In the article, “Caucasian Mummies Mystify Chinese” by Keay Davidson, the reader learns the significance of finding the Caucasian mummies in China and how it challenged the dogmas of the Chinese culture. Before the discovery of the mummies Chinese historians believed China had been an independent society from birth, never having been influenced by foreign input in its developmental stages, making it a pure race. But after the mummies were discovered they were forced to reconsider their tradition views based on the archeological, linguistic, and textual evidence. One main significance about the mummies was the cloths they wore and were buried in. The material used and the patterns on the cloths were not like traditional Chinese clothing.
Special consideration was given pertaining to legal action because CardMex was operating in a foreign country. If local customs and laws conflict with the foreign organization operation the local law and customs should prevail because the contract based from there. For example, the United States does business with China. If the United States companies have uniforms, but they are operating out of China and the Chinese want to wear the traditional attired to work. If there is an issue the Chinese should win because the United States are operating out of China, and it is a part of their cultural.
Wu Wei is a Chinese word that is used to mean spontaneous or reflex action. This is what can be literally translated as doing nothing but accomplishing everything. Multiple explanations have been provided to explain what Lao Zi means by Wu Wei in his Daodejing. Many philosophers are usually confused by the Wu Wei concept because of the many interpretations and explanations that have been offered. Below is a detailed explanation about the concept of Wu Wei by Lao Zi in his Daodejing In this perspective, Wu Wei is a concept that is used to give details of ziran, in other words accord with the Dao.
For example: "I believe that calling Asians "Oriental" is wrong because ... " - Use of examples, evidence, or other information to support argument: Back up your argument. For example, "According to Robert Lee, 'Oriental' was a term ..." - Coherence and clarity: I will not grade by how much or how little you write, but by how well you relate the thesis statement to the rest of your paper. For example, if your thesis statement is about the term "Oriental," but you lose focus and start talking about other things in your paper that have little relevance to your thesis statement, you will have points
Discarding knowledge basically means that knowledge might be replaced by another. It could happen if there exist a new knowledge in which there are less counters and reasoning are more acceptable. Also, it could happen if old knowledge was proved to be away from truth, though, it might be hard to determine whether the “truth” is a real truth. Historians might have different opinions on knowledge about the same event based on their different nationalities, religions and even gender. Using the Long March as an example, elder Chinese historians mostly agree that the Long March is a demonstration of the success of the Chinese Army.
These mummies were significant, because they were different. The Tarim Mummies were the remains of tall and blond like Europeans (Samuel Hughes 42). Many Uighurs started to support that these mummies were their ancestors. The ethnic identities of the mummies caused new arguments between Uighurs and Chinese. This might have change people’s view about Xinjiang.
How Did Communism Affect Different Social Classes in China? Ever since I heard the word “communism”, I wanted to know its meaning. I keep hearing it from here and there but I never actually knew what does it mean until we started talking about china and its communist party. It interested me so much, specifically in China; because in my opinion, it is a controversial issue, because of the impacts on the society that it has left and the huge inequality it created in the society. How does a country apply communist as major policy when most of the world say that it is not even a reality, but a dream?
To answer a question like this we must examine both sides of the argument: for limitation or freedom from limitation. Because if family sizes were to be limited in the U.S. the government would most likely have to implement it heavily much like the Chinese government has introduced their one-child policy. “The Chinese government introduced the policy to help alleviate social and environmental problems in China. The policy is controversial both within and outside China because of the issues it raises; because of the manner
Demand for such vehicles can not be designed based on the jeep AMC existing, and the vehicle as desired from the Beijing Automotive Works (BAW) cost at least a $700 million. BJC and the AMC do not have the amount of money like that, and then try to convince the AMC Chinese to produce the new vehicle type Jeep Cherokee. It appeared that after convinced, the Chinese partners agreed then changed objectivity AMC began selling the cars to get money and selling the kits to get money. Appears a new problem where BJC can get foreign exchange for these kits. According to the rules when a number of foreign exchange in large numbers required a special license meanwhile BJC had never discuss about this to the Chinese government.
This makes it difficult to know for certain what exactly what went wrong and why. Any analysis requires reliance on speculation and raises as many, if not more, questions than it answers. It is still worth looking into because it shows some important points that other companies can learn from. Background Caterpillar has had difficulty establishing a position in China comparable to its position in the rest of the world. In order to grow its operations China, Caterpillar decided to take a route that has proven successful for many MNCs operating in the PRC and use M&A rather than build things from scratch.