Developing a Brief for Opening a Business Office in Northeast and Central Asia

China has changed in certain ways and remained the same in others from the early Golden Ages to the late 1900s. China has experienced a series of cultural and political transformations, shaping the lives of many Chinese citizens. Culturally, the country’s art and literature hardly changed for almost eight hundred years. Along with their culture, China remained politically the same from the beginning of the Golden Ages all the way until the 1800s. On the other hand, China’s government and society were restructured after new leaders took over. From a monarch to total communism, China’s society had a multitude of new ideas and policies they had to adapt to.

China is the fastest emerging political power in the world, a power that in a short amount of time turned from a third-rate industrial nation with lots of raw potential, to the second largest economy and one of the largest militaries in the world. But is China’s political and social structures unique? Certainly, the Chinese system possesses certain aspects similar to what already exists in other modern nation-states and their governments, however, it is how these pieces coelute together into a coherent political and economic machine that makes the model unique.

The context in this paper therefore is going to analyze the country progression utilizing the information written in On China. I will analyze the country from the ancient China to the Modern china that has established her through political leaderships and economic stability of the country.

Describing China’s influence as ‘massive’ would be an understatement. For centuries, China had been the world’s superpower, in terms of technological growth, financial security, and military might. By the end of the 1400’s however, that title had been transferred to Europe. A continent once exclusively known for its now fallen Roman Empire suddenly proves to be the primary actor on the global stage. To this very day, historians argue over a deceptively simple question: what changed? A series of political power struggles, threats from the North, and financial instability drove China back from its former glory, while Europe used the existing Silk Road and Indian Ocean trading systems to launch their success.

explained, in part, by the historical and political evolution of China as it emerged from

Throughout most of history, East Asia and more specifically China has been the cradle of civilization. Only until a few hundred years ago did China and most of the developing world today regress into the states they have been for the past several hundred years. For the past 100 years the US has been the world’s most powerful country, economically, militarily, and culturally; however China is resurging and is now in a position that is equal and perhaps greater to the US’s power.

One of the first casualties of the cold war’s aftermath was the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. After years of defense spending that in some years approached 25% of its economy and a shortage of civil-ian goods the strain proved to be too much. Moreover, the protracted conflict in Afghanistan was too costly both in terms of money and loss of people, some experts called Afghanistan the Soviet version of Vietnam. Additionally, right before the collapse of the Soviet Union, there were political reforms that tried to open Soviet society both inward and outward. Due to these reforms deep simmering ethnic divisions that have been occurring for decades rose to the top starting with Latvia one of the Balkan states (Cold War Museum)

China came to realise that it was no longer at the centre of the world after being invaded multiple times by ‘barbarians’ from the outside who were stronger and possessed an intimidatingly sturdy culture and religion which threatened the Chinese culture and world order (Zhimin, 2005:38). China felt threatened and took to nationalism as a non-Chinese solution to the survival of China (Zhimin, 2005:38). However, “Chinese nationalism was a modern idea, seeping in from Europe. It was bolstered by the resentment of European imperialists, with their own ignorant and ruthless

“Beijing lie between longitudes 115°25′E and 117°30′E and between latitude 39°26′N and 41°03′N in North China. Specifically, Beijing is located at the eastern edge of the Eurasian continent and belongs to the Bohai sea rim economic circle, with small plain in the south and mountains in the west and north, covering an area of 16,807.8 km2. The city’s climate is a monsoon-influenced humid continental climate.” (Gengyuan Liu et.al., 2011). As the capital city with full of the long history and Chinese traditional culture and one of three economic-centered cities, which are Beijing, Shanghai, Hongkong respectively, in China Beijing has been regarded as one successful city that has

South Central Asia was doing good because of government subsidies before the fall of the Soviet Union, but when those subsidies ended the economy began to collapse. The Soviet Union Government was trying to stabilize

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has become more integrated and willing to cooperate within the global political and economic systems than ever in its history. However, there is growing apprehension in the Asia-Pacific region and the U.S. in regards to the consequences of rising in economic and military power in China. Descriptions about Chinese diplomacy in the policy and scholarly are less positive lately concerning China’s obedience to regional and international rules. There was little debate in the U.S. and elsewhere in regards to whether China was or was not part “the international community.” Scholars and experts in the early 1990s have contended

This assumption influences the distaste for or fascination with Shanghai’s culture formed in the national and global frameworks throughout modern Chinese narrative. Shanghai can excel by displaying that it is neither a reduced, twisted and reified adaptation of the Chinese or of the modern, nor a boggy, undifferentiated blend of the two. Alternatively, according to Xudong, the presence of Shanghai urban culture situates in a reterritorialization and deterritorialization, which pursues a various route of flight and creates a varying plane of consistency. In other words, “the modernity and Chineseness of Shanghai can be understood only as something more modern than the modern and more Chinese than the Chinese” (Xudong

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the XPCC has continued to play a quiet but ubiquitous role in Xinjiang’s development. However, the circumstances surrounding the organization’s reinstatement does not mean that the post-1981 bingtuan was any more substantively militarily-oriented than before. Instead, its primary practical function increasingly became the generation of profits.

Did they differ from their Western counterparts? And how should one approach the issue and apply the Western concepts to the Chinese case, past or present? Weber sets the foundation for the discussion following the years. He rejects the idea that China had any “city” by which he means an urban community built upon a group of oath-bound associations that enjoys political autonomy. This Weberian approach to the issue of Chinese society assumes the existence of a politically independent unit as the necessary and sufficient conditions to form any public sphere and civil society. This “tradition” of Western scholars on early modern China is contested by Rowe’s groundbreaking work, Hankow, which examines the nature of the guilds in Hankow and argues the autonomous state of the city and civilian spirit of the urban

The first major misconception that I had was just what a Communist government means to today’s China. When Americans think of the term ‘Communism,’ the first things that spring to mind is oppression and fear; the concept of ‘red’ Communist ideals maintained by Joseph Stalin. While it’s true that China did once have this kind of government under Mao Zedong, the current system is quite different. The Communist Party is merely a party name, the same way Democrats and Republicans are in America. The difference is that China is only under the one party’s rule. The country