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    Chinese philosophies, Daoism, teaches not only the balance and unity in oneself, but unity and balance with the state as well. Philosophy unified the Chinese statehoods and balanced the people within the states. Though the states were often at war and dynasties often triumphed over one another, China was still unified under the Mandate of Heaven. Within the Mandate of Heaven, China was unified under one ruler that followed the way of heaven and receives blessings from the gods. If a ruler no longer went

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    Daoism appeared as a reaction to a civil war across China, known as the warring states period, which caused a wide feeling of civil unrest. The war went on for nearly two hundred and fifty years and spread across the Zhou Dynasty, which was divided into eight separate states. Daoist believed that war was a result of excessive desire, and only through modest desire will people and the state experience peace and unity. Daoist argued that desire and all actions must be natural, and we must return to

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    People sceptical of Chinese traditional culture’s relevance to modern environmental concerns will point out that ancient Chinese had no term for nature in, as it were, the David Attenborough sense – nature as what natural historians study, and what TV nature programmes are programmes about. This does not mean that the Chinese were unable to talk about natural landscapes and wild things, nor that their concept of nature were without implications for our relationship to nature in this sense. It does

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    CANTONESE REGIONAL CUISINE (Chinese flag, 9 April 2015)

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    History of Tuberculosis in Thailand This essay I will writing about History of Tuberculosis Prevention in my country which is Thailand. Tuberculosis is an infectious disease which is cause by bacterium called Mycobacterium Tuberculosis or MTB. Mostly this disease affects the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body. This disease can spread into the air when people who have MTB are spit speak or sneeze. If this disease get into in the body can cause blood-containing sputum, fever, night sweats

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    numerous inequality treaties. Every time Chinese people tried to resist these foreign powers, there would be more humiliated terms on the treaties and larger amount of reparation awaited. After defeated by British in the First Opium War, the Qing dynasty had to accept the Treaty of Nanjing, which China paid British an indemnity, ceded

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    As an observer from the east, Chen Cheng had many preconceived values granted by his biography. Inevitably, these values are recognizable in his portraits of the Timurid world. In five major aspects did Chen Cheng appear to be "judgmental." I define the nature of "judgmental" as shown by negative, or occasionally, positive, semantic fields characterized by the usages of adjectives and descriptive sentences. Every case of being judgmental hints at Chen Cheng 's unique background that tells the readers

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    transformations that have left their mark; certain central aspects have endured while others have remained the same. Regardless of what changed and what endured, the events that took place from the Qin to the Tang Dynasties shaped the philosophies, religions, governments, and the culture of China. The Qin dynasty was perhaps one of the most revolutionary governments in the ancient world, but not in the modern progressive connotation of that concept. The Qin Emperor, Shi Huangdi, and his court executed an unprecedented

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    Japan’s victory over Russia made itself not only the most fearful colonial power in Asia, but also a world power that was respected by the Western world. The defeat in the Sino- Japanese War finally prompted both conservatives and liberals to consider reforms in both political and social domains as well reforms in the education system. China was in a precarious political situation where elements of both Confucianism and Western institutions were coexisting side by side. Between June 11 and September

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    LEVENDARY CAFÉ: PART-2 THE PROBLEM: The problem identified in the report is Chen, the president of Levendary China, has completely changed the core design of the company to give local look and feel. Even the Levendary’s classic wooden framed upholstered chairs are replaced with an alternative of local made plastic chairs by Chen. The change in the taste preferences by the Chinese customers is another problem which made Chen to change the core values of Levendary according to the local demand. The

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