Sichuan

On May 12, 2008, what had seemed to be a normal day, turned into a nightmare in Sichuan, China. Buildings collapsed, people died, and survivors were completely traumatized. What had happened was a magnitude 7.9 earthquake that annihilated most of the southwest China. The epicenter of this disaster was located near the city of Dujiangyan. The earthquake was caused by the collision of the Indian-Australian and Eurasian Plates along the 155 miles long Longmenshan fault, thrusting the ground up by 29 feet. The earthquake in Sichuan had one of the most drastic influences on people, places, and China’s economy. The earthquake in Sichuan China took a massive toll on people in Sichuan. This earthquake “killed 87,587 and injured 375,000 (Deadliest Earthquakes 'of the 21st Century).” This was caused by the inability to escape from toppling buildings. This is the human toll that the earthquake of Sichuan had on people. The earthquake in Sichuan, China also had a massive social effect, mainly by the deaths that have occurred. “When people found their loved ones dead, they become devastated due to the sudden lost of loved ones. Also, those that survived may actually be traumatized after experiencing the earthquake. (9 Impacts of the…

most representative of China. These eight major cuisines and their corresponding geographical locations are: Chuan (Sichuan and Chongqing), Lu (Shandong), Su (Jiangsu), Min (Fujian), Zhe (Zhejiang), Hunan (Xiang), Hui (Anhui) and Yue or Cantonese (Guangdong), (Zhu et al., 2013). The corresponding regions of origin for each of these cuisines can be seen by referring to Figure 1. Figure 1. Map of Chinese Provinces (“Map of China Provinces & Cities”, 2016). The eight regional cuisines are…

According to legend, it is said that Li Bai was probably born in Tokmok, an important city on the Silk Road. His father was a trader along the Silk Road, and his mother might be of Turkish descent. At his age of five, he moved to Sichuan province with his merchant family. Li Bai’s interest in poetry grew when he was little. The first poem his father taught him was a rhyme-prose “Sir Fantasy” by Sima Xiangru. This fantastic prose later proved to have a great impact on Li Bai’s poetic style. When…

Chastity was a most important to measure a women in 1920s period. It could be affected by Confucianism and traditional. At that time, people would treat women with more harsh rules. Such as if a women lost chastity before she gets married, she would be not get married in her life; or she could only get married with a divorced men. Even a woman suffered rape, which leads her lost chastity, people would say bad words to that woman, and nobody would sympathy that woman because they believe she was…

On May 12, 2008, a disastrous earthquake, measuring at 8.0 Ms, occurred in Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province, China. The earthquake resulted from the collision between the Indo-Australian Plate and Eurasian Plate along the Longmenshan fault (Liu &Wang, 2013). As one of the most severe earthquakes happened in China, it caused a huge number of deaths and made millions of people become homeless (Zhang et al, 2012). A disaster is not only caused by the natural hazard, which is sometimes unavoidable,…

casualties after the earthquake in Tangshan. This accident caused a total of 69,227 deaths; 17,923 missing population; 374,643 injured; and children lost their lovely of home and family member ; destroyed an entire Sichuan. When the headlines coming out being a Chinese, we are mournful. After this happened, almost every academy and office, created a donation services, the crowd donated money, the money sent to Sichuan to aid the community in urgency. On May 12, 2008, around 14:27 PM, cities…

social media networks that are fare more restricted than the traditional platforms. As the internet starts evolving and growing the Chinese government restricts the use and builds ‘The Great Firewall of China’ taller. “China’s government has unveiled a smarter and stricter Internet filter, riling web users and widening the divide between China’s Internet and the World Wide Web.” (Dou, 2015) Therefore today a Chinese user is not able to use any of the services people are accustomed to in in most…

Sichuan, the center of middle-west China is one of the most beautiful and developed provinces, however, on 12 May 2008 at 2.28 p.m., a 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck Sichuan. It was the twelfth most destructive earthquake in human history and the largest disaster in China since the Tangshan earthquake in 1976. There are totally 87,000 casualties and 46 million people in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Chongqing are affected by the earthquake. Tremors were even felt by residents in Beijing and Shanghai, a…

as the main-shock), many induced events or aftershocks will occur. We will expect the inter-arrival times between aftershocks to be much shorter just after the main event. If the main-shock was near the structure of interest, so will be at least some of this family of aftershocks. Aftershock ground motions may cause weakening or collapse of structures perhaps already damaged (but not yet repaired) by the main-shock. In addition, aftershocks (implicitly or explicitly) also affect decisions to…

Throughout history, a variety of foods have allowed the modern world to gain a historical understanding on the big history and world history of our modern world. The Sichuan cuisine originating from China is a great example showing the impact of food culture and identity in our current society. The Sichuan pepper, is called huajiao in Chinese, meaning flower pepper, and the Sichuan cuisine is undisputedly the most popular cuisine known to China to this current date. Through evaluating the big…