Unit 6 Essay When looking at the time period of 1450-1740‚ there were changes and continuities in China and Japan’s interaction with the West. China and Japan had continuous problems with Western Christian missionaries coming in and trying to convert. The Chinese and the Japanese also had many dilemmas with the Europeans’ interest in their products over time‚ especially when China and Japan started to get interested in silver. Some changes were that over time‚ the different methods that the Christian
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China Labor costs Japan’s employers pay higher hourly labor costs‚ including wages and social security payments‚ at 21.9 euros per hour (2‚400 yen). But in China‚ there is an unbalanced labor cost between inland China and coastal area of China. China has a lower cost compare with Japan. For the company‚ choice central and western China to build factories can reduce labor costs. Marketing factors China is the world’s most important CD‚ DVD players market. The growing wealth of the Chinese people
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1.Jiedushi（节度使） regional military governors in China. Originally set up to counter external threats‚ the jiedushi were given enormous power‚ including the ability to maintain their own armies‚ collect taxes‚ and pass their titles on hereditarily. Powerful jiedushi eventually eclipsed the power of the central government; the jiedushi retained their powers and quickened the disintegration of the Tang Dynasty. （618-907） 2.Fanzhen (藩镇) a governmental system involving administration through regional
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Between China and Japan The reason why I choose the country between China and Japan for my comparison is. China and Japan located in the same continent both of them produce many export goods. But China’s export is mainly in workforce and Japan’s export is mainly their goods that they invented themselves‚ such as Cars and electric. China and Japan is located in Asia. China is the most populous country in the world with number of people crossing 1.298 billion in 2004 and Japan have 27.7
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Compare and Contrast China and Japan China and Japan‚ both with thousand years of ancient culture and civilization history‚ share numerous similarities and differences. Confucianism is a collectivist based value system which embraces a set of moral codes of behavior designed to regulate the relationships between ruler and subject‚ father and son‚ friend and neighbor‚ husband and wife‚ and brother and brother. Even though both China and Japan employed Confucianism as the state
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China Early offers from the west - The west wanted to trade with china but they rejected it. They had all the stuff they needed and didn’t need any outside help Self-Reliance - China thought they didn’t need any help from the outside Trading limitations - China was self-reliant‚ so it didn’t tend to trade with other countries. But then again the European countries wanted to trade with them. They set limits on which they would trade with. Opium/Opium war of 1839 - Opium was the cash crop in China
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Jessica Raposo October 9‚ 2012 Human Roots and Societies China: A Gender Bias Country Son preference has existed among most Chinese parents for centuries. Across thousands of years of Chinese history‚ Confucianism has served as an officially supported patriarchal belief that has deemed women inferior to men and has limited the role of women to their households. Women were understood to belong to their families before marriage and thus were required to be obedient to their fathers or elder
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Both Japan and China were exposed to the same force driving westernization affecting them both economically and politically however their responses to western penetration in the 19th century were different. In the beginning Japan and China isolated themselves from the rest of the world. As a result‚ their economies were behind compared to others and they weren’t as technologically advanced. At first‚ Japan and China had similar resources even though they lacked in them too‚ it wouldn’t be until
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Logically‚ Japan would shy away from any open war against China who is the third military strongest country in the world. However‚ there are two main deciding factors whether there would be an open war between China and Japan. Those are how strained China and Japan political relations over conflicts such as Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands dispute and whether Japan’s Pacifist Constitution would be ratified or not. The dispute concerning Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands has been the main source of animosity between China and
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Women Old tradition China is ugly; it filled with old customs‚ old habits‚ old culture and most importantly old thinking. The old thinking of what women should be like has been set inside our brains by generation and generation of “traditional education”. Women’s participation was mobilized in the society‚ because they believed that women were only good as “jiating-funv” but nothing else. Remember once my stepfather has told me a joke‚ which he thinks it is funny/ true about traditional women.
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