The paper aims at exploring the reasons behind China-US rapprochement giving priority to the Chinese perspective. This allows to deal with Nixon’s visit not as an isolated event but as an historical process that has been built over time in order to give international legitimacy to an ideological project. It will be noted, indeed, that the essential conditions that the Chinese communist party presupposes for the development of diplomatic relations with the United States, have been reproposed in various forms over t [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
*ASIAN history, *WORLD history, *NINETEENTH century, *EUROCENTRISM, *TWENTIETH century
Abstract
This paper highlights the importance of taking a broader view in the study of history, as far away as possible from classical Eurocentric interpretations, in order to enable students to deal with issues and problems that go outside the boundaries of the State perspective. For these reasons, the courses 'Global History' and 'History of Asia' aim to explore the processes that have shaped global relations in the modern age from a political, economic, social and cultural point of view and to provide a solid knowledge of the history of Eastern Asia between the 19th and 20th centuries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
*PLASTIC bags, *PLASTIC bag manufacturing, *WATER pollution, *SEWERAGE, *FLOODS
Abstract
The article reports on the ban of using lightweight free plastic bags effective June 1, 2008 in China. Manufacturing, selling and using bags less than .025 millimeters thick is prohibited. The initiative is undertaken to end the use of flimsiest bags which pollute the waterways, clog the sewers and toxify the ground resulting to flood and damage of marine life.
Published
2008
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