Song Dynasty: The Almost Industrial Revolution Between A.D 960-1279 China entered a phase of economic and agricultural growth that was much larger than ever before. Revolutions in farming‚ ideology‚ and bureaucracy allowed the Song Dynasty to become the world’s first modern economy. This great economy resulted in high levels of urbanization and favorable conditions for technological development‚ commerce and a rural-based proto-industrialization.1 Despite the rich development and likelihood of
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The cultural identity of this group of tea drinkers was built on the ground of their common interests in the Tang-Song-style tea drinking and their nostalgia of their Tang-and-Song tea connoisseurs. However‚ the cultural identity of the scholar-official class could be simply built on the basis of tea drinking and its aesthetic principle in general. In a discussion on the relationship between tea consumption and the scholar-official class‚ Wu Zhihe argues that tea drinking played a significant role
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Anna Sui (born August 4‚ 1964)[2] is an American fashion designer. Her luxury brand retails globally in the Americas‚ Europe‚ Asia and the Middle East. Her clothing‚ fragrance‚ cosmetic‚ and accessories lines sell at Anna Sui stores in over 50 countries and are also widely distributed at leading department stores worldwide.[3] Sui is known for her timeless designs and ability to transcend eras with her historical and culturally inspired collections. After leaving Parsons‚ she worked for a variety
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to step back and find peace even in an imperfect world. Japanese rock gardens were carefully constructed to display the beauty of nature in which the viewer is meant to discover the landscapes meaning. Chinese landscape painters of the Northern Song Dynasty sought to capture the forever changing spirit‚ form and image of nature in their large landscapes.
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Chinese Dynasties The Xia Dynasty‚ 2070-1600 BC‚ was an important dynasty for the Chinese civilization and their history. It brought an end to the Primitive Society and brought up a new trend‚ the slave society. Towards the end of the Xia Dynasty‚ social conflicts grew and they were forced to go to war. The people were tired of dealing with all of with all the things they were forced to do for their leader so they fled in large numbers and were soon ruled by the Shang Dynasty. The Shang Dynasty
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Stella Boye-Doe CC Essay- Tang China and the Byzantine Empire During the postclassical period from 600 to 1450 CE empires‚ such as the Tang dynasty in China and the Byzantine Empire‚ used new methods of equal land distribution in their societies. Each empire had very distinct methods for organizing the distribution of land in their empires.For the Tang dynasty land was distributed according to the equal field system while in the Byzantine empire land was given according to the theme system
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Qin: The Qin dynasty was right in the middle of the Era of Warring States‚ a time where China was trying to find their identity. The Qin Dynasty adopted Legalist thinking’s. Legalism was based off the idea that everything needs to run through the government and anyone that believed otherwise or didn’t follow the rules was badly punished. The king of Qin‚ who was latter named The First Emperor‚ was Shih Huang-Di. A huge accomplishment of the First Emperor was that in only nine years he captured the
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000 bequest was attacked‚ not by the killer bees‚ but by the killer “A”s: age‚ ademption‚ abatement‚ and advancement. Age may be a barrier to taking the principal of a bequest if the beneficiary is not sui juris. “Sui juris” is a Latin phrase used not for show but for clarity of legal meaning. Sui juris means “in their own right‚” and it refers to beneficiaries who enjoy full rights under the law and do not share them with a guardian. Beneficiaries who have not attained the age of majority (age 18
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SHANGHAI TANG: THE FIRST GLOBAL CHINESE LUXURY BRAND? When he created Shanghai Tang in 1994‚ Hong Kong businessman David Tang intended to launch Chinaís first bona-fide luxury brand. The idea was ìto create the first global Chinese lifestyle brand by revitalising Chinese designsóinterweaving traditional Chinese culture with the dynamism of the 21st centuryî.1 In the first few years‚ Tangís flamboyant‚ cross-cultural style and ties to international celebrities fuelled the buzz surrounding the label
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COMPANY CASE: SHANGHAI TANG: China’s First Great Luxury Brand One rainy October night in 2002 in a 1‚300 year-old Confucian temple in Shanghai‚ journalists from three continents‚ local bigwigs‚ style-conscious Chinese yuppies (chuppies)‚ and three Chinese soccer stars gathered to watch a fashion show. Raphael le Masne de Chermont‚ CEO of the Chinese lifestyle brand Shanghai Tang‚ is unconcerned about the weather and its possibly detrimental effects on 46 expensive garments which were about to
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