Han China vs. Imperial Rome The methods of political control used in Han China (206 B.C.E-220 C.E.) were similar to that of Imperial Rome (31 B.C.E-476 C.E. ); however, these societies greatly differed on their oppositions of governing and the techniques used in maintaining control over citizens, expansions, and their falls. Han China and Imperial Rome had similar governments because they were ruled under one central leader, however, Han China had an emperor that enforced policies and Imperial Rome had a republic because they felt the monarchy did no good to the people. The Senate of Rome had most control over the citizens.
History Essay In Han China and the Romans, both have different attitudes towards technology. Some people were happy to have technology, while others weren’t looking forward to working with tools, but despite their complaints, the Hans and the Romans people still view differently at how the technology affects their life. Some view technology as a tool to use people to get what the government want, some viewed technology as beneficial, while others wanted to help make labor easier on people. In documents 2 and 5, people were used to achieve what the government wanted. Cicero, an upper-class Roman political leader said that “vulgar and unbecoming to a gentleman”, (Doc 5) is what men are turning into.
While in court, he would stutter across words and not fully be able to present his great ideas (China Culture.) However, this setback allowed him to develop another Chinese style that would benefit the whole nation (China Culture.) When the Han state began to decline, Han Feizi saw all the factors that were contributing to its fall. He tried to persuade the king to take up different policies, but the king was too stubborn and incapable of following good advice (China Culture). Han Feizi noticed that the rulers of his time period were consumed with Confucianism and the Mohist philosophers who always talked about being moral and benevolent (China Culture).
The first part states, “…purely liberal and republican conceptions of civic identity are seen as frequently unsatisfying to many Americans, because they contain elements that threaten, rather than affirm, sincere, reputable beliefs in the propriety of the privileged positions that whites, Christianity, Anglo-Saxon traditions, and patriarchy have had in the United States (Smith 558).” To me, this says that true liberal ideas such as equality to its fullest extent threaten some groups within American culture. For example, many Christian groups in the United States do not support gay marriage rights because this act is contradictory to their beliefs. Rogers Smith would argue
Though the Meiji Ishin was, for the most part, peaceful and it was an emperor being restored to power, it should not be considered a restoration. If one were to call the Meiji Ishin a restoration, it would imply only that an emperor was restored to power and would not encompass the cultural and societal changes that took place after the emperor was reinstated. Many people were very unhappy with the current state and were united in their desire for a social and cultural change. Different groups were doing their part to undermine the Tokugawa regime, such as the townspeople, the Dutch Studies, Nativists and New Religions. Furthermore, people such as Oshio Heihachiro, Watanabe Kazan and Sakuma Shozan believed in changing Japan so that it can become a stronger nation.
First, when the United States conducts relations abroad and appears divided, allies are less likely to trust its promises and enemies are more likely to predict its weaknesses. [71] Second, elite opinion has a significant impact on the public’s perspective of foreign policy. [71] In contrast to problems such as unemployment, inflation and crime, where elite viewpoints are not as influential, Americans are less informed of overseas engagements. [70][71][72] While a difference of viewpoints between political parties is a foundational aspect of a democratic political system, political polarization has exacerbated this divergence as “it was not inevitable that foreign policy would become, as it has, the single most polarizing aspect of American politics.”[73] Subsequently, the United States currently does not have any fundamental agreement on foreign policy and there is a basic discord about the United States’ function in the
Whereas Confucius would focus more on flourishing relationships and being respectful and loving all. Americans definitely have a problem with pushing our ideals onto other countries. We think that everyone wants to live like we do, so we trying to conform their ideas. But there is a disconnect between the Chinese and Americans because we do not understand the traditions of Confucianism that are the basis of the Chinese culture. Americans like to think of themselves as individuals that rely solely on themselves instead of others.
1/22/09 HIST 352 The Low Qing Dynasty’s Struggle to Modernize The Low Qing dynasty’s efforts to reshape China and its culture in the mold of the modern industrialized world were, ultimately, both insufficient and unsuccessful. Insufficient, because few Chinese other than the literati (like Feng Kuei-Fen and Liang Qichao) realized the breakneck speed with which Western society was producing improved technology and unsuccessful, because the vast majority of the Chinese people opposed most of the government’s reform-oriented, “self-strengthening” measures out of a xenophobic disdain for Western ways. They feared that copying foreign military techniques and adopting modern political practices would result in the loss of China’s inner essence, or Ti, and this reluctance to change and obstinate determination to maintain traditional Confucian culture helped foster the civilization’s precipitous decline throughout the 19th century. Some reticent scholars, like Huang Zongxi, had foreseen such a fall from grace and advocated a reconsideration of the basic tenets of Chinese political order based on “the conclusion that the problems were not minor ones… but much more major ones, such as the bureaucracy having far too much control over the economy.” (Ebrey 230) Still, Zongxi’s ominous recommendations largely fell upon deaf ears, because, up until the late 1700s, China’s material culture had been unrivalled and its “standard of living was among the best in the world, and inventions flowed more commonly from east to west than vice versa.” (Ebrey 234) But, China’s global stature had sharply plummeted after resounding defeats in the Opium Wars and the later Sino-Japanese War, and was further damaged by its government’s inability to effectively quell internal conflicts like the Taiping or Boxer Rebellions. These humbling failures did, however, provide reformers
Race, gender and class stereotypes of Asian Americans in the media, especially those described in popular movies, gave the unfair infection of what Asian Americans were “really” like to other Americans as well as to Asian Americans themselves. And usually, that image of Asian American has been shaped by people with little understanding of Asian people themselves and with little foresight into how such images would impact the Asian American community. Despite some harmless intentions of individual producers and filmmakers, narrow and unbalanced portrayals of Asians have traditionally been the norm in the entertainment industry. The early general statues of Asian immigrants could date from the mid-to-late 1800s of the first wave migrants for
The constitution laid out a plan of 3 branches of government. The 3 were the executive branch, the legislative branch, and judiciary. This was included by the anti-federalists as one of their main arguments against the ratification because of the strong central government where they preferred the power to be within the states. Another reason why the anti-federalists opposed ratification was due to representation and large area republics. Because some populations are so high in certain areas, a large amount of the representatives elected to the House, anti-federalists feared, would be only the prominent and wealthy men of the area.