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Mao Zedong: A Lost Pragmatist
Get PDFThis paper calls for a reassessment of the life and career of Mao Zedong, especially actions such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, arguing that Mao committed these acts primarily out of a desire for pragmatic outcomes rather than a desire to maintain power and terrorize the people. While Mao ultimately failed in his pursuit of beneficial outcomes and caused a large amount of suffering as a result, that was largely due to his lack of experience and knowledge running a country, and this paper seeks to show how his intentions were good and while he may be culpable for these tragedies, he should not draw comparisons to leaders such as Adolf Hitler, whose intentions were clearly in the wrong. In this vein, Mao should be viewed as a pragmatist who simply didn\u27t know the right course of action, rather than as a cruel tyrant who only wished to maintain power
Changing Lives: Wonderful Treasures to Japanese Women and Peace in the World
Get PDFBook review of Changing Lives: The "Postwar" in Japanese Women\u27s Autobiographies and Memoirs by Ronald. P Loftus (2013
Crime and Punishment: The Subjectivity of the Modern Morality and Its Manifestation in the Meiji Man
Get PDFThis Analysis explores the themes morality and subjectivity in the novels of Natsume Soseki and Dazai Osamu. Using Kokoro and No Longer Human, it explores the individual definition of what is morally sound and what social constructs define this. The main characters of the novels, Yozo and Sensei and "I," are the manifestation of the search for the self in an isolation that overwhelms their sense of morality. They struggle against a shifting society and the battle to determine who they are and will become
Foreign Investment: The Automotive Market in China
Get PDFWhy have foreign corporations invested heavily in the Chinese automotive industry? How has this inflow of products, supplies, technology and financial support affected the Chinese car market? Without foreign investment that accompanied the Opening Up, would China’s economy resemble its current state? In just over 50 years, China has been able to turn its once weak and slowly-expanding automotive industry into an important and powerful global giant. Through analyzing the development of China’s car market together with political, economic, and cultural ramifications of foreign investment, this paper will express the significant influences of foreign support. Historical facts and quantitative information will coalesce to validate the idea that foreign investment heavily affected the growth of the Chinese automotive market
Cover Art: Calligraphy by Ma Qian, Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant to Wittenberg University, 2014-2015.
No full text"博⽂文约礼," which means "vigorously pursuing knowledge while scrupulously abiding by the rules of decorum," incorporates (in reverse order) the two Chinese characters used by our Chinese students to translate “Wittenberg:” “⽂文博.
Afternoon Tea by Qui Shanshan: Translated from the Chinese
Get PDFAfternoon Tea by Qui Shanshan: Translated from the Chines
Japanese Culture Exists in English
No full textThis essay is going to talk about how original Japanese is translated into English and whether or not it does make some changes in the expression. The novle used for this essay is Botchan wirtten by Soseki Natsume, one of the most famous Japanese author in the Japanese Literature Hisotry