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    Case Title: The Chinese Fireworks Industry Executive Summary An organization can only improve its functioning‚ if it makes itself aware of its weaknesses and then acts to correct those deficiencies. The purpose of this case is to help Jerry Yu asses how attractive the fireworks industry is and to aid in his decision-makings of investment. This case is also conducted to diagnose the key issues that the company needs to address and to suggest alternative courses of action or give recommendations

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    of China from 1966 until 1976. Set into motion by Mao Zedong‚ then Chairman of the Communist Party of China‚ its stated goal was to preserve ’true’ Communist ideology in the country by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society‚ and to re-impose Maoist thought as the dominant ideology within the Party. The Revolution marked the return of Mao Zedong to a position of power after the Great Leap Forward. The movement paralyzed China politically and significantly negatively

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    Chinese Exam System

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    benefit that the exam system brought is that it marked the beginning of people’s consciousness of fairness towards education and officials’ selection. Following Confucius’s ideology‚ “In education there should be no class distinctions.” (Sources of Chinese Tradition‚ p.60‚ Analects15:38)‚ the exam system accepted applicants regardless of their race‚ class and age. Government could select and gain genuinely wise men from a much broader range of candidates‚ and the situation of a state monopolized by

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    This book is as good as your favorite book times four. It keeps getting better and better as you read it. The novel Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen-Mah is inspiring because it talks about how Adeline was always working hard even though her family did not like her. As she grows up she gets sent to many boarding schools and that makes her work even harder. Aleline never gave up on her dream no matter what happened. For example‚ “It was announced today that 14 year old Hong Kong schoolgirl Adeline

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    chinese cultural core

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    The Chinese cultural core has many elements and variables to be considered. China is one of‚ if not the oldest civilizations still in existence. The Zhou dynasty brings a lot of culture to china‚ for a couple different reasons. The Zhou dynasty‚ originated deep in history from the Zhou clan. By around the 11th century BCE. This clan had become increasingly powerful and had extended their existence throughout the present Shaanxi and Dansu provinces. At the time the Shang dynasty was under a very unjust

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    Chinese Banking System

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    In China savers are turning from traditional deposits to a higher return wealth management products; this trend is exposing risks to the Chinese banking system. Wealth management products are a mix of short term investments such as bonds‚ money market funds and other securities and the potential risk is that banks invest the proceeds from sales of these products in securities with longer maturities than short term investments; when products mature‚ banks persuade customers to either roll over the

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    Little Bee essay

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    Reality in Fiction: Little Bee “To be well in your mind you have first to be free” (Cleave 147). This quote taken from Little Bee not only grasps an evident theme in the novel but it also briefly identifies how the main character Little Bee struggles for freedom from society‚ her past‚ and ultimately herself. The novel is set in modern day Nigeria and the UK‚ where Nigeria is in the midst of an oil crisis and is struggling to keep it covert from the rest of the world. Little Bee is a sixteen year

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    little black dress

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    A little black dress is an evening or cocktail dress‚ cut simply and often quite short. Fashion historians ascribe the origins of the little black dress to the 1920s designs of Coco Chanel and Jean Patou[1] intended to be long-lasting‚ versatile‚ affordable‚ accessible to the widest market possible and in a neutral colour. Its ubiquity is such that it is often simply referred to as the "LBD".[2][3][4] The "little black dress" is considered essential to a complete wardrobe by many women and fashion

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    Chinese Traditional Wedding Wedding anniversaries in China are carefully chosen according to astrological signs. It is also customary for couples to be married on the half-hour or their wedding day rather than at the top of the hour. In this way‚ the couple begins their new lives together on an ’upswing’‚ while the hands of the clock are moving up‚ rather than down. On the morning of his wedding day‚ the groom is symbolically dressed by his parents. The groom arrives at the house of his bride

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    Great and Little Tradition

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    GREAT AND LITTLE TRADITION The issue of great and little traditions did not arise for the first generation of anthropologists who‚ following the example of *Malinowski‚ mainly studied remote‚ self-contained‚ small-scale societies. It was only after World War II‚ when anthropologists began to study communities integrated within larger states and participating in centuries-old religious traditions such as *Buddhism or *Christianity‚ that the problem arose. The terms ‘great’ and ‘little’ traditions

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