People's Republic of China

Until the arrival of West, China was confident of its centrality and supremacy in Asia. This was obvious in its tributary system, which included not only obedience and the exchange, but also the sphere of influence through supremacy. The China’s tributary system differed from Westphalian state system because China dynastic empires placed themselves at the center of territories and international affairs in the pre-modern Asian world. In this paper, I propose that the core of the China’s tributary…

China, an immense country that is well known for its global power due to its size and well-established economic influence around the world. China’s admiration of being a high caliber country has surly place them on top of the chart and as the country with the largest population in the world, it is clear to observe that it holds one of the world’s most well known religion, Buddhism. Buddhism standing in the top three religions with Christianity and Islam clearly assures how successful of a world…

negative trends that many cities were expereicning during his time period such as city sprawls and giantism, and power centralization. These ideas are still effective after several decades that they can largely reflect in those newly developing cities in China. Urbanization has been a constant trend lasting for decades. In the book, Mumford lists three characteristics illustrating the growth of megacities: number, area, and population (Mumford, 1961). As cities are attracting an increasing…

DBQ Essay Asian societies largely relied on cultural borrowing to form their governments, traditions, and societies. These documents show cultural diffusion through Japan borrowing ideas from China regarding government, different perspectives on others cultures, and the outward perceptions on each culture. Documents two and four focus on what cultural borrowing does to help grow governments. Documents one, three, and five discuss how the perspective of each country from the outside can help or…

Both Japan and Korea were politically influenced by the Chinese through China’s system of the governing body of their nation, while also being culturally influenced by China through their religion, Buddhism and Confucianism. However, both Japan and Korea differed politically because the Korean’s followed Tributaries and the Japanese followed feudalism, and culturally because Japan followed the Zen branch of Buddhism and Korea followed the Chan branch. Korea and Japan were almost identical to…

Industrialization has brought with itself numerous benefits and costs to China. The country went through a massive migration from rural areas to urban cities and urbanization transformed China into one of the most advanced and modern cities in the whole world. With industrialization, the country saw huge improvements in the fight against poverty, and growth in economic opportunities. Working class people now had much more opportunity to transition into a higher class such as the middle class, or…

peoples had been seen already up and down. Many long time ago, in the China some Qing dynasty ruled out and their harassment, unlawful mode of behavior, and they were corrupted from top to bottom. In between, country foundation was loose from the tremor corruption. After this era, China gave some powerful great men to the country. His name was Deng Xiaoping and his revolutionary thoughts, ideology, legendry image to help in china become great. In term of, Mao death the economic policies,…

Russia was a massive empire and a great power of Europe in the late ninetieth and early twentieth century. However, it lagged behind in economic and political aspects as compared to Germany and Britain. In 1917, two significant revolutions occurred where the first overthrew Nicholas II government and afterward established a provisional government. Eight months after the first revolution, a second revolution took place where Bolsheviks was brought to power. During this period, many groups of…

In addition, as Choi states (2015), even though international community tried to denuclearize North Korea, the six-party talk, which involves China, Russia, the US, South Korea, Japan, and North Korea, could not hold back North Korea’s nuclear ambition (28). Under this circumstance, it is essential for Japan to demonstrate its military capability that will work as a deterrence for North Korea…

Dreams takes the reader on a journey through the history of China during the 19th and 20th century through a first-hand account of Dapeng’s writings from the time of 1891 up until his death in 1942. Dapeng was a Confucian scholar and teacher who held onto his Confucian beliefs he had gained during his youth throughout his life while China in retrospect changed drastically. Dapend grew up in the village of Chiqiao located in northern China in Shanxi province. Dapeng 's writings were never…