Asian HistoryEssays, Research & Term Papers (630) essays
Asian History essays:
Buddhism
... Buddhism, a major world religion, founded in northeastern India and based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, who is known as the Buddha, or Enlightened One. Originating as a monastic movement within the dominant Brahman tradition of the day, Buddhism ...
TAiwan indedpendence party
... professors Lin Shan-tien and Li Yung-chih of National Taiwan University, and Prof. Chuang Chi-ming of Tam Kang University. Prof. Lin is the chief spokesman. Until the end of 1995, these professors were ardent DPP supporters, and were popular and sought-after speakers at DPP election rallies ...
100 years since Treaty of Shimonoseki Asia's first independent republic
... independent nation state. In fact, shortly after the 1895 Treaty, a group of leading Taiwanese, aided by rebellious Ching dynasty officials, declared the formation of the Taiwan Republic, Asia's first independent republic. However, the Taiwan Republic was short-lived: Japanese imperial troops ...
Why Malays lack an spirit of capitalism in colonial singapore?
... political philosophy of Raffles, one ... religion (Islam ... National ... followers ... Taoism ... Firstly, it served as an outpost for protection of the British East India Company's trade with China and also for the protection of India ... terms of their personal financial interests, and had no regard for the sovereignty ... today ...
It is said that Japanese culture is both delicate and fierce; defend this viewpoint with examples.
... religion. This ancestry makes the emperor more than the head of state: he becomes the living embodiment of the ancient Japanese gods. Yet given this supreme stature, the 16-petal chrysanthemum shape represents the Imperial ...
Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
... war Japan In 1853, Commodore Perry of the United States Navy sailed to Japan. On the shores of Yedo Bay, Perry was met by feudal Japanese war ... troops in a relatively short period of time. As a result, Russia borrowed the idea of building ...
Why did Chinese Nationalism fail?
... China, but based much closer to China than the others. A few years before Britain took Hong Kong from China, China suffered defeat in the Sino-Japanese War ...
Confucianism as compared to Militarism, Daoism and Legalism
... first Qin Emperor was smart to establish his leadership using the ideas of legalism, but to rule the people as a source of the state is when he started loosing control. The Han Dynasty that followed the Qin Dynasty ...
Policies enacted during the Vietnam war
... war could not be won and was just a waste of human lives and this also led to more rallies and protests and public figures speaking out against it. As a result of the opposition to the national ...
Review of "This I cannot Forget" by Anna Larina.
... , as best as can be remembered, and also states that, "Nikolai would approve of that aim" (38) in ... tragedy, and still prevails long enough to tell the world about the events that happened so long ago. Larina, ... treated in the USSR. While reading this, however, one must remember that it is a widow's ...