... the ranks candidates who had progressed through confusion educational system and had mastered a sophisticated curriculum concentrating on the classic works of chinese literature and philosophy. The confucian educational system and related civil service served Chinese government well that, modifications and occasional interruption disappearing after the collapse of Qing Dynasty. Tang forces brought Manchuria under imperial authority and ... Tang Emperor abdicated his throne, causing the end of a dynasty. (pg 378-382). After the Tang collapse, the Song Dynasty was introduced. It approached ...

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... because they didn't know of any other dynasties that were having cultural advancements like they were experiencing at the time. The Chinese were able to view themselves as advanced and superior because their dynasties flourished during their Golden Age. During the Chinese Golden Age, they had economic, technologic, intellectual and social achievements. Important inventions during the Golden Age were the inventions ... of gunpowder, inoculation against small pox, and Chinese shipbuilding techniques. Gunpowder was an important invention because it was used for warfare and was still used un...

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... Dynasty introduced binding into the central and southern parts of China. It may have been emphasized to draw a clear cultural distinction between the Chinese and their large footed conquerors, the Mongols. Footbinding was most popular during the Ming Dynasty, if parents cared for their sons they would ... Women are uncomfortable because it is unsettling to think that their ancestors crippled their own daughters just to meet a social standard behavior. In the past Chinese pornography reflected a preoccupation with feet and the men who adore them called "lotus lovers". It became the sign...

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... intrinsically benevolent. However, unless people aim to conserve and practice their of benevolence within society it may be exploited by negative practices and neighboring conditions. Mengzi composed a new periphery to Chinese culture, by suggesting that kings may be overthrown when the people felt they had lost the "mandate of Tian." He accredited Tian for the supernatural forces , as well as, violent ... conveying that Tian hears, and sees, as people do. He characterized great kings from antagonistic kings. The utmost rational for the government is the felicity of the Chinese people w...

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... constant wars among the various states. The intellectual response to this instability of the governments produced the forms of government and the emerging philosophies that came to shape the future Chinese government and civilization. Confucianism was one of the philosophies of government that emerged during the warring states period. Confucius lived from 551 to 479 BC, and was part of a ... western pressure was exerted on China. The extremely traditional civil exams, almost unchanged from the original that came out of the Han period, left the Chinese government officials ill equipped t...

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... , who was born in 551 BCE and lived until 479 BCE, was very influential to the way the Chinese government ran its operations (Eichhorn 252). Confucius ideas filtered throughout the government. Another influential person that made the Zhou Dynasty powerful was Lao Tzu. He created another thought process called Daoism. Daoism deals with the Ying Yang and how people should interpret ... named Zheng He with a fleet of some 300 plus ships, sailed as far west as Mogadishu and Jeddah, and has gotten to Madagascar. They had seven lesser voyages, then the Chinese government thought that it shoul...

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... Huang. The regime of the Qin-dynasty lasted only till 206 BC, but it was not a meaningless period. Qin established the Chinese administration system, standardised the writing and measurement systems, built roads and canals and started the erection of the only human construction that can ... after the People's Republic of China was established. The legislation was renewed to correspond Communist party's program. Organisations of local and state government were restructured. Economic life confronted also huge changes such as land reform and nationalisation of private companies. With these ...

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... during chaos and internal hostilities led Confucius to try to benefit the world by creating and spreading his beliefs of integrity and morality. The ideology of Confucius greatly affected Chinese society through education, government, personal behaviour, and a person's duty to society. Confucius believed that in order for a society to progress peacefully, people had to be educated about good moral ... where the original name of China derived from), which lasted for only fifteen years, but produced immense changes throughout China that lasted a lifetime. Shi Huangdi introduced China's fir...

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... monosyllabic morpheme; 3. no form change in part of speech, especially in Classical Chinese; 4. use of word order and auxiliary words to indicate grammatical relations; 5. topic-comment rather than subject-predicate; 6. discourse-oriented. Written form 1. non-alphabetic; 2. average literate person recognizes 3-4,000 characters; 3. Chinese government tried to get rid of characters but failed; 4. perfectly suited to the ... nature of the Chinese language o monosyllabic; o too many homophones; o dialects problem; 5. basic structure of Chinese characters; o pictographic: to draw a picture of...

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... . Also during the Ming period, and for the first time in Chinese history, a great deal of poetry was written by women. After the founding of the Communist People's Republic of China in 1949, the government ordered that all literature serve the needs of the socialist state. Artistic ... production in China goes back to about 6000 bc. The Chinese consider their unbroken tradition of art one of the central achievements of Chinese culture, and art of various kinds ... from other parts of Asia. Forms of folk dance continued to be practiced in China's countryside, and in the 20th century China...

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... . However, the new government could not hold off foreign domination or bring about reforms needed to improve the population and make them happy. In 1919, the famous May Fourth movement began with a student protest in Beijing and sparked many national protests, marking the rise of Chinese nationalism and a shift ... to represent elements of the revolution and changing culture. One character in the story is referred to as the "Imitation Foreign Devil", an affluent Chinese person who adopts the ideas of the West. This character represents the changing of the times and Ah Q's beliefs, though...

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... begins. First you take care of your family and the rest of the country will fall into place. In class we have discussed how Chinese are some of the most courteous, polite, and forgiving people in the world. All of these important virtues became popular because of Confucius. ... one was better than the other. Confucius supported all religions. (Cotterell) The main two, Buddhism and Daoism, were what a vast majority of Chinese belonged to at the time. Confucius agreed with the ideas behind both religions. He supported the Buddhist enlightenments. The reason I think he supported enlightenmen...

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... did and that man is a part of the natural order and that improper behavior would throw the whole of nature out of order. He emphasized "government by goodness" by stating that, "The people are like grass, the ruler like the wind"; as the wind blows the grass was inclined. ... The right conduct gives the ruler power. Confucianism urges goodness and benevolence in human affairs and in the government. In an effort to organize the chaos, the first empires, the Qin and the Han, were formed. The Qin unified the writing systems, ... Sun Yat- Sen brought nationalism. The Chinese Communist Part...

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... of the caste and hierarchal system (Murphey, 77). During the Sui/Tang dynasty, politically there was a great deal of turbulence in the government. Also there were not any strong leaders that emerged and controlled the society. These two factors permitted an opening in which Buddhism appealed to the ... power, and popularity began the downfall of Buddhism in China (Murphey, 92). Socially, there was a new awareness of what it meant to be Chinese, and Buddhism was a foreign religion and not a part of there main belief in the Confucian Classics. In the beginning of the Song dynasty ... a re...

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... intellectual output increased enormously. Sung thinkers turned back to the Confucian classics, attempting to purge them of Han and Tang accretions. The resulting Neo-Confucianism was most concerned with good government, and the hierarchical but compassionate ordering of society. Yet, this era was also heavily influenced by Buddhist ideals of compassion and kinship with all sentient beings and by the Buddhist ... Sung. Guanyin was the most popular deities at that time, particularly in the newer embodiments based on the Lotus and Flower Garland sutras. Over time, Guanyin combined major el...

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My parents immigrated to Canada in 1990 to escape the tyranny of the Chinese government and to build a better life in Canada. After listening to their stories of hardships and frustrations, I realized how fortunate I was to be living in ... would offer me incredible new experiences, but I wasn't prepared. I wasn't ready. Leaving my birth country at the age of one and forgetting many of the proper Chinese traditions, I felt so isolated from my culture. The only encouragement I had of taking this trip was from my parents, who reassured me that I was going to ... do fine. However, my doubts sti...

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Tang Dynasty I. Another high mark in Chinese politics, culture 1. Resembled Han but more of everything 2. Opened to the new and different, adopting the best of what the world offered 3. Chinese, particularly on the south also designated themselves asnen of Tang 4. Founding family intermarried w/ non-Chinese B. Accomplishments 1. Strengthened bureaucratic government 2. Supported an elaborate hierarchy of court aristocracy 3. ... Broadened the money economy 4. Increased transportation system 5. Strengthened military 6. Subdued barbarians 7. Brought Chinese influence to outlying lands 8. Expande...

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... Sui, China was not unified. "The new faith spread slowly at first, but then began to appeal more widely as the political order disintegrated and Chinese, with their traditional distaste for chaos, turned to Buddhism's otherworldly message and its doctrine that the real, observable world of human affairs was illusory and ... the sixth century in 552; however, this new adoption was not too smooth. Buddhism in Japan was seen as a threat to power of the government. "Buddhism was at first opposed by many as an alien religion, but was championed by the Soga uji, which vanquished many of its ri...

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... 618 C.E, and the Tang Dynasty took the opportunity to rise. During this dynasty, China became more stable with a strong central government, economic revolution, agriculture improved by its infrastructure and that led to an increase in population, which led to urbanization, the interaction with others, and ... the spread of Chinese culture and art with poems, paintings, and other pieces of literature. Like the other dynasties, the Tang dynasty eventually fell around 906 C.E ... falling of dynasties, there would always be someone there to pick up the pieces and replace the following one,...

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... . Most Confucianists live in East Asia where Confucianism is thought to be born. For over two thousand years, Confucianism has been the dominant philosophical system of Chinese government, which has still a great hold on their people. Because Chinese culture has spread to the counties of Vietnam, Korea, and Japan, the values of Confucianism can be found there too. Confucius Confucius was born in ... ...

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... maintain the household and maintain harmony in the household. Respect for parents was above all outer duties this was held in the highest regard. Confucius's teachings focused on the traditional Chinese concept of li. This term stood for proper etiquette or social ritual. At the time, most people interpreted li as the proper conduct of ceremonies or rituals. Confucius extended the ... means to love others. It is also none as humanity. To improve one's humanity, a person lived by all the moral virtues, wisdom, courage, honor, kindness, and love. Confucianism heavily influenced Chinese, K...

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Dear Clinton It's interesting to hear about your political views. I also have a feeling that the U.S. government may not be really concerned about justice in making its foreign policies. I believe that the ordinary people of every nation must share similar moral values. But what is going on ... may be quite a different matter. You mentioned Tibet, this is a sensitive issue. Here I will not talk about it in terms of right or wrong. But one thing may worth mentioning. Chinese culture believes in softness (I'm not sure if this is an appropriate word). Softness means many things: tolerance, forg...

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... though these empires did not really have contact with one another, there were many similarities. These similarities and differences will be discussed in religion and culture, economy and society, and government and military as well as the effect these areas had on how each was ruled. A person's religion and traditions can have a lot to do with decisions they make, even when ... headed families. The main religion in Rome was Christianity. China's largest religions were Confucianism and Buddhism. While picking in an emperor in Rome had little to do with faith, the Chinese believed in the ...

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... period of time, she was well educated at home. Lastly, like most other rich and noble people of her time, she was taught to play music, write, and read the Chinese classics. In addition, Empress Wu started out as a low-ranking concubine of the emperor of the Tang court, T'ai Tsung. She was well known for her beauty, wit, and intelligence ... she framed Empress Wang and Hsaio Shu-Fei for the crime of trying to poison Gaozong. Their punishment was that they, along with their entire families, were striped of any government ranks or titles. Using the title of "Empress,' she sent people to k...

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... the period. None of his works survive because they were buried with emperor and lost. Yen Cheng Ching became the most influtiential calligrapher. His powerful strokes set the standard in Chinese writing. Painting flourished during Tang Dynasty. Landscape painting became most important under the leadership of painter Li Ssu Hein. Ssu Hein was known for works done in gold and green ... . The government structure of Tang continued till 1912. Wu Tse Tien was the only empress of Tang. She promoted poor people as officials to consolidate her power. She had large rock staues ... ...

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