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The Great Wall of China, 2002.
Deals with the historical and cultural importance of the Great Wall of China.
1,368 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper examines the significance of the Great Wall in Chinese history and its value to Chinese cultural heritage. Historical facts and figures of the Great Wall and its symbolic importance are analyzed.
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"The Great Wall of China is truly one of the greatest architectural achievements in recorded history. The longest structure ever built, it is about 4000 miles long and made entirely by hand and can even be viewed from the moon. It crosses Northern China, from the East coast to Central China. A UNESCO World Heritage site, it remains a powerful symbol of Chinese historical and cultural identity."
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The Great Wall of China, 2001.
This essay examines the importance of the Great Wall of China as one of a handful of human creations around the world that encompasses an entire national identity.
1,860 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 5 sources, $ 59.95
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This paper looks at both the physical and the cultural history of the wall, demonstrating how it has meant different things to different dynasties of Chinese lives, not only reflecting what it is that the Chinese believe themselves to be but also shaping what it is that they have become.
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?The Great Wall remains a powerful symbol of China's national tradition and historical continuity. And yet it is important to understand that it is in many ways the product of an historical myth ? like Washington?s wooden teeth. It is probably true that all people tell stories about themselves as a way of creating a sense of both national identity and national pride and there is nothing wrong with this ? so long as we recognize the fact that we are dealing with myth and not with history.?
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Building the Great Wall, 2005.
An overview of the construction process of the Great Wall of China.
763 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 27.95
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This paper examines the history behind the Great Wall of China and how the original construction of the wall was essentially nothing more than bricks, wood, grass and packed earth and how its simple structure changed very little over the next many centuries. It also discusses how
more than 2000 years after its construction, the Great Wall is still seen by the Chinese as not only an everlasting testament of the industriousness of its people, but also an overwhelming and almost mystical symbol.
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"The Great Wall played a large part in all of the early dynasties of China, but its origin can be traced back to 221 B.C. After the western state of Qin subjugated and united seven states that had been at war since the 5th century, subsequently forming China, the ruler of Qin declared himself the first Emperor of China (Dalin 15). He gave himself the name Qin She Huangdi, which, conveniently enough, means 'First Emperor' in Chinese. One of Qin's first orders once in power was for all peasants, prisoners, and anyone else available to begin construction of a massive wall ("The Great Wall of China", screen 1). What would become the Great Wall was, in actuality, several very small already-standing fortification walls connected (Dalin 15). These smaller walls had been built by past dynasties, with the same reasons in mind as those that would years later prompt the erecting of the Great Wall."
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Case Study: Walls (China) Co., Ltd., 2008.
This paper is a case study analysis of the logistics operations start-up of Walls (China) Co., Ltd.
1,745 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 56.95
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This paper explains that highly regarded Unilever, who owns Walls Ice Cream, already has established its line of personal care products and food offerings in China. The author reports that, in 1992, Wall's management team concluded that the China population was ripe for expansion in the ice cream market. The paper points out that, although Walls' distribution strategy had been successful in many other countries, it required serious adaptation in China because of the high costs associated with the under-developed transportation and retail infrastructure and fragmented logistics service providers. The paper indicates that these costs were passed on to consumers, who were not willing to pay higher prices for what was perceived to be a local brand. The author concludes that Walls' initial logistics start up resulted in a missed opportunity due to under-utilization of Unilever's vast business network and resources, which were already located in many other regions of China.
Table of Contents:
Executive Summary
Business Analysis
Government
Joint Ventures and Distributors
Retail Market and Consumer Culture
Conclusion of Business Analysis on Walls China
Further Points for Discussion
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"The company retained a series of independent distributors who sold ice cream from the back of trucks to street vendors and small independent retailers in large cities. Walls coaxed vendors into selling their brand exclusively by lending more than 42,000 refrigerators for free, but later found vendors misusing equipment to store frozen products from other manufacturers, and inventory shrinkage due to freezer theft. Walls' refrigerator investment was quite sizable and due to the fact that ice cream demand in China was seasonal, the point of purchase refrigerator investment was not the most cost-effective.
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Understanding China, 2006.
This paper examines the rich history, economy and culture of China as depicted in John Bryan Starr's "Understanding China: A Guide to China's Economy, History and Political Structure."
1,414 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 47.95
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This paper reviews "Understanding China: A Guide to China's Economy, History and Political Structure" by John Bryan Starr. This paper discusses China's ancient culture and its emergence as one of the foremost powers in the modern world. This paper focuses on China's recent admission to the World Trade Organization and as well as its economy which is set to become the largest in the world within the next few years. The writer of this paper examines China's political history and contends that in spite of the country's numerous transformations, the structure of the government is today fundamentally identical with what it was under the later imperial dynasties. Today, there is no emperor at the top, but instead a small committee of the leading members of various political parties who hold much the same position. Although there had been significant changes in China's economy, few political changes transpired. The communists still hold a monopoly of power and although its economic policies scarcely seem to be communist anymore, it does not intend to relax its political grip.
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"Starr contends that China remains one of the most self-contained and hence inscrutable countries in the world. It has an ancient culture of major historical importance, and has been emerging as one of the foremost powers of the modern world. It is the third largest country in the world and certainly the most populous, with about one-fifth of the world's total population. Modern communications make it as easy to reach Beijing from London or New York as it is to get to Singapore or Nairobi. Yet China remains little known and poorly understood; few foreigners learn its language or study its history and culture. Although foreign trade and tourism have increased dramatically in the last decade, they are only very slowly leading to any changes in foreign perceptions of China."
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USA and China Hostilities, 2008.
This paper addresses the issues of America's trade imbalance with China and China's industrial spying.
1,396 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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The paper discusses America's trade imbalance with China that is fueled by China's failure to prevent copyright infringement and the sale of counterfeit goods as well as China's artificial currency devaluation. The paper also looks at the issue of Chinese spies stealing industrial secrets from American and European firms. The paper provides suggestions for improvement and argues that America needs to peacefully use their economic position to force China to compete fairly. The paper asserts that America should use legal, diplomatic and media pressure to force China to behave ethically.
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"The United States and China have a long history of hostility and distrust. In recent years this hostility has centered on several economic issues. These include America's trade imbalance with China, a deficit fueled in part by a huge Chinese market in pirated American intellectual property and brand name knock-offs. Further, U.S. and European firms claim that Chinese industrial spies have stolen technology for products ranging from computer chips to cruise missiles."
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Doing Business with China, 2006.
This paper examines "Big Dragon China's Future: What it Means for Business, the Economy, and the Global Order" by Daniel Burstein and Arne de Keijzer who both contend that China is well on its way to becoming the world's largest economy.
2,496 words (approx. 10.0 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 75.95
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This paper reviews Burstein and de Keijzer's "Big Dragon China's Future: What it Means for Business, the Economy, and the Global Order" in which both authors predict that by the 2030s China will be the world's largest economy. This paper discusses the various companies that have suffered due to the shifting politics of foreign policy between China being in favor one day and out the next. This paper also details the views of Jeffrey Garten, a writer for "Harvard Business Review" who sees China as enticement for foreign investors, yet stresses caution should be used in developing any business relationship with China. This well-written paper covers several areas regarding China's economy including a U.S. initiative supporting China's membership in the World Trade Organization, expansion of U.S. public-private partnerships to invest and help solve particular problems in China and development of China's policy mutually with U.S. allies. "Big Dragon" profiles many individual Chinese entrepreneurs and others who are bringing a new China into being. This paper also focuses on Zhang Wei, one of China's more successful entrepreneurs, who went from government researcher to heading a company employing 400 in only three years. Despite the differences between practices in China and other countries, many corporations are willing to take a big gamble on China, seeing that their future is dependent on their performance in China.
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"Over the course of his history, Zhang has captured the essence of the Chinese business world of "catch-as-catch-can". His corporation has various types of holdings, often-different one from the other. Zhang has bridged the gap across the Pacific with the United States with his position of "master franchise holder in China" of an American company, Fun World. What makes this situation particularly unique is that it is one of the first companies in China "to buy an interest in a U.S. company." At the time Big Dragon was written, Zhang was "negotiating an arrangement that would shift manufacturing of all the equipment for the centers to China." Zhang hopes to take the U.S. company over altogether, including the export of the concept to "other countries and selling the franchisees Chinese-made equipment." Zhang has encountered some problems along the way, problems that are compounded by China's culture and lack of laws, which govern specific business issues. One is that franchisees have stolen the company name and have opened their own centers."
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?Mending Wall?, 2002.
A look at the symbolism of the wall in ?Mending Wall? by Robert Frost.
884 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This poem reviews the poem, ?Mending Wall? by Robert Frost, and examines how Robert Frost uses the low stone walls, common in the countryside in New England, as a metaphor for the difficulties people may have connecting with each other. It discusses how Frost sees walls as a barrier between people, while his neighbor, who shares the wall with him, disagrees. It also shows how Frost notes that walls come down for destructive reasons and how he was probably influenced by World War I, since the poem was written in 1915.
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"He wants his neighbor to consider why they must maintain this wall between themselves. He points out that there are no cows to keep contained, and that apple trees cannot walk from one farmer?s land to another?s, but all his neighbor will say about it is ?Good fences make good neighbors.? So now the reader sees the real wall is a personal one put up by his neighbor, who will do the heavy labor but not discuss the need for it with the other person working beside him, although always on the other side of the wall."
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The Future of China, 2002.
Discusses the rise of criminal syndicates in China and their affect on China's political and economic progress.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 35.95
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Few would dispute that China has acquired considerable economic and political powers in the region. Despite achieving progress, liberal economic policies in China have caused many social ills including the rise of criminal syndicates. This paper examines the recent rise of crime in China placing it in the context of economic and political progress and argues that the latter is cohesive enough to outweigh crimes in future China.
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China and Taiwan: Compromise or Confrontation, 2002.
Discussion of the relationship between Nationalist China and Communist China.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 8 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper discusses the history of the hostile relationship between Nationalist China and Communist China in terms of past conflict, disparate ideologies, and the present dispute over the status of Taiwan.
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China and the WTO, 2002.
This paper discusses China?s inception into the World Trade Organization (WTO) and addresses the question of whether or not China's markets have expanded since its entry.
7,925 words (approx. 31.7 pages), 20 sources, MLA, $ 171.95
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On December 11, 2001, China officially became a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), opening the country?s doors to change and a new economy. This paper looks at the long journey it took in order to achieve this goal and the future prospects of such a step. The paper begins with an historical overview of China's economic structure and how this culminated into a decision to enter the WTO. It discusses the obstacles that China experienced in joining the WTO and the cost of the membership. It provides a table of China's commitments to the WTO and looks at what they expect to get in return. The economic impact of such a move is discussed and how this has influenced China's market structure and financial market reform.
Introduction
History of China?s Economic Structure
The Decision to Enter the WTO
Obstacles in Joining the WTO
The Cost of WTO Membership
China's Key Commitments to the WTO
What China Gets in Return
Economic Impact on China
China?s Commitments
Foreign Investments
Changes Made and Lessons Learned
China?s Market Structure
Financial Market Reform
Trade and Foreign Direct Investment
Conclusion
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"On December 11, 2001, China officially became a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), opening the country?s doors to change and a new economy. One year after China?s entry into the WTO, the country reported great success, showing better-than-expected economic growth and fulfillment of its WTO commitments, despite its shaky world economy. The excellent performance of the Chinese economy was clearly demonstrated by its eight percent growth rate in gross domestic product, as well as the significant growth in trade and inflow of foreign direct investment. As a result of its inception into the WTO, financial experts forecast that China will become the fifth trading country with an import-export volume worth US$600 billion and one of the most attractive areas for foreign direct investment, which exceeded US$50 billion in 2002 alone."
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China's Role In WWII, 1999.
Examines the U.S. policy toward China, the China-Japan conflict, internal Chinese conflicts and military, political and economic weaknesses.
2,475 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 12 sources, $ 87.95
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This research paper discusses the role of China in the origin, course and the outcome of World War II. Because of internal Chinese divisions, weaknesses in the Chinese Nationalist government and the priorities accorded to other theaters of war, China never played the role envisaged for it by some Allied leaders and war planners; nevertheless, events there served to enmesh Japan in an unsustainable military adventure on the Asian mainland and to weaken its overall war effort.
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"CHINA'S ROLE IN WORLD WAR II
This research paper discusses the role of China in the origin, course and the outcome of World War II. Because of internal Chinese divisions, weaknesses in the Chinese Nationalist government and the priorities accorded to other theaters of war, China never played the role envisaged for it by some Allied leaders and war planners; nevertheless, events there served to enmesh Japan in an unsustainable military adventure on the Asian mainland and to weaken its overall war effort.
1937-1941
World War II began at different times for different nations. For Britain, France, Poland and Germany, it began in 1939, for Italy in 1940, for Russia in June 1941, for the United States with the Pearl Harbor attack and the German declaration of war in ..."
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Human Rights in China, 2002.
An overview of human rights abuse in China and how it must be overcome for China to be recognized as a truly civilized country.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper will look at the sensitive issue of human rights abuses in China. Since the process of globalization has also reached China, and if it wants to be considered a legitimate world power, it must take a positive step towards becoming a truly civilized country. Improving its human rights record must be one of its most important objectives.
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Advantages And Disadvantages Of China Entering WTO, 2002.
Discusses the possible advantages and disadvantages to the people of China if China were to join the WTO.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 35.95
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Summary: This paper will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the Chinese entering the World Trade Organization. By understanding the different elements of this type of major deal in trade, we can see how this might affect the lives of the Chinese on a world basis. The effects of internationalization of this country has been an issue in recent times, and this deal would have significant affects on China.
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China and Human Resources i, 2002.
This paper critically discusses the role of human resource (HR) practitioners in China both before and after China's entry into the WTO.
4,900 words (approx. 19.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 178.95
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This paper explains that private enterprise will be of key focus, where the issues surrounding HR and HR development suggest that there are numerous new business strategies that have entered the Chinese private business. The author examine these changes and note how and why these changes are managed effectively in the Chinese economy.
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