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…structure of the time. Although the origin of playing cards is unknown, most evidence indicates they originated in China. Early playing cards were first printed during the Tang dynasty, which was AD 618- 906. Early Chinese money and playing cards were identical…

…, Australian, and Turkish troops. In October 1950 China joined the war on the North's side. By the time a cease-fire agreement was signed on July 27, 1953, millions of soldiers and civilians had died. The armistice ended the fighting, but Korea has remained divided…

…tensions. The country of China still wants to test their nuclear explosions for mining and for some construction. For two years China has successfully held up the 38-nation Geneva negotiations on a comprehensive test ban treaty. No other nation has been…

…a population of 23,904,124. It has China and Russia on North and South Korea on South. It is a communist state. Currently Kim Jong II is the leader of the government since July 1994. Pyongyang is the capital of North Korea. South Korea: South Korea has an area…

…China has a longer than 5,000 years history. It has a deep cultural background in Chinese. With the time passing by, it has been changed a lot. However, it has kept many good customs, and they may still being past on. From Chinese conversational…

…to them, even meat and rotten food, (Buddhism and Vegetarianism, 2). Buddhism then spread east to Asia including parts of Japan, Korea, and China. In China, the ‘ideal of vegetarianism’ finally became a new code for Buddhism known as the ‘Third Minor Precept…

…are the lack of communication between the mothers and daughters, cultural differences (between China and America), mothers’ critical (attitudes and expectations for daughters) and finally the change in relationships, (increased understandings). Throughout the novel…

…the Brunauers lost their job and faded into the background of society. Another victim of McCarthyism was John Stewart Service, a diplomat to China. Service observed the events that were unfolding in China and advised the government cool their relations with Jiang’s…

…in America (18). Men were recruited as laborers to work in places where black slaves had been freed. This was a method of replacing the slave labor with cheap labor through the use of Chinese immigrants. The first of these men that left from China were called…

…and thirty pages long with an additional twenty four pages of pictures. The Rape of Nanking was an incident that occurred in December of 1937. Nanking at this time was the capital city of Nationalist China. During this incident Japanese soldiers raped…