Many things changed and new goods, even human ones, were traded across the globe from 1450 to 1914. But while many things changed some stayed the same. Two changes were the shift in world dominance from East Asia to Western Europe and China closing itself off from the world. Two continuities are that China remained a major exporter of several invaluable goods and that China stuck to its agricultural roots and never industrialized, even while the world around them was doing so. Even though China was in a rapidly changing time, it still tried to stay to its roots.
The political system developed over time. China’s civilization is not like most and creates as one of the many other unique countries in the whole world. The political system was mainly dynasties in this time period and it maintained through the country the whole time. The first dynasty ever in China was the Qin dynasty that started in the 200’s. Following after that was the Han dynasty.
In 1945 about 90% of Vietnam’s population was illiterate and had had no basic primary schooling. By the 1990’s, 80% of Vietnam’s entire population was literate and almost all children had the guarantee of at least five years of schooling. The French schooling system took over from the Mandarin administered system, dissolving it to create a more Western-oriented one. This first change to Vietnam’s education system resulted in the population being required to learn the French language. This change is still present today in Vietnamese culture, with many Vietnamese dialects including French terms such as ‘beaucoup’ for ‘many’ and ‘merci’ for ‘thankyou’.
Othersfavoredby Bloom are included been 35 years that the vast majorityof blacks in this counJohn Milton, William Blake, William Wordsworth,John try were permitted to learn to read or write. It is of little Lord Tennyson, William Butler Yeats, and wonder that not much in the way of canonic poetry had Keats, Alfred, Wallace Stevens. been producedby black writersin this short 35-year span. Bloom even admitsthat"if poets bornin the twentiethcenFor reasons that are not clear, Bloom limits his selections to poets who were born priorto the year 1900. By including tury were included,many would be from Canada,the West to the beginning of the twentiethcenIndies, Australia,New Zealand, and Africa."
-China had controlled the region off and on for hundreds of years. -From the late 1800s until WWII, France ruled Vietnam and neighboring Laos and Cambodia—a region known collectively as French Indochina. -By the early 1900s, nationalism had become a powerful force in Vietnam; the Vietnamese formed several political parties to push for independence or reform of the French colonial government.
Unlike the latter two however, Buddhism is not indigenous to China. It is a foreign import from northern India. As such it is representative of a strain in Chinese thinking that is receptive to accepting foreign ideas. (That said, some Buddhist doctrines were adapted in order to fit more successfully into the Chinese belief system.) Within five centuries of the opening of the Silk Road to Central Asia, Buddhism had become so prevalent in China that some scholars estimate as many as 90% of her population to have been converted to Buddhism.
The changes of the 13th and 14th century greatly affected the Chinese and changed China forever. It was the first time ever that the Chinese had been ruled, watched over, and governed by non-native Chinese people. Also, it discontinued the ‘art’ of foot binding for most of the population. The system of government created by Kublai Khan was made up of a deal made between Mongolian feudalism and the traditional Chinese autocratic-bureaucratic system. But still, socially the educated Chinese elite were in general not given the degree of esteem that they had been accorded previously under native Chinese dynasties.
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
The American Revolution and the French Revolution of 1789 had a great impact on literature of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This impact can be seen throughout Romantic literature but especially in the area of new subjects. Before the 19th century authors tended to write about the aristocratic class. There was nothing written for or about the common people. There are three areas in which the discussion will focus upon in the area of new subjects.
However, their persistent efforts to enter it ultimately made them win the recognition by the main culture at the end of the 1980s in literature. Frank Chin, Maxine Hong and Amy Tan are among the well-known writers in America nowadays. Chinese American literature has gone through a long period before its recognition by the main culture. Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angles Island, a work which was detained from the cannon before it was selected into The Heath Anthology of American Literature, can best