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…characters expresses anxiety over her inability to reconcile her Chinese heritage with her American surroundings. Indeed, this reconciliation is the very aim of Jing-mei's journey to China. While the daughters in the movie are genetically Chinese (except for Lena…

…To what extent was the Korean war a limited war, as well as truly civil war in the context of the raging Cold War? Geographically, the war was indeed limited. Although within the year MacArthur threatened to extend the war into China and unleash Chiang…

…The Giant Panda is a small black and white bear. Most of its stomach and head are white with a black saddle across its back, black limbs and black ears. It can weigh up to 275 pounds. It lives in six small areas in inland China. Its habitat is a cold…

…with gold and silver, which was hard to sustain. Hence, they wanted to smuggle goods in to sell unofficially. As there was already a lengthy history of opium use in China, it was easier to smuggle than the already aforementioned things which were obviously…

…Communism is dead or so I have heard. But, what exactly died? The USSR is gone, the countries of eastern Europe rush to the western capitalist for guidance, and China moves towards a market economy at it own pace. But were this communist societies…

…. The China trade had been enriching Yankee merchants since 1784. Japan, however, had effectively closed its doors to outsiders, and it restricted foreign ships to a small part of Nagasaki. Photo of Matthew C. Perry More about President Millard Fillmore…

…is a long one and is often divided into three time periods including Ancient Times, Middle Ages, and Modern Times. The abacus that we see today appeared around 1200 AD in China called the suan-pan. The abacus was also called the Nepohualtzitzin in the Aztec…

…        Marco Polo is considered by most to be the most important link between Europe and China in the 13th century. His accounts of the Eastern world had an immense impact on Western thinking and life in Europe.         Marco Polo…

…I do not think The Three Gorges Dam project should be completed for many reasons. One of the reasons is that China will have to relocate three hundred and eighty million people. This is because the proposed 185 meter high and two thousand meter wide dam…

…and others that can have the needed effect. In a world of competition and a global market, nation's economy is at stake as it is always competing against rising economical challengers as the like of China. Napoleon was reported to have commented on China…