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China's Top 10 Museums, 10 Awesome Recommendations - 0 views

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China Museum culture history

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  • The most massive complex of preserved ancient structures in the country is 600 years old.
  • The Terracotta Army Museum was just a small part of the the mausoleum of the Qin Dynasty's first emperor. His mausoleum was known for its sheer grandiose size.
  • The National Museum is the third most visited museum in the world, but with so many other interesting places in Beijing to go to, foreign tourists often miss this premier national museum on the eastern side of Tian'anmen Square.
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  • It is considered a world wonder for its size.
  • World Heritage Historic Center of Macau.
  • interesting ancient European structures in China.
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On International Women's Day, China Muffles Women's Voices | Human Rights Watch - 0 views

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Rights China Chinese culture policy politics Gender Equality Women

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  • gave no explanation as to which postings offended the censors, or which laws such content purportedly violated.
  • Chinese authorities deserve credit for strides in improving maternal mortality,
  • Yet those same authorities continue to restrict women’s reproductive freedoms including dictating how many children they can have and when.
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  • “implements equal rights as a basic state policy.”
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Gender Equality and Women's Development in China - 0 views

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culture Gender Equality Women China policy

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  • Of its total population of 1.3 billion, women account for about half.
  • women are being given more guarantees of enjoyment of equal rights and opportunities with men and the development of women is being given unprecedented opportunities.
  • The state has continuously intensified its efforts in the formulation, revision and enforcement of relevant laws and regulations to protect the legitimate rights and interests of women in earnest.
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  • The new document outlines 34 major goals and 100 policies and measures in six fields: women and the economy; women's participation in decision-making and administration; women and education; women and health; women and the law; and women and the environment.
  • Giving full play to women's role in the rural economy. China is basically an agricultural country, and women account for more than 60 percent of the rural labor force and are a major force in farming activities.
  • Over the past decade, materials on gender statistics have been compiled and published by the state departments of statistics.
  • By the end of 2004, the number of both urban and rural women workers reached 337 million nationwide, accounting for 44.8 percent of the total employed;
  • Their expenditures are covered in the financial budgets of the governments at the corresponding level.
  • reducing the extent of poverty among and the number of poor women, and calls for more support for poverty-stricken women in the country's western development strategy,
  • the "Poverty-Reduction Action for Women"
  • the proportions of full-time women teachers in secondary vocational schools and institutions of higher learning was 46.5 percent and 42.5 percent, respectively.
  • From 2001 to 2004, the central government earmarked 9.7 billion yuan to solve the problem of drinking water for rural residents, providing safe drinking water for an average of 6.9 million rural women a year.
  • The upgrading of public toilets and sewage facilities has eased the heavy burden of many rural women to carry water, and reduced health hazards for them and their family members, thus effectively improving their living and development conditions.
  • Some courts have established specialized tribunals to accept and adjudicate civil cases involving the protection of women's rights and interests,
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Chinese Cultural Studies: Women in China: Past and Present - 0 views

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history culture women China Chinese

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  • Traditionally the family has been the most important unit of society, and this is still true.
  • Each year hundreds and perhaps thousands of newborn girls in India are murdered by their mothers simply because they are female.
  • women in the Third World gauge discrimination by mortality rates and poverty levels.
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  • She showed where she buried their bodies -- under piles of cow dung in the tiny courtyard of her home.
  • Of the 1,250 women questioned, the survey concluded that more than half had killed baby daughters.
  • The dowry, he said, often wipes out a family's life savings but is necessary to arrange a proper marriage and maintain the honor of the bride's family.
  • Across the developing world, female children are fed less, pulled out of school earlier, forced into hard labor sooner and given less medical care than boys.
  • By the time girls are 10 or 12 years old, they may put in as much as an eight-hour workday, studies show.
  • the mother and their newborn are treated as ``untouchables'' for about two weeks after delivery.
  • Widowhood carries such a stigma that remarriage is extremely rare, even for women who are widowed as teen-agers.
  • More than 70 percent of divorces are now initiated by women, divorce lawyers say, and the most common reason given is that a husband has had an affair.
  • women who used to be content with a steady family income now want more: romance, sex, and affection.
  • At the same time, the loosening of government control has also meant a resurgence of traditional attitudes among men: that money means access to women.
  • ``I want to rely on myself, but I don't want to have a less comfortable life.''
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Background Essay - Women's Roles in China: Changes Over Time - Resources at Primary Sou... - 0 views

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Women China culture

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  • Throughout the imperial period and into the beginning of the twentieth century, the relationship among family members was prescribed by Confucian teachings.
  • Marriages, births, and deaths were all accompanied by rituals designed to reinforce these unequal but mutually supportive roles.
  • While such severe actions were rare, they did occur and left a lasting legacy of discrimination against females.
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  • The Marriage Law of 1950 outlawed many harsh practices directed against women, including arranged marriages, concubinage, dowries, and child brides. 
  • he effects of advanced technology, such as ultrasound detection, coupled with the traditional preference for male offspring left China with a significant gender gap and thousands of bachelors
  • Many migrants are young women whose families cannot provide for them in their home villages. 
  • Whether it was Confucian values, revolutionary Maoist ideals, or the search for economic and educational advancement, women have endured numerous changes as they bent with the prevailing political winds.
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The Untold Story Of Women In China Who Took A Husband -- And Then, Another | HuffPost - 0 views

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Women China history culture policy politics

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  • Wives faced with looming poverty and few hands to work the farm fields would often bring in a second husband in exchange for his help and support, 
  • Taking on a second husband was a way to keep the family together ― and the unions were not only acknowledged but oftentimes celebrated within local communities.
  • more than 1,200 legal cases from local and central court archives in China.
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  • legalized and practiced as a status symbol by the Qing elite, 
  • Polygamy ― the practice of taking more than one partner
  • the wives themselves often played a leading role in making these arrangements,” 
  • “The polyandrous woman in Sommer’s cases negotiated the terms, and didn’t care what anyone thought.”  
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The Role of Women in China - Fair Observer - 0 views

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history culture women China

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  • In the period between the end of the Qing dynasty in 1911 and the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the role of women in Chinese society began to change dramatically.
  • Globalization and the economic development of China present increased opportunities along with increased competition.
  • There is no accepted role for women; some women are CEOs and government officials, whilst others opt for completely different lifestyles.
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How Far Women in China Have Come -- And How Far They Still Have to Go | HuffPost - 0 views

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Woman China Justice crisis culture female history

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  • Grandpa decided to keep my grandma, his concubine, as his wife.
  • My mother, despite her frustrations, fared much better than her mother.
  • they’ve also caused setbacks in terms of gender equality.
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  • A mini Communist empire, not only did the factory provide the workers with accommodation, dining halls and hospitals, it also controlled all aspects of our lives, including our hairstyle, our outfits or even our love life — dating wasn’t allowed within three years of entering the factory.
  • Women have bravely dressed up in bloodied wedding gowns to protest against domestic violence, shaving off their hair, silently voicing their anger against the discrimination in university admission standards, or filing lawsuits against discriminatory employers.
  • She walked all the way from Beijing to Guangzhou, in protest against child sex abuse.
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Female Hero: Empress Wu Zetian (Women in World History Curriculum) - 0 views

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female Wu ZeTian crisis history China

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  • They also note that she managed to effectively rule China during one of its more peaceful and culturally diverse periods.
  • But she also had eyes for his son, Kao Tsung.
  • She in effect ruled, telling him what to do.
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  • Wu also was fair to peasants, lowering oppressive taxes, raising agricultural production, and strengthening public works.
  • Chinese Buddhism achieved its highest development under the reign of Wu Zetian.
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The Necessity of Questioning the Military - The Atlantic - 0 views

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military kelly politics US policy crisis

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  • John Kelly, himself a Gold Star father, decried the noxious politicization of the deaths of servicemembers and how we treat their families in the aftermath.
  • But placing restrictions on the ability to ask questions about the rationale for a servicemember’s mission that cost his life makes that loss less sacred, not more.
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Does Trump Believe His Own Hype? - The Atlantic - 0 views

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politics US crisis policy trump

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  • On the one hand, there have been repeated stories along these lines. On October 9, for example, The Washington Post reported that he was “frustrated by his Cabinet and angry that he has not received enough credit for his handling of three successive hurricanes.”
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The Gruesome, Bloody World of Victorian Surgery - The Atlantic - 0 views

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Victorian Surgery culture

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  • But as surgeons poked and prodded deeper into the body, surgery only became more deadly.
  • The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine takes its title from Lister’s own notes, where he writes of his love for “this bloody and butcherly department of the healing art.”
  • There was one hospital that had a frock, an overcoat they hung in the operating theater and each surgeon would wear the same frock as a sort of a badge of honor, and it’s just encrusted with blood.
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  • He didn’t realize that the air actually didn’t need to be sterilized, and he gives up the donkey engine in later years.
  • The solution that is thrown out there is that they should burn these hospitals down and start anew because the crisis is growing.
  • It originally was a cure-all. It was actually used more commonly to cure gonorrhea, until it was finally turned into mouthwash.
  • Lister is the only person who will do it. He performed this mastectomy on his dining-room table in his house in Glasgow.
  • Did you have this in the back of your mind while writing about Lister, the way science can work in cycles?
  • The biggest pushback from Lister came from his own colleagues.
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What McCain Knows That Kelly Forgot - The Atlantic - 0 views

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McCain Kelly historian history crisis policy

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  • Far more powerful was former President George W. Bush’s indictment of Donald Trump that didn’t mention the 45th president by name.
  • Their contrasting visions of this country, of military service, and of our future bear reflection.
  • “Triumphant death, smear’d with captivity;
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  • “I’ve been inspired by the service of better patriots than me.”
  • a meditation on the difference between “the 1 percent” and the rest of us, between those who bear the sting of battle and burden of grief at young lives lost, and those who watch from the sidelines.
  • the speech was all about Trump, and probably unconsciously so.
  • “Some of whom I put there because they were doing what I told them to do when they were killed.”
  • Better to stick with John McCain. Better, like John of Gaunt, to know that “The setting sun, and music at the close, As that last taste of sweets, is sweetest last.”
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Chinese Silk - Silk History, Production, and Products - 0 views

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China history culture economics trade silk

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  • This is much more than the rest of the world combined producing 78% of the world's silk.
  • Cities such as Suzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing, and Shaoxing are well known for their silk industries.
  • Silk cloth manufacture was well advanced during the Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BC) era.
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  • Thus, an industry was born. She taught her people how to raise silkworms and later invented the loom.
  • It refracts incoming light at different angles and so produces different colors. 
  • Silk garments were worn by emperors and royalty, and it was a status symbol.
  • Silk is a delicately woven product made from the protein fibers of the silkworm cocoon. Silk production is a lengthy process that requires close monitoring.
  • Anyone found smuggling silkworm eggs, cocoons, or mulberry seeds was put to death. 
  • Avoid storing them in plastic since this might trap moisture and cause yellowing or mildew.
  • Touring the sights along the ancient Silk Road trade routes,
  • The Hangzhou National Silk Museum is the largest of its kind in the world. It is a showcase for the origin, evolution and technique of silk production.
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China - Trade | history - geography | Britannica.com - 0 views

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China history culture trade economics economic

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  • Trade has become an increasingly important part of China’s overall economy, and it has been a significant tool used for economic modernization.
  • In 1965 China’s trade with other socialist countries made up only about one-third of the total.
  • The principal efforts were made in Asia—especially to Indonesia, Burma (Myanmar), Pakistan, and Ceylon (Sri Lanka)—but large loans were also granted in Africa (Ghana, Algeria, Tanzania) and in the Middle East (Egypt).
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  • Taiwan also has become an important trading partner.
  • The lowest unit is the enterprise union committee. Individual trade unions also operate at the provincial level, and there are trade union councils that coordinate all union activities within a particular area and operate at county, municipal, and provincial levels. At
  • The great bulk of China’s exports consists of manufactured goods, of which electrical and electronic machinery and equipment and clothing, textiles, and footwear are by far the most important.
  • Women have been a major labour presence in China since the People’s Republic was established. Some two-fifths of all women over age 15 are employed.
  • Regionally, almost half of China’s imports come from East and Southeast Asia, and some one-fourth of its exports go to the same countries.
  • From the 1950s to the ’80s, the central government’s revenues derived chiefly from the profits of the state enterprises, which were remitted to the state.
  • More recently, however, reforms of the social security system have involved moving the responsibility for pensions and other welfare to the provinces.
  • All parts of China, except certain remote areas of Tibet, are accessible by rail, road, water, or air.
  • The construction of these smaller railways is encouraged by the central government, and technical assistance is provided by the state railway system when it is thought that the smaller railways can stimulate regional economic development.
  • Coal has long been the principal railway cargo.
  • Since the late 1950s there has been a change in railway-construction policy.
  • Since 1960 hundreds of thousands of workers have been mobilized to construct major lines in the northwest and southwest.
  • These projects, which were coordinated on a national level, contrast to the pattern prevailing before World War II, when foreign-financed railroads were built in different places without any attempt to coordinate or standardize the transport and communications system.
  • A major new line runs southward from Beijing to Kowloon (Hong Kong) via Fuyang and Nanchang and eases strain on the other north-south trunk lines.
  • Of the three highways, one runs westward across Sichuan into Tibet; another extends southwestward from Qinghai to Tibet; and the third runs southward from Xinjiang to Tibet.
  • By the 1980s many vehicles, especially automobiles, were imported. Domestic automobile manufacture grew rapidly after 1990 as individual car ownership became increasingly possible, and it emerged as one of China’s major industries. Several foreign companies have established joint ventures with Chinese firms.
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Kimchi: A Short History - ZenKimchi - 0 views

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kimchi history korean culture food

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  • Korea is also mountainous with a few fertile plains.
  • The grains back then consisted of barley and millet. Rice was introduced much later.
  • “The people of Koguryeo are very good at making fermented foods such as wine, soybean paste, and chotkal (salted and fermented fish).”
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  • The first known written record about kimchi itself was in the middle of the Koryeo Dynasty. Poet Lee Kyu-bo wrote the following:
  • both Japan and Korea went through major culinary changes.
  • The Portuguese introduced foods from the Americas, including potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, and chile peppers.
  • It became the most popular style of kimchi, replacing the radish, cucumber, and eggplant
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The History of Green Tea - 0 views

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history Green Tea China food

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  • First recognized outside of China in the early 1900's, Chinese green teas quickly became very popular overseas and in 1915 Xinyang Maojian won gold medal for 'best tea in the world' at the Panama World Expo.
  • as simple basic drying processes were introduced that increased its availability and allowed the introduction of scented teas, which helped lessen the bitterness green teas had at that time.
  • During this time, the process of steaming the tea leaves was gradually refined, allowing the production of better tasting, less bitter, green teas.
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  • One of the most famous of these tribute teas was dragon-phoenix ball tea, which was commonly grown and presented to the royal family. 
  • During the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) the first emperor, Zhu Yanzhang, formally abolished the tradition and government control of giving tribute tea. 
  • A variety of famous green teas were developed during this time, including Tiger Hill, Tianchi, Yangxian, Liu'an, Longjing and Tianmu green teas.
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Are China and Japan Moving Towards a Rapprochement? | The Diplomat - 0 views

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China Japan history politics crisis

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  • the China-Japan relations have achieved important progress against all odds.
  • In fact, both China and Japan have been frequently signaling each other, in direct or indirect ways, in recent months.
  • t was the first time in 37 years that none of a ruling cabinet member visited the shrine for the event. Consequently, the news was widely reported in China.
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  • Chinese vice premier Liu Yandong also sent congratulatory messages.
  • on the Chinese side, Wang studied Japanese in college and speaks Japanese well;
  • Yohei is famous for his friendly attitude toward China. Until now, Yohei has been frequently invited by Beijing to attend various political events.
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China-Japan relations - The Japan Times - 0 views

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China Japan history politics policy crisis

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  • Polls show Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling party is heading for a landslide win in Sunday's election,
  • They were the first such messages sent ...
  • Feeling trapped in her "boring" life as a member of China's modern workforce, "Yaorenmao" escapes online, where she prances and preens in cosplay outfits for her 1.3 million fans.
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  • The request, made during a telephone conversation, came in response to North Korea's ...
  • "the Sea of Japan is not Japan's sea."
  • "learn how to behave as a big power."
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