Yangtze River

The Opium War was a war between the United Kingdom and Imperial China. Smoking opium for the stimulating impacts is not noted in China until the eighteenth century, but rather likely started at some point before. The Chinese Imperial Government in the mid eighteenth century turned out to be progressively concerned with the spreading dependence on opium and its crippling impact. The Imperial Government disallowed the offer of opium blended with tobacco and banned opium-smoking houses (1729). The Government

Documentary Essay Throughout China, currency was rapidly changing. At first China used paper money, but silver was the main form of payment. Silver was the main form of payment because it was easier to trade among many different countries with it. Paper money was used for a while, but the worth of it didn’t last very long and so China returned to using silver. Europe, America and China all started using silver for foreign trade. It was important for China to establish trading posts with Britain and

Early in his career Li Si showed an earnest desire to contribute to the ongoing moral government. Sima Qian wrote, “Zheng Gao, a man of Hann, came to cause dissension in Qin through the construction of drainage and irrigation channels” (25). It is well known that water control through engineering has always been a major concern and responsibility of the Chinese government. Irresponsible use of water could lead to crops flooding, mudslides that are capable of destroying villages, widespread hunger

The Nanjing Massacre occurred for six weeks, having fell to the Japanese, they began their infamous massacre also known as the rape of Nanjing. This sequence of events not only affected Nanjing historically, but the effect is has on current day Nanjing is nothing less than astonishing. Throughout the six weeks an estimated 300,000 soldiers (Controversial, as there are different numbers thrown around) and civilians were killed. The Nanjing massacre is known as one of the most destructive mass murders

There I was in Shanghai, China, staring at the sun as if I were trying to look at a lamp behind a curtain. The rise of pollution levels in China has intrigued the minds of people who never even cared about the environment before. The People’s Republic of China is now the largest emitter of CO2 in the world. But of course, this a global phenomenon: a global phenomenon that in no way started with China as Alanna Mitchell would agree to. By the end of the 19th century, the powerful duo that was industrialization

of the world’s major fishing grounds, especially within 2 ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT the Changjiang (Yangtze) River plume and its surrounding sea along China’s coast. High fishery yield is normally supported by high primary production and abundant food sources from lower trophic levels (Caddy, 1993; Xu et al., 2004). Indeed, primary production can reach as high as 2079 mg C m-3 d-1 in the Changjiang River plume region, mostly induced by high rates of riverine nutrient supply (e.g., Gong et al., 2003;

Chinese culture thrived and grew to become it’s own superpower, and for many years this was unknown to the rest of the world. Great geographic influences included the treacherous mountain ranges, such as the Himalayas, and the prosperous river valleys, such as the Yangtze and the Huang he. Lack of cultural diffusion is primarily due to the fact that China, for hundreds of years, had little to no outside contact or cultural diffusion with other civilizations of that time. The culprit behind this lack of

devastations. The Huang He and Yangtze river valleys were vital to Chinese history. They provided the Chinese with fertile soil on which they based their agrarian society. The Himalayas form a natural barrier and played an important role by serving the Chinese with protection. While this helped China to thrive, rivers also overflowed and caused devastation along with mountain ranges preventing cultural diffusion from happening. Both the Huang He and Yangtze rivers contributed to the success of ancient

correct to kill and torture these harmless and intelligent creatures, for almost no use? Some dolphin species face an uncertain future, especially some dolphin species such as the Amazon River dolphin, the Ganges and Yangtze River dolphin, which are seriously endangered. In 2006 it was stated that the Yangtze River dolphin was completely extinct. Because of hunting, entanglement in fishing gear, collisions with boats and ships, habitat loss, and pollution. Although people like to see dolphins perform

Esteemed members of the UNESCO Board. The Huang He River, commonly referred to as the Yellow River is a riverine landscape that flows from the West of China to the East, through nine Northern Provinces. (Huang He Britannica, 2011) The rivers source (the Kunlun Mountains) are located at 36°N and 84°E and its mouth (the Bohai Sea) is located at 38.7°N and 119.9°E. Located in China, this river should be under the state of investigation by UNESCO due to the bad pollution the region is receiving. The