Art History Critical Summary - The Book from the Sky Exhibit Created in 1990‚ The Book from the Sky designed by Xu Bing is located at the Blanton Museum. Xu Bing’s main purpose for the creation of the piece was to show his opinion on the concept of freedom of speech in Communist China. The Book from the Sky is a collection of calligraphies on individual sheets and scrolls that to an illiterate in Chinese calligraphy would believe to be authentic text. However‚ The Book from the Sky is instead a
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Marco Polo did not go to China‚ as there is not enough evidence to support his claims and stories. First of all‚ there is no original copy of the book‚ The Travels‚ that exists. The Travels was supposedly written by Rustichello‚ a writer and Marco’s fellow prisoner‚ whom he told his tales of travel to. According to Spodek‚ there are around 140 manuscripts of The Travels‚ in different languages‚ that were copied down by various scribes before printing was invented‚ but no actual original copy of the
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"Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine‚ there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived."-Robert Trout. The Opium War in the year 1839 to 1856 changed China’s trade policy with other countries especially with the British. The Opium War was a major turning point for China affecting a great number of their population of 400 million. China changed from being self-sufficient to being forced to sign the Nanking and Tientsin treaties with the British and the French. Due to China’s
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After World War I The Chinese felt betrayed. Anger and frustration erupted in demonstrations on May 4‚ 1919‚ in Beijing. Joined by workers and merchants‚ the movement spread to major cities. The Chinese representative at Versailles refused to endorse the peace treaty‚ but its provisions remained unchanged. Disillusioned with the West‚ many Chinese looked elsewhere for help. The May Fourth Movement‚ which grew out of the student uprising‚ attacked Confucianism‚ initiated a vernacular style of writing
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Shimin. He was the second emperor of the Tang dynasty and he ruled Tang for 23 years from 626 to 649. He was a statesman‚ militarist‚ and poet. He is considered as one of the greatest emperors in Chinese history. His name in Chinese means world and people. When he was young‚ a fortune teller said he would save the world. This is where his name Shimin comes from and it also indicates his life. In his early life he launched lots of wars to unify Tang Dynasty with his father. After Xuanwu Gate Incident
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useful and somewhat revolutionary‚ but both of them had somewhat different feelings of it. The Han dynasties attitude toward technology was that they thought it was very benefical‚ and they admired it. The reason this was because they though it to be very helpful in agriculture and construction purposes. Evidence of the positive effects of this can be seen in Document 4: History of the Early Han Dynasty which tells of a governer of Nanynay and as the very generous and loving person he was his policies
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The Tang and Song dynasties were an era for many technological developments the most important of these are the invention of gunpowder and movable type. Movable type is the system of printing and typography that uses movable components to reproduce the elements of a document. The distribution of the movable-type systems was very limited due to the fact that they were expensive‚ there was a large amount of labor involved in manipulating the thousands of ceramic tablets‚ based on the Chinese writing
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Ch 12: Reunification and Renaissance in Chinese Civilization: The Era of the Tang and Song Dynasties Introduction -Postclassical period saw a vital unification of Chinese civilization • Less fundamental changes occurred than in other places • Established orbit of influence; though isolated‚ was able to contribute to other areas -Era of political division and civil strife after breakdown of Han dynasty • Most advances of the Qin-Han era (221 BCE-220 CE) lost • Era of Division (220-589)-Nomadic
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Wu Zhou was an intelligent woman who pushed for power within the inner court; her strategy to achieve status in the Tang dynasty proved effective as she is considered today to be the only female Emperor to grace China. Though she had used some extreme tactics to achieve her goal‚ I think most of her behavior can be justified by her intentions for creating a better China. Along with becoming Emperor‚ she convinced China that Buddhism should be the primary religion as oppose to Daoism. Fortunate to
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The different education in China and America China has more than 5000 years history and it affects the world history a lot. In Chinese his tory ‚ the most effective one is the education. And the biggest difference of education between China and Western countried is that Chinese use the fixed base to creat but western countries use the creation to fill the base. I will say thing about the mind of Chinese. Chinese people always warship the Ru Theory. The root of this theory is “Generous”
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