Architecture, by definition, is the art or science of planning and building structures. Those are the words used to describe architecture in a dictionary but architecture is so much more than a study of how a building is built. Architecture is a product of human activities, and it is also a mirror o...

The Lost Ones – Young Chinese Americans Due to harsh immigration laws, in American history, Chinese have often relied on illegal means of entering the United States. For example, in 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act (Chinese Exclusion Act, Documents on Anti-Chinese Immigration Policy.) ...

The history of film is an important one. Many people in our society may see film as simply a form of entertainment, but it is indeed more than that. The film is a medium of expression that is unlike no other. It can tell many tales of many different types of people throughout history. Film is also a...

"In the formative era of Chinese civilization as early as the first millennium b.c. the Chinese thought of the world as all the regions of the heavens, and within the "four seas." They called it Tianxia, which literally means "under heaven." Because this was a universal...

The history of ancient Chinese civilization has always fascinated people, perhaps, in recent times more than ever. More than one billion Chinese people live in the world today. There are many characteristics that can unite and give a common identity to such an enormous amount of people. Some of t...

Can you imagine your body being an object for experimentation while you're still alive? That's one of the things the Japanese did to the Chinese during the forgotten holocaust, the Chinese holocaust. Among the universal disputes between many countries, Japanese aggression on the Chines...

Tibet is a peaceful country, which has never posed a threat to another nation and has even been thought of as the most religious country in the world. However, Tibet was invaded and annexed by China in 1950. Yet, China asserts that Tibet should be rightfully under its control. They argue that the T...

Introduction China, also known as the People's Republic of China (Zhong hua Ren Min Gong He Guo), is the world's largest country by population. China contains more than 1/5 of the world's population. China has 1.3 billion people with a landmass only about the same size as the Unit...

It could easily be argued that one of the most important inventions or discoveries in history has been gunpowder. And there are many things that can be argued about gunpowder itself. Such as where was it originated, when was it originated, and how did it spread across the world. These are three ...

Everything in China seems larger than life; its culture and its civilization go back five thousand years. Its vast area of more than 3,690,000 square miles is the third-largest in the world. With a population of more than 1 billion, it is the earth's most populated country. The Himalayas along Chin...

Chinese Lion Dancing Many who see a Chinese Lion Dance performed, and even many of the performers, do not stop to reflect on the symbolism's being presented. However, by understanding them, a greater appreciation for this ancient ritual can be gained. Insights obtained from studying the meani...

Chinese Lion Dancing Many who see a Chinese Lion Dance performed, and even many of the performers, do not stop to reflect on the symbolism's being presented. However, by understanding them, a greater appreciation for this ancient ritual can be gained. Insights obtained from studying the meani...

History of the American Drug War The first act of America's anti-drug laws was in 1875. It outlawed the smoking of opium in opium dens. This was a San Francisco ordinance. The basis on passing this law was that Chinese men had a way of luring white women to their dens and causing their "ruin"...

The early inhabitants of the area were Negritos. Some 4,000 years ago, Austronesian (Indonesian) migrants from the north moved into the area that is now North Vietnam. Later, Austro-Asiatic (Mon-Kilmer and Maylayo-Polynesian) peoples arrived. Then, about 2500 years ago, Viet (Yueh) and Tai peoples...

Chinese Art History In Wu Hung's discussion of traditional Chinese concepts of monumentality, he utilizes the ancient legend of the Nine Bronze Tripods to illustrate how the traditions (including ancestral temple and r...

Five Important Events in History Essay #1. For all practical purposes, the Renaissance Early Modern Period is distinguished from other periods in European history almost entirely in intellectual or cultural terms. As far as larger historical patterns are concerned, the period is more or less consid...

Do you know what a revolution is? Well according to Webster it is an effort to overthrow a government and set up a new one usually by violent means. Revolutions are never cased by just one thing. There is usually plenty of background agitation set off by an event. A revolution can't simp...

Mao Zedong is one of the most controversial leaders of the twentieth century. He has been known both as a savior and a tyrant to the Chinese people. From his tactical success of the Long March to his embarrassing failure of the Great Leap Forward, Mao has greatly influenced the result of what China...

Human Sexuality Sex repeats itself through out history time and time again; in ancient civilizations such as Mesopotamia they had a system that treated women as sexual servants. Sex was also seen as a means of procreations well as way of transcending spiritual healing. Much like the Egyptian...

History of Chemistry Introduction: Humans have always been very curios creatures. The have always wondered about what they are and why they are here. Our limited knowledge of the environment has always urged for new things to be discovered. The desire to understand the world better has made ...

The notion that man could fly or someday would be able to achieve flight has long since been an idea of man for literally centuries. As early as 400 BC, a Greek scholar by the name of Archytas built a wooden pigeon that moved through the air. Approximately 100 years later the Chinese developed kite...

The Mongol invasion of China was perhaps one of the greatest political, social, and economic upheavals in Chinese history. Fierce and obscure people who lived in the outer reaches of the Gobi Desert, present day Outer Mongolia, accomplished it. The outcome of this invasion was the destruction of th...

On October 1st 1949, Mao Tse-tung, the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and leader of the communist armies proclaimed the People's Republic of China. It was a hard-fought victory for Mao and the communists, a victory which had come after nearly four years of unbridled civil war....

Especially over the 7th, 8th and early 9th centuries CE, East Asia was dominated by the great Tang China Empire, which is shown covering the whole area of ethnic China, plus Annam (northern Vietnam) to the south and the Tarim Basin in central Asia (shown gold outlined in the map below). At this ti...

What is national identity? This question may seem to be to simple to even bother answering. The easy answer is that national history is the events in a nation's past that, when put together, unify all aspects of life in that nation. From this rough definition it would make sense that all o...