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Re: Ancient Chinese History
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Tue Jun 17, 2008 4:39 pmby iam802
modern management theory:
"The ongoing integration of the global economy will lead to an inevitable undermining of the nation state in favor of the region. This is anathema to those who believe that a big, centralized state is the only way to run a territory. In "The Next Global Stage," Kenichi Ohmae argues that nation states are declining because their fixation on borders is not in line with today's transnational world."
-- By Kenichi Ohmae
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[Slightly off-topic]
Sometimes, I see this theory as it does not matter where you are born. Our country is borderless. We are transnational....so all foreign talents are welcome. And in a way, it is true. I could not guarantee that my girl will stay and work in Singapore when she grows up. 'Cos, she could be mobile and move around a lot.
And even our dear Winston here, despite being on this forum so frequent, he moves around a lot.
Re: Ancient Chinese History
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Tue Jun 17, 2008 4:42 pmby kennynah
thanks GR....this one....laminate....
and if it is not too much to ask....if u have the dates of each of these periods.... enter here can? thanks.
grandrake wrote:å¤å•†å‘¨ : first 3 dynasties (very colourful mythical stories here; å°ç¥žæ¦œ is a novel that describes the transition from the 商 to 周 dynasty
春秋战国 : warring states period (lots of very nice æˆè¯ stories come from this period; as a kid, I loved reading a couple of books that told these stories)
秦汉 : Ch'in & Han dynasties, China united
三国晋统一 : 3 Kingdoms period, reunited under 晋; ironically reunification wasn't by any of the 3 main families (刘, å™, 曹); well, technically speaking, they were reunited under Cao's armies but the eventual ruler was from the Sima family - the Cao's forced the Han emperor to abdicate, the Sima's eventually returned the favour and seized the throne from the Cao's (karma is a nasty thing)
å—æœåŒ—æœ: more luan periods, I don't know too much about these (
http://zhidao.baidu.com/question/12132182.html?fr=qrl3)
éš‹å”: Sui and Tang dynasties
五代åˆå国: more luan periods, I don't know too much about these (
http://baike.baidu.com/view/22638.htm)
宋元明清: 4 dynasties; 2 of which (元 & 清) are under non-Han descendants
å¸çŽ‹ä¼‘: end of monarchy system; the republic is born
Re: Ancient Chinese History
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Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:14 pmby blid2def
I'm very poor with dates and memorizing them, so I don't know how good this table is (lazy to cross check with other sites), but try this:
http://www.greatchinese.com/emperors/table.htm
Re: Ancient Chinese History
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Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:17 pmby kennynah
thank you ,,,,many aligatoes to you.... i;ve always wanted to know the "2-mins" history of chinese empires...
Re: Ancient Chinese History
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Thu Jun 19, 2008 6:00 pmby RidingOnTop
“人法地，地法天，天法é“，é“法自然â€ã€‚申ä¸å®³è®¤ä¸ºï¼Œè‡ªç„¶è¿è¡Œæ˜¯æœ‰è§„律的，也是ä¸å¯æŠ—拒的。他认为宇宙间的本质是“é™â€ï¼Œå…¶è¿åŠ¨è§„律是“常â€ã€‚ä»–è¦æ±‚对待一切事情应以“é™â€ä¸ºåŽŸåˆ™
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http://baike.baidu.com/view/77856.htm?func=retitleInteresting! It's just like the early philosophers' debate if the universe is essentially changing or unchanging. If they had internet then.. they may had started a forum!
Re: Ancient Chinese History
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Tue Sep 23, 2008 10:10 amby surfer_z
Besides students flocking to temple to pray during Confucius Birthday hoping to score As in their exams. Maybe the milk producers/businessman from China can take this opportunity to pray to Confucius on the enlightenment of "ä»".
Re: Ancient Chinese History
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Tue Sep 23, 2008 10:20 amby iam802
Yes, interesting enough.
We dedicate so much to studies in our early years...and yet throughout the entire life, I wonder how much is dedicated to 'ren'?
Having said that, I saw on the news a couple of days back.... that one of the Chinese temple is having some ceremony for 'Confusius'.
I have no idea which temple or when it will be conducted.
Re: Ancient Chinese History
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Tue Sep 23, 2008 2:01 pmby kennynah
anyone knows how to trace one's roots back to china ?
Re: Ancient Chinese History
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Wed Oct 15, 2008 5:20 pmby behappyalways
If you like Chinese History, the below is a good TV series. It is about the Warring States Period in which Shang Yang did a dramatic legal and cultural changes to the Qin state which resulted in Qin emerging as the strongest state. If I remember correctly, altogether there are 51 epsiodes. Quite a good show.
http://blog.wenxuecity.com/blogview.php ... ostID=9394http://so.tudou.com/isearch.do?kw=%B4%F ... DB%B9%FA25
Re: Ancient Chinese History
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Wed Oct 15, 2008 6:32 pmby winston
Welcome behappyalways !
May your stay here be a happy, profitable and enjoyable one !
Take care,
Winston