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This paper examines and analyzes the issue of human rights in China, and explores whether human rights has negatively effected Chinese-American relations over the last forty years.

Tags: human, rights

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It argues that the economic transformation during this period did not lead to political liberalization. Nonetheless, because of the connection between economic and political freedom, the transformation to capitalism will eventually lead to political democratization.

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This essay will explore the design of a typical Shinto shrine. We will approach the shrine like a visitor would, moving from general first impressions, then moving along the entrance to the shrine, and finally concluding at the religious center of the shrine.

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This paper discusses the negotiation styles and behavior in some of the most important and strongest countries of Asia-Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia. The variety of cultures and their characteristics most often shape the way business people of different nations negotiate. The influence of cultural characteristics is analyzed to provide a broad picture of how negotiations work in these countries.

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This paper has Hong Kong has its focus, and is concerned with the political history and political culture of Hong Kong. It shows how history books and cinema use different approaches, but both are needed to understand a place like Hong Kong.

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This paper discusses how China's one-child policy has been a failure. The main arguments are that the population was falling before the policy,and that the policy never made any difference in the growth rate.

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This paper examines and analyzes Communist China's Red Guards, and discusses how the Red Guards attracted worldwide attention while serving as an extreme model for the student rebellions in the West in the late nineteen-sixties.

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This paper discusses the historical development of Japanese character and culture in terms of the dialectical tension between the extremes of high aesthetics and the raw power of military tradition. The expression of these in modern times is also examined, as is the issue of how tradition influences contemporary Japan.

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This paper emphasizes cultural change in modern Korea obstructing women's issues. Attention is given to the conservative historical and Confucian background which still serves to limit women's roles and status.

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This paper claims that the Southeast Asian countries have emerged as a power to create a unstable democracy.

Tags: southeast, asia, status

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A paper that depicts the religion and culture in Japan and relates the progress and development as seen throughout the world.

Tags: culture, religion, japan

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This paper examines the changes in social and political structure in the Korean peninsula as a result of the transition from the Three Kingdoms period to Unified Silla. The paper argues that consolidation of power in the monarchy constitutes the driving force behind these changes.

Tags: kingdoms, unified, silla

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This is a study of the 1997 collapse of the South Korean economy and how the IMF's $55 billion recovery plan has worked (or not worked) since then. It describes the interrelation of government and economy in South Korea, and stresses the impact of bad trade policy on the fall of South Korea's industrial and financial economy.

Tags: imf, south, korea

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This is a textual exegesis of classical text in Chinese philosophy. This text is taken from the classic of Chinese philosophy known as "The Book of Changes". The paper reveals some of the reasons for the popularity of the "Way of Changes" when it first originated.

Tags: textual, exegesis, chinese

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This paper considers currency controls in China and what their effect on business would be.