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...

Nobody knows that in a quiet city of Moose Jaw lies a secret that has been denied by the city officials for more than 75 years. A network of tunnels located under our sleepy city holds dark stories of Canada's past. There are a lot of questions as to why it was built and who used them. It was belie...

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...

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...

One large difference between Chinese and American cinema is the governments' involvement with the production and releasing of a film. Generally speaking, the Chinese directors that choose to touch on sensitive subjects execute their scripts so sincerely that the government feels the need to inter...

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...

China ascribes to its own form of communism, Maoism (as opposed to the Soviet Marxist model). It also has many characteristics that distinguish it from the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and make any sort of economic comparison difficult, to say the least. As much as the socialist econo...

Divine Right to Rule--The Origin of Government The divine right to rule is one of the most important doctrines in history yet most people don't understand this concept. The first step in understanding the concept of the divine right to rule is to know its history. Once you understand the his...

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...

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...

The period of the Yuan Dynasty in China saw an explosion in landscape painting. The reign of Kublai Khan (1260-1294) caused a large amount of the scholarly class to leave the imperial court, meaning "amateur" artists began to show the skills of artists of the court. At this point, four artists bec...

China's population is about 20% of the world population while it possesses just 7% of the world's arable land. Feeding its people has, therefore, been the country's major concern through much of its history. When the Communist party of China (CPP) came to power in 1949 as a result of the Communis...

INTRODUCTION The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was a ten-year political campaign with objectives to revolutionize china with the cultural and political ideologies of Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong launched the Great Leap Forward in 1959, which was a complete disaster. To help bring China out of the ...

Deng Xiaoping was the chief architect of China's pragmatic reforms since the 80s. It was under Deng's sophisticated sponsorship that China underwent the most dramatic changes of its history in the final two decades of the last century. China moved ahead with its modernization programs, scoring imp...

Capitalism and Government Spending When economic times are good it is easy for many of us to forget the important part government has played in these economic game. In times of economic crisis many people look to government for assistance, many times blaming it for not being more involved before...

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 th...

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...

When Sigmund Freud said, "Man is wolf to man," he meant that man is always trying to gain power over the weak. World conflicts around the world confirm Freud's philosophies. "Men are not gentle creatures who want to be loved, and who at the most can defend themselves if they are attacked; they a...

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...

"Foreign Direct Investment in China is expected to reach US$100 billion in every year of the 11th Five-Year Plan period (2006-10)" (Annual 1). If history is any indication of the future, then China can expect a biased distribution of these funds during the 11th Five-Year Plan. Attracting foreign d...

The Chinese practice of Falun Gong has a relatively short but already important history. Its specific history is a mere ten years old, however, the ideas and practices it is based on have a history that stretches throughout the entire history of the Chinese civilization. The practice of different ...

Compassion in Politics The Dalai Lama has always been the central leader to the Vajrayana sect of Buddhism and the current Lama's smiling face is one of the most recognizable in the world. He has become the poster boy of Buddhism and his charisma has created a market in western countries for...

China and the Internet The worldwide network of computers known as the Internet poses an interesting dilemma to the government of China. The widespread and cheap access to unrestricted information that the Internet offers could pose a serious threat to the authoritarian government of China. In c...

The Cost of Human Rights In Tibet Chinese officials gouge out a man's eyes and then throw him from the roof of Tibet's holiest shrine. Meanwhile elsewhere in the town a father and daughter are forced to have sex while members of the Chinese army watch and cheer on (Chang, 30). China h...