That means that the time distance between any two cities within the province will be less than three hours. At present, 279 trains of Sino-Euro and Sino-Asia Cargo Railway have been dispatched from eight cities in Shandong (Jinan, Qingdao, Binzhou, Weifang, Linyi, Zibo, Weihai, and Rizhao...
century of Whitehead. John Cobb and Wang Zhihe have jointly established a China institute named Institute for the Postmodern Development of China. In my opinion, it might be better named the Institute for Sino-US Postmodern Development, as both ...
The Sino-Japanese was lasted until the end of the Second World War (Iriye 4). When China made the decision to take on Japan, other countries got involved, the United States being one of them, who took the Chinese side under Chiang Kai-shek. The Japanese had a slogan: “the Great ...
under CMI relied on the 'IMF link' – release of funds would be predicated on crisis countries' initiating negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), as a means of reducing moral hazard, enforcing conditionality and diverting blame from the leading creditors, Japan and China. The...
Knowledge of Mandarin can make it easier to learn many other Sinitic and Sino-Tibetan languages, like Burmese. If you’ve got Mandarin under your belt, suddenly a world of lesser-known languages is opened up to you. Why is Chinese a good language to learn? We’ve looked at why a ...
China’s development process. The first interruption was the Sino-Japanese war in 1894, resulting in China being forced to cede territory and pay indemnities to Japan. The second interruption was the invasion of China in the 1930’s and 1940’s. During the war, an immeasura...
As for offshore equities, fund managers have been underweight relative to the benchmark in recent years, as heavyweight offshore equity constituents were severely impacted by policy uncertainty and US-China geopolitical tensions. While we see increased clarity on China‘s policy focus, the Sino-US...
Second, Merkel's thirst to understand China is central to the evolving healthy interplay in Sino-German relations. Merkel's vision of good China relations has been informed by her deepening understanding of the country....
There were enough examples of bad organisation by Chinese who tried to Westernise to encourage this view. After 1949, it was supposed that the Russians had taken over China, or else that things had got worse, or maybe both. The first view was dominant in the West up to the Sino-Soviet...
How and why did China fall to Communism? Communism Communism is a socio-economic ideology that also affects the political sphere. Those who believe in communism say that collective ownership by all people of the means of production and natural resources is the best way to live. Once this happe...