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    Journey to the West

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    spent hours and hours immersed in those books. For a lot of Chinese children however‚ the story they grew up with was called Journey to the West‚ or XiYouJi. This story was written by Wu Cheng’en‚ an author who lived during the 16th century in the Ming dynasty. A very famous piece of literature‚ it is considered one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese Literature. The novel starts by telling the story of SunWuKong‚ who was born from a rock. He went on to learn 72 polymorphic transformations

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    WHAT MOTIVATED THE WEST’S INTEREST IN ASIA AND WHAT IMPACT DID THAT EVENTUALLY HAVE? (1979 WORDS) Missionaries in Asia and Their Impact on Education Religion was one key reason which attracted the Westerners into Asia. Because Christianity was the dominant religion in Western countries‚ the dispatching of missionaries into Asia was a common sight. Because they came in masses and moved conspicuously‚ they left rather astounding impacts on the host countries - educational impacts in particular

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    Han Dynasty: c 200 BCE - 220 CE Period of Disunity Tang Dynasty: 618 - 907 Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period Song Dynasty: 960 - 1279 (also spelled: Sung) Yuan Dynasty: 1279 - 1368 (also spelled: Yüan; the Mongols rule China) Ming Dynasty: 1368 - 1644 Qing Dynasty: 1644 - 1911 LAST EMPEROR Chinese Republic: 1911 - 1949 People’s Republic of China: 1949 - (Communist Party takes over China in 1949) CHINA ..... was the last of all ancient civilizations to develop

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    Differed ways to consume tea resulted in different ways of using tea wares. Compared to the typical way of tea drinking in the late-Ming period‚ the process of tea-tasting in the Tang and Song dynasties were much more complicated. The complication implied that tea connoisseurs in the Ming era had drastically simplified the tea vessels they often used‚ as well as the whole procedure of tea tasting. The understandings of Tang-style tea drinking have been significantly transformed by the re-apparition

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    Introduction to China

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    Introduction to China Cheng Ho Cheng Ho Cheng Ho (1371 - 1433) was a eunuch in the service of the Ming emperor Yung-lo and commander in chief of the Chinese expeditionary fleet to the South Seas in the early years of the 15th century. Born into a family named Ma‚ presumably of Mongol-Arab origin‚ in central Yünnan Province‚ Cheng Ho was selected to be castrated by the general in charge

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    Mulan Essay

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    The film Mulan is set in ancient China‚ in an undefined dynasty. The Huns have penetrated the Great Wall and have invaded China. The emperor orders that new soldiers be drafted. Mulan‚ a girl who recently humiliated her family by failing the Matchmaker’s assessment‚ in order to save her aging father from death at war‚ steals her father’s armor and masquerades as a soldier. Throughout the film‚ several historical inaccuracies‚ as well as accurate portrayals‚ become apparent‚ in such respects as religious

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    World Literature Reviewer

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    Lit. 103 World Literatures Preliminary Examination Reviewer ------------------------------------------------- Indian-Chinese-Japanese Indian Literature Aryan race- invaded India from North West * Brahmanism‚ Hinduism‚ and Jainism were their religions Gautama Buddha- made many changes in the old religion; his teachings later became the basis for one of the five major religions Sanskrit- oldest extant Aryan language‚ used in most Ancient Indian literature 2 Periods of Indian Literature

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    Art 101

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    Art Timeline Alicia Hansen Art/101 2/13/2011 Art Timeline As curator of the museum I have been asked to develop an interactive timeline based on one art medium to improve the content of the museum website. I have chosen to do a time line based on paintings from the Chinese. I chose to do nature and landscape art work. The first art piece is known as Chinese landscape artist from the 11th century developed the Old Tree‚ Level Distance hand scroll using ink and color on silk

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    Zheng He Voyage Paper

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    Bibliography: Dreyer‚ Edward L. Zheng He‚ China and the Oceans in the Early Ming Dynasty‚ 1405-1433. Pearson‚ n.d. Levathes‚ Louise. When China Ruled The Seas. New York: Oxford University Press‚ 1994.

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    Study Chapter 26

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    AP World History Ch 26 Reading Study Guide #1 P. 603-612 1. From what groups in Chinese society did the founder of the Taiping Rebellion draw his followers? Pg. 602 Peasants‚ Slaves‚ Women‚ religious people‚ 2. Even though they were not colonized by European powers‚ why did both China and the Ottoman Empire go into decline in the 1800s? Pg. 603 They contributed to all of the political movements that were growing apart and other empires were better (Timeline Pg. 604) 3. What were the years

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