“Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains”. In this long handscroll painting‚ Huang Gongwang painted the landscape in the area around the Fuchun River. As a main topic of this painting‚ I would like to talk about how this painting depicts the basic elements of Chinese painting: its balance or contrast and its subject matter or theme of the painting. First‚ the idea of balance or contrast in this painting by Huang Gongwang is depicted by his drawings of hills and mountains. As they scroll follows the riverbank
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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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Spring Festival Chinese New Year holds the most significant position among all Chinese festivals and holidays. The Chinese New Year is accompanied by a belief in good future. Chinese New Year is also called Spring Festival (1). Putting the spring festival scrolls up‚ hanging the lanterns‚ having reunion meals‚ having dumplings‚ sitting up late and waiting for the ring of the New Year are all Spring Festival’s customs. (2) Spring Festival is the day for family reunions
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From One Continent to the Next The easiest way to get a job done is to make someone else do it for you. This is exactly what the U.S did to the Chinese immigrating to their country. They used the Chinese for their own needs‚ treating them with no respect at all. But‚ despite the fact that they were discriminated against‚ the Chinese continued to work for the U.S. In the beginning‚ Chinese had very low numbers‚ with few immigrants. It was the discovery of gold of 1848 in California that brought
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Who did Mao blame for the faltering of the Chinese revolution? Mao blamed ruling elites within the communist party and government bureaucrats who were interested only in maintaining their power. What two steps were involved in Mao’s plan to tear down the old world? The two steps were to have the Red Guard attack the “Four Olds” and to eliminate the “Five Black Elements”. What evidence did British sociologist Peter Worsley offer to show that Mao’s effort at social change was successful? The
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billion by 2030. The scale and pace of China’s urbanization continues at an unprecedented rate. If current trends hold‚ China’s urban population will hit the one billion mark by 2030. In 20 years‚ China’s cities will have added 350 million people more than the entire population of the United States today. By 2025‚ China will have 221 cities with one million–plus inhabitants—compared with 35 cities of this size in Europe today—and 23 cities with more than five million. For companies in China and around
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Kai-shek’s coup marks the desertion of the national bourgeoisie from the revolution‚ which is the clash (emergence) of a Centre a national counter-revolution‚ and the conclusion of a deal between the Kuomintang Rights and the imperialists against the Chinese revolution.. - Chiang Kai-shek’s coup signifies that in South China there will now be two camps‚ two governments‚ two armies‚ two Centre -- the revolutionary Centre in Wuhan and the counter-revolutionary Centre in Nanking. - Chiang Kai-shek’s
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Part 1 Essay | topics How Flower-and-Bird painting becomes a significant category in Chinese Painting & Today Flower-and-Bird paintings Part 2 Further developed | deliverables of the final project The expression and poetic meaning within the flower and bird painting is such a good value to today’s busy city. While we are lack of having the time with nature that far different from the ancient Chinese life‚ so‚ here design a hotel concept based on flower and bird paintings as the theme
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From Chinese Cinderella Growing up in a wealthy family in 1950s Hong Kong‚ Adeline Yen Mah should have had an enviable childhood‚ but she was rejected by her dominating stepmother and despised by her brothers and sisters. She was sent to a boarding school and left there. In this extract from her autobiography she relates one of the few occasions when she went home. Time went by relentlessly and it was Saturday again. Eight weeks more and it would be the end of term … in my case perhaps the end of
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The dominating feature od Chinese life is a conservatism that has followed certain habits and traditions for 40 centuries. Altthough there was some culture in China five thousand years ago‚ we shall begin our study with the Chou Dynasty (1125-255 B.C.)‚ during which time China reached its zenith of intellectual and artistic achievement. Confucius (552-479 B.C.) was almost a comtemporary of the Golden Age of Athens. The Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 221) marked a great development in
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