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East India Company Trade With China
1,275 wordsWhat was China's worse nightmare during the late 18 th and the 19 th century? The answer is opium. The rise of the British opium trade with China not only brought devastating and chaotic results for the Chinese government, but also for its citizens. In this paper, I plan to discuss about how and why the opium trade was introduced. In addition, why opium-smoking was so popular and the different ways of how China tried to handle this dilemma, will also be talked about. In the eighteenth and early ...
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Trade With China Century A D
2,102 wordsHistory has recorded that England and China used ceramic ware to drink their tea and those records go into great detail, showing contrasts and similarities between each culture's ceramics. The vast ideological differences between England and China show how social, political and ritualistic issues were reflected in the developments and changes made to the ware visually, as well as its functionality. Were the issues in each culture a result of external or internal influences, exchange, inspiration...
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Mass Produced Song Dynasty
2,070 words... t, it was introduced in small quantities and, as usually is the case with high demand products, was initially available only to the very wealthy. Just as important were the unique wares in which this beverage was prepared and consumed. Tea soon became a status symbol among the upper class and nobility; even portraits were commissioned portraying a family sitting down to take tea showing their wealth and good taste. The portraits also note porcelain cups with silver tea service (Emmerson plat...
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Great Wall One Day
422 wordsHello, my name is Chou Ung, and I am a soldier. I usually have to wear a tunic, leather boots, shin guards, helmet, and bronze armor. I have to wear lots of armor. The weapons I use are the lance, shield, crossbow, sword, spear, bow and arrow, and an ax. I have a flat face and a low-bridge nose. I also have protruding eyes, large ears, high eyebrows, and slender lips. Wherever I go, I always carry a knife, fan, jade disc, porcelain horse, and a flute. I love my flute. Everybody loves it when I p...
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Museum That One Italian Art Renoir
659 wordsPierre-Auguste Renoir was born in 1841 to a tailor and dressmaker. He attended a Christian Brother's School where he was taught the rudiments of drawing. At the age of 13 he was apprenticed to a firm of porcelain painters, Levy Freres et Compagnie, whose workshops were near the Louvre. At the same time, he took drawing lessons from the sculptor Callouette. After serving his apprenticeship as a porcelain painter, he worked for a M. Gilbert, a manufacturer of blinds. In 1860 he became a student of...
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Emily Dickinson Sordid Excellence One
1,131 wordsI cannot live with You It would be Life And Life is over there Behind the Shelf The Sexton keeps the Key to Putting up Our life His Porcelain Like a Cup Discarded of the Housewife Quaintor Broke A newer Sevres pleases Old Ones crack I could not dewitt You For One must wait To shut the Others Gaze down You could not And I Could I stand by And see You freeze Without my Right of Frost Deaths privilege? Nor could I rise with You Because Your Face Would put out Jesus That New Grace Glow plain and for...
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Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries Ch Ing
932 wordsFrom the earliest awakenings of Chinese civilization, the Chinese have sought out what they believe to be spiritual perfection. This numinous sense of flawlessness existed within the people themselves, in nature, and between the two as well. Art has always been a common means for the Chinese to achieve such inner tranquility and peace. In their art, they stressed the dignified qualities of serenity, grace, and balance. They avoided confusion, conflict, and all violent emotions no matter what the...
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Ming Dynasty Technological Developments
1,020 wordsThematic Essay At various times between the fifth and seventeenth centuries, civilizations developed and produced significant contributions in the areas of political systems and leadership, economic and technological developments, social structures, and the intellectual life, specifically art, music, literature, science, philosophy, and religion. The Ottomans drew strength from their origins as ghazi's. The ghazi principle fueled their urge for conquest and then helped them to structure their de...
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Rush Hour Middle Aged
3,610 wordsHappiness by Will Ferguson Grand Avenue cuts through the very heart of the city, from 71 st Street all the way to the harbour front, and although it is eight lanes wide, with a treed boulevard running down the middle, the Avenue feels claustrophobic and narrow. Rising up in straight verticals, and flanking either side, are Grand Avenues imposing Edwardian buildings, their facades creating two continuous walls. Many of these edifices were built during the Great Potash Boom of the late 1920 s, wit...
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Emily Dickinson Doesn T
1,149 wordsI cannot live with You? It would be Life? And Life is over there Behind the Shelf The Sexton keeps the Key to? Putting up Our life? His Porcelain? Like a Cup? Discarded of the Housewife? Quaint? or Broke? A newer Sevres pleases? Old Ones crack? I could not die? with You? For One must wait To shut the Other? s Gaze down? You? could not? And I? Could I stand by And see You? freeze? Without my Right of Frost? Death? s privilege? Nor could I rise? with You? Because Your Face Would put out Jesus? ? T...
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Three Pieces I Made Pieces I Made Pottery
933 wordsIn this semester, we spent a great deal of time on pottery and the making of clay sculptures. I learned a great deal from only the three pieces I made. All of my pieces were created by hand using only a pin-tool and a sponge. The three pieces I made were an ashtray and two feet that I will be using for bookends. I will now go into the process I used in creating each piece. First, I created my ashtray. I decided to make this ashtray because it was a simple way to ease into pottery. I first took a...
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