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    History/ Background Chinese is one of the oldest cultures in the world. The Xia dynasty is known as the first to rule the entire China in 2070 BC. Therefore, along with the time, there have been many changes in the history of Chinese cuisine. Dim Sum is related with the term “yum cha”, which means “to drink tea”. This is started at around hundreds years ago, in Canton (Guangdong Province), when the travellers on the ancient Silk Road took some rest in the middle of their journey, and they usually

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    the world. Many of them are on certain holidays or even on an everyday life. There are many of the these traditions around the world. One of these such places is China. China has many bizzare traditions. One of these such cultural traditions is the Chinese Foot Binding. Foot binding was the custom of applying tight binding to the feet of young girls to modify the shape of their feet. The practice possibly originated among upper class court dancers during the 10th century China specifically the Five

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    As great philosopher George Santayana once said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." History plays a critical role in understanding why the present is the way it is, and it allows us to make conscious decisions about the future. By examining and analyzing historical events, we are able to dive into the past in order to gain insight on direction to the future. One must be able to learn about the past, learn about mistakes and problems, in order to move forward. In class

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    China has always been proud of its history. Being one of the most advance civilizations way before America was even discovered, a lot of the Chinese today still cling on to their glory days even if they are one of the world’s superpowers. A massive country with patriotic citizens and a great economy is what people know of China today. However, what most people do not know and the rest wanting to forget, is that China had its fair share of atrocities done to its very own people. One of these, of

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    Fight That Changed China “He imagined he’d gone up to the skies and there he had met a very tall man with a long beard and thick belt who had told him to come back to Earth and eradicate the demons on Earth”, said Jonathan Fenby, who has written history of modern China, about the man Hong Xiuquan. The Taiping Rebellion (1850 - 1864) was one of the bloodiest civil wars in China, with an estimated death toll of over twenty million. Taiping rebels wanted to bring down the Ch'ing dynasty (also known

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    Shi Huangdi was debatably one of the best leader’s in chinese history. He had several technological advancements, especially in the architectural area. He built so many things that helped improve the Qin empire, and China as a whole. Also what makes him impressive is that he was only thirteen when he began ruling the Qin dynasty! (Nowadays a thirteen yearold’s biggest accomplishment is one thousand social media followers). Qin Shi Huangdi made a huge impact on China’s technology because he executed

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    Introduction: history of Chinese students studying abroad in U.S. The history of Chinese students studying in American universities dates back to the mid-1850s, when the first student, Yung Wing, graduated from Yale University in 1854 (Bartlett and Fischer Para. 8). After that. Qin Dynasty starts sending Chinese students to learned new sciences and technologies and we called “Westernization Movement”. The educational missions to the US were organized in the 1870s to train specialists who would create

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    Chinese history is rich with culture conjointly seasoned with value laden principles from a hybridization of Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist schools of thought. Tracing back the lineage of influence or tracking the evolution of culture is at times an arduous task. Retrospective observance has afforded me a certain clarity in interpreting the past. With that being said, this paper is dedicated to the echoes of the past stipulated by the Confucian Scholar Dong Zhongshu. During the length of the paper

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    development of the game in their own unique way, therefore generating a multi-cultural blending constitution. The forebear of these civilizations is the Han Dynasty of China, the second great Chinese imperial dynasty (“Han Dynasty”), who founded the “Tsu’ Chu” (“History of Football”). The epithet derives from the Chinese terms “tsu”, to kick a ball with feet, and “chu”, a ball made of leather (Reilly). This variant consisted of a competition between two teams who vigorously worked to get the leather ball

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    Humans have made huge accomplishments throughout history. Many of these accomplishments have changed the world. Some of these accomplishments have come from dynasties and empires that wanted to expand their knowledge and ideas. Some of these things have affected other civilizations after them and some didn’t have that much of an impact. A lot of these achievements and accomplishments are basic things in our everyday lives that these civilizations have took time and effort to come up with. Ancient

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