Essays on Asian Studies

Audience + History China Central TV, further referred to as CCTV, is a globally driven network seasoned in providing news from around the globe with an Asian target audience; however not limited to. Originally launched in Beijing on April 26th of 2010, the network spanned into America just shy of two years later on February 6, 2012 and also is reporting live feed in Africa, Europe and South Asia. Because CCTV is a major source in global news linked to Asia, the audience is mostly viewers from an Asian background or at the very least has significant ties to Asia. ...

The research problem will be to investigate whether the patrimonial political systems of Singapore and South Korea are democracies that surpass their liberal Western analogues in terms of national growth and even democratization in some ways. It appears that, contrary to the popular misperception, democracy is not necessarily a lack of restraint and complete discretion or at least a range of freedom like the right to media. Sometimes, states like Singapore being low on resources and facing external threats decide on less liberal norms and behaviors bordering on authoritarianism in specific aspects. Regulated merit-based selection practices and disciplining norms ...

History

Abstract The topic of the essay is Feminism and Nationalism in India and China. The main idea is that people all over the world are to be treated equally regardless of sex, place of birth, religion or color of the face. The problems that were reflected in the paper are:

The difference and similarities between nationalism and feminism;

Prerequisites of the appearance of nationalism and feminism movement in China; Prerequisites of the appearance of nationalism and feminism movement in India; The contemporary situation in both countries. In this paper, some examples of cruel attitudes toward women were given with the author’s explanations. This essay consists of ...

A cow has always been viewed as a sacred animal in the Hindu culture. While other animals are confined and used for other commercial purposes, cows are left to roam freely in India without the threat of being harmed. Every day, they are worshiped and even fed with human food. Unlike elephants, monkeys and the likes that feature as idols in Hindu worship, the image of a cow has never been curved or used in temples as an idol (Brown, 1957, p. 87). However, the physical cow has always been considered as a god that is respected by all Hindus. As a reflection ...

Pacific War: While some contend that the Battle of Midway marked the point in World War II where the tide turned irrevocably against Japan, others cite the fight to maintain control of Guadalcanal and the Solomon Islands as decisive in the outcome of the Pacific War. Which argument is correct? The attack on Thailand sparked a new view to the World War II with many nations reacting furiously to the attack. The pacific war, one of the most heated in the World War II, was highly motivated by this attack. The entry of Japan in the war changed the ...

Abstract

The rise of Mongolia King named Genghis Khan remains one of the most dramatic happenings of the 11th Century. Documented history indicates that Khan was the founder and ruler of the Mongol Empire for 21 years until 1227. Most of the documented works about the Mongol ruler came from the voluminous script titled, “The secret history of the Mongols”. The source strays into describing the early life of Khan, adventures that facilitates his rise into power, and finally the aftermath of his leadership. Scholars from different cultural backgrounds have spent considerable time trying to establish facts about this unparalleled ...

Introduction

Vietnam has the richest and evocative history in the world. The Vietnamese people lived in the Red River Delta. The largest percent of the population in the Vietnam is a mixture of non-Chinese Mongolian and Austro-Indonesian. Other racial intermixture possibly came about via intermarriages between the Vietnamese and a Tai tribe (Marr 89). For centuries Vietnam was struggling with the Chams, Khmers and the Chinese before the West become interested during the American war. A Vietnamese social change is as refined as that of China where it receives its power because it was directly ruled by the Chinese empire. Vietnam is ...

Introduction

Religion is an organized collection of cultural systems, belief systems and world views that relate humanity to spirituality and at times moral values. Religions are characterised by symbols, traditions, narratives, sacred places, people, beings that are intended to explain the origin of life, meaning of life and the universe. Religions have over the years helped define human nature and the known and the unknown world. They have also defined and set standards on ethics, morality and general human lifestyle. It is estimated that there are about 4,200 religions in the world. The most dominant religions in the ...

Economic questions

Question 1 Economically, if people were to sell their organs rather than donate them as it is done nowadays for free, the price of the organs would drive away the patients in need. In addition, the low income families would have difficulties and may not afford them. This is because people who donate their organs attach little value to their organs and hence the patients get them free of charge. According to the law of demand, the low supply of organs compared to an increasing demand would lead to an escalation of prices. The lower the supply the ...

Throughout the history of the world, from the 1500s many countries across the globe (from Asia, Europe and the United States) have interacted and influenced each other in many ways. In this process, the United States, China and other countries in the Asian continent have played vital roles in this transformation and development. However of most interest is the relations of the United States and China. Considering the country is an economic power house in the region, it is of great interest the status of relations between the United States and China. In this paper I will seek to ...

The Association of South East Asian Nations, or ASEAN, is comprised of ten member countries that have come together to form a regional economic and trade bloc in the international community of nations already committed to pursue free and fair trade in many spheres of international fora. As the entire world gears up to realize a new globalized economic world order, countries have increasingly resorted to strengthen regional ties and promote regional cooperation and achieve the global goals of free trade within their respective economic regions, while at the same time committing to the targets of the World Trade Organization in ...

Burma, or Myanmar, which is its new name, is a country where ancient and splendid Buddhist temples are spread out placidly over a country that is desperate for change. The Tatmadaw, an infamous repressive military government, have ruled the country for the past thirty years. It is a rather vexed moral question whether an individual could financially succeed in Burma, and this is the question this paper will answer based on comprehensive research.

Location

Burma is a Southeast Asian sovereign state that is located between Thailand and India. In the north, the country is bordered by China and India, and in the south, the ...

Arguably, sustainability is one important factor in every society. For so many decades, Middle East and North Africa has been facing imbalance of sustainability. In fact, the issue of water, climate change as well as population pressure are the most determinants and cause of imbalance sustainability in the region. Its impacts in the Middle East and North Africa are felt in all sectors of human life, which include social, economic, as well as political. Perhaps, the history and culture of this is somehow different a compared to other parts of Africa and Europe. North Africa and Middle East are in ...

The history of the European Colonization of East has numerous aspects to be covered and various approaches to the events explanation. The larger is a scope the book covers the less detailed analysis and information on the topic is. That is why, in order to improve knowledge in a specific field, the topic of the chosen book should be exact, time framework narrow and geography precise. Having those ideas in mind, for the current course of Eastern Civilizations, I had chosen a book by William McOmie “The Opening of Japan, 1853-55…” (2006). This book entirely corresponds to the mentioned above criteria and ...