Shu Han

The Romans and the Hans had varying outlooks on technology as the Hans respected it and tied that into their commoners needs and the Roman had an outlook that working with your hands was vulgar and minimized the importance of tech and people who used it. The Han dynasty had a respect for technology and utilized it to improve society. On top of that, they believed it was the government’s responsibility to ensure technology was accessible to everyone. This difference in opinion came from economic…

The invention of gunpowder was drastic and life altering discovery. Gunpowder was discovered in Ancient China in the 9th Century during the Han dynasty, by an alchemist named Wei Boyang (A&E). Boyang was one of the many alchemists hired by the government to create an exlir that would satisfy the emperor’s search for immortality. Through his research he accidentally came across gunpowder. The alchemists “experimented with the Sulphur, common charcoal, and saltpeter heating the substances in order…

burned due to fear of being criticized by them. The Qin dynasty did not last long, but the Han dynasty took over and ruled China for centuries. Those who disobeyed the emperor are sentenced to prison and were forced to pay a huge fine or kill themselves. The Han dynasty had an enemy called the Xiongnu, nomadic people who raids China for empowerment. The document is about Sima Qian who lived during the Han Dynasty era and was twenty when he took over his father’s job as Grand Astrologer after…

There was controversy towards China from westerners Europeans and in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. After the invention of the compass and gunpowder, the Chinese seemed to not engage in making any new evolutionary progress. Until external connections entered China through the Eighteenth Century that brought new technologies and skills, that help boosts Chinas success When Jesuits missionaries entered China, there was a controversy at first on the attempts to excite the…

Bruce Lee’s Research Paper Bruce Lee was born in November 27, 1940 in San Francisco, California. His father, Hoi-chuen Lee was a Cantonese opera singer and an actor from Hong Kong. Hoi-chuen Lee and his wife, Grace Ho were on a one-year United States tour with the Cantonese Opera company. During that time, their second son, Bruce was born. Bruce was the fourth child to be born and has a two sister, Phobe and Agnes. Bruce also has two brothers, an older brother named Peter Lee and a younger…

As China gets stronger in their economy, the whole world has new imagines on Chinese; they are becoming rich, spending crazy money on luxuries and sending their kids to study aboard for advanced education. People may have positive/negative views on the economy change of China, but it is true that growing superpower China have influenced others considerably. It results that many Noun-Chinese may give a Asian-face person a first impression as a Chinese person due to the increasingly population of…

Aris Folley Professor Schweizer Non-West. Literature 2 November 2014 Raise the Red Lantern: Comparison Paper of Literary to Film Despite the novella’s publish in 1990, one of Su Tong’s most notable literary oeuvres, as critics would acclaim, Wives and Concubines, speaks volumes to a socialist reality in its cinematic representation of 1920s China. Abandoning the country’s heavily political influenced rule of creative expression, Tong stripped his work of traditional Chinese custom, seeking to…

The Great Wall of China: An Architectural Achievement China has had an incredibly large amount of recognizable accomplishments and aspects. While all were/are extraordinary and have caught our attention, some haven't been so likeable or popular. Although, among the most well-known and desirable have been The Great Wall of China. Did you know that China's Great Wall is a graveyard as well? Or how about the fact that it's more than 13,000 miles long?! This exceptional monument is, without doubt,…

To me, success during the Yuan dynasty means how much they accomplished,inventions that changed the world,in such little time.For example the invention of paper money began during the yuan dynasty.“The official banknote of the Yuan Dynasty was Chao. Made from the bark of mulberry trees, Chao was the first paper currency to be used as the predominant circulating medium in history. The Yuan government used woodblocks to print paper money. The Imperial Mint was located in the capital city…

Although Rome and China were never in direct contact, they existed simultaneously in Eurasia at the beginning of the Christian era and both had numerous similarities as well as differences. China, which lasted from 206 BC to 220 AD, and Rome, which lasted from 27 BC to 476 AD, both had similar situations in their society in terms of how they utilized theologies for their rulers and used militaries for protection against enemies. However, Rome and China had two very different views of government…