Taiwan

In the 19th century, since the trade’s well development between Taiwan and Mainland China, many land owners and merchants became a powerful force in local society. Among others, Wufeng Lins was a well-known prominent family in Taichung city. The power of the politics, the army, the agriculture, and the trade had been made the Lins family flourished for more than a hundred years. The Lins also owned a large portion of lands in Taiwan, especially in the central regions. Historically, they even had…

with empathy towards the West, China’s leaderships or rulers were sending a strong message that China was on a higher pedestal on matters of development and the capacity to meet the needs of their subjects. Chinese believed that the West was less powerful and had to submit to them. In light of that, they had to preserve their power, which was manifest in their goods. They had had a lot of power evident in the abundance of goods and resources. Allowing trade with the West would erode the…

Background on Nationalism & Gender in Republican China The purpose of this section is to provide a basic understanding of nationalism and gender in Republican China (1911-1949). There will be a brief analysis of how and why Chinese nationalism developed, followed by another brief analysis of how gender expectations in society may have changed. The understanding of nationalism and gender in Republican China is important to this essay because it provides a background to the essay’s argument. In…

How has the understanding of [the] universe in China changed in last hundreds of years? Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius once said: "He who does not know what the world [does] not know where he is, and he who does not know for what purpose the world exists, does not know who he is, nor what the world is." It is true that a person 's self-identity is hugely affected by his or her view of the world, and that a country or race 's self-image is based on its understanding of the universe. In the last…

udent’s name Instructor’s name Course Date World Religion Although Buddhism had spread greatly throughout Asia; the religion remained unknown to the West until the modern times. Despite the fact the earlier missionaries put a lot of efforts to spread the religion by sending emperor Ashoka, it did not bear fruits. Currently, this religion has greatly spread in the West, and it has several followers. There are several factors that have contributed to the spread of this religion (Buddhists Studies)…

The end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century were a venerable period for China. The nineteenth century for China was a time of turmoil. The Boxer and Taiping rebellions, battles over the concessions and trading rights, all followed by the loss in the Sino-Japanese War shook all of China. The people were confused with the results and management of these events and wanted to know what would happen next. China’s search for security and superiority led it to study the very…

Manhua Journey to the West, a graphic novel by Zhang Guangyu in 1945, is a nod to the Chinese classic Journey to the Wets by Wu Cheng'en written in the year 1592. It is written around the reign of the KMT and during the second Sino-Japanese War. From which Zhang uses the style in which Journey to the West was written to "implicate" poke fun of the government and their policies. How does Zhang Guang use the classic Journey to the west to explain the events around 1945 circa China? Why does he…

Taiwan, U.S., and China Relations A myriad of elemental factors have affected, and continue to affect, Sino-American relations. One factor, which has played a role in developing the complex relationship between the United States and China, is Taiwan. The purpose of this essay is to contrast the United States’ ever-changing stance on the “One-China” framework, against mainland China’s solid vision of its “One-China” principle. The observation of United States’ flailing stance on the issue of…

Taiwan Today website announced that Council of Labor Affairs endorsed that foreign labours can work up to 12 years as compared to three years in 2011. This will also generate more confidence in foreign employees and help to boost work performance, less time to train foreign workers, less conflicts and lower employee turnover. Ernst & Young has published in the report that Ministry of Finance in Taiwan has been trying to reduce the taxation policies in the country by reducing corporate income…

Based on his research towards Taiwan aborigines, Shepherd did an excellent historical-anthropological analysis to demonstrate that trade networks were the primary reason to draw Dutch and Chinese settlers to the Taiwan frontier in the later time. However, Shepherd failed to analyze the identity change issues of Taiwan aborigines because he seemed to believe that governmental intervention for identity change was absent in the early 17th century. Based on the analysis of the Ming’s borderland…