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…that stands out most in my mind when I think of America is freedom. America is known as the land of the free, and that is true. Especially when compared to other countries, like China for example. In China they aren’t even allowed to say certain things without…

…Roosevelt and Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Loge emerged as highly influential leaders of a changing American foreign policy. Missionaries carried similar western values to non-Christian lands around the world, especially China. Economic relations between…

…Taoism is one of the two greatest religions that originated in China. This religion started as a way of thinking between 500 and 400 B.C. About thirty million people around the world follow this religion that was created by the Chinese sage, Lao Tzu…

…limits. By the 1870s the land was worth $20 million to the Astor family. Today the area is known as Times Square. Because China was an excellent market for furs in 1800, Astor entered the China trade and earned large profits from it, often as much…

…heavier burden in the house than that in the developed countries. Take China and USA as an example. Chinese women almost devote themselves to their families. Husbands and children are regarded as focus of their lives. Sometimes they give up their careers…

…There are three major religions in China –Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism. Confucianism is the distinctive religion of the three because it had been ingrained in the ruling class, which had been the prevalent and influential religion since…

…Gulik uses this book and many of his others to describe the culture that of Imperial China. Imperial/Confucian culture lasted in China for about 2,100 years (from 200 BCE to 1900 CE and it) and it still keeps the image oh Chinese society strong. To many…

…was not going to solve his foreign problems. In 133 he launched attacks on the nomadic Hsiung-nu people, who constituted China's principal threat on the northern frontier, and thereafter he committed his realm to the expansion of the empire. By 101 Wu-ti's troops…

…panic and murder everywhere. That man’s name is Shoko Asahara, who started the cult named Aum Shinrikyo. Asahara was a partially blind boy born into a very poor family in China. Throughout his entire life he had one solitary goal - to become a leader…

…virtually anywhere in the world from your cellular phone using satellite services. Some countries depend on cellular phones as their main source of communication, such as China. For the people in China, it is too expensive to own a house phone; therefore nearly…