How China Has Experienced Different Social And Political Systems

Here the idealized face of a full-blown Tang beauty from Tianlongshan, with a small, slightly opened mouth, is so expressive that it seems as though he is about to speak. The shape of the head is rounder and the carving for facial features is softer with time going by, so the bodhisattva is more and more nearly human looking.

China has changed in certain ways and remained the same in others from the early Golden Ages to the late 1900s. China has experienced a series of cultural and political transformations, shaping the lives of many Chinese citizens. Culturally, the country’s art and literature hardly changed for almost eight hundred years. Along with their culture, China remained politically the same from the beginning of the Golden Ages all the way until the 1800s. On the other hand, China’s government and society were restructured after new leaders took over. From a monarch to total communism, China’s society had a multitude of new ideas and policies they had to adapt to.

Tracing back the history of China, Xia Dynasty of the second millennium BCE was the earliest dynasty in China, which was centered along the Yellow River. Before China was unified, it was the time during which most of China's cultural tradition arose. Chinese civilization ascended and developed in a vast area, one-third larger than the United States if such dependencies as Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, and Tibet are included. For centuries China was almost completely isolated from the other centers of civilization by mountains, deserts, and seas. This isolation helps explain the great originality of China's culture. China has many mountain ranges and three river systems that rise close together on the high Tibetan plateau and flow eastward to

In ancient china, the social hierarchy was highly looked upon and very important. The shi included eunuch, scholars and officials. This meant that for the shi, because they were second to the top of the hierachy, they were very important and had big jobs. The shi included Eunuchs, Scholars and officials. These people contributed to the organisation and government of China because they ran the main jobs in the government including scribes, advisors and battle commanders. They also organised communities by giving orders and insuring people knew the laws and followed them.

In the odyssey we can learn a lot from appearances like instances when they went circe island and with her witchcraft she turned them into swine. With polyphemus they were scared he stroke fear into them do to he took advantage and feasted upon them. Not to forget calypso's island it was very deceitful where a sweet nymph named kept him captive for a total of seven years. This why you don't judge people based on their looks.

Communism in China as we know has played a major role in the countries political system over the past century. Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao were the co-founders of the communist party in 1921. At the time China was in a world or turmoil ever since the end of the Qing Dynasty in 1911. For 10 years China was lost in a world with new ideas coming from all over the world. At the time, Duxiu and Dazhao saw an opportunity to bring change throughout a weakened China and they exploited it. The communist influence being brought by them and powers such as Russia influenced the Chinese way of thinking that Communism had new beliefs of the world and that all people should be seen as equal under the new government. Personally I am a very strong believer in

After becoming wealthy, Wang Lung becomes insatiable. As he ponders on his surroundings, he realizes that nothing can fulfill him. Looking closely at his wife, O-lan, he sees for the first time that with large features, her face was flat and coarse-skinned, and lacked any trace of  beauty  (Buck 167). Wang Lung suddenly became discontent with O-lan and agitated with her appearance. Because she was not conventionally attractive, Wang Lung was no longer happy with her. Likewise, Wang Lung suddenly asks for the pearls that O-lan had with her. She timidly answers him with her plans of future uses for the pearls. Bursting at her, her abruptly questions why she would have the need to wear pearls with her dark skin (186). In Chinese society, having darker skin was inferior to pale skin; Wang Lung used this to justify why O-lan should not keep the pearls. Because of the unfair beauty standards, O-lan was looked down upon and stripped of something that rightfully belonged to her. In this section, Pearl S. Buck demonstrates how toxic beauty standards can be, and it is an unavoidable problem for people because of how common and accepted they are in

In another passage in Zhuangzi, there was a giant tree so big that can hide thousands of oxen, but Carpenter Shi said that it is so useless that it cannot be made to anything useful. The tree appeared in

As with other civilizations, Chinese agriculture, especially irrigated agriculture, necessitated centralized political authority. It took centuries to take shape, but the early river civilizations moved from decentralized settlements to an expansive kingdom (covering most of the geography currently associated with China) by 221 BCE. The Chinese political structure was not centralized, but rather it was a feudal system. Though the emperor ruled from the capital city, lived in a palace, and required protection supplied by palace guards, he also ruled by consent from important landowning families called the nobility, or feudal lords. These lords exacted payments (usually a percentage of the annual harvest) from peasants, who were legally bound

Chinese culture is truly one of the great civilization our world has come across. It boasts a vast geographic expanse, over 4000 years of written history, as well as a rich and profound traditional society. Many aspects of Chinese civilization can be traced back many centuries. It is so diverse and unique, yet harmoniously blended, and presents itself a priceless benefit to the world.

I believe the government structure of China is the most contradictory to the U.S. government structure. To begin with, China is a Communist State. The president of China is elected by the National People’s Congress – current president elected with 2,952 votes out of a possible 2,987. The members of the People’s Congress are “elected” from the various municipal, provincial, and regional people’s congresses, with only members of the CCP being eligible for election – thus, ensuring the CCP’s ruling status. In the U.S., in theory, the president is elected by the people in an open and free election (I use “in theory” because of the debate over Electoral College versus popular vote).

Disabled people include veterans, survivors of a traumatic experience and people born with medical conditions. In one of the biggest work economies, China is left with a problem when the number of disabled people increases because of businesses and employers not hiring people with disabilities, this problem became a conflict because of China's one-child rule (Wrest). China conducted screenings for early-stage disability in children in 1,958 healthcare institutions in 1,662 counties, “48,000 children aged between 0-6 were diagnosed as disabled” ( Statistical Communique on the…). This is a prime example of how disabled people are unprivileged, they are not able to support their parents because of unemployment.

Every complex society has its own unique aspect such as the philosophy of Confucius in ancient China or the ancient Greek’s advance military, but in this ancient city, art is of importance. The statue of Aeneas’ flight from Troy and the statue of the emperor Claudius are examples of the artistic aspects of the ancient city, which unravels the values of the inhabitant and the influences from complex societies. There exists a different form of art that is differentiable from the two keenly sculpted statues, which are monumental architectures. “A characteristic of complex societies is monumental architecture” (Lecture 9/24/15). Monumental architectures are often built as a way to symbolize the thriving society.

In the written piece composed by Hongjie Wang, “Hot Peppers, Sichuan Cuisine and the Revolutions in Modern China” a variety of elements inclusive of the correlation between the spicy predilection and innovative characters present in the Chinese culture are discussed with consideration of the key elements of big history. In “Hot Peppers, Sichuan Cuisine and the Revolutions in Modern China”, Hongjie Wang discusses the Big History of the Sichuan cuisine. In this discussion, the argues that the cuisine isn’t that hot, indicating this as a myth, as the spice was abandoned after the 16th century and then replaced by newly introduced peppers until today. Wang notes when the hot peppers made Sichuan cuisine spicy through giving an overview of the trade

Every country in the world is given a label. All nations are either labeled as a developing nation or a developed nation. Determining whether or not a country is developed or developing can be very hard. Developing nations are lacking and are trying to get what developed nations have. Developed nations have great infrastructure and technology with a much better and complex economy than developing nations. Developing nations have a larger population with lower standards of living for the people. China is a country that to many, seem to be developed but to them as a country claim to still be a developing nation. China's claim of their “developing nation” status is very valid because China is not yet politically or socially stable, the country is still trying to make the people's lives better and, China’s economy is not developed.