Essays on Beijing

Although 11 years of the Cultural Revolution is usually defined as a holistic period, it is better to view it as consisting of two parts. The movement began with a sudden and strong explosion of radicalism of the Red Guards, angry workers and ambitious petty officials. This massive mobilization of the first phase of the Cultural Revolution, successfully helped Mao to unseat his rivals. The second period of the Cultural Revolution lasted from 1968 to 1976 and established a new order through the negotiations and the use of force, as well as controlling the rebel groups.
The revolution was

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This research paper examines and discusses the economic links and conflicts prevailing between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) – mainland China – and its much smaller island neighbor, Taiwan, which calls itself the Republic of China (ROC). The two countries enjoy an uneasy truce – fundamentally because China does not recognize Taiwan as an independent nation, and has an ongoing ambition to bring Taiwan back as part of one unified China.
Taiwan and China are a little over 100 miles apart across the Taiwan Strait, which is part of the South China Sea and connects in the north to the

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A general rise in incidences of climate change has got the world scheming and planning for various remedies. The world has become so much aware of its surrounding after the realization that future generations will still depend on the very earth they are using. Management practices and mitigation efforts have been headlined and put into various government policies to ensure that sustainability is attained.
Various intergovernmental and regional meetings have made it a habit to discuss and incorporate climatic issues into their various agendas. In as much as all this noble activities and efforts are aimed at ensuring a

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The Ming dynasty came into power in China right after the collapse of the Yuan dynasty. The dynasty was in power for close to 270 years and is regarded as one among the greatest forms of government and social order in history (Chan, 3). Zhu Yuanzhang, who was the emperor at that time, installed a number of robust changes that led to the dynasty become one of the most stable and autocratic in China’s history. The reign of the Ming Dynasty was a period of cultural restoration and expansion. Under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, Beijing, the

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The Mongolian Empire was very vast and divided into four Khanates, ruled separately by an individual Khan, and also overruled by the Great Khan. The Ilhhanatre had ruled Persia as well as Middle East, the Kipchak Khanate had ruled Rushia, Great Khanate had controlled China and Mongolia, and Chagatai Khanate has ruled Western Asia. In the year 1260, Genghis Khan’s grandson, named Kublai Khan became the Great Khan. After four years, he moved his capital to Beijing from Mongolia in the Northern China for the purpose of ruling China. However, in the year 1271, Kublai Khan adopted the

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This study will consider Nairobi city of Kenya and Beijing city of China. Nairobi city is the capital city of Kenya with area a size of 696 square kilometers. It has a population of more than three million. It is one of the prominent cities in Africa, which has flourished both economically and financially. It is a home to thousands of Kenyan business bases with over 100 global companies. Nairobi city is the fourth largest trading exchange hub with an ability to make over ten million trades per day. According to the Globalization and World Cities Study and Network,

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The ROC-PRC transition parallels the Ming-Qing transition to a certain extent, especially when we consider Manchuria and Taiwan; however, the international situations and ethnic conditions differed quite a bit. Discuss the parallels and the differences comprehensively.
Mongolia is a country that has been independent of China for decades. However, there is usually confusion as to whether it is a part of People’s Republic of China (PRC) that remained after the Ming Dynasty or not. This also applies to Taiwan and Manchuria. Although all the three states claim independence from the greater China, there is usually confusion because all

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Democracy means ‘leadership by the people’ in the sense that they get the opportunity to choose their leaders and hold them accountable for the implementation of the laid down policies, as well as their conduct in the offices they hold. These leaders have to be elected in a competitive, free and fair elections that must involve competing parties and on equal competing ground.
Normally, democracy does not come easy. Even for the most developed democracies, the struggle was not easy. This is because the people who hold power at the time of agitation for democracy do not like the

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- Introduction
The dramatic rise of China as a political and global trading force presents a set of matters and concerns for the highly developed countries and particularly to the Asia-Pacific region. While China only poses a lesser security precaution at this juncture, its global intentions and developing capabilities warrant some serious considerations. This is due to the military, economic and political impact of any of its actions or moves.
- China’s Security Alignments and Oppositions
Of the other stable nations in the Asia Pacific region, only Russia takes China as its vital partner. The western democracies are

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Introduction

As a matter of fact, air pollution is one among the primary health menace in the urban environments of many countries – both developed and developing. The aspect of air pollution is associated with congestion of human beings, vehicles and factories of the power. Currently, the United Nations, in conjunction with various governments across the globe, is trying to protect the human race through reducing air pollution, with the greater purpose of saving the ozone layer – the protective natural cover that filters the dangerous ultraviolent rays of the sun. Currently, many cities have come up with policies to help curb

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Professedly, business has risen to become one of the most fundamental aspects of life today compared to any other discipline. The way businesses are run, the complex analyses that are done in business, the way decisions regarding best and profitable practices are made, and the stipendiary nature of business as seen in the way businessmen live their lives are just manifestations of the interesting activities that together make up business are some of the leading reasons why I sincerely wish to pursue business as a career. Currently my main academic goal is to obtain a masters degree in business from a celebrated institution of higher learning.

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Film Review: Bumming in Beijing

This paper will focus on Bumming in Beijing, which is contemporary documentary. It will also examine factors influencing the performance and consideration of lives of marginalized artists using the cinema verite style. This film opens with various introductory titles before Wu presents the five main characters. The characters include two painters, a theatre director, a photographer, and a writer. The viewers are able to recognize the reasons, which make them, chose to settle in Beijing. Job dissatisfaction was the main driver that drew them from their respective state-assigned areas as well as creative urges made them into eking a

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Real estate economics entails the use of economic analysis techniques to determine the trends in real estate markets. The underlying objective of real estate economics is to offer a description, explanation and a prediction of the trends of demand and supply in real estate markers. This denotes the significance of analyzing the impacts of structural and business factors on the trends of real estate market. The most significant factors that influence demand in real estate markets are demographic factors. However, there are other factors such as levels of income, credit availability, and preferences of the consumers,

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