Shanghai Offers An Eclectic Range Of Scenes

In a diagram labeled “Economic Connections during the Golden Age of the Song” (Document 4), it showed the development of China from farming to growing cities through the use of technology. By creating agricultural technology, there was eventually a surplus in food and other products began to sell. This opened up trade and jobs and made large business cities like the capital, Chang’An. The economy expanded and prospered based on the trade of art and technology. In a picture scene (Document 9), it shows a busy, bustling city doing business. There are merchants and traders who traveled by water. All of this caused cultural diversity and diffusion. The growth of China’s strong economic system and systems of trade resulted in the Tang and Song China becoming the Golden

While under the rule of the Emperor Qianlong, China’s foreign policy and trade was beginning to unfold and open up to Europe. Qianlong, however, still maintained a strict and regulated administration of all foreign trade and foreign ability to exist within China. “ It is true that Europeans, in the service of the dynasty, have been permitted to live at Peking, but they are compelled to adopt Chinese dress, they are strictly confined to their own precincts and are never permitted to return home.” All outside interactions with China could only be permitted if ‘in the

There was a Mid-Autumn parade in Chinatown on that day, accompanying the dragon and lion dancing, Marann started to give us illustration about Chinatown. Because It is hard to get a parking lot in Chinatown, and the people who live in Chinatown celebrated Mid-Autumn Day, so I decided to take BART to go there. Before I met our tour guide, I went across to Union Square and passed a tunnel. The one side of the tunnel is to connect the western world, like Union Square, and the another side of the tunnel is to connect to the orient world, Chinatown. Finally I walked to inside Portsmouth Square Park, park level, and then I saw our tour guide, Manuel Maranan who took us to Chinatown. That’s a very big park, and it’s close to Hilton hotel, there was a China’s nation flag, also there was a Taiwan’s flag. Many Chinese visitors

Written in ca. 1270 CE, the document titled, “Marco Polo in China” was written first by Marco Polo during his travels, but then transliterated by a professional author when he returned to Venice in 1295 CE (“Marco Polo”). The selection is a piece of descriptive literature detailing the affluent city of Hangchow. According to the document, the city was one hundred miles in circumference and nestled in between a massive river and a freshwater lake. Polo then continued on to describe what the ten marketplaces were like in the city, claiming there were shops galore and a plethora of foodstuffs. In addition, his descriptions of what the housing in the city looked like gives rise to the image of modern-day apartment buildings. In Hangchow, there were paved roads, approximately 12,000 bridges, and even an army that acted as a sort of police force. Marco Polo’s documentation of the city of Hangchow was intended for an audience of educated individuals who had never been to the city. The incredibly detailed description of the city, in

In the year 1500, Ming China enforced an isolationist policy for trade. China had totally separated itself from the outside world, and private international trade was made unlawful. Just certain trade was permitted, for example, the Japanese were permitted in an assigned port like clockwork. Be that as it may, around the mid-1500s, a few Europeans came to Guangzhou to exchange. After this, in 1517, a Portuguese endeavor arrived, however, the gathering was placed in prison. Fortunately, in 1557, the Ming court and the Portuguese agreed to a settlement, formally making Macau, a region on the south shoreline of China, a legitimate exchanging port for the Portuguese. Later on, exchanging got to be allowed among the Chinese once more, and was no

All throughout the world, populous cities such as New York City and Shanghai, inhabit crowded streets that are overflowing with people; these multifarious cities are examples of sites of encounters. In the middle ages, a valid example is the city Quanzhou, China. Quanzhou, being a site of encounter enjoyed a plentiful of trade, though they were forced to issue more laws and protection to ensure safety within. Trading with foreign countries created cultural diffusion within this city along with a diverse society. By being a site of encouter, the city of Quanzhou’s political and cultural worlds were the most impacted.

The second theme in this is when they talked about that most cities had some type of autonomous self-government, and they have mutual self-interest. Furthermore, they had largely limited violence, and attempts to monopolize trade. And that the most developed area of the commercial web was made-up of the ports surrounding the South China sea.

The Chinese and European cultures came together for the first time in the fifteenth century when great Chinese fleets traveled throughout the Indian Ocean and along the coast of Africa. These voyages created much concern for China. They lead to a period of isolation for security reasons. By the time the first Europeans arrived in China there was little to no evidence of these voyages. (Mungello 2005) Fallowing that time the Chinese government proceeded with a policy of containment to the trade merchants and missionaries that would visit them in the coming centuries. This paper will server an explanation to why China and Europe at first embraced each other then rejected each others

The plans and narratives of the Kowloon Walled City have drastically changed through the years, as it has been an unrolled and unregulated enclave between the British and Chinese governments. It began as an officially planed Chinese military fort and afterwards witnessed three distinct stages of lawlessness, demolition and rebirth as an urban garden. It all officially began in the 16th century, when the Chinese built a defensive garrison town filled with soldiers, civil officers and their families (Carney, 2013). However, when Hong Kong was leased to the British in 1898, the Kowloon Walled City became a enclave in the colonized territory, where no laws of the official state applied and everything began expanding spontaneously. The first stage of the city’s unintentional self-organization began in the 1950’s. It is widely known as the time of three vices – gambling, prostitution and drug dealing. The official regulations of the British did work on Hong Kong and were reversely reflected in the Chinese enclave. As soon as something was forbidden in the city-state, people massively poured into the un-ruled territory and let the sins to flourish. This way the Kowloon Walled City became synonymous with violence, crime and disturbance. During this period, the city and people became one, the buildings were connected by piping systems and wires, the water poured through the holes and sunlight could barely reach the lower levels. Yet, in the early 1970’s the situation started changing

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This book is a harsh criticism China's housing reform system for destroying its own people, written by the author who observes China from liberal's point of view. The author, Qin Shao wrote for those people who want to learn about the large-scale housing revolution in China throughout crucial experiences that citizens have gone through. It criticize the demolition and relocation system, questioning the level of morals. In introduction, he gives concretely negative words of China's abusing housing system and as he explains the historical process in order. For instance, Shao describes the government's policies and its corruption as “crucial,” “distrustful,” and he even calls them as “ugly twins.” There

The Qingming handscroll depicts a bustling Chinese city prior to the late twelfth century. The scroll’s starting scenes are of a beautiful landscape, and the city’s level of activity is first conveyed in the bridge scene of sections 13 and 14. Through close analysis of this scene, it seems that the artist’s perspective in this scroll is an idealistic rather than realistic one, portraying things as they should be rather than as they are. This can be seen in his choices to depict an all-male crowd, to portray an unrealistically spotless road, and to highlight the coordinated actions of those on an off-course boat.

China is becoming more westernised, particularly the ‘cosmopolitan’ city of Shanghai, where demand for Western products is increasing rapidly as disposable income rises in line with China’s strong economic growth. Michel’s wanted to establish a foothold in the market at an early stage to demonstrate a long-term commitment, which has been identified as essential to compete successfully in the Shanghai market (per Tim Harcourt, Austrade Chief Economist).

Whole rooms of palaces were decorated with porcelain, small Chinese-style furniture and wall murals which presented the ideal world that was supposedly China. This essay will explore the

There are so many places of interest in Nanjing, such as: the world of scholars, the drum tower, the iron core bridge, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the palace of heaven, the three steps, the two bridges and so on. Each of them has