Essays on Asia

The urban modernization narrative calls to replace the native urban poor with a new class of people who will uphold the world-city ambitions projected by Bangalore’s government. Indeed, India’s land dispossession and booming property investments are not occurring in its city centers, but rather on...

Introduction The author has written this article in order to signify what religious freedom is. However, before that we require to understand what religion is. Religion is associated to human being’s relation to that which they favor as holy, sacred, spiritual, or divine. Religion is...

Forest is a terrestrial cover, where habitats like plants and wildlife interact with each other and with the physical atmosphere of nature, which is also their hereditary home. They are an important source for our natural resources. Without forests the world would come to a...

We examine three characteristics of Seven Samurai, the magnum opus of Akira Kurosawa, one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. Kurosawa’s works are foundational to a wide variety of film techniques and tropes. While Kurosawa himself considered Ran to be his best film, Seven...

Hagakure Hagakure, also known as the samurai bible, is a book that represents the attitude that goes beyond the modern pragmatism or the love for materialism to the overall spiritual development of individuals. Despite the interpretations that people have had on this book, Hagakure applies...

As one of the few surviving autobiographical writings from early Japan, in Musui’s Story, Katsu Kokichi narrates his life as a late Tokugawa-period samurai. Amid the Tokugawa period, also known as the Edo period, grand wars and conflicts slowly dwindled in number and size. The...

Introduction The years after the Second World War was full of unrest for Vietnam. The Vietnam war which simply started off as what seemed to be civilians trying to gain independence became more of a common ground for the superpowers to express their influences in...

Singapore provides an array of opportunities to people as the country has developed as an economic giant in recent years. It is a multi-cultural country with people from different ethnic groups and cultures living in this modern city. You can find Chinese, Malays, Indians, Arabs,...

Economical Contribution Why does China need to keep these creatures In China, the Red Panda is a large attraction for tourism. Tourism attracts over 5 billion tourists a year, and a lot of those tourists will visit the zoos during their travels and see the...

Many people today have a unique perception of Japan, blurring the line between Asian and Western culture. Much of this odd culture can be credited to a lesser-known editorial titled Datsu-A Ron, which found itself in a newspaper in 1885. The Datsu-A Ron was anonymously...

China wasn’t interested in colonies like Europe was. In colonies like Europe China wasn’t involved. For Ming China, both economic pressure and a totally different cultural perspective – so interwoven I’ll be willing not to help but speak about it all, almost simultaneously – influenced...

Among the 13 dynasties that China had gone through, the Ming Dynasty, which is from 1368 to 1644, was known for its trade expansion to the outside world, especially with the West. Besides, the Ming Dynasty was remembered for its cultural formation with the rise...

Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s invasion was one of the first big events for Modern East Asia, the invasion had huge impacts on Japan as well as Korea, but also on China.  Political impacts from Hideyoshi’s invasion were a significant impact during the period, when looking at the...

To start with, the Chinese Empire was large and controlled most of Asia at one point in time. One of the dynasties that ruled the empire was the Ming Family. In the Ming dynasty, villages has its own ordinances. Even though ordinances cannot control all...

 What is art? Art can have many purposes: it could be used as propaganda, it could have a specific function, or it could simple be something nice to look at. For these reasons the true purpose and definition of art which is set by the...

From May 10th, 1857 to November 1, 1858, the Sepoy Mutiny, as the British refer to it, occured. The Indian’s refer to this time as their First War of Independence. The British rule had been disrupting the country. Locals were treated unjustly, and making all...

Introduction As I speak in our native language with a fellow Filipino during my flight to Saudi Arabia, I felt like I was being looked down on. She responded in English when she clearly understood what I was saying. Most people are expected to speak...

Globalization refers to global integration and expansion. Since it’s about bringing nearly the entire world next to each other, it has no limitations, either through technology, business, culture, or something you want to focus on. In addition, globalization is a process of engagement and development...

The Republic of the Philippines is a lower-middle class archipelago country in Southeast Asia. The Philippeans has one of the most rapid growing economies worldwide and this can be attributed to the many factors that play into this country’s overall composition. To describe the Philippines,...