Harappan and Vedic Aryan civilizations East Asia (China) * Explain the role of climate and geography on the emergence of civilization in East Asia * Identify and describe the key features of Shang and Zhou civilization The Americas * Explain the role of climate and geography in the development of civilization in the Americas * Focus on the Olmecs in Mesoamerica and Chavin de Huantar in the Andes Comparing the Four Great Revolutions * Identify and understand the main points
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Son of the Revolution excels in illustrating how pervasively the Leninist partystate can intrude into the daily lives of ordinary citizens, particularly when a carefully orchestrated personality cult is added to the picture. In Liang Heng’s story, even the most fundamental social unit, family, was not able to keep off the intense political pressures during political campaigns in 1950s and Cultural Revolution. The most horrible thing is that traditional Chinese family values were totally destroyed
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ideological conflict for example competing Soviet and Chinese claims for the leadership of international communism, China’s negative response to Soviet de-Stalinisation, Soviet ‘peaceful coexistence’ versus Mao’s commitment to ‘continuing revolution’ at a time when China was confronting the USA among many others undermined Sino-Soviet relations. 1. Sino-Soviet rivalry over Mongolia Sino-Soviet rivalry over Mongolia. The Chinese regarded Mongolia in their own sphere of influence, yet Stalin and Khrushchev
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changes China market-oriented company - market economy = socialist, or capitalist? - 70s and 80s = only open select foreign companies places in China (special economic zone; Shenzhen, Zhuhai, ShanTo, XiaMen) - Chinese = cautious of the foreign companies; unknown factor of what they would do - foreign countries found labour costs = low - ex: 100 yuan/month for teacher - companies assemble components together = reduce the costs to a larger extent export more to the markets in China - Shanghai
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In the Baise prefecture of the Guangxi province in Southern China, there are two Zhuang minority song fairs separated by a distance of only 60 kilometers. Both are held at caves, both feature worship practices in reverence of Zhuang deities prominent to their area, and both use antiphonal, multipart singing. These two fairs at Guangyang Mountain and Ganzhuang Mountain were very similar to each other prior to the Cultural Revolution. However, the official promotion of Ganzhuang Mountain as the home
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China: Facing the 21st Century China has rebuilt itself from having an unstable economy, a collapsed government followed by a few turbulent years of corruption and political instability to having the world’s largest population, state-of-the-art technological advances, an incredibly growing economy and several influential leaders. The country has been credited for many inventions indispensable today such as paper, the compass, mechanical clocks, and gunpowder among others and always thought to
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products are some of them. Until very near future China was not well known by people; although it had an important position in the global economy. For hundreds of years the general policy of China had aimed protecting its culture, so it tried to avoid improving relationships with foreign countries. For centuries China have had pure culture. But after the communist regime in China, there occurred lots of policy change especially in economy. Till 1949, China was trying to feed only its own nation, the productivity
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The movie “To Live” directed by Zhang Yimou follows the life of one family in China from the beginning days of gambling dens in the 1940s to the austere hardship of the Cultural Revolution in 1960s. The movie mainly focuses on the character Fugui, who is the husband of the household. He encounters many hardships later on, but he somehow survives. By following his life, the audience receives the message from the movie such that life is hard, but nothing is worse than dying. Throughout the movie
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Education in the People's Republic of China is a state-run system of public education run by the Ministry of Education. All citizens must attend school for at least nine years. The government provides primary education for six years, starting at age six or seven, followed by six years of secondary education for ages 12 to 18. Some provinces may have five years of primary school but four years for middle school. There are three years of middle school and three years of high school. The Ministry of
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GIS 3117 Modern China Spring, 2014 Dr. Amy Y. Situ-Liu (Please use Blackboard internal email for your communication with the instructor. In case of an emergency that prevents you from accessing to your computer, please leave your voice mail at 652-4314, and then email me afterward) Orientation: Location: Textbooks (required): China Since 1949 By Linda Benson, Longman, 2nd edition, 2011 China: The Balance Sheet – What the World Needs to Know About the
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