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A 5 page paper discussing modern China with reference to long-standing beliefs and practices. As a culture both ancient and so new as to be positively modern, China remains a study in contrasts. Guangdong International Trust & Investment Corporation (GITIC) was forced by the government to go bankrupt when it was not destitute, but the government was alarmed over what it perceived to be the same types of patterns that preceded the currency and banking crisis in Japan and determined to force the GITIC to cease making what it believed were loans of questionable value. China remains an official 'big emerging market,' but it is yet unclear just what form of government and economic structure will grow from the current chaos. Bibliography lists 23 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSchina99.doc
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held any foreign influence to be far inferior to the Chinese culture (Lin, 1999). The Chinese view of the time was that China most certainly was the center of
the universe and that no other cultures had anything of value to offer China. By the mid-19th century, the Chinese ideal of Chinese superiority had been greatly tested and
had been found to be lacking in substance. Both the government and the people could still firmly believe in the superiority of their culture, but brushes with the Europeans
had resulted in defeat by the British in the first Opium War and had led to a reassessment of the path to which the Qing government, and the entire country,
had strayed. Chinas scholars provided the voice of opposition and that of questioning, and that questioning eventually led to the beginnings of the Tongzhi Restoration, in which scholars and
statesmen sought the reinstatement of Confucianism. While Chinas leaders recognized that they held advantages in size in both geography and population, they nonetheless were puzzled over the fact that tiny
countries from halfway around the world and young by Chinese standards could be so obviously superior to them in their development of practical technology. Each successive Chinese government yearned
to be protectionist and isolationist, but each finally conceded to allow the foreigners at least some presence within their borders. Societies around the world were fascinated with the outrageous views
of the socialists and communists who were so vocal around the turn of the last century, and it is no surprise that China was as fascinated with the philosophies as
any other societal group. Of course China had its purely communist faction, but even the Nationalist party, that which worked for the overthrow of the monarchy for the establishment
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