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The Revaluation of the Chinese Yuan, 2005.
An analysis of the implications of re-valuating the Chinese yuan.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 12 sources, $ 106.95
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This twelve page paper examines the yuan. The paper presents the opinion that revaluing China's currency is necessary for several reasons, the most important of which is China's economic expansion, which has been impressive ever since economic and political reforms began to be implemented by Deng Xio Ping in the late nineteen-seventies.
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"The Revaluation of the Chinese Yuan: An Analysis of Implications Many economists believe that revaluing China's currency is necessary for several reasons, the most important of which is China's economic expansion, which has been impressive ever since economic and political reforms began to be implemented by Deng Xio Ping in the late nineteen-seventies. The People's Republic of China's expanding economic participation in the global economy has had currency implications, for a nation of more than one-billion people becoming a major trade partner in the world economy affects currency values around the world. Bohan (2005) notes that "China revalued the yuan by 2.1 percent in July and cut it loose from the dollar so it could float within tightly managed bands."
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Yuan Drama, 2002.
A discussion of the differences of social status and gender in Yuan drama.
1,979 words (approx. 7.9 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 62.95
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This paper examines the different social status and gender positions portrayed in seven dramas from Chinese theatre of the Yuan period. The Yuan dynasty was the period of Mongol rule in China. The dramas included portrayals of a wide range of social classes- rich, poor, officials, beggars, women, men and many more. It shows how women had a lower social status then men and were held in lower regard. Those of a higher status were mostly officials who had access to power and money while in contrast, the lower classes had to work hard for a living and face many injustices. It aims to bring forth the idea that the playwrights used these differences to illustrate moral ideas about good and evil.
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"The status of scholars and those who become officials by passing the exam is clearly illustrated here. The Chang family held scholars and officials in high regard and considered it a source of pride and social status to have a son-in-law who is an official. This could be attributed to the fact that the imperial examination was a way for someone from the lower class to raise the position of his family and himself in the social hierarchy. Passing the examination and becoming an official was to bring great honor and prestige to the family. Understandably, to gain a son-in-law who was an official would also bring prestige to the Chang family and perhaps validate or improve their social status."
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Yuan Dramas, 2006.
A look at why drama flourished during the Yuan dynasty (1279-1368).
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 35.95
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The Yuan dynasty (1279-1368) was a period when cultural innovation was occurring at a very high rate in China(Lewis 34). One of the cultural areas that went through a particularly significant period of growth during this period was drama. The question that this essay attempts to answer is why did drama in the Yuan period flourish? It is argued that drama flourished in the Yuan period for four primary reasons. These reasons are; the commercialization of entertainment and the arts during this period, the use of vernacular language, the vulgarity and humor of many of these dramas and the fact that the dramas often used stock stories and characters that were known by a wide range of people.
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The Mongol Yuan Dynasty, 2005.
A look at the positive influence of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper argues that even though the Mongols have been synonymous with barbarism and violence, the Mongol empire in China had its innovations.It looks at how the Mongols showed considerable open-mindedness towards different cultures, religions and the arts, borrowing Buddhist and other ideas and trying to understand the people ruled. Mention is made of communications, attention to agriculture, as in the Yellow River diversion project, and efforts to make use of existing elites without giving them too much power.
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"The Mongol Empire in China tends to have a low reputation attached, in view of the Mongols having destroyed the Song Dynasty that was associated with much achievement and which was certainly seen as superior by the Chinese elite. For many years, numbers of Chinese resisted the Mongols, remaining loyal to the southern Song kingdom, keeping alive the dream of a Song restoration. (Schirokauer, 1998, 221) It was helpful to see the Mongolian invader as wild, senselessly violent and also, primitive, as was not exactly accurate, as this short paper explains."
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The Yuan?s Fair Value: A Conundrum, 2005.
An analysis of the fair value of the Chinese currency against the U.S. dollar in the light of the proposed Schumer-Graham bill.
3,187 words (approx. 12.7 pages), 20 sources, MLA, $ 92.95
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This paper deals with the recent attempt to determine the supposed undervaluation of the Chinese Yuan versus the American dollar. It discusses different economic approaches to determine the real exchange rate such as purchasing power parity (PPP), fundamental equilibrium exchange rate (FEER), and behavioral equilibrium exchange rate (BEER). Finally it ventures to determine a real exchange rate with simple tool based on purchasing power parity and ideas drawn from the Balassa-Samuelson hypothesis.
Introduction
The Statistics of Papers On The Equilibrium Exchange Rate
For The Chinese Currency
Approaches Based On an Economic Theory
Purchasing Power Parity Approach
Fundamental Equilibrium Exchange Rate
Behavioral Equilibrium Exchange Rate
Estimating a Fair Value with Simple Tools
The Concept of the Big Mac Index
Purchasing Power Parity as the Determinant of
Real Long-Term Exchange
Balassa-Samuelson Hypothesis
Conclusion
References
Appendix
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" A more medium-term concept, and thus more useful for policy purposes is the fundamental equilibrium exchange rate (FEER) developed by Williamson (1994), which defines the equilibrium exchange rate as the real exchange rate that satisfies simultaneously internal and external balances. The cornerstone of this approach is current account sustainability, i.e. the level of current account deficits/surpluses that matches long-term capital inflows/outflows. External balance suggests a sustainable current account balance. An internal balance is meant to be full employment with low inflation. The delicate aspect of the FEER approach is that it needs a normative judgment regarding the size of long-term capital flows. FEER estimates are usually derived from large scale macro-econometric models or partial trade blocks of a given economy. "
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Tao Yuan Ming, 2005.
An analysis of the retirement of Tao Yuanming as seen through his poems.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 44.95
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This paper refers to several of Stephen Owen's translations of Tao Yuanming's poems. The paper indicates that however much the poet has favoured his leaving official life for the countryside that he does have moments of wondering if his decision was correct or just seeing that the village is merely different from that of which he grew tired in an educated profession.
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"Tao Yuanming (365-427 AD) - an Idyllic Retirement in the Countryside, and More. Introduction The man remembered as Tao Qian was born to a minor gentry family, perhaps part of the Tao clan, and held a number of minor civil service posts before deciding to retire to a village. Much of his work points to the circumstances that encouraged this rejection of official life, not through any particular expectation of it, but in a spirit of glorifying the individual. He has known well what was expected of a person of his background, as an educated Chinese, who would normally prefer a life of the towns."
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"Things Fall Apart" ( Chinua Achebe ) & "The Dragon's Village" ( Yuan-tsung Chen ), 1997.
Compares novels' protagonists' points of view on Chinese culture & society, politics, reform and modernization.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, $ 47.95
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" The Dragon's Village and Things Fall Apart
There are two significant differences between the novels The Dragon's Village and Things Fall Apart. In The Dragon's Village, the story is told from the point-of-view of the outsider. Ling-ling, although she is Chinese, is an outsider in the far-flung Gansu province. She was raised with middle-class values and in a setting that would be considered wholly luxurious to the peasants she lives with during the course of the novel. Things Fall Apart, however, is written from what would be the equivalent of the peasants' point-of-view in The Dragon's Village. In Achebe's novel, the day-to-day lives of the villagers occupy the first two parts of the novel, inculcating the readers into their social values and norms and positioning them as insiders and the white men who come later in the novel as the outsiders."
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The Dragon Turns Into a Global Economic Power, 2006.
What a powerhouse China means to the US economy and to the world market place.
5,633 words (approx. 22.5 pages), 20 sources, MLA, $ 136.95
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In this article the author examines the effects of China's large manufacturing power on the USA and the rest of the world. The revaluation of the yuan is highlighted with its potential advantages and disadvantages.The author details how the Chinese government is trying to hold things together until after the 2008 Beijing Olympics.The article concludes that with its delicate balancing act on government-subsidized production, China is beginning to teeter under the strain of overcapacity and ballooning inventories.
Introduction
Surging Economy
Overheat
China Bashing
Yuan Revaluation
Short-term Effects
Long-term Effects
Real Reasons
Yen and Yuan
Achilles Heel
Trade Imbalance with US
Conclusion
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"Up until recently, China was an up-to-no-good pariah and a threat to the rest of the world. Terrible things were thought to be going on behind the Bamboo Curtain or at least everything was going wrong there. With the Chinese population spinning out of control, millions were said to be starving to death while the Red Guard ran amuck. Until the 1980s, Saudi Arabia for one regarded communist China as a godless, revolutionary threat and would not sell oil to it, says Flynt Leverett of the Brooking Institution in Washington. Reflecting this worldwide attitude towards China was the admission by top American defense officials in the 1960s that the US had a "well-developed" plan then to detonate warheads over 50 Chinese urban centers. But there was no doubt even then that China the dragon country was a sleeping giant."
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Chinese Art, 2006.
A guide to the study of Chinese art through the Yuan dynasties.
2,445 words (approx. 9.8 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 74.95
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This paper examines how the study of art of the dynasties up to and through the Mongol Yuan dynasties involves the blending of art from the prior dynasties into the Yuan.
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Thesis Statement
The By the Artist Approach
Ch'ien Hsuan
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"Cahill suggests in his writings, both the work cited and other volumes of his body of works, that perhaps the easiest manner for the Westerner to understand the full significance of Chinese Art through the Yuan dynasties is by the study of several of the artists of the periods involved. This therefore gives one a truer picture of what precisely the circumstances, pressures, social effects and other factors during the time of any given work's preparation. This becomes a vital key to the understanding of the whole scope, and a very large scope it is indeed, of this vast period of World history. A history too many Westerners know very little about and because of the circumstances now existing in China and Taiwan even the Chinese literate are beginning to loose sight of in their headlong rush into globalization. "
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"The Dragon Village", 2002.
An analysis of Yuan-tsung Chen's 1980 coming of age story of a young Chinese woman.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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Analysis of Yuan-tsung Chen's 1980 story of a young Chinese woman. Fictional tale is paralleled with struggles Chinese people go through as their country adopts Communism. Role of women in China and how the Revolution effected them. Protagonist's fight for equality; breaking down barriers between the sexes.
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"In Yuan-tsung Chen?s The Dragon?s Village (1980), the coming of age of a young woman, Ling-ling, is paralleled with the struggles that the people of China are going through as their country adopts communism. In the middle of revolution, land reform, and the Korean War, Ling-ling matures and discovers who she is as a woman and a person. Her tale reflects how the role of women in China frequently vacillated between emancipation and oppression during this time in history. Chen uses Ling-ling as well as the other women in her story as an example of what women in China were experiencing during this turbulent time, whether they were old, young, rich, poor, bourgeois, urban, or rural.
To understand how the revolution effected the lives of these women, one should first take a look at Chinese society and..."
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Bridal Du and Oriole, 2002.
An examination of character changes in Bridal Du and Oriole in the Yuan Dynasty Chinese plays ?The Story of the Western Wing? and ?The Peony Pavilion?.
765 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 0 sources, $ 27.95
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This paper was written for a class in Yuan Dynasty Chinese drama. It examines the character changes that Bridal Du and Oriole go through in the plays ?The Story of the Western Wing? and ?The Peony Pavilion" and what this reveals about Chinese culture at that time.
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"Oriole and Bridal Du both go through transformations during the plays ?The Story of the Western Wing? and ?The Peony Pavilion?. Bridal Du?s transformation from sexually open person to a proper, virginal person is made explicitly clear through her transformation from spirit to human and from her transition from existence in the world of the dead to the world of the living. Oriole?s transformation on the other hand, involves her change from a modest and proper young woman to one who goes against her mother?s wishes and has sex with a man of her choosing so that she secures a marriage with him. Each woman?s transformation either from sexual being to virginal being, as in the case of Bridal Du, or from virginal being to sexual being, as in the case of Oriole can be clearly seen through each woman?s views and actions regarding pre-marital sex and the respective degrees to which each breaks Chinese rules of propriety. Both women become respectable in the eyes of the theater-goer through their eventual marriages. By placing the sexually active women in the sphere of marriage, the women re-enter into a proper role that both of them had broken out of by choosing their own husbands and having sexual relations with these men. "
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?The Dragon?s Village?, 2002.
An analysis of Chen Yuan-tsung's autobiographical work of historical fiction, "The Dragon's Village".
1,229 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 1 source, $ 41.95
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The paper shows that in Chinese author Chen Yuan-tsung's novel "The Dragon's Village", land reform was hardly welcomed with open arms by the Chinese peasantry. Rather than acceptance, the individuals who took to the fields and rice paddies of China to spread the doctrine of communism, found a peasantry largely hostile to the ideology they espoused. The paper analyzes the heroine of the book, Guan Ling-ling and the conflicting emotions she has towards the ideologies of Communism.
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"This initial image of her early life sets up a clear portrait of the China Guan later hopes to change by going to the countryside. This China is patriarchal, as the women sit, waiting quietly to hear a man speak in the removed language of poetry. This China is hierarchical, as members of the urban class dine comfortably upon fine food. This is the food that the heroine of the book will later dream about as she starves in rural areas. (Chen, 1980, 280) Clearly, change is necessary in such an environment, and the protagonist?s rejection of the trappings of such a life at first seems independent and admirable. However, the change created by land reform is no less absurd than the portrait of life in ostensibly communist Shanghai, in all of its near-aristocratic excesses."
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The Sword of Authority and the Seal of Power, 2002.
This paper examines some of the virtues of giving officials free reign with their power as well as some of the drawbacks that can result from an abuse of that power, with reference to three Chinese plays from the Yuan Dynasty.
1,055 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 0 sources, $ 37.95
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This paper compares three plays: "Rain on the Hsiao-hsiang" by Yang Hsien-chih, "The Mo-Ho-Lo Doll" by Meng Han-ch'ing and "The Lute" by Kao Ming. It explores the advantages of allowing officials to freely exercise their power. The writer asserts that the most important way in which this freedom can benefit the citizens is the ability to make judicial decisions based on the specific situation.
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"The power of officials to overcome the corrupt officialdom of others is shown in The Mo-Ho-Lo Doll. Chang Ting is able to use his influence with the Prefect to overturn the unjust ruling of the 1st judge. He was able to uncover the truth that had been obscured by the poor job of investigation that the 1st judge had done to discover the killer of Li Te-Ch?ang. In the Prefect?s opening introduction he says: ?Now this area of Honan Fu is suffering under corrupt officialdom which has been snaring and harming citizens in every fashion. His Sage Presence appointed me Special Prefect here. I am to root out all evil and sustain justice; armed with the ?sword of authority and the seal of power??. By exercising this symbolic ?sword of authority and the seal of power?, the Prefect was able to correct the injustice done by the previous judge."
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Mongol Impact on China, 2005.
An examination on the Mongol influence on China.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 2 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper discusses how Chinese historians have tended to downplay the impact of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368) upon China and how this is an understandable tendency given the fact that the Yuan Dynasty was a non-Chinese dynasty of nomadic conquerors. However this hostility has resulted in Chinese historians often overlooking the accomplishments of this Dynasty in their period of rule in China. It examines the Mongol impact upon China in terms of economy, religion, intellectual and cultural life and foreign relations.
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China's Exchange Rate as a Barrier to Trade, 2006.
A review of China's currency policy and the impact it has on global trade patterns.
4,050 words (approx. 16.2 pages), 5 sources, $ 160.95
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This research discusses China's currency policy and how it affects global trade patterns.This paper pays particular attention to trade patterns with the world's leading economies such as the US and the EU. The US trade deficit with China is cited as an example of its use of an artificially valued currency as an effective barrier to trade imports into China. In this sense China's undervalued yuan is a barrier to imports and is maintained as such although China employs its undervalued yuan more to maintain its comparative advantage relative to its export market.
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"There are many types of trade barriers that can have a deep and lasting impact on the character of trade relations between nations. One of the most visible nations in the world today relative to trade and economic vitality is China. China's de facto role as the world's manufacturer has meant that its export market and foreign trade relations are intricately intertwined with the leading economies of the world such as the US and the EU. In this respect, leveling the balance of trade between China and these other leading economies is important to their long-term health. For example, the size of the US' trade deficit with China was over $200 billion and growing in 2004 (China, 2005)."
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