benefit that the exam system brought is that it marked the beginning of people’s consciousness of fairness towards education and officials’ selection. Following Confucius’s ideology‚ “In education there should be no class distinctions.” (Sources of Chinese Tradition‚ p.60‚ Analects15:38)‚ the exam system accepted applicants regardless of their race‚ class and age. Government could select and gain genuinely wise men from a much broader range of candidates‚ and the situation of a state monopolized by
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Eleanor Van Slyke Dr. James Horton Hist 38 May 11‚ 2000 Chinese Medicine and Religion As with all things we know little about there is quite a bit of mystery surrounding acupuncture. The part people see the most is a person with needles sticking out of their flesh. Understandably being wary of sharp pointed objects being wielded by a complete stranger‚ this is often an obstacle that needs to be over come. The best way to do this is by becoming educated about how acupuncture is performed‚
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of China from 1966 until 1976. Set into motion by Mao Zedong‚ then Chairman of the Communist Party of China‚ its stated goal was to preserve ’true’ Communist ideology in the country by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society‚ and to re-impose Maoist thought as the dominant ideology within the Party. The Revolution marked the return of Mao Zedong to a position of power after the Great Leap Forward. The movement paralyzed China politically and significantly negatively
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This book is as good as your favorite book times four. It keeps getting better and better as you read it. The novel Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen-Mah is inspiring because it talks about how Adeline was always working hard even though her family did not like her. As she grows up she gets sent to many boarding schools and that makes her work even harder. Aleline never gave up on her dream no matter what happened. For example‚ “It was announced today that 14 year old Hong Kong schoolgirl Adeline
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The Chinese cultural core has many elements and variables to be considered. China is one of‚ if not the oldest civilizations still in existence. The Zhou dynasty brings a lot of culture to china‚ for a couple different reasons. The Zhou dynasty‚ originated deep in history from the Zhou clan. By around the 11th century BCE. This clan had become increasingly powerful and had extended their existence throughout the present Shaanxi and Dansu provinces. At the time the Shang dynasty was under a very unjust
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In China savers are turning from traditional deposits to a higher return wealth management products; this trend is exposing risks to the Chinese banking system. Wealth management products are a mix of short term investments such as bonds‚ money market funds and other securities and the potential risk is that banks invest the proceeds from sales of these products in securities with longer maturities than short term investments; when products mature‚ banks persuade customers to either roll over the
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Chinese Traditional Wedding Wedding anniversaries in China are carefully chosen according to astrological signs. It is also customary for couples to be married on the half-hour or their wedding day rather than at the top of the hour. In this way‚ the couple begins their new lives together on an ’upswing’‚ while the hands of the clock are moving up‚ rather than down. On the morning of his wedding day‚ the groom is symbolically dressed by his parents. The groom arrives at the house of his bride
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In Chinese mythology we see the creation of a social hierarchy with differences between the rich and the poor. In both these traditions‚ superior beings are responsible for the creation of a social hierarchy. In Hinduism‚ the myth of Purusha‚ the cosmic man‚ explains the creation of the caste system‚ and in Chinese mythology‚ the story of the goddess of creation‚ Nü Kua‚ explains the creation of humans and why all humans are different‚ essentially creating a social structure in the Chinese tradition
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Chinese Laborers Surviving and Thriving in the West Americans usually discredit the Chinese in the founding of America. However the Chinese put a large amount of work into helping construct the western part of the United States. In addition‚ they personally may have suffered more than Americans in the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad. In fact‚ some could argue that the Chinese laborers had the most difficulty surviving and thriving in the west due to natural dangers‚ economic deprivation
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domain AF-2. Upon the agonist binding‚ AF-2 take an active conformation that allow it to bind the coactivators. AF-2 consists of the hydrophobic residues of helices 3‚ 4‚ 5 and 12. So‚ when the agonist is binding‚ helix 12 would take a conformation that allow it to complete the hydrophobic surface of AF-2 allow binding to LXXLL motifs of the coactivator [3]. The nuclear receptors are different in which motif they are binding to. For instance‚ GR and PR prefer binding to the third LXXLL motif. While
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