determined to be independent one day, and that I couldn’t be like those girls in China, and that it’s no use in making me over” (“Anna May Wong: In Her Own Words”). She was described by friends and family as being very independent and outgoing. She started out during the silent film era. Her realistic acting style is what helped…