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…Vietnamese independence. But expanding communist control of Eastern Europe and the triumph of the communists in China made France's war against Ho Chi Minh seem anticommunist. When France agreed to an independent Vietnam under Bao Dai as an alternative to Ho's DRV…

…Bay. The rival powers were the victorious Allies (Great Britain and the Commonwealth, France, the United States, the USSR, and China). The losing side consisted of Germany, Italy, and Japan, as well as smaller nations. World War II killed more people…

…different places at different points in history, with varying degrees of success. In recent years, many Buddhist leaders have lost their influence, and some nations have lost interest in Buddhism. Vietnam and Cambodia have joined China, Mongolia, Tibet…

…was the first step to his Americanization. Even though Ralf came to America to study engineering and was supposed to return to China afterwords, things went differently. When, in 1948, China collapsed and the Nationalists were fighting the Communists, Ralph…

…akin to the Geisha's of China. Hetaerae women were given an education in reading, writing, and music, and were allowed into the Agora and other structures which were off limits to citizen and slave women. Most sources about the Hetaerae indicate however…

…was expected to stay at home. In the novel, The Joy Luck Club, Ann-Mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, and Ying Ying St. Clair are all women who grow up in a traditional China, where there is sexism. They deal with serious problems that harm their lives. Ann-Mei is oppressed…

…the weight of its current difficulties. While America is racked by unprecedented domestic disunity and a sense of economic decline a resurgent Europe and an aggressively modernising China stand to eclipse the American Empire. The close of the American Century may…

…Justin Wickett 5/25/2004 The Sepoy Rebellion versus the Taiping Rebellion Although India and China are different when it comes to religion and culture, the Taiping Rebellion in China and the Sepoy Rebellion in India had their similarities…

…, there is the massacre of Nanking that will not be acknowledged by the country [Japan] that brought this injustice to being, or by any other country, even the United States.<Tab/> <Tab/>After the massacre in 1949 the People's Republic of China…

…to China in the first or second century C.E., probably by missionaries and merchants traveling over the Silk Roads" (Duiker and Spielvogel, 268). Soon this religion began to catch on among common people in China and was integrated into part of their own culture…