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…their merchandise in India and Southeast Asia for cotton and opium, which became welcomed in China as currency, in spite of the Imperial Chinese prohibition on opium. During the early 1800's opium addiction reached epidemic proportions in China. It became so popular…

…. The more people there are, the less one individual matters." (Isaac Asimov). This situation is ringing true in China. The United Nations estimates that China's population may reach the unmanageable mark of 2 billion as early as the year 2030. Right now China…

…and caused wide-spread terror in the towns. The Black Death: Bubonic Plague In the early 1330s an outbreak of deadly bubonic plague occurred in China. Plague mainly affects rodents, but fleas can transmit the disease to people. Once people are infected…

…was instituted, and in 1949 two divisions--40,000 troops--of the former Korean Volunteer Army in China, who had trained under the Chinese communists, and had participated in the Chinese civil war (1945-49), ! returned to North Korea. By June 1950, North Korean forces…

…the Communists in the very early years before the Long March, and after taking over China, her father became one of the most important senior officials in his province. Her mother was also put in charge the entertainment in that region. Therefore, the author grew up…

…their own personal style by combining those styles which preceded them. However, the most renowned Ch’ing painters relied on their own ingenuity to create styles that even the weight of tradition could not suffocate. During the late 17th and early 18th…

…different whether for better or worse. The original method of printing was invented in China and was known as block printing. It was a very simple process in which you pressed sheets of paper into individually carved wooden blocks. The Diamond Sutra of AD 868…

…, and more concerned about colonial economics than the stability of Europe. Both imperial powers assumed that empire-building would necessarily be an inevitable feature of the world system. German aggression could have been stifled early had the imperial…

…since 1945…." At the time, there was no power in the world that could achieve such a feat. Britain and France were in imperial decline, and more concerned about colonial economics than the stability of Europe. Both imperial powers assumed that empire-building…

…about colonial economics than the stability of Europe. Both imperial powers assumed that empire-building would necessarily be an inevitable feature of the world system. German aggression could have been stifled early had the imperial powers had acted…