How Did Qiu Jin Influence The Rule Of China

The Manchus had been very influenced by the Chinese culture and took in many of their customs. They then started doing policies to have some power. However they held up classical art and literature for artistic expression. They also had and made many temples, shrines and tombs.

Legalism has a minimal influence on China’s government today as the severity of Chinese punishments are reduced to where there is much death and blood involved with the punishments than there was in classical China. There has also been a decrease in the amount of law-breaking prevention in China, which resulted in a lot of more crime, and there is a larger amount of traffic in the streets of China due to the increased amount of accidents. Along with the neglection in the legal system, there has also been some good laws that were made that show Legalism in China dissipating, such as a Charity law that was made. This charity law stated that people had to donate to charity once and awhile, so this law really makes the people want to do more good by their own will, something that the Legalist philosophy never did, it made it so that people were forced to bring out the good inside their hearts, out of fear, that if they let some evil out, something would happen to them. Many people might think that there are still significant signs of Legalism in modern China, due to the 2-child law that places a restriction on how many children a couple can have.

Wu Zhao Wu Zhao was a good leader for all people in Ancient China Wu Zhao was the first ever female to become an Emperor in ancient china. She was born on the 17th of February 624 AD and grew up in a very wealthy family and being well educated by her father. By the time she was 14 she moved into a imperial palace to help serve emperor Taizong as a concubine. Wu Zhao continued to be educated while living at the imperial palace, learning languages and English, which certainly gave her the background knowledge and skills to be a good Emperor. While some believe she manipulated her way to power, Wu Zhao was a good leader for all people in ancient china as she set a positive example for others, particularly women, and introduced many improvements which made the lives of those under her leadership better.

When Jin is upset on his way to his new home, he is comforted by an old Chinese parable making him feel closer to his mother. Jin is sitting in the back of his car with a tear running down his face (Yang 23). His mother tells him the story of a Chinese boy whose mother makes him move often but in each place new place he stays he can learn new skills in order to adapt to the environment (24). With the use of their culture, she is able to alleviate his worries about moving. It proves to him that no matter where he goes there are always ways to fit in.

During this time, Buddhism and Daoism entered China, and nomads from the north also entered the region. These combined forces led to declining patriarchy. Nomadic women were not treated strictly by their men, influencing the people of China. Women of Tang China could be seen handling political affairs, playing sports, and wearing men’s clothing. Confucian minded males were opposed to this fair treatment of women.

B. Xi Jinping hopes to change China for the better. 1. He hopes for “cultural understanding”. -(Webster, Schell, Zhang) 2.

According to Wu, people during that time believed that heaven and earth are the parents of all creatures; and of all creatures people were considered highly blessed and taken care off, "What the people desire. Heaven will effect" (pg.115). Wu was describing that a good government should always put in effect the will of his people and always makes sure his people are taken care off. Heaven in the context of The Great Declaration is considered to be the will of the people, and since the will of the people was not meet, it justified the coup of King Shou and his dynasty. Shou was therefore the people's perpetual enemy, and it justified the power transition.

Most families wanted sons and not daughters. Daughters were seen as an extra person that had to be feb while sons were seen as someone who would help work the land and provide for parents when they were unable to do so for themselves. After birth girl babies were placed under beds to teach them that they are beneath. In Classical China, a wife had to wake up early in order to tend for her family and go to bed late after tending for the house. Women were to worship their husbands and weren't allowed to own property.

78) that would eventually bring down the Zhou Dynasty and give way to the Qin Dynasty where it was ruled with ruthless efficiency(p.79). Another factor of how and why China succeed in unifying in contrast to India, is where there were many different views, and being opposed of things changing in India, If someone “opposed the polices of the new regime in the Qin Dynasty those individuals would be punished and

The most prominent ideas and similarity among Qing dynasty, Ming dynasty, and Tokugawa period is the mistreatment of women. They are deprived education and are thought of as lower beings. Most women are concubines and courtesans, are prostitutes, and are slaves to their husbands and sons. In the Qing dynasty, there were laws about women’s rights but these laws were practicaly useless. It’s like they just made these laws to show that

        The 1900s were an extremely important time in Chinese History. China, being in decline during

Family by Pa Chin is a captivating novel that describes what life in China was like in the twentieth century. Confucianism, a big religion in China at the time, was heavily focused on filial piety. Filial piety is the relationship of obedience, in which the elders are to be respected by the younger generation (Wu, lecture notes, 2015). This religion was one of the main structures on how the society was ran. Chin represents how the younger generation was upset with how the old traditions of the Confucian system were ran and that they were ready to change it.

Confucian ideas highlight the need to have a heir, thus the Emperor need to be sexually active, which explains the very large number of women in the inner court. However, according to Confucian ideals, the Emperor was not supposed to retain any pleasure from this encounters. therefore leading to a paradox hard to overcome by the Emperor and even harder to enforce by the outer court officials depute their moral concerns. Song women were also granted for the first time considerable legal rights. In fact, Song Dynasty is seen as a high point for women property point in China, further challenging Confucian traditional patrilinality.

Europe represents freedom, emancipation, progress and trend. He believed that the progress made by the white race in Europe has proved that a more free and equal society, instead of feudalism, is more suitable for todays’ world. Europe and European history serve as examples and goals that Chen wanted to achieve in China. He wanted to revoke the personality and individuality

Confucian Literature in East Asia. Professor Kang 2nd Paper Peilin Su Women in Confucian Society The role of women in Confucian society was complex, it was characterized by its dualistic nature. On the one hand, women were traditionally considered inferior in compared to men. In the traditional Confucian ideology, the role of a women was strictly bound to domestic affairs.