Xinjiang

China has outstanding naval capacity in the early 1400s (see the discussion of the Ming voyages in the unit Ming Voyages: 1405-1433). The Chinese political and social order is at its height in this "late imperial" period of the last two dynasties: the examination system has, from the Tang dynasty onward, created a strong centralized and fully functional civil service in place of an aristocratic elite with a territorial base of power. Scholar-gentry, residing at home as they study for the next…

in autumn. Today, more and more people do not plant crops and the meal is gradually becoming a get-together meal for family members. Sometimes, the ritual meal is held in my family in Shenzhen and sometimes we go back to my grandparents’ home in Xinjiang Province to celebrate it. Generally, it is a special meal combining Chinese customs and the characteristics of Hui…

of the most core agency that created by Manchu in the Qing dynasty that mainly responsible for the colonial and peripheral rule was the Li Fanyuan. The Li Fanyuan had set different local offices in Qing’s peripheral areas like Mongolia, Tibet and Xinjiang and selected elite Bannermen from all three divisions and degree winners from the civl office examination as officers in those locality and central court offices in order to govern the country together. Nevertheless, as Cosmo reveals in his…

destroyed the notion of Islam exceptionalism, the idea that Islam is different from the rest of religions, by allowing it into the empire. Meanwhile, rain magic had 2 main significance. To begin with, the belief of rain-making came to the empire in Xinjiang with the arrival of Turk-speaking nomads who brought the Yada (rain-making) stone and was naturally incorporated to Qing along with Islam. Yada stones were formed from the guts of animals that naturally take shape as time passed by. First,…

industry, it is trustable that the number of tourists can increase after constructing the high-speed rail. For example, not only the citizens who live near Hong Kong, including Guangzhou and Guangxi citizens, but also those who live far away, such as Xinjiang, Gansu, Inner Mongolia and even Tibet citizens can tour in Hong Kong because it can build a close transportation system with less accessible regions. It leads to growing the sources of…

They even have discrimination and violence against women. The Government continued to restrict tightly worker rights, and forced labor in prisons. A lot of the more serious human rights violation will end up in some minority areas, like Tibet and Xinjiang; these are the places where restrictions on religion and other basic freedoms have multiplied over many years. Also China doesn’t stop or think to help the poor in anyway shape or form. They don’t have any type of welfare plan or any way to…

Persian family, friends and teachers with the everyday language barriers they encountered. My expanded knowledge of Chinese language gave me the confidence to adventure in places, unknown to foreigners, study Chinese Painting, travel for eight hours to Xinjiang prefecture to play as a background actress in the movie The Kite Runner, and encountered director Marc Forster and the shooting crew. However my seven years of stay in China was not filled with enjoyable experience alone as I often got…

China’s last dynasty, the Qing dynasty, respected Tibet’s autonomy as a distinct territory and culture, yet continued to claim authority over it – a claim generally recognised by the Tibetans – without interfering much in their political and societal structure (“Tibet,” 1997, P. 34). The nature of the relationship between Qing and Tibet was that of “an empire and a semi-independent peripheral state” (“Tibet,” 1997, P. 34). The Qing dynasty, clearly distinguished political status and…

1.1 General Evaporation is the process by which water is converted into gaseous state and is returned to the atmosphere as vapour. Evaporation is an important process in the hydrologic cycle preceding precipitation. It is the process by which water in the liquid form transforms into vapour through the transfer of energy. When water is converted from solid state to vapour state without passing through liquid state then it is called sublimation. In the atmosphere, evaporation occurs from the water…

To understand better expansion of Buddhism around the world, which is being practiced by more than 300 million people currently, one needs to look back to its birth and understand the peaceful nature and humanity of Buddhism, it diversity and methods of teaching, which makes it a fit for different cultures and societies. Buddhism was founded in Northeast India in Sixth century B.C. by a young prince who lived a privileged life for 29 years. In this predominantly Hindu land, corruption existed…