... of the 720,000 cars sold in China were on credit, so a functioning credit system would likely boost sales. (tdctrade.com) The Chinese government is also at present improving the infrastructure by building major networks of roads in China, which likely increases the demand for cars furthermore. Economical ... which was the first foreign car manufacturer in China (1982) the technology have gradually become better. (www.wardsauto.com) The Chinese government encourages FDI since it recognises that the Chinese car industry cannot develop properly without technological and know-how transfer f...

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... wanted a challenge, the challenge they got trying to get ahead and excel more then their discriminators. Because of their resentment towards the Chinese and Japanese schools, the second generation was seen as ignorant towards their culture. As the second generation got older, they yearned to be ... independence. The boys were prioritized and had the independence they wanted because it was said that the boys continued the family heritage. The Chinese also faced a different experience then the Japanese during the World War II. When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, America seemed to have focused ...

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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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... as strong leadership, order, and also relationships. People not only need to show loyalty to the emperor, the government, but also to their family. The break down of the Chinese Government system, consists of an emperor with his imperial court, and the grand council. They are comparable to the president ... pao chia headsman. Li Chia system, it is a tax collection system. They go around each district collect taxes for the emperor. The government promotes the government elite by giving them civil privileges, privileges that common folks do not get. In Ch'ing, the elite was broken down into...

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... hard working workers and they had positive attitudes toward the other workers, similarly to the Chinese people. They are more educated then the Chinese because they have a stronger government. Their government recommended most of the Japanese who immigrant to the United States must pass by their own ... skill. Lao 2 There are other reasons why the Chinese are immigrant to America. It is not until the Opium War that fought with the British. The British troops have a stronger arm force than Chinese army. The Chinese ... food to support your family from starvation. The Irish people are wor...

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... attracting the immigrants. This was the beginning of the Chinese culture in the Chicago area. Filipino's found they"re way to the United States in a different way. Filipino students were sent to America to attend major universities and colleges on a government pension. They were there to study various academic disciplines ... where their pastor urged them to go to the United States. By 1905 there were about 7,000 Koreans in Hawaii. In 1906 the Korean government prohibited immigration to North America. There was no Korean immigration until 1924 except for about 1,000 women who came as pict...

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... much to offer. They had a few products here and there that could be desired, but even these were most likely taken from the Chinese. While the Chinese wanted the westerners to leave so that their influence would not reach the people of China, the Japanese would have probably profited a lot ... to trade for technological advancements. Unlike Japan, China's answer to the pressure from the West was being given in the revolts that the Chinese people were experiencing. The biggest rebellion in the 19th century that threatened the Qing dynasty was the Taiping rebellion. The Taiping movement wa...

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... the dynasty only endorsed it officially. All recruitment and training was done at the provincial level also. It was after the Taiping rebellion that Chinese leader realized that a national military force was necessary at dynastic, provincial, or local. They believed it was the key to the ultimate ... more distant from each other. The tax payers in Japan shouldered the responsibility of some of the income by taxes while the government used income from government monopolies. Having asserted itself as the military power in the region, Japan began to spread and colonize what it could. Manchu...

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... extension of their own land. Samurai fought for their daimyo. Finally during the 16th century Ieyasu succeded to unite al little areas under 1 militaristic government. A new Bakufu was settled. This is the beginning of the Tokugawa-period with 250 years of peace. Bushido With the emergency of the ... Zen in Japan Confucianism came from China to Japan during the 6th century. Japanese people interpreted these teachings in their own way. While for the Chinese Confucianism was related to human relationships, the Japanese saw it as a system of subordination. Loyalty became a main feature, ever...

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... themselves out and a stable and just government arises. In the early fifth century the Japanese courts adopted the Chinese righting system. A few centuries" later and Buddhism showed its head and this started the long influence of Chinese culture on Japan until the middle of ... the nineteenth century. During this period there were emperors but the main power of government and enforcing lied with "shoguns" or military governors. Contact with ... the west started in the middle 1500's and went on for 150 years until Japan closed its doors to the world. The shogunate feared that Europe was...

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... privilege. Japan used China's weakness to try and take over and had a lot of power over China even though Chinese nationalism was a constant problem for Japan. When the Depression hit home in Japan it lead to the downfall of representative and responsible government in Japan. In 1931 Japan started its Manchurian campaign when the army occupying parts of Manchuria started conquering what ... own "undeclared" war with China. By 1938 Japan had taken over large regions of China, however clashes with Russia, who finally returned after leaving most of Asia after WWI, and Chinese guerrilla war...

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... the cause of drastic reforms and lead the country to become an imperialistic nation while the whole time fighting off the imperialistic nations. The new government aimed to make Japan a state focused on equality among its people. The social classes of the previous Tokugawa era were broken down over ... prefectures. After the intense westernization took place the country had to catch up militaristically. This, being a high priority for Japan, the government introduced a universal conscription of a new army and navy. The Japanese modeled their army after the Prussian army and the navy afte...

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... Just before the turn of the century, there was an increased number of Japanese immigration to the United States. Fifty years before this, many Chinese immigrants arrived to take advantage of the Gold Rush in California. Their arrival and the mining skills they possessed seemed to some "an infringement ... upon the fruits of Manifest Destiny"(Conrat 16). The Chinese faced many challenges and many laws were put into place to give mining advantages to the whites. One of these laws was the Miners" ... were high and they received the same bad treatment as the Chinese. From 1905 to 1924, Cal...

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... to work as migrant workers. Dutch arrived only to find aborigine people and no sign of any structure of the Chinese Imperial Government, so this meant that Taiwan was not part of China at that time. The slaves that where brought over were Chinese and when they were made to wed the aborigine women a new race was born: the Taiwanese. Taiwan then endured ... , the Taiwanese pirates captured American, Japanese, and French ships passing the island (Taiwan's History 3). After the pirates raided these countries for the last time, they took their problems to the Chinese government but Manchu sta...

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... industrial foundation and a good army and navy. The military became highly involved in the government, and this began to get them into trouble. In the early 1930's, the Japanese Army had many small battles with the Chinese in Manchuria. The Japanese Army won a series of battles, and Manchuria became a part ... time in the United States, President Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted to halt the growth of Germany and Japan, but many others in the government wanted to leave the situation alone. The United States began to supply materials to the countries at war with Germany and Japan, but ... torp...

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... and prisoners of war, and raped at least 20,000 women. Also in the 14 year time period Japanese military massacred over 30 million Chinese soldiers and civilians, which include women and children, in the cruelest fashion. Men, women, and children were killed with bayonets, swords, ... of unit 731 and Ishii himself would go free without being charged in exchange for valuable information acquired from the human experimentations done on numerous Chinese, Koreans, Soviets and U.S. POW's. So therefore the U.S. had used the Japanese doctors for their own benefit and has also poisoned the justic...

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... continue towards the power that was instituting the crippling embargo. Also, in 1931, the Japanese provocatively invaded Manchuria, a province located in northeastern China, brutally killing tens of thousands of Chinese. Along with this invasion, they also withdrew from the League of Nations. Ultimately, the conflict came down to the fact that Japanese imperialism collided with "western" imperialism, and it ... Simply put, the western empires and the Japanese empires crashed in the Pacific and Japan was the first to strike; the United States had an empire that Japan wanted. However, gov...

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... closer to Japan. The Americans had a foothold close enough they were able to send bombers to obliterate Japan. "On July 26,the U.S., British, and Chinese governments jointly called on Japan to surrender or be destroyed the Japanese government refused " (Coffin, Stacy, Cole, Symes). The United States had already been firebombing Japanese cities killing thousands of civilians. When a country is attacking cities killing ... when the attacking country offers a way out? All the United States did was instead of dropping hundreds of bombs to destroy a city they dropped one. The United States, ...

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... would move. The tribe will move wherever they have to so that they can survive. Even now people immigrate. It might be because of war or as a result of a bad government, but whatever the reason immigration will never stop as long as one country has a better place. Major Immigration Groups There are four major immigration groups that I know of that comes ... wasn't until the discovery of gold in 1848 that California started to grow. Because of the gold rush people needed laborers to help build the transcontinental railroad, thus spurring the Chinese immigration. In the late 1800's to the...

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... as "Ch"an" and in Japan as "Wu". During the Tang dynasty and Sung dynasty (618-906), known as the golden age of China, Zen was widely supported by the Chinese government and was popular among all classes of people in China. Ch"an was carried to Japan in the twelfth and eleventh centuries by the visits of ... Chinese monks to Japan. It was supported by the Shogun (chief military lord) and Daimyo (vassal lords). There are many reasons why Zen came to Japan at that particular time and ... ...

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... as "Ch"an" and in Japan as "Wu". During the Tang dynasty and Sung dynasty (618-906), known as the golden age of China, Zen was widely supported by the Chinese government and was popular among all classes of people in China. Ch"an was carried to Japan in the twelfth and eleventh centuries by the visits of ... Chinese monks to Japan. It was supported by the Shogun (chief military lord) and Daimyo (vassal lords). There are many reasons why Zen came to Japan at that particular time and ... ...

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... destructive attacks in history. Prior to World War II, Japan already had numerous problems. She was dangerously dependent on outside sources for raw materials, especially oil. Conflicts with the Chinese in 1937 lead to the Sino-Japanese War, one of the bloodiest wars in world history. This war was seriously depleting Japan's resources and military forces. Desperate for raw ... peace with that nation? Still in conversation? Is peace with a nation placing an oil embargo? Is conversation setting impossible, unfathomable demands and ultimatums? "During the intervening time, the Japanese gov...

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... destructive attacks in history. Prior to World War II, Japan already had numerous problems. She was dangerously dependent on outside sources for raw materials, especially oil. Conflicts with the Chinese in 1937 lead to the Sino-Japanese War, one of the bloodiest wars in world history. This war was seriously depleting Japan's resources and military forces. Desperate for raw ... peace with that nation? Still in conversation? Is peace with a nation placing an oil embargo? Is conversation setting impossible, unfathomable demands and ultimatums? "During the intervening time, the Japanese gov...

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... drastic move the traditional Japanese society was largely isolated from all other civilizations. By doing this the Japanese managed to strengthen the economy, strengthen the government, and make social reforms. Meiji leaders made the economy a major priority. They encouraged Japan's business class to adopt western methods. They Japanese ... help appease the people and advance their society. The constitution ended legal distinctions between classes, thus freeing people to build the nation. The government set up new schools and universities and hired westerners to teach the new generation...

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... more so considering the importance of the Emperor it is safe to assume that the main driving force of Japan is the government. So any major developments and changes would be closely related to the government. Nakamura H. (1964, p.448) also says: "Just as religion was the basis of the ethical thinking of ... the Indians, family the basis of the practical morals of Chinese, so the state was the basis of all thought in the Japanese.& ... quot; So based on this argument, it is safe to assume that due to the role the government plays in everyday lives of the Japanese, Japanese Buddhism is .....

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