China's Golden Age

Chinese culture is also greatly embedded in religious and philosophical beliefs. The way a relationship is developed between and individual and the society differs according to various beliefs. In China, two common philosophical and religious ideas are Confucianism and Taoism. Confucianism

Since the reform and opening up, the economy of China grows significantly, as an emerging economy, China's economy has made tremendous contributions to the global economy, and Renminbi has become one of the most important currency in the world. According to the survey conducted by China National Bureau of Statistics found that from 1979 to 2012, China has attained an annual average growth rate of 9.8% for its national economy, while the annual average growth of the world economy is only 2.8 % during the same period. In past 30 years, China's GDP surpassed Japan’s, China became the world 's second largest economy, in addition, the huge total volume of trade makes China become the world 's largest trading nation. The contribution of China’s

Today’s China is the most populous country in the world and is so one of the most important political and economical forces in the world.

The Han dynasty was a golden era for China. It saw the greatest land confiscation of the nation’s history and economic success. In this paper I will be focusing on the structure of the national government, the monopolizing of iron and salt, the Yumen Pass and the Yellow Turban rebellion. Join me as we take a trip back in time to visit a time in Chinas history that is highly revered.

China has always been renowned for being successful in the domains of science and arts, however in previous decades, China has been ravaged by famines, civil discomfort and foreign outsourcing. China was consumed by this injustice until well after the Second World War when Mao Zedong introduced Communism adapted from the U.S.S.R, and created an autocratic socialist system which imposes firm constraints upon the Chinese social, political and economic system. It wasn't until the 1980's China's following leader Deng Xiaoping who focused focused on developing China into a

China was ahead of time when it came to religion in the middle ages. Most people leading countries had one religion that was used and some even went to war because the division of religion. China saw three major religions that made up their society. These three major religions were lead by Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism leaded them in the middle ages.

The golden age of China was the Tang Dynasty, its harsh punishment for crime showed the minimal need for people to steal, and the care for hygiene showed the advancements in its time. In the Tang Dynasty, climbing over the many city walls was punishable by 90 blows with a thick rod. This harsh punishment showed how little the crime rate was, and how small the need to commit crime was due to the state of the economy, and how the wealth was spread among the poor. This low crime rate might have been because of the prosperous and opportunistic state that citizens lived. Another strong sign of the Tang being the golden age of China, was the importance of hygiene, for the fortunate citizens of Changan, bathing was a necessity. At that time, most

Throughout time, many countries have needed to implement some sort of economic reform in order to strengthen their economy so that they can be more of a power on the world stage and to stabilize their country. The Chinese reforms were long in the making, an unfolding process that had spanned most of the 20th century and, unlike other countries such as Russia who were trying to do the same thing but whom eventually failed, China prospered, and increased its economy greatly. China has had the fastest growing economy in the world for the past two decades, with an annual growth rate of approximately 10 percent since the economic reforms in 1979, and now has the second largest GDP in the world, second only to the USA. Starting in 1979 they

Charles Darwin in his theory of natural selection said “ the fittest of the fittest will survive,” and year after year China has proven they are the fittest by climbing the economic ladder, as Mark Schwartz Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs and Chairman of Golden Sachs Asia Pacific, claims in his speech “China’s Economic Success and Opportunities,” “China is coming out of a period of rapid growth almost ten percent over the last thirty (30) years. In 2013 China’s gross domestic product (GDP) was 9.3 trillion dollars in size the second largest economy on the world and in 2013 China contributed 28% GDP to the world growth globally” (Schwartz). Was this growth due to rapid industrialization or the implementation of polices using Marxist and Keynesian perspectives or was it the authoritarian regime? However, it is China’s collectivist approach towards socialism that is responsible for their recent success.

The largest populated country in the world lies in China, which currently contains over 1 billion people. China is popularly known for its martial arts, famous landmarks (ex: Great Wall, Terracotta Warriors, Mount Everest etc.) and for its furry black and white creatures; the great Panda Bear. However, many people who haven’t experienced this culture may not know much of its history and its ways.

Over the past twenty years, China has grown ten percent annual growth and lifted nearly half of the 1.3 billion which is 800 million people out of poverty and growth in the middle class. Today, China boasts having the world’s second-largest economy.

I do believe that China is the one country that will grow enough to rival the west, maybe even surpass it. Meaning, I can see China become somewhat like how the United is known in the world, economy, and power wise. In the “Rise of China” it states that “the size of its economy has quadrupled since the launch of market reforms in the late 1970S and, by some estimates, will double again over the next decade. It has become one of the world's major manufacturing centers and consumes roughly a third of the global supply of iron, steel, and coal”. So, China is looking to become a top player in the world (with United States and Europe) and there will be some type of change in not only their own country, but other counties as well. In order to continue to do

China can often times be viewed upon as a nation of secrecy and prestige. Secrecy because most of China’s events were never heard of in any parts of the world until many years past. It is often noted that much of China’s history isn’t even known by its own people. Geographically surrounded by mountains and water, China is isolated from most of the world and its events. This made it easy for the Chinese to only focus on themselves and their own country. In this way, China was able to jump ahead of the world and discover, develop, and invent many helpful elements, tools, and technology.

China was the most civilized country having outpaced other world regions for several centuries. The country faced a major backlash in the nineteenth and twentieth countries whereby it experienced civil wars, foreign occupations, dreaded famines, and military attacks that left the security of the country prone to attacks. Chinese government supported communism after World War II consequently adopting an autocratic leadership style to cater for the welfare of Chinese citizens. However, the successors of Mao Zedong adopted a market-oriented economic system which sky-rocketed the economic growth of China since 1978. Currently, China has the second largest economy after the USA and boasts of its fastest economic growth rate in the world. Eventually, the living standard of the large portion of the Chinese population has dramatically increased. Moreover, Chinese have been given the freedom to make personal decisions, but the political measures are still tight (The World Factbook, 2016). China has enhanced its international presence by ensuring that it participated in the international organizations and enhanced the global outreach.

China has rebuilt itself from having an unstable economy, a collapsed government followed by a few turbulent years of corruption and political instability to having the world’s largest population, state-of-the-art technological advances, an incredibly growing economy and several influential leaders. The country has been credited for many inventions indispensable today such as paper, the compass, mechanical clocks, and gunpowder among others and always thought to be ahead of its time technologically. The Chinese government continues to place emphasis on innovation by allowing its people to do research on various subjects such as stem-cell research and gene therapy; these are widely controversial in other