China resisted these efforts, by England, to continue trade and began attacking their ships. These acts were seen as aggressive in the eyes of the English and the first opium war resulted. The war ended with the treaty of Nanking, which ceded China to Britain. The second opium war between 1856 and 1858 ended with the treaty of Tientsin (2). These two wars were prime examples of commercial imperialism, not only through the opening of treaty ports but through British control of Chinese customs which the 1842 treaty established, and continuing opium trade without restraint (3).
Name: ZuXin Liu ID #: 6708271 Professor: Andre Lecours Class: POL 1101 G Date: March 18, 2012 The 1949 Chinese Revolution The Chinese Revolution in 1945 - 1949 resolved the issue of what governing system could control over China, with witch, the revolution was involved the political crisis generated by the rivalry between the Chinese Communist Party and the bourgeois Kuomintang or the Nationalist Party of China. To put it in a simple term, this is a struggle between the communism and the capitalism. Now, the revolution or the Chinese civil war did not happened just by defining these flexible terms, and in spite of the fact that the Chinese revolution was created by a long history within China, the class’ difference of its people, and then came the influence over an idea of equality. The civil war of China between the Kuomintang Party and the Chinese Communist Party effects greatly on the country and its people was a turning point in Chinese history. This event resulted in the establishment of Communism in China.
Concretely, in the social environment at that time, the Chinese traditional business should incorporate parts of the western impact of modernity; such as sales strategies, advertising, and more efficient production in one hand; in the other hand, those companies should utilize their traditional business customs to provide better goods and services. Beyond that, I believe the story reflects the Chinese society and satirizes the inconsistent Xinhai revolution during the early twentieth century. Generally, Lao She discusses the change of style within a silk shop, in order to reflect the style of business and change in Chinese society. The article is narrated from a first person’s perspective; the narrator, Xin Dezhi who is a senior apprentice in the Fortune Silk Store, found out that his new manager, Mr. Zhou, develops profits by utilizing deceitful and dishonest methods. Xin has been in the Fortune Silk store for more than fifteen years and he deeply dislikes Mr. Zhou’s methods.
Early in the nineteenth century, the British had gained great influence and rule over China, for it was more modernized and developed, and consequently had more power. Not only that, but they started selling opium in China to balance their purchases of tea for export. (“Opium Wars” 35986). This resulted into an addiction to opium, a detrimental effect on the Chinese citizens caused by the Europeans. China’s response to this was to implement their prohibition against import of this drug by destroying a lot of opium on the ships arriving at the Port of Canton.
Paper was invented during the Han Dynasty. Other contributions of the ancient Chinese are pasta, wheelbarrow, alcohol, kites, hang gliders and silk. Of all on the contributions from the ancient Chinese gunpowder, paper, compass and printing are the most innovative. The discovery of gunpowder by the ancient Chinese was purely accidental in the 9th century. Rather, the Chinese alchemists were searching for an elixir of life.
The calendar paintings in old Shanghai, originated in the last years of the 19th century, was a kind of commercial advertising painting drawn by the Chinese employed by foreign merchants for their goods dumping, which initially adopted the format of Chinese new year paintings with a calendar on it and so was called as calendar pictures (Lv et al., 2011). From 1911-1927, the Revolution of 1911 overthrew the monarchy as well as the clothing rank system which lasted in China for thousands of years. People started accepting western aesthetic standards with the emphasis on the figure beauty (Bian, 2004). The beautiful ladies dressed in
The transformation and reshaping of Chinese Society before and after Mao Tse-tung Introduction: 1. Background of Chinese society development 2. Personal assumptions about China 3. China’s new orthodoxy: Marxism (Marxism+Mao=PCC) Idea&Puzzle: 1. Why Mao Tsetung government believe a constant reshaping is important for the developt of the Chinese Society?
The Critiques of Feudal Chinese Society in Lu Xun’s Two Articles: Madman’s Diary and Leaving the Pass By The term 2 HASS essay question Singapore University of Technology and Design Lin Yijuan October 2013 Once during the years 1915-1923 in modern Chinese history, a grand revolution campaign named New Culture Movement was whipped up by some pioneer revolutionists. This group led by Lu Xun and Chen Duxiu considered the feudalism as the primary obstruction of China’s development and appealed to the disposal of feudal autocracy and the reformation of Chinese traditional thoughts, culture and ethic codes through the channel of literature. Two articles among these literature written by Lu Xun, Madman’s Diary and Leaving the Pass, sharply revealed the essence and the root of feudalism and criticized the conservative and rigid traditional thoughts. This paper will talk about the critiques of Chinese society in these two works and relate them to the special historical background of culture revolution. The Diary of A Madman describes a madman’s psychological activities and conditions in the form of diary.
Derk Bodde and Clarence Morris held that the concept of fǎ had an association with yì (義: "social rightness"). Yan Fu, in his Chinese translation of Montesquieu's De l'esprit des lois published in 1913, warned his readers about the difference between the Chinese fǎ and Western law: "The word 'law' in Western languages has four different interpretations in Chinese as in lǐ (理: "order"), lǐ (禮: "rites", "decorum"), fǎ (法: "human laws") and zhì (制: "control"). A term which preceded fǎ was xíng (刑), which originally
The Overseas Chinese: Migration and Organization Student name: Course details: Supervisor name: Date of submission: 1. How important were the overseas Chinese politically and economically for China between the lifting of the ban on Chinese migration in 1893 and the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949? In 1893 the Qing lifted the ban on foreign travel, this was mainly motivated by the wealth of resources that the Chinese living abroad had. The Qing adopted a nationality law containing a clause to legitimize its claim to these subjects. This principle was called jus sanginis, (Zerba, 2008).