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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submission: Traditional Chinese law and its contribution to understanding the contemporary Chinese lawIntroduction | | In order to develop a proper understanding on to what level the ancient or traditional law is significant to understanding and comprehending contemporary Chinese law‚ it is imperative to acknowledge the cultural‚ political‚ social and historical facets of the Chinese legal tradition. Chinese present legal system reveals a number of influences including the Chinese culture and deeply
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Woman in living in China during the Song Dynasty believed that they would appear more graceful and beautiful if they had small feet. They used foot binding‚ a long and painful process of breaking and moving bones‚ to deform their feet until they were tiny. Foot binding perceived the role of women in Chinese society and Confucian moral values. This practice affected the lives of many women in ways that are unimaginably painful (Bound). One Chinese legend speaks of a time when Lady Huang of the
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Name Professor English # Date The Chinese in All of Us A Mexican American Explores Multiculturalism Our Society is the example of the definition of ethnic diversity. America has a large mix of citizens with different religious views‚ languages‚ nationalities‚ and races. Here in Florida Miami has a considerable amount of Cubans and Tampa/Orlando have a significant number of Puerto Ricans. While there are lot of Hispanics here in Florida and all of us speak the same language “Spanish”‚ most
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In a large town there was an old woman who sat in the evening alone in her room thinking how she had lost first her husband‚ then both her children‚ then one by one all her relations‚ and at length‚ that very day‚ her last friend‚ and now she was quite alone and desolate. She was very sad at heart‚ and heaviest of all her losses to her was that of her sons; and in her pain she blamed God for it. She was still sitting lost in thought‚ when all at once she heard the bells ringing for early prayer.
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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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Meaning of being Chinese or Chinese American China has a long brilliant history. The history of Chinese American in the Unites States has three major waves of Chinese immigration to the United States at the very beginning of the 19th century. The one impressed me most is Chinese immigrants worked as laborers‚ on the transcontinental railroad during 19th century. The Chinese immigrants were suffered a lot at that time‚ full of racial discrimination from every level of the “White” society. Till now
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Before I opened the book‚ I thought this book is about stories of Chinese people born in the United States‚ but when I open the book‚ the first scene is a story that I am so familiar with. When I was a little child‚ I spend summer breaks in my grandparents’ place in a village. My grandma is traditional old-time Chinese woman: non-literal‚ and never met my grandpa before the night they were married. She use to take me to the river near her house and teach me how to make hats using “dog tail grass”
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Running head: THE EVOLUTION OF CHINESE WEDDING IN CHINA The Evolution of Chinese Wedding in China LUO YONG SHI PSB Academy 1 THE EVOLUTION OF CHINESE WEDDING IN CHINA Abstract This research will be explain the evolution of Chinese wedding in China . People usually talk about three important moment in their life which are the birth ‚ the die and the wedding. Except for the birth and die ‚ wedding is the only one thing we can control by ourselves . In China ‚ the traditional wedding
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study of Chinese wine consumption and purchasing Implications for Australian wines The University of Western Australia‚ Perth‚ Australia Abstract Purpose ± This research aims to examine Chinese consumers’ wine consumption and purchasing behaviour. Design/methodology/approach ± The study‚ conducted during the Chinese New Year in early 2006‚ used in-depth interviews with 15 consumers in Guangzhou‚ People’s Republic of China. Findings ± The results suggest that Chinese consume Chinese spirits for
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