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    Chinese history has witnessed the governing styles of many different dynasties throughout its history. Both the Tang and Yuan dynasties had expansionist ideologies, and both attempted to reallocate workload under their administrations. While the Tang government was focused on management and focused (specialization?) of tasks and services, the Yuan dynasty was less able to fully control its territory and people. The Yuan dynasty’s shaky regime, when contrasted with the relative stability of the Tang

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    Chinese Cuisine History

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    Chinese Cuisine comprises of different manners of preparing food from different parts of China. The history of the Chinese cuisine dates back from the ancient China and has since been improvised from time to time according to the needs of the locals and climatic differences. From time to time, the ingredients & the manner of other region or cultures have also been incorporated in the Chinese cuisine. The major reason behind this was the trade route of Asia which promoted cultural exchange and also

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    been studying Chinese history for a long time, but the interesting phenomenon is in 5000-year history of China, there is only one formal empress called Wu Zetian, and the amounts of emperors are four hundred and eight. The percentage of women to be a leader of China is 0.25%. Nowadays, Hilary Clinton has been reported by all the newspaper and TV shows, because she is the only woman who has possibility to be the first female president. Comparing Chinese history and American history, it is rare to

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    early 20th century, many Chinese families struggled to gain social, economic, and educational stature in both China and the United States. In the book, A Transnational History of a Chinese Family, by Haiming Liu, we learn about the Chang family rooted in Kaiping County, China, who unlike many typical Chinese families’ exemplified hard-work and strong cultural values allowing them to pursue an exceptional Chinese-American lifestyle. Even with immigration laws preventing Chinese laborers and citizens

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    why) Welcome on this walking tour that explores Hawthorn’s Chinese heritage. This tour will take you to places where Chinese migrants have lived and worked in the suburb since the 19th century till today. Chinese formed a tiny fraction of residents in Hawthorn in the 19th and 20th century, but today make up a significant proportion of residents, as they do in many other Melbourne suburbs. There are no physical traces of the early Chinese residents in the landscape, and their presence is only verified

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    In a sense, Chinese is a very old language, the earliest characters was nearly 4000 years ago. Chinese characters evolved into different writing forms in its long development history, such as the seal character, official script, regular script and running script. China 's earliest writing was pictographic, the aesthetic of calligraphy was based on pictographic, gradually developed to structure and outline. The main form of expression in calligraphy includes true, line, seal, scribe and regular

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    Since Canada became a founded country, Chinese Canadians have played a major role in the developing history in the roots of Canadian history. Chinese Canadians hold many cultural values, many which revolve around the family structure and being part of a communal group. Chinese Canadians tend to demonstrate their desire for family structure by ensuring everyone in the family is striving. If a family member is struggling to make ends meet, other family members will allow the others to live with them

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    For thousands of years, 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

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    In the late 1800s to the early 1900s, Chinese immigrants migrated to the United States. In The History of Chinese Immigration to the U.S., Leo Luo’s contended, “These foreigners came in three separate time periods: 1849-1882, 1882-1965, and 1965 to today.” (Luo) From 1849 to 1965, the Chinese wanted to earn more money to send back to their families in China because the economy was dramatically decreasing. The Chinese heard about the Gold Rush in California and began to move to the United States

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    This piece centers of the life of Xue Susu and her impact on Chinese history. The author presents this history as one often debated in the timeline of events as well as constructed through multiple accounts. Xue Susu was a well known and respected courtesan in the Ming Dynasty. She was widely admired for a variety skills such as poetry, painting, calligraphy, horse back riding, archery and martial arts. With these skills, she embodied the ideal beauty standards of that time with beauty, talent

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