Pacific Europe Middle East U.S. N.Y. / Region Business Technology Science Health Sports Opinion Arts Style Travel Jobs Real Estate Autos For Prostitutes Jailed in China‚ Forced Labor With No Recourse By ANDREW JACOBS 11:06 PM ET A prostitute in Beijing known as Li Zhengguo said she would kill herself if arrested again. She is 39 and a single mother of two. Sim Chi Yin for The New York Times A prostitute in Beijing
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Comparison on Cultural Nationalism between Modern Korea and China in the Early 20th Century Over the confronted‚ yet shared borderline‚ Korea and China have actively been engaged with each other in various fields of life ever since the dawn of the nations. Such frequent and constant interactions had undoubtedly brought about the civil similitude between them until nowadays. Amongst numerous cultural resemblances of Korea and China from the history‚ this paper focuses on how their unique‚ yet similar-to-each-other
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Jenny Cho February 7‚ 2013 Stewart Assignment #4: Japan (Prompt/thesis) Prompt: Discuss possible reasons why Japan was the only non-western state to nationalize and win recognition as an equal and how it managed to accomplish this in a mere half century. Thesis: Being aware of recent Western invasions in China‚ Japan had recognized the need to transform their institutions and its society‚ therefore‚ Japan embraced nationalism. By 1649‚ Japan had shut down contact with the European world with the
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married. This is because certain days are considered to be the most auspicious in their almanac. In a Japanese shrine they may be up to forty couples at the Shinto shrine. A Shinto wedding ceremony is always performed before a Shinto sanctuary. In Japan many hotels and restaurants are equipped with rooms to perform wedding ceremonies. Of course members of both families‚ their close relatives‚ and the in betweens attend a wedding. The ceremony "San-san-kuto" which is a ceremony of three-times-three
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with countries whose religions originated in their country and had been around for many centuries. A great example of this is Shinto in Japan‚ which has been around for an extremely long time. Shinto formed the country of Japan‚ explaining how the country formed and how it came to be today. Shinto is an exceedingly significant thing to pay attention to when learning about any other events or concepts in Japan. Seeing as Shinto is the largest religion‚ there are multiple varieties of Shinto: Sect
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Buddhism had an important role in the development of Japanese art between the sixth and the sixteenth centuries. Buddhist art and religion came to Japan from China‚ with the arrival of a bronze Buddhist sculpture alongside the sutras. Buddhist art was encouraged by Crown Prince Taishi in the Suiko period in the sixth century and Emperor Shomu in the Nara period in the eighth century. In the early Heian period Buddhist art and architecture greatly influenced the traditional Shinto arts‚ and Buddhist
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of astronomy. Scientist such as Copernicus‚ Kepler‚ Galileo‚ and newton questioned the scientific methods of Ptolemy and Aristotle. These scientists changed the beliefs of their followers to create a more modern way of life. In the sixteenth century‚ the beliefs of Aristotelian-Ptolemaic were accepted by society. The geocentric theory was one of many that was created during this centaury. This theory is the belief that planets were perfect circles‚ and objects were pulled down due to their
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| アメリカじん | amerikajin | American (person) | あなた | anata | you | はい | hai | Yes (acknowledgement) | にほん | nihon | Japan | にほんじん | nihonjin | Japanese (person) | いいえ | iie | No | ひしょ | hisho | secretary | ちゅうごく | chuugoku | China | ちゅうごくじん | chuugokujin | Chinese (person) | ドイツ | doitsu | Germany | ドイツじん | doitsujin | German (person) | がくせい
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differences between China and Europe in the fifteenth century‚ “What accounts for the different fortunes of China and Europe in the fifteenth century? Were the decline of China and the rise of Europe inevitable? Probably no objective observer of the time would have thought so. In what ways were the expansions of China and Europe similar? In what ways were they different?” What happened from 1400 all the way up until 1500 is a very interesting phenomenon in regards to Europe and China. Up until 1432
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The revolutions of the 17th and 18th centuries played an important role in the development of democracy‚ however the Glorius Revolution of 1688 was the integral event that has shaped modern-day mass democracy. The Glorious‚ American and French Revolutions of 1688‚ 1776 and 1789 respectively‚ all played an essential role in the development of democracy. These events and the interdependent thinkers and philosophes‚ inspired the bourgeoisie to pursue and advocate a liberal political system that would
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