The Differences Between China And Western Europe

Before the arrival of western powers, China was very stable, agricultural, and ethnocentric. They had many factories that produced silk, cotton, and porcelain with their natural resources: salt, tin, silver, and iron mines. They had no interest of trade or interaction with foreigners. From the early eighteenth century, European and American Imperialism spread throughout China with a goal to extend their nation’s power. China was one of many territories that undertook the changes of New Imperialism. By 1912, the country was governed by outside nations: Great Britain (mostly), Russia, Germany, France, and Japan. Their influence on China resulted malignantly on the country’s economy, political ties, and lifestyle; in spite of the few

Be able to find comparisons between the political systems in Western Europe and China from 1000 – 1300 CE.

Although the Westernization movement has shown deep influence upon Chinese people’s exploration of the modernization of China, it finally failed to accomplish the Chinese

In china there has been no central rule in China for 70 years until the Song Dynasty created in 960. Things started to change in China, for example, the government started to aid the poor a lot more than what they have in the past. They were getting this money from the newly introduced income tax. This made a lot of people happy and everyone started to have more patriotism and pride. This pride gave the government a feel of legitimacy. Some of the major things the government is paying for is the roads, food, and education. Pottery at this time helps out the economy in China, because the pottery is so advanced that it was being exported for good money and it also led more people to come to China. Even though China was number one in the world for many things like technology and a sophisticated culture they were weak military wise (Holcombe p.127).

There were many distinguishing factors of individual countries within Europe, although they each differed at least slightly from each other, some countries formed allies with their neighbors, which in part caused the division of Europe. The concept of an absolute monarchy caused a division of social and economic classes, labeling people based on their wealth. In the western part of Europe there were three main classes-nobles, middle class, and peasants/low class people. This division of societal/economic classification resulted in many conflicts, the monarchs often times teamed with the middle class to reduce the power of the nobles. This was much different in the eastern section of Europe, much like the differences lying within individual

New years eve is celebrated in many different ways across the world. There are many different traditions. America and china have many similarities and differences in the way that they celebrate. They are both very passionate in there different celebrations.

Diamond explains that the main difference and cause for political unity between the two countries is geographical. Europe’s coastline is split up with multiple peninsulas and islands, while China’s coastline is smooth, with smaller islands. Europe is also split up by major mountains, while China does not have this geographic problem. China has two major waterways that connect its east and west, while Europe has no such thing. With the geographical challenges, China was much easier to unify. Europe is split up, containing different languages and cultures along its geographic features. This made it very hard for Europe to be unified. China was more politically unified, while Europe would stay disunified. For world history, this would affect the

China’s history dates back to four thousand plus years. In that time, China has created a culture rich in philosophy and the arts. China has made amazing technological advances such as silk, paper, gunpowder, and many other products. Chinese records reach over five thousand years back. It is difficult to cover even the most important events of this old society in a short space, yet here are some highlights. The first dynasty to rule China was the Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BCE), followed by the Xia dynasty (2200-1700 BCE), established by Emperor Yu, and after that the Zhou Dynasty (1122-256 BCE). Historical records are hard to find for these times in the world in which China had these dynasties. In 221 BCE, Qin Shi Huangdi took the throne, destroying neighboring city-states, and binding China together as its own. He established the Qin Dynasty, which kept going until 206 BCE. Today, he is best-known for his complex tomb in Xian (in the past Chang 'an), which houses the fantastic armed force of the terracotta warriors. Qin Shi Huang 's awkward term was toppled by the armed force of normal man Liu Bang in 207 BCE. Liu then established the Han Dynasty, which kept going until 220 BCE. In the Han period, China extended west all the way to India, opening an exchange of goods along what might later turn into the Silk Road. At the point when the Han Empire broke down in 220 CE, China was tossed into a time of political worry and confusion. For the following four centuries, many

When we compare with America and China, we will find that there are so many differences between this two countries, and here I mainly talk about their difference in education in this paper. Throughout all kinds of points among their differences, we can sum up to six aspects: the study style, the importance of education, the method of teaching, examination and the purpose of education.

Some cities in China like Shanghai, Guangzhou and Tianjin were semi-colonized, but most of China wasn't directly controlled by foreign powers unlike India who was under the control of the British empire. China was one country unified culturally, politically and economically thus making it difficult for foreign powers to take control over it. With globalization starting to take place in the Middle East and Asia, certain insular countries like China and Japan started to open up their borders to foreign nations. With globalization, the West started to influence the east in various was one of them was in religion. The West brought Christianity with them and started to actively convert

At first, when the Europeans arrived in China, they did not create a huge effect. Even though many European countries were trading with China at this point, the trade between China and Europe was limited (pg. 480). Unlike the trade market, missionaries were very influential, they tried to show the Chinese parallels between Confucian ethics and Christianity (pg. 480). After this the Europeans began to be more widely accepted, also the fact that they brought all types of new technologies like the clock, astronomical tools, and musical instruments helped out a lot since those things really impressed the Chinese. (pg. 480). Thanks to the Europeans, China was at the peak of power and honor during the mid-18th century (pg. 484), but after a while China couldn’t deal with

The great economic divergence between China and Europe has generated countless debates, and as various scholars unite to provide reasons for this phenomenon, numerous interesting theories are born. Among these views is the monumental theory of history researcher and professor Kenneth Pomeranz. Pomeranz’s theory lists Europe’s convenient access to coal and the New World colonies as the chief reasons for its industrialization. However, many scholars, such as history professor Peter Coclanis , question these claims and believe the divergence was caused by additional factors, not just coal and the New World colonies. Pomeranz and Coclanis make interesting comments on the ecological, cultural and political differences that existed in both areas and how each contributed to this divergence. Historically, there have been numerous theories that attempt to explain the Great Divergence, and analysis of Pomeranz’s essay and Coclanis’ article help reveal many potential causes.

Germany, a western country is well-known for beer, sausage and innovative technology. China, an eastern country is well-known for delicious food, martial arts and low priced products. Everyone knows they are completely different. However, can you raise some concrete examples showing their difference? And is it true that both do not have a single similarity at all? Though, they have certain similar aspects if you look closer.

In any case westernization most likely started in late nineteenth century, when huge number of Chinese went to the west to study. They then brought back to China western thoughts, science, innovation and change. The huge change was done in the twentieth

Europe and China share a long history of bilateral relations and economic cooperation. Trade and economic exchanges go back as long as 20 centuries ago, when the Roman empire formed relations with ancient China in order to trade goods through the Asian continent. The most infamous one is the example of the so-called "silk roads", paths that enabled cultural interaction and commodity sharing, such as gold and silk, between European (Greek, Roman, Byzantine) and Asian (Chinese, Indian, Persian) civilisations and were carried out by missionary merchants and pilgrim travelers. During the modern history, however, European and China economic relations have gone through many ups and downs, as the international climate affected drammatically their perception of each other. The two World Wars damaged heavily the economies of Europe, while China was still under very low levels of economic development. After the second World War, the US rose as the global economic power and overshadowed the previous European (UK, France, Germany and Netherlands) economic