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…“Describe the origins and historical development of Confucianism in China up to the present day.” The history of Chinese civilisation spans thousands of years and encompasses countless ideas, beliefs, societal, and political doctrines. For the past…

…According to today's New York Times, newspapers in China have been closed with reporters and editors jailed and even killed, like Wu Xianghu, a newspaper editor who died last week after being beaten by the fascist police. Gao Zhisheng, a lawyer who has…

…In September 1997, China announced that work-teams conducting a "patriotic reeducation campaign" had covered 1,780 of Tibet's 1,787 monasteries and temples and 30,000 of the 46,000 monks had received reeducation. In December, reeducation expanded beyond…

…in Rumania. This is called Ceausecu's children. People may feel that was terrible, and may wonder why people did that. What would their parents and Ceausescu's children think at that time? What was the common sense in this meaning? In china 1979, the law called…

…Hidden in the murky waters of the Yangtze River in China dwells an ancient species of dolphin unchanged by 20 million years of evolution. The Baiji Dolphin is the most endangered Cetacean in the world. The Baiji has a very long, narrow beak, with abrupt…

…the exploration of ourselves as we get matured by learning from our experiences. In "China Coin" by Allan Baillie, Leah Waters undergoes physical journey when traveling from Australia to China. Her journey in China involves going to cities and outskirts of China…

…. For example, plucked zithers are played in Japan (koto), China (qin), Korea (kayagum), Mongolia (yatkha), and South Siberia (chatkhan or chatagan). Highly flexible, instruments that traveled the Silk Road lent themselves to many kinds of music besides…

…Living in the 1930's in China was not easy. Droughts occurred regularly; society was in constant struggle between the old Emperor system and the new Communist government. And just as everybody thought that things couldn't get worse. Japan declared war…

…and encouraged trade almost all throughout human history. The silk routes were one of the most famous such trade routes. They connected Western China, Mediterranean, and even Western Europe. Many civilizations had to go far from their borders to protect such trade…

…disadvantages; the Strategy only gives a much narrower role for preemption. It discusses preemption in the specific context of defeating terrorists and rogue states. It never suggests preemption has a role to play with respect to a rising China or any residual threat…