This money could be used to fund next generation equipment for their military technology and even for society. Like it says in document 3 “ What china’s leaders really want is that the next generation of underwear and airplane wings not just be “made in China” but also be “designed in China” and that’s where things are heading. So in the next 30 years we will have gone from “sold in China” to “made in China” to “designed in China” to dreamed up in China”. Last, but definitely not least is the very society of China. China is getting better and better by the second.
Quilon was a midpoint to unload and to pick up passengers and commodities from the west. Most of the Muslim traders settled in Malabar, on the southwest coast of the Indian peninsula, this made Quilon become a major cosmopolitan hub. The Chinese junks from Quanzhou made very frequent trips to Quilon to unload silks and porcelain and commodities for East Asian markets. All of these cities, thrived off each other through the help of trade. Most of these cities shared new life-changing parts of their own culture with one another.
Understandably, when the news of gold and opportunity in far away Gum San, (Golden Mountain – the Chinese name for America) reached China, many Chinese seized the opportunity to seek their fortune, and a majority ended up on the coasts of California. Rao starts her article off with a historical narrative of this musical past and how these clusters of families brought the culture from their homeland and introduced it in an authentic fashion. As we can see today, every major metropolitan city has its own version of Chinatown. The stage has drawn Chinese people closer and closer together and led to immigration in and within the US. Although the stories on stage were inspired from the older history
However, they did help unite China and form the Yuan Empire. Additionally, the Mongols moved the capital to Beijing in an attempt to make it the center of politics and commerce in China. They made other improvements to encourage trade, such as reorganizing and rebuilding roads, irrigation, and plumbing, building granaries to prevent famines, and extending the Great Canal. These improvements proved successful, as it helped them export in large amounts and become a lucrative center for trade. Nevertheless, their excessive spending severely depleted China’s economy.
When Chinese immigrants came to America they brought with them old world traditions, such as the Chinese New Year. In San Francisco Chinatown during the Cold War, ethnic leaders began trying to assimilate and become more accepted separating themselves from communist China. They attempted to accomplish this through modernization of their festival and the adoption of the model minority ideal. This was in the hopes of attracting tourists, bolstering businesses and have the Chinese themselves become part of the powerful white middle class. To further push western middle class ideals Chinese leaders implemented a beauty pageant to showcase which pushed them to be more associated with whites than other minorities.
It is vitally important for Chinese food that is has wonderful color, smells nice and unique flavor. China is an immense country; different territory has their taste. In the north of China, they're peopling like saltier more than south. In the east of China, they're people like sweet taste but the middle of China they do not like sweet, salty. They prefer spicy more than others.
The major step towards development of the Silk Road was because of the Chinese Emperor Wu Di. He became interested in developing commercial relationship with urban civilizations around the world and so he was influenced by them. This not only encouraged the Chinese to trade more but also showed them new things they had not seen before. This effected the Chinese civilization because this was a major step toward success in the future and many things changed because of trade. They now had different diets from which they could live a more leisure life.
Charles Forbes for example stole $250 million from the government. The first role the presidents played in the 1920’s was the Laissez faire approach to the economy; this allowed people, especially the business men to have more freedom as the government had a noninterventionist policy. The standard of living for the America civilians improved massively during this period as the Model T car was invented along with fridges, vacuum cleaners, electricity, flush toilets and cinema’s. This brought huge benefits to the economy. The spread of technological advancements was key to the increase in consumerism.
The substantial increase in population due to immigration that occurs during this time goes on to affect the nation in positive and negative ways. Some of the adverse affects of such a rapid growth in population were overcrowding in cities, lack of jobs, and occasional food shortages. But the hard working spirit and work ethic that the immigrants brought, along with a determined will to succeed, were an overarching positive were crucial to the country becoming what it is today. In the late 1800s, people in many parts of the world decided to leave their homes and emigrate to the United States. Immigrants entered into the United States through several
Globalization and commercialization influence lifestyle and taste, especially for the middle class. Golfing is such a result and a desire to show off prestige, delicacy, wealth and taste. According to Chen (2006, as cited in Zhang, Deng, Majumbar & Zheng, 2009) the consumption of luxury goods such as tourism, houses, cars and insurances has rapidly increased among the middle-class Chinese population in the last two decades. The anti-capitalism ideology does not longer exists and the saying “getting rich is glorious” is replacing the old one “money is rusty”. Also adventurous and active western leisure activities such as tennis, camping golfing and rock climbing have been introduced to China.