East Asia

and communication with the outside world. Throughout history Japan has been very isolated and hard to get too. This has hindered their ability to trade with the outside world. China on the other hand has been at the center of trade between Europe and Asia for thousands of years. Author Edward H. Schaefer wrote “Early China was a vibrant area with lots of trade with the outside world.” Not only did ancient China’s trade network surpass anything Japan had, China’s impact on their neighboring countries

East Asian Culture This world we live in is such a diverse place with many different cultures, religions, and traditions. Every culture has their own traditions and rules that they abide by, because this is the norm for that culture. By stepping out of what you were taught in your culture, and choosing to learn and try to understand why other cultures do things differently, you earn a new perceptive on this world. You earn a new respect for not only this other culture that you are learning about

East Asia and The U.S have numerous physical geography differences but they have similarities. To start off with, East Asia and the U.S both has numberless deserts found in both regions. The U.S has The great basin desert, it's three quarters of nevada and also covers part of Utah and part of Idaho and Oregon. Also, there's the Chihuahuan desert which is part of southeastern New Mexico and western Texas. Next, U.S has the Sonoran desert, which is 100,000 square miles from Arizona to California. East

Globalization of Korean Popular Culture in Asia 1. Introduction Since 1990s, Korean Popular Culture has had a strong influence in Asian countries, including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and Singapore. This new popular cultural phenomenon in Asia is called the “Korean Wave”, also known as hallyu in Korean pronunciation, which refers to the surge of popularity of Korean popular culture abroad, particularly in Asia(Kin 284). The “Korean Wave” is first coined in mid-1999 by journalists in Beijing

a different phenomenon. Asia-Pacific has been at the centre of globalization for the past 60 years. The region has benefited from globalization process and geopolitical merits, such as the Cold War, in manner in which other developing regions never experienced. Nevertheless, the regions international relations have also been considered paradoxical. During the period when globalization theory indicated the demise of the national economy and warning of national identity, East Asian growth was motivated

around the bipolar power structure of the Soviet Union versus the United States. In a region where several atrocities and war crimes committed by Japan defined the war for many, the world needed reassurance of a docile Japan and long-term stability in Asia. In 1954 with the support of the

Forbidden Love: Shifting Gender Roles and East Asian Cinema The film world is often known for borrowing content from the actual events that occur on Earth. Popular genres such as documentaries, historical dramas, and war films generally draw directly from real-life events, even if the characters or dialogue may be imaginary. However, these realistic pictures are not the only way that real-life leaks into the on-screen world - filmmakers and producers often borrow from contemporary issues such as

McDonalds has always been able to face the challenges that arise when trying to expand to foreign cultures. They have successfully expanded to over a hundred countries, including countries in East Asia. In the book “Golden Arches East” by James L. Watson, he studies different cities and how McDonalds has played a role in their cultures. Three places that he mentioned in his writing were Beijing, Seoul and Japan. They all share similarities in the way the culture was impacted positively and negatively

I plan to compare and contrast the dynamic interaction between East Asian countries and the western world via anime and SF trade, information networks or imagination, Techno-Orientalism, fetishization of anime, Western imperialism, and the travel of transnational elites. 1. In Peter G. Rowe’s “Keeping and Re-Using”, subjectivity, space, and time are all questioned by addressing Zaha Hadid’s foreign architecture in Seoul, Korea. Her incorporation of metonymic landscape -- “substitution of a thing

word ‘Orientalism’ was used first in the book Orientalism by Edward W. Said in 1979. Its original meaning was an exoticism of the East appearing in European (Western) culture and art. Today, however, it is used to imply the distortion and bias of the West towards the East, justifying supremacy and domination of the West to the East. During that time, the West and the East (especially China and Japan) had contacted each other and their attitudes towards the West were similar in some ways but different