Tu Fu once said, "Even if the nation should be destroyed, the mountains and rivers will remain." The Chinese people are well aware of the grandeur in the geography of their land. Chinese civilization has developed over thousands of years in an environment composed of five mountain ranges forming a...

When Mao Zedong first came into power, we all thought that it was a great thing- he was a strong leader, and he would pilot China from a lowly pit of humiliation into a higher place, where we would regain our power and respect. Mao became the driving force behind extreme alterations in China. For ce...

China's Culture Throughout China's encased history it has developed much differently than western parts of the world. Chinese culture varies greatly compared to ours. These great differences between eastern culture and western culture make China a very interesting place. Some of the vast d...

The Cultural Revolution is one of the biggest historical events in China. The history of this event is amazingly captured in the documentary the "morning Sun". In 1964 the communist party celebrated its fifteenth birthday and the idea of a classless society was enacted. One main idea...

In Tanizaki's essay, "In Praise of Shadows," he argues that Japan has begun to lose its ancient cultural values because of following to closely in the West's footsteps. The tone Tanizaki uses throughout his essay is one of compassion and sympathy. He only hopes to capture the r...

Conflict in China essay Why did the century's long dynastic rule end in china? China is one of the world's most ancient nations with a recorded history that stretches back more than 4000 years. For centuries, China was ruled by dynasties of powerful emperors and had not had any ...

Chinese Nationalism refers to cultural, historiographical, and political theories, movements and beliefs that assert the idea of a cohesive, unified Chinese people and culture under state(s) that are primarily Chinese. One difficulty in this definition is the wide variation and ambiguities in the de...

WHY DID CHINA INTERVENE IN THE KOREAN WAR? In June 1950, a few months after the announcement of the Beijing-Moscow alliance, the Korean crisis erupted. Early in October, shortly after the South Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel, the CCP made a final decision to enter the Korean War to fight...

Josef Stalin is perhaps the most praised, reviled and recognised dictator in the modern world. His influence as such has reached across the globe, affecting leaders and citizens alike. Many of his techniques have been adopted by prominent leaders, today and in the past. One such example is fellow s...

Mao Zedong had ruled China for more than a quarter of a century. During his rule in China for twenty-five years, he had failed to bring prosperity to China. Mao's policies had brought so many catastrophes and suffering to China. In 1966, Mao had launched a Cultural Revolution, a political movement ...

After many years of famine and poverty plaguing the land of China hundreds of thousands of Chinese in seek of opportunity began immigrating to the United States. Many motivated by the discovery of gold in California others came to the United States to seek better economic opportunity. Yet there ...

Mao Zedong was born in a small village named Shaosan, (Music Mountain) in Dec. 1893. His family name Mao means, "hair" and his given name Zedong means "Anoint the East." As a leader, his anointing of the East left an odd birthmark on China's politics and her people. That...

The situation that formed in Asia and the Pacific Rim after WWII was basically a battle between the West (America, capitalism) and the East (USSR, communism). The war created two super-powers in Russia and the USA. Russia immediately began to convert all their territory gained into communist puppet ...