Qing Dynasty

The main issues of the Tang people, were gangs, opium, racism, and a corrupt neighborhood watch. An example, of one of these problems is when a brick is thrown into the company’s (family) house. This was when the White Demons (White Americans) were basically raiding the Tang people’s town/village. Many of them were drunk and outraged that the Tang people were taking jobs from them. Another example is when Black Dog (Uncle Bright Stars son) is almost shot by the corrupt neighborhood watch. He frankly

This is an example of the decline that is happening throughout the globe due to globalization. Many people were forced to give up their culture with the invasion of other countries. The Hainan people were forced to stop tattooing their women once China invaded saying that the tattoos were ugly and that they were only tattooing the women to keep them from being kidnapped and married. So the culture of the tattoo was lost. China isn’t the only place that this decline is taking place. Native American

How the Opium Wars Unfolded and Their Effects on Others The Opium wars were a series of conflicts mainly between China and Britain. The dispute was over the legalization of the Opium trade. China’s people were severely suffering from the effects of the Opium. Britain had been illegally moving opium from India into China. A large mass of the public had become addicted to opioids and the government sensed the problem. Due to the success of the opium trade, Britain refused to stop bringing in the

① After the opium wars of the 19th century, countries began to realize just how much power the western territories have over the nation when it comes to advanced military technology. Many decided that it was time to end their isolation and start modernizing in order to catch up with the great power of Europe. By the late nineteenth century, China and Japan began approaching the modernization process in different ways, with one still trying to maintain their traditional values and the other immediately

The Last Empress by Daniele Varè The Empress Dowager Tzi-his (1835-1908) was a unique ruler unlike any other China had ever seen. She is considered to be one of the most influential people in Chinese history, a rarity in the male dominated Chinese world. The empress dowager exerted great power over the Chinese empire and influenced the political structure in ways it had never been influenced before, making many great reforms that she believed would help the Chinese people. Born on November

Wu Tianming depicts life during the early days of the 1930’s in China by focusing on the three main characters, Wang Bian Lian, Gou Wa (Doggie), and Master Liang in his film, The King of Masks (1996). Each of the three characters – Wang, who laments for having no male heir to hand down his face changing opera; Gou Wa, who wants to be his true grandchild; and Liang who has a thoughtful understanding of such relationship between Wang and Gou Wa – plays a unique role together, conveying a powerful message

In the fifteenth century, China was one of the most superior global powers. The Confucian principle-adhering administration created an enviable, sophisticated society; no other nation could match it's enormous population (100-130 million), its incredibly fertile lands, or its unified bureaucracy. According to Kennedy, "...the most striking feature of the Chinese civilization must be it's technological precocity" (Kennedy 1). Kennedy was not incorrect making this statement. The nation had vast libraries

Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village by William Hinton is based on Hinton’s visit to the village of Long Bow, China, in 1948, which was one year before the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) victory in the Chinese Civil War. In Fanshen, Hinton shares stories of peasants who were subjected to abuse and exploitation by landlords, as well as how peasants started an uprising against landlords to establish a Communist village in response to the CCP’s rise in power and popularity. The

Do historical fictions, like the Question of Hu help us study the past? In this case, they help us gain a better knowledge of the way of life in that century, but we have not learned much about the history of Jesuit recruitment in Asian countries such as China. Historical fiction gives us a background for historical events but does not teach us enough about the event itself. It only provides insight for the setting behind each story. Jonathan Spence’s novel, The Question of Hu illustrates the

was not solely the goal of China, as for Japanese government officials aimed to do a similar thing. In China, many of the scholarly reformers sought keep Confucius ideals within the modernizing nation. “This is was the opinion of all before the Han dynasty. Only when a scholar recognizes that the six classics were written by Confucius he can understand why Confucius was the great sage, the founder of the doctrine, and the model for all ages; and why he alone was called the supreme master.”(67) The scholarly