... placed on a pyre and burned to ashes. In the cities of present day China, because of the great overpopulation and lack of usable land, the government has made cremation a necessity. Cremation is also encouraged in rural areas in efforts of saving arable land for farming. Since the people living in the ... attitudes have been changed. Communists believed that religion and the "old ways?were not important, that believing in the government and the nation as a whole was important. Because of this, Chinese people no longer buy their coffins at the age of sixty, buy they do still pray to their ...

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... bring in good economic aid to the country, which may be a determining factor in its permitence. On the other hand, I am sure the government doesn't see Christianity as a very big threat to the other prime religions, such as Islam of Buddhism. In comparison, those seventeen million Bibles are ... force. (Islam 3) The government attempted to smother the Muslims, thus pushing them away from the Chinese culture. They would do this by sending mass amounts of Chinese people to their areas and replacing the Muslim leaders with Han Chinese people. This continued up until 1978 when the government...

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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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... Peninsula is dominated by the Malay people, making just over half of the population, they also form the dominant power in the multi-party government. Malay is a minority group in Sabah but politically the every day affairs of political life is very much overshadowed by that of the Peninsula ... demonstrate their adaptability skills by replacing their culture with a western culture. The consequence of that is that nowadays there is very little traditional Chinese music in the musical life. The following table shows that while the number of music examination entries increased in Sabah, in t...

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