Hong Kong's Return to China
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A 5 page overview that speculates about what may happen when Hong Kong is handed back to China, after approximately150 years of British rule. Economic and cultural aspects are highlighted. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: Hongkong.wps

Housing As Social Control
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A 9 page discussion of the different social control theories utilized by the United States and Tibet / China with respect to housing. The United States and China have very different forms of social control, especially in regards to the settlement of land in another country, as China is settling Tibet. While it would seem that the United States and China/Tibet would have nothing in common in regards to their settlement policies, the fact remains that both countries use a similar social theory as the basis of social control in their neighborhoods. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
Filename: Soccontr.wps

Hui Muslims: Their Culture Verses 'Mainstream' American Culture
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A 7 page exploration of the definition of culture as it relates to the Hui Muslims of China and the 'mainstream' American culture. Proposes that the biggest difficulty in such an overview is the definition of 'mainstream.' Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: Huimusli.wps

Human Rights and Sovereignty
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A 5 page paper discussing when outside forces should intervene. Nations are indeed sovereign entities, and they need to be regarded as such. When it becomes obvious that they are actively abusing the rights of their own citizens, however, then outside forces need to intervene. The decision may not be politically popular, but it is morally right. Taking that path benefits all involved, and the benefits of the action outweigh the negatives associated with momentarily violating a nation's sovereignty. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: KShumRght2.wps

Industrialization Development in China and the United States
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A 9 page paper discussing the greatly different routes that industrialization has taken in China and in the United States, to the point that only now is it reaching into the more remote regions of China. There are a litany of cultural and philosophical reasons for this difference between these two nations. The purpose here is to examine some of those reasons, which include facts of history and several cultural issues such as identity of place, perspective of time, availability of labor and the role of tradition in the two cultures as it existed a century ago. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: KSchinaIndust.rtf

Infant mortality in Japan
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A five page paper which considers the social, economic and cultural factors which have led to changes in the birth and death rates in Japan, and the decline in the infant mortality rate over recent decades. Bibliography cites 10 sources.
Filename: JLjapan.wps

Internet Censorship In China: Past And Present
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6 pages in length. The extent to which Internet censorship has become a requisite part of the entire World Wide Web experience is clearly indicative of the manner by which society's offensive element has found a way to reach its vulnerable audience. That pornography has been cited as the primary search objective on the Internet today speaks to the fact that children and adolescents are among the tremendous number of virtual onlookers visiting these sites every day. China is no stranger to this occurrence, inasmuch as Asian pornography is one of the worlds most popular and sought after commodities. Efforts to censor this decidedly harmful social element have been both significant and laborious; it sometimes seems as though the pornographic Web masters know all the tricks to bypass sophisticated obstacles. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: TLCChnSn.rtf

Isolating China -- A Bad Idea
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This 5 page report discusses the statement that “isolating China is unworkable, counterproductive and politically dangerous” and makes note of the many ways in which the statement is undeniably accurate. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: BWisochi.rtf

Jacques Gernet/ "Daily Life in China"
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A 5 page analysis of Gernet's book Daily Life in China, in which dispels some commonly held Western misconceptions about Chinese history. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khgernet.wps

Japan and China: A Comparison of Environments
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A 6 page overview of the natural resources and ecological complexity of Japan and China. Summarizes the fact that since China is larger in terms of physical land coverage it encompasses more ecological diversity than does Japan. Concludes that each country shares the threat of overdevelopment and severe impact to their fragile ecosystems. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: PPchnJap.wps

Japan in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
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7 pages. It is said that the Tokagawa tried to freeze history in order to continue their rule, and that ultimately the emperor's of China behaved in a similar manner. Both regimes would then have been unprepared for the invasion of the West in the mid-nineteenth century. This paper will focus on this and the fact that the Meji Restoration was a self-strengthening movement. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: JGAtokag.rtf

Japanese and Chinese Development: Reflections of World War II and the Cold War
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A 5 page comparison of the relative development of Japan and China. Links the apparent differences to circumstance and choice of post World War II allies. Contends that the U.S. was charged in many ways with restoring the economic stability of Japan since World War II but only began to emphasize trade relations with China in the last decade. Contends that Japan is much more economically stable because Japan concentrated on high-tech production geared toward export while China’s concentration, as a matter of her Cold War alliance to the U.S.S.R., was on the manufacture of war goods. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: PPjapDev.wps