Historiographical Essay: The China-Japan War‚ 1931-1945 Society for Military History is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize‚ preserve and extend access to The Journal of Military History. http://www.jstor.org Historiographical Essay The China-Japan War‚ 1931-1945 David M. Gordon TW AR‚ Sun Tzu tells us‚ "is of vital importance to the state‚ being the arena in which life or death is decided and the pathway to survival or ruination." The Japanese invasion on 7 July 1937
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OXFORD HISTORY FOR PAKISTAN TEACHER’S GUIDE THREE PETER MOSS 1 CONTENTS THE WORLD The struggle for democracy: the monarch versus the people ..................................................... 1 The rise and fall of the Sun King‚ Louis XIV of France .............................................................. 2 The Enlightenment ....................................................................................................................... 4 The French Revolution .....
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Ancient China In ancient Chinese cosmology‚ the universe was created not by divinities but self-generated from the interplay of nature’s basic duality: the active‚ light‚ dry‚ warm‚ positive‚ masculine yang and the passive‚ dark‚ cold‚ moist‚ negative yin. All things‚ animate and inanimate‚ and all circumstances were a combination of these fundamentals. The ultimate principle of the universe was the tao‚ "the way‚" and it determined the proper proportions of yin and yang in everything. Anything
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Intercultural Communication Studies XIV: 2 2005 Hoffer - Language Borrowing Language Borrowing and the Indices of Adaptability and Receptivity Bates L. Hoffer Trinity University Introduction One of the most easily observable results of intercultural contact and communication is the set of loanwords that is imported into the vocabulary of each language involved. The field of cultures and languages in contact (Weinreich 1953) has grown a great deal over the past fifty years. From the early studies
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Social Foundations III Study Questions Lesson 1. Brinton‚ The Enlightenment (NYU Classes) 1. What is an example‚ according to Brinton‚ of an unnatural‚ artificial way of life that leads to dissatisfaction and discontent? Do you agree that a person’s lifestyle could be unnatural? Class distinction‚ Religious values and social etiquette 2. In your opinion‚ can we understand what is best for people through reason and science‚ and therefore what will make people happiest? Can psychologists help
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CHINA EMPLOYMENT SYSTEM REFORM AND FAULTLINES‚ AN EMPIRICIAL TESTING IN CHINA April 2006 Table of content Acknowledgement Abstract 1.Introduction……………………………………………………………………… 01 2. Literature Review………………………………………………………….......... 02 2.1 Research on organizational faultline and performance 2.11 Definition of faultline……………………………………………………… 02 2.12 Tenure diversity…………………………………………………………… 02 2.13 Positive effect on diversity……………………………………….. ……….. 03 2.14 Negative effect on diversity…………………………………………………
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Marketing plan for Argos Summary Argos is the leader of retail industry in the UK and Ireland. Except food‚ it has covered almost all kinds of products. Various channels of selling、its own brands、cheap price strategy、unique sale mode are main reasons for its success. China is chosen as the target country because China is a potential market ‚which has big population 、area and increasing GDP. And Chongqing is chosen as target market because since it became municipality‚ its economy has been increasing
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FROM THE DAY of its publication in 1931‚ The Good Earth has been one of the most popular novels of the twentieth century. Sales figures and prizes tell part of the story. Several million copies of the book have been sold in more than sixty countries‚ including the United States. The book won the Pulitzer Prize and the William Dean Howells medal for fiction. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer paid the then-record sum of $50‚000 for movie rights. The film version of the novel‚ released in 1937‚ was seen by over
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Title Author(s) "Of human bondage": Somerset Maugham in China Zhang‚ Yanping; 张燕萍 Citation Issue Date URL Rights 2011 http://hdl.handle.net/10722/133977 The author retains all proprietary rights‚ (such as patent rights) and the right to use in future works. “Of Human Bondage:” Somerset Maugham in China by Zhang Yanping （张燕萍） B.A. Fudan. February 2011 A thesis submitted for the Degree of Master of Philosophy at The University of Hong Kong Abstract of thesis entitled “‘Of Human Bondage:’
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CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF SOUTH KOREA Koryo (918–1392) and Choson (1392–1910) were the last two Korean dynasties. Korean immigrants and their descendants in Russia‚ China‚ and Japan use the names of those dynasties as a reference for their ethnicity. Despite the continued use of Choson as a self-name in North Korea‚ the Japanese convention of referring to the Korean nation by that name (pronounced Chosen in Japanese) can be offensive to South Koreans because of its evocation of Japanese colonization
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