People's Republic of China

local retailer Alibaba. “U.S. retailer Costco Wholesale Corp plans to open an online store in China using Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's fast-growing Tmall online marketplace, entering the country's booming e-commerce market to combat slowing sales at home (Ramakrishnan, 2014).” The organization will also have to focus on getting representative offices established. The representative office established in China will effectively act as a liaison office for Costco Wholesale; ensuring operations…

Since Ai Weiwei’s birth in 1957, his complete life story has sculpted him into the profound artist and social activist that he is today. After his father, a well known poet, was exiled during the anti-rightist campaign, Ai spent his first years in a labor camp. The circumstances of his childhood instilled a voice inside of Ai that would later invigorate his art. Ai explains the conditions of his children as having “no personal rights, no freedom of speech or expression” (Weiwei, 2008). Ai came…

China in the later half of the first millennium during the 8th and 9th centuries experienced a tremendous growth in land during the Tang dynasty. This came with a great cost of supplies, money and people, almost all the burden of which fell onto the poor. Many poets during this time wrote on the duality of China's expansion from both positive and negative viewpoints. While China's constant wars hardly, if at all, affected nobles, they drained the poor almost to the point of bringing China's…

subject that has influenced me the most is AP Environmental Science (APES). The class focuses on the world we live in and explains how people’s actions can either harm or benefit the environment. With each chapter, the teacher provided real world examples,along with important analysis, to describe how humans affect their own ecosystems. Such an example is how China continues to deplete the world's resources and how there are many different types of sustainable ways to get energy through which I…

We tend to generalize tourism as an international industry specialize on their host country as a whole. For example, when we think about people going to Rio de Janeiro, we always picture international people going and that these tourists are enhancing tourism in the whole country. While this is true, what most people tend to forget it that Rio also receives every year a huge amount of domestic tourists. That is not an isolate “phenomenon”, countries benefit a lot from domestic tourism, just as…

Canada and Mexico and the state of Alaska is in the northwestern part of North America and the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. On the half-way of the world, Vietnam is located in the South East Asian, the country is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest. Each nation has its own advantages for developing economy, while the United States has the advantages for developing economy in every part, Vietnam has the advantages for…

Safe Spot Again, I'm sitting in the same Chinese Restaurant for the third time this week, supposedly the first ranking Chinese restaurant in my city. The worn out Chinese red decorations hang unbalanced on the entrance door, as always. In freshmen year, a Chinese student invited me to a Chinese meeting spot, where we spoke in Mandarin. Our interests and complaints were all similar. I began to think that it was a safe corner for me. Preferring to be with people of a common culture and language…

According to Medicine News, the main philosophy behind Chinese medicine has come from Confucianism and Taoism (White). These two belief systems were created as a result of the prolonged Warring States (481-221 B.C.); it is said that the greatest advances in medicine occur during war and strife (White). Confucianism comes from the teachings of Confucius (551-479 B.C.) (White). These teachings revolve around the interlinkages of the twelve primary organ systems of the body (White). These complex…

Ancient China had many rulers and dynasties that lasted long periods while others ruled for several years. However, each dynasty had its own accomplishments and contributions to the world. The qin dynasty wasn’t as long as the other dynasties. It lasted only fifteen years from 221 B.C. to 206 B.C. Despite this, it was one of the most accomplished dynasties. During the Qin Dynasty. Many standards were established in order to eliminate the inconsistency of other time periods. These included…

emphasises that China is rising and altering the way in which international relations is being conducted as opposed to the US which no longer possesses this ability to exert influence. Furthermore, historian Ferguson supports Cox’s argument by stating that the “21st century will belong to China” which shows how influential China has become as a world power. For example, in 2007, data shows that the annual GDP growth of China was 14.2% against America’s unimpressive 1.8%, this exemplifies that…