...Marisa Maen April 16, 2013 Since the beginning of Japanese history, many cultures such as Korea, India, the United States and the most prominent, China, have consistently influenced the people and culture of Japan. Although the Japanese aesthetics may have begun as something borrowed from its neighboring cultures, the Japanese have truly evolved their aesthetics into unique and authentic. In modern times, their aesthetics continue to greatly influence world art and fashion. Ranging from their poetry, to the tea ceremony, to architecture, the Japanese aesthetics began as something mimicking that of China and other cultures, and over time, have developed into something purely and truly Japanese. Because of its close proximity to China and Korea, Japan, in the pre-modern times, was greatly influenced by the cultures surrounding it. Early knowledge of the Japanese people can be found in the dynastic histories of China. “The Chinese called Japan the land of Wa…described as consisting of ‘one-hundred’ ---probably meaning a great many ---countries or tribes” (Varley, Japanese Culture, p. 7.) Since this time, the Japanese sent missions to China and slowly adopted many of their cultural aesthetics. Even though there was a very strong Chinese influence, the Japanese eventually assumed their unique aesthetic sense. This aesthetic sense is collectively known as miyabi, or refined sensibility, mono no aware, or the capacity to be moved by things, wabi and suki, or imperfect, irregular...
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...date | Client | Additional file | art_topi...docx | 0.01 Mb | None | 09:54 26 May 2014 | Upload file attachment Please pick ONE of the topics given below: 1. Please explain the meaning of <Three Perfection>. Please explain with the aesthetic theory and achievements of two famous literati artists in Chinese art history. 2. Discuss the development of Chinese tea art from the Tang dynasty until recent times in China or overseas. 3. Describe the main features of Beijing Opera and explain why it is popular to general audience. Please discuss the special interaction between the actors on stage and the audience during the performance. attchmentCancel order5m Development of tea from the Tang Dynasty age to present day Name Institution Introduction Tea is a very common beverage all around the world. Tea is the second most popular drink in the world from water. Tea drinking is of great importance in the Chinese culture. An old Chinese saying says that the basic daily necessities are; oil, salt, rice, fuel, soy sauce, tea and vinegar. Chinese tea culture refers to the methods used to prepare tea, the occasions during which it is prepared and the equipment used to prepare the...
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...ReferenceAppendix | 2245678 | Introduction China has a history of tea culture for thousands of years, it could be called the hometown of tea. Now after a long history, tea has been prevalent in more than 50 countries around the world, tea has been become one of the three major non-alcoholic drinks. As a worldwide beverage, tea is becoming more and more get the welcome and attention of people. In recent years, people's preference to tea, resulting in tea consumption is constantly growing around the world. Many rumors said that tea was first discovered by the Chinese, it has been confirmed by banker. When viewing Chinese splendid tea culture, and can see the different historical period about tea art. Chinese drinking tea has a history of several thousand years, there are many kinds of tea, for example, green tea, black tea, oolong tea and scented tea, etc. Original Chinese tea is popular in Sichuan, then it spread to the east and south, the throughout the country. In emperor Shennong period, is the earliest discovered tea, but tea mainly flourished in the Tang dynasty. The formation of the Chinese tea culture, it is from the Tang dynasty. China’s contribution to the human in tea industry that is mainly depends on the first discovered and used tea this plant to develop into a unique tea art of the world. The origin and development of tea Tea was first discovered later, it’s just the custom form detoxification, then gradually developed to drink. Today, tea is not just a thirst quenching,...
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...in the stores and in the company. Also, Starbucks persists to be profitable and it is. They live by a strict, slow growth policy completely dominating a market before setting its sights further abroad. As a supplement tot the growth provided by new outlets, Starbucks tried out new concepts in their store but the management felt that it took away from their core business. In 1994, Starbucks introduced a drink called Frappuccino, a cold coffee drink. Through a joint venture with Pepsi, a grocery-store version was marketed. International expansion to Japan and the UK As Starbucks was reaching the point of saturation in North America, the firm set its sights on overseas expansion. In 1996, Starbucks opened its first Japanese store (a joint venture with Sazabu) in Tokyo’s Ginza district. Almost immediately, Starbucks enjoyed huge success in Japan. By 2003, more than five hundred stores were operating as joint ventures in Japan. A large portion of its international business is in Asia, and Starbucks plans to continue expanding its presence throughout Asia. Starbucks’ experience in Britain was quite different....
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...The tradition of every culture is ‘shattering’ • The modern lifestyle and thinking of the younger generation affects the continuing of cultural tradition. • The perception of the young Japanese towards cultural tradition might influence the continuing of Japanese Tea Ceremony. Significance of Research • Identify the perception of young Japanese towards Japanese Tea Ceremony. • Related parties will be able to take initiatives to ensure the continuing of Japanese Tea Ceremony. Research Question 1. What is the history of Japanese Tea Ceremony? 2. What is the perception of young Japanese towards Japanese Tea Ceremony? Research Method 1. Literature Review • The tea ceremony is deeply connected with the character of the Japanese people and their culture. – (j-tradition.com, 2016) • Today the ceremonial tea is still actively studied by students of all ages. – (learn-about-tea.com, 2016) • With time, Japanese Tea Ceremony is said to be an outdated tradition. Modern city life makes it difficult to find time and place for tea ceremony. – (japacolle.com, 2015) • A full-length formal tea ceremony is not something that Japanese do at home regularly for relaxation. (web-japan.org, 2016) 2. Articles Japanese Tea Ceremony is: • Known as Chanoyu, the Way of Tea • Ritualized preparation of powdered green tea (Matcha) • Served together with traditional Japanese sweets (Wagashi) to balance with the bitter taste of the tea • Designed to bring aesthetic...
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...settlement, culture, geography, and prosperity of Egypt's people. The Nile River served many purposes for the Ancient Egyptians. They fished, washed and collected water for irrigation and drinking. “It has a length of about 4,132 miles and drains an area estimated at 1,293,000 square miles” (Magdi M. El-Kammash, 2013). It was the main highway Egyptians used for transportation and transport of goods for trade as well as linking cities together. The Nile begins to flood every June and recedes by late August leaving behind a soil rich in nutrients for cultivating crops and a precious supply of water. Due to the predictability of the Nile’s annual flood the people were able to use this natural resource to build permanent settlements in an area that was otherwise dry desert. The annual floods were also a forefront to new technologies such as the calendar. The agricultural advances, new technologies, as well as ease of access it provided, attracted immigrants and travelers who brought with them goods and ideas that would help shape Egypt’s culture. The process of diffusion in early human societies can simply be stated as the replication of an activity or belief from one geographic in a different region. An example of diffusion is present in a very popular beverage available worldwide, tea. The origin of tea dates back to the first century in China. Tea was used for its medicinal purposes for various ailments from stomachaches to eyesight. Tea spread to Japan when Japanese...
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...2Current Situation: Starbucks is a provider of high-end coffee products and more importantly, arelaxed experience. Starbucks as it is known today was purchased in 1987 and hasseen tremendous amounts of growth over the years. The company is known globallyand does business internationally, although it’s headquartered in the United States.Starbucks has historically had a differentiation strategy, with prices comparablyhigh and uniquely high-quality products, service and environment for the consumer.This differentiation strategy is used with a horizontal growth strategyinternationally. Starbucks currently has a market expansion strategy focusedaround Asia, and has recently seen both problems and great sales figures arise fromthis market in China and Japan. The objective of this strategic campaign is tocapitalize on the highly dense Asian market, with its high population and growingwealth. In 2002, Starbucks announced that it intended on breaking into the Indianmarket, however has failed to do so four years later. The problem facing Starbucksright now is whether or not to expand into India and if the company were to expand,how it would go about doing so. If Starbucks does decide to expand into India with apromising strategy, there is still the problem of finding a suitable partner currentlyin India to form a partnership with.Environmental Scanning The external factor analysis summary (Table 1) shows the externalopportunities and threats that face Starbucks. These will later be addressed...
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...REPORT ON GREEN TEA IIFT 2012-14 VIKUL TYAGI (46) MBA (IB) IIFT KOLKATA ABOUT TEA Tea is an evergreen plant that grows mainly in tropical and subtropical climates. Tea plants are propagated from seed and by cutting; it takes about 4 to 12 years for a tea plant to bear seed, and about three years before a new plant is ready for harvesting Fig. 1 Leaves of a tea plant In addition to a zone 8 climate or warmer, tea plants require at least 127 cm (50 inches) of rainfall a year and prefer acidic soil. Many high-quality tea plants are cultivated at elevations of up to 1,500 m (4,900 ft) above sea level: at these heights, the plants grow more slowly and acquire a better flavor. Only the top 1-2 inches of the mature plant are picked. These buds and leaves are called "flushes". A plant will grow a new flush every seven to 15 days during the growing season, and leaves that are slow in development always produce better-flavored teas. A tea plant will grow into a tree of up to 16 m (52 ft) if left undisturbed, but cultivated plants are pruned to waist height for ease of plucking. Two principal varieties are used: the China plant, used for most Chinese, Formosan and Japanese teas and the clonal Assam tea plant, used in most Indian and other teas (but not Darjeeling). Within these botanical varieties, there are many strains and modern Indian clonal varieties. Leaf size is the chief criterion for the classification...
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...Culture of China China exists over many centuries and the culture of China is one of the oldest and most complex cultures in the world. To explore and understand the culture of China, people can have a look on its architecture, Feng Shui, cuisine, language, etc. Architecture The history of Chinese architecture has been built over many centuries. Its distinctive and special structural features have significantly influenced on the architectural styles of the East Asia countries such as Korea, Japan and Vietnam. In Chinese architecture, bilateral symmetry and the articulations of buildings are mainly concerned. These features did not only apply for the palaces, but also apply for the humble farmhouses. Apart from the main buildings, the open courtyard and/or the “sky well” can be easily found within the building complexes. Open courtyard and the “sky well” is an empty space surrounded by buildings that connected one building to another one building either directly. Chinese Siheyuan in Beijing is a very good example showing the symmetry, use of open courtyard and “sky well”. Another important feature of Chinese architecture is that Chinese architecture emphasizes on width, in contrast, Western architecture emphasizes on height. The wide halls of Forbidden City and castles in Western countries are very good examples in respect of Chinese and Western architectures. In relation to the structural materials, bricks, stones and wooden timber (frame and roof) are frequently...
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...developed cultures have known this recipe for thousands of years and each has established a long history of ceramic arts. Through the millennia, these different cultures have taken the rather simple process and adapted it to their own taste while also assimilating foreign influences imported through intercontinental trade and migrations. The result is an art form that is universally popular, yet regionally unique. The oldest examples of ceramic pottery date back past 10,000 BC and come from southern China and Japan. These early pots were made through the “coiling” method, a technique that required the clay to be worked into a long string which was wound round onto itself to form walls that could then be molded smooth. This process was independently developed by cultures across the world but was eventually replaced by the potter’s wheel after its invention in Mesopotamia around 4,000 BC. Thanks to the potter’s wheel, from 900 to 500 B.C. ceramic pottery was widely implemented throughout Ancient Greece, most commonly in the form of decoratively painted vases. While Greek vases typically depicted a scene or story drawn on the exterior, their interior served a variety of purposes; from small jugs used to store and transport goods to large kraters that were used to dilute wine in. Compared to the Greeks, the Romans were less involved with “luxury” pottery but still produced massive quantities of ceramic ware that served utilitarian purposes. Meanwhile, Eastern cultures were working...
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...Content I. Introduction 2 i. Introduction of the product……………………………..2 ii. Introduction of the country……………………………..2 II. Overview 2 i. Tea culture of British…………………………………....2 ii. Communication style of British…………………………3 iii. Relationship between China and British………………..3 III. Differences between your country and chosen country 3 i. Time zone 3 ii. Mode of communication 3 iii. Currency and exchange rate 3 iv. Politics and religions 4 IV. Conclusion 4 V. Reference 5 I. Introduction. i. Introduction of the product Black tea from Yunnan is among the most robust but refined black teas produced in the whole world.Typically Yunnan Black teas are made from Assamica or Assamica hybrid. Since the end of the Second World War Yunnan Black teas have steadily increased in popularity and in the last 20 years a series of interesting hybrids were developed that greatly enhanced both the diversity and taste of the tea.Black teas vary according to their hybrid, harvest season, pick style, and processing. The tea is sour and thick when young, but ages well and develops textures of red wine and fruit with a little age. British may be surprised about making tea with milk using Yunnan Black tea.The reason behind its good taste is based in the fact that the combination of theanine amino acid contained in tea and melatonin and B-complex vitamins contained in milks offers superior relaxing effects. ii. Introduction of the country Great Britain, also...
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...All the Tea in China and Starbucks Starbucks is a globalized organization that began by selling coffee, tea, and spices. The first store opened in 1971 in Seattle, Washington’s Pikes Peak Plaza. Howard Schultz joined as a marketing director in 1983 and during a trip to Italy was impressed with the coffeehouse and wanted to try this concept in Seattle. The concept and business flourished, and by 1996 Starbucks opened the first international coffeehouse in Japan. Since 1983 Starbucks has expanded globally with 18,000 retail stores in 60 countries. The first Chinese Starbucks was built in China in 1999 and is currently operating in more than 500 locations in China and plans to expand to 1500 locations by 2015. Starbuck’s mission statement: “to inspire and nurture the human spirit – one person, one cup and one neighborhood at a time” (Starbucks, 2013, p. 1). Starbucks not only sells premium coffee and teas, Starbucks sell a culture of excellence in customer service, and brand with the expertise of the partners (employees). Starbucks sells a lifestyle, an ambiance of the tranquil coffeehouse environment for the busy professional, student, or coffee connoisseur. So how has Starbucks, mainly known for the premium coffee sales by the cup been such a success in China where the more than one billion people drink and export tea? Starbucks success in China is a testimony to understanding the importance of globalized intercultural communication, marketing, and branding strategies. Starbucks’...
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...Ink Made from Tea Bags By: John Emman A. (Title Page not in format.. Pakiformat nalang po since I’m not aware kung anong design gusto mo po.. Thank you.. You may also include acknowledgement to be followed po ang final prod. You can also add table of contents) Introduction “The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice” Ink is such a tiny word, three letters, but it has played such a huge part on the stage of world history. The original use for ink was to draw and paint on the walls of caves a lasting legacy of prehistoric man. However, its greatest impact was to spread knowledge, in the form of the printed word, long before Johann Gutenberg invented the printing press in Germany in the mid fifteenth Century. Ink has been a dye since the dawn of man; early examples were a mixture of soot from wood smoke and oil, thickened with gelatin from animal skins and musk. There is no definitive history of ink, ironic really, when it ink was the medium used to preserve the archives, and historic records that tell us much of our past. Ink is everywhere, though we often do not notice it, it has been used to print the labels of the food in the supermarket; it drips, leaks, splodges, and spurts from the faulty ballpoint pen in your pocket. Yet it has a direct impact on our everyday life, it is not possible to function without touching ink at least a couple of hundred times a day. Fraudulent acts have been come to light because of ink analysis. Ink is a medium that...
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...Environmental issue Bottling operation is always a big problem for Coke Company since it causes huge environmental issues, especially in India. Environmental degradation in the form of depletion of the local ground water table due to the utilization of natural water resources by the company poses a serious threat to many communities. In March 2004, local officials in Kerala shut down a $16 million Coke bottling plant blamed for a drastic decline in both quantity and quality of water available to local farmers and villagers. Further, a scientific study requested by the court found that while the plant had "aggravated the water scarcity situation," the "most significant factor" was a lack of rainfall. Critics respond that Coke shouldn't be locating bottling plants in drought-stricken areas. In Plachimada, Coca-Cola is allegedly responsible for creating problems for communities by creating severe water shortages and polluting the groundwater and soil, destroying farms by draining them out completely. The plant here used about 900,000 liters of water in 2004, about a third of it for the soft drinks, the rest to clean bottles and machinery. It is drawn from wells at the plant but also from aquifers Coca-Cola shares with neighboring farmers. The water is virtually free to all users. These farmers who have been protesting say their problems began after the Coca-Cola factory arrived in 1999. In addition, in Mexico, citizens are indirectly forced to drink Coca-Cola...
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...global companies ( HYPERLINK "http://fortune.com/global500/" http://fortune.com/global500/). (If this link doesn’t work, just copy and paste the URL in your browser.) What are the top 10 companies on the list? What industry, if any, dominates this Top 10 list? What country, if any, dominates this Top 10 list? What country dominates the overall Global 500 list? 5. From golden arches to blockbuster movies, American business has clearly influenced cultures around the world. But foreign industries and companies have also shaped American culture. Brainstorm a list of 5 foreign goods or services that have influenced American culture; include the specific good or service as well as its country of origin. Get creative! Chapter 3 Q1.Why is outsourcing such an attractive way for firms to tap into foreign markets? What are the risks of foreign outsourcing? Foreign outsourcing means contracting with foreign suppliers to produce products, usually at a fraction of the cost of domestic production. For example, Apple depends on firm in China and Taiwan to produce the iPhone....
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