Essays and Research Papers on China & Chinese Issues

This 5 page paper discusses the book When China Ruled the Sea, written by Louise Levethes. This paper reveals the huge impact which shipping had in terms of making China a world leader at that time and establishing trade routes. Bibliography lists 1 source.

9 pages. This historical criticism focuses on how and why Andre Malraux created his work Man's Fate. Looking into the background of several characters and deciding whether or not this is based on true martyrs, for example, will lend substance to the literary relevance of this novel. Man's Fate is an ...

The author uses the material presented in Louise Levathes’ “When China Ruled the Seas : The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433” to illustrate the factors which were at play in the fifteenth century in regard to naval expeditions. During this century China would undertake the chore of building one of the world’s ...

5 pages. China's entrance into the World Trade Organization is going to have international implications on the way that country does business, as well as impacting other countries as well. This paper explains what it means to the business community now that China has been allowed entrance into the World Trade Organization. ...

This 5 page paper addresses the air pollution in China and in the U.S. for the purpose of comparing pollution and asthma attacks in a country where bicycles are a primary mode of transportation to a nation where motor vehicles are the primary mode of transportation. Data regarding asthma attacks in each country are provided. ...

This 5 page report discusses the Tao or the “way” and how it includes and embraces all that may be dismissed as opposite. All that is . . . is. Therefore, all that is not . . . also is. Taoism allows for an understanding that what is opposite is only a reflection. The sun ...

This 5 page paper discusses Chinese culture in regards to parenting, discipline, and the rearing of children. This paper highlights similarities and differences in terms of Chinese parenting methods and American parenting methods. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This paper discusses the regulation of insurance in Hong Kong, and whether or not it protects consumer interests. Also discussed is some background of the insurance industry in this country. Bibliography lists 10 sources.

This 5 page report discusses the statement that “isolating China is unworkable, counterproductive and politically dangerous” and makes note of the many ways in which the statement is undeniably accurate. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

6 pages in length. The extent to which Internet censorship has become a requisite part of the entire World Wide Web experience is clearly indicative of the manner by which society's offensive element has found a way to reach its vulnerable audience. That pornography has been cited as the primary search objective on ...

A 5 page paper which examines the approach to liberation taken by Gandhi, Mao Tse-tung, and Sun Yat-sen. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This is a 5 page paper comparing the difference in the attitudes toward sex and love in the ancient Chinese and Egyptian love poems and songs. Ancient songs and poetry written around the 1,000 B.C. vary greatly from culture to culture. The Chinese lyric poetry found in “The Book of Songs” tells of lovers and ...

This 16 page paper examines the performance and trends in the Chinese economy, comparing it to the economy of Australia for the business purposes. The writer looks at GDP, trends, GNI per capita performance, important as exports between China and Australia as well as trade patterns and future implications of the current and past events. ...

This is a 5 page paper discussing the employment relations practices in South Korea and Taiwan. South Korea and Taiwan have slowly progressed towards becoming countries with high industrialization and have become significant players on the world markets. Within each country however exists slightly different aspects of employment and labor relations which have led to ...

A five page paper which considers the Chinese Exclusion Act in terms of the impact which it had on racial issues in nineteenth century America and the gender balance within the immigrant Chinese community of the period. Bibliography lists one source.

A 6 page paper discussing alternatives for effecting change in Chinese manufacturing practice. The paper discusses three alternatives: international pressure from the WTO; Congressional import embargoes; and pressure from US retailers selling Chinese-made goods. Pressure from the WTO should be undertaken, but only as a long-term plan for improvement. Because China ...

7 pages in length. The left-wing writings of Mao Dun's "Spring Silkworms," Lao She's "A Hired Wife," Ye Zi's "Harvest," Ba Jin's "A Moonlit Night" and Shen Congwen's "The Husband" all reflect different approaches to the same conclusion: defining the rural problems in China throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Clearly, the problems were ...

A 9 page paper discussing the greatly different routes that industrialization has taken in China and in the United States, to the point that only now is it reaching into the more remote regions of China. There are a litany of cultural and philosophical reasons for this difference between these two nations. The ...

A 5 page paper which reviews “On Golden Mountain” by Lisa See. Bibliography lists 3 additional sources.

This is a 5 page paper discussing three tales found in Susan Whitfield’s “Life Along the Silk Road”. Susan Whitfield’s 1999 text “Life Along the Silk Road” tells ten tales each based on a character between the years AD 750 and AD 1,000 an unstable period of Chinese history. Three of these tales “The Princess’s ...

This is a 6 page paper discussing the distinctions between men and women in the Song and Qing Dynasties in China. The distinctions between men and women changed during the times of continuous change which existed in China between the Song Dynasty (960-1279) and the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912). Although China experienced a great deal of ...

A paper which considers various aspects of Confucianism, in terms of a social philosophy and a religious belief system, and looks at the differences between the Confucian system and other Chinese philosophies.

A 5 page review of the feminist implications of this novel depicting the trials and tribulations of Chinese American daughters as they are impacted by the past experiences of their mothers in pre-Communist China. The feminist overtones of “The Joy Club” are impossible to miss. It is replete with sexism and also such ...

A 6 page paper which provides a look at the life and the works of the American writer Gus Lee. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 5 page paper discusses the role of women in China and how it has changed and evolved, especially since the Cultural Revolution. This paper explains the traditional role of women as well as the current status of women in China. Bibliography lists 2 sources.