scholarly journals The Chronology of Pleistocene Modern Humans in China, Korea, and Japan

Radiocarbon ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 428-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
S G Keates
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Similar Pattern ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Modern Humans ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Early Modern Humans

The chronological status of Pleistocene fossils of early modern humans in the People's Republic of China is based almost exclusively on indirect dating of the stratigraphic context and faunal and radiocarbon dating of associated or supposedly associated archaeological specimens. A similar pattern is observed in Korea and Japan. This paper examines the 14C and other dating techniques of early modern humans in East Asia to gain a more complete and up-to-date understanding of their chronology.

Film Comedy in East Asia

2020 ◽  
pp. 299-332
Author(s):  
William V. Costanzo
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
East Asia ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Ang Lee ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
Confucian Thought ◽  
Film Comedy

Informed by centuries of Daoist, Buddhist, Shinto, and Confucian thought as well as the particularities of Eastern languages and customs, film comedy in China, Korea, and Japan offers fascinating new viewpoints for Westerners. In contrast to the Greek distinction between comedy and tragedy, laughter in East Asia tends to be allied with equilibrium, an integral part of a balanced state and state of mind. This chapter highlights major figures and trends associated with humor in Japan (Yasujiro Ozu, Juzo Itami, Toshiro Mifune), Korea (Jee-won Kim, Sang-jin Kim), Hong Kong (Jackie Chan, Stephen Chow), Taiwan (Chun Han Wang, Ang Lee), and the People’s Republic of China (Zhang Yimou, Xiaogang Feng).

scholarly journals The United States-China Mutually Assured Distrust

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Jalel Ben Haj Rehaiem
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
East Asia ◽  
The United States ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
Military Force ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
President Obama ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Rising Power

The 21st century geopolitical developments in East Asia have placed the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in aprime position to play a major role in the complexities of Asia-Pacific politics. China is a rising power, but whetherit is going to be a status quo power or a challenging one remains to be seen. With the world’s largest population, theworld second economy and a modernizing military force, China theoretically has room to have a say in the revisionof the security order in East Asia, which has been dominated so far by an already controversial Cold War alliancebetween the United States and Japan and a new American pivot to Asia since former President Obama announced hisnew Asia strategy in Canberra in November 2011.As China’s prowess grows, so do percolating challenges to U.S. prominence in the region. The gap between whatChina intends to do with accumulating power and how it is perceived in Asia and the West alike has created whatthis article calls China’s trust dilemma with the United States.The distrust between Beijing and Washington has ostensibly plagued their relationship and may continue to dominatetheir interaction for the unforeseeable future; an interaction between an already established world hegemon and arising regional player that is allegedly aspiring to challenge and even replace its rival, at least in Asia for the timebeing.As this article seeks to study the implications of the rise of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as a world powerand the trust dilemma China’s rising might is incurring, this work,in its attempt to fathom Beijing’s strategic intents,adopts the security dilemma framework whichrefers to a situation wherein two states may be drawn into conflict,possibly even war, over security concerns, even though none of them actually seeks confrontation.

Taxonomy of the genus Lepidocyrtus s.l. (Collembola: Entomobryidae) in East and Southeast Asia and Malaysia, with description of a new species from the People's Republic of China

2003 ◽  
Vol 135 (6) ◽  
pp. 823-837 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fang Wang ◽  
Jian-Xiu Chen ◽  
Kenneth Christiansen
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
East Asia ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
The North ◽  
East And Southeast Asia ◽  
Northeast Asian ◽  
A New Species

AbstractWe examined and keyed out the subgenera of the genus Lepidocyrtus mostly created by Yoshii. Although many of these subgenera of the genus Lepidocyrtus are difficult to apply in Europe, America, and Africa, they are easily applicable in East and Southeast Asia. The species of Southeast Asia are placed in these subgenera and a key to the subgenera is provided. A new species, Lepidocyrtus (Lanocyrtus) felpei from Xinjiang, People's Republic of China, is described and the species Lepidocyrtus (Lanocyrtus) fimetarius Gisin is redescribed. Although the Lepidocyrtus fauna of the whole of East Asia differs from the Holarctic fauna, the Central and Northeast Asian fauna are similar in subgeneric make up to the North American fauna, slightly less similar to the European fauna, and totally unlike the Southeast Asian fauna.

scholarly journals Ketidakaktifan yang Disengaja? Memahami Sikap Tiongkok dalam Negosiasi Isu Denuklirisasi Korea Utara

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 197
Author(s):  
Mochammad A. R. Syarafi ◽  
Pasek A. Diwangkara ◽  
Brian Ainurrohman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
East Asia ◽  
North Korea ◽  
The United States ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
The North ◽  
Data Collecting ◽  
Nuclear Development

The bilateral meeting between the United States and North Korea, whichwas held in Hanoi in February 2019, has not resulted in any agreementbetween the two parties. Furthermore, North Korea’s construction activityof a nuclear development facility in Tongchan-ri has threatened the possibilityof any agreement between both states and has shown North Korea’spoor commitment to denuclearization. In order to understand the attitudeshown by North Korea, it is important to consider the presence of anotherdominant actor in East Asia, the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Thisresearch aims to study the significance of the North Korean denuclearizationissue for the PRC, as well as the PRC’s position in the issue. This researchutilizes a document-based data-collecting method, which includesofficial documents released by the PRC as well as literatures that havecarried out earlier studies on the topic. This research has shown that thePRC possesses significant interests and power in the denuclearization ofNorth Korea, which require the country to maintain an unclear stance inthe denuclearization process of North Korea.

scholarly journals Diet of the earliest modern humans in East Asia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Wu ◽  
Dawei Tao ◽  
Xiujie Wu ◽  
Wu Liu
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Direct Evidence ◽  
Food Sources ◽  
Dental Calculus ◽  
Modern Humans ◽  
Upper Pleistocene ◽  
Starch Grains ◽  
Early Modern Humans ◽  
Early Upper

Abstract Reconstructing diet can offer an improved understanding of the origin and evolution of modern humans. However, the diet of early modern humans in East Asia is poorly understood. Starch analysis of dental calculus is harmless to precious fossil hominins and provides the most direct evidence of plant food sources in early modern human dietary records. In this paper, we examined starch grains in dental calculus from Fuyan Cave hominins in Daoxian (South China), which were the earliest modern humans in East Asia. Our results reveal the earliest direct evidence of a hominin diet made of acorns, roots, tubers, grass seeds, and other yet-unidentified plants in marine isotope stage 5 between 120–80 ka. Our study also provides the earliest evidence that acorns may have played an important role in subsistence strategies. There may have been a long-lasting tradition of using these plants during the Late Pleistocene in China. Plant foods would have been a plentiful source of carbohydrates that greatly increased energy availability to human tissues with high glucose demands, such as the brain, red blood cells, and developing fetuses. Furthermore, a variety of starch grains retrieved from dental calculus revealed that Fuyan cave hominins were able to consume a diet that fulfilled their physiological requirements in the late Middle and early Upper Pleistocene. Our study both provides the earliest direct dietary evidence from modern humans in China and helps elucidate the evolutionary advantages of early modern humans in the late Middle and early Upper Pleistocene.

Overseas Chinese Affairs and the Cultural Revolution

1969 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 103-126 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Overseas Chinese ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

The Cultural Revolution in the field of Overseas Chinese affairs has induced a state of paralysis in the bureaucracy, has accelerated the tendency to extinction of domestic Overseas Chinese status, and reduced policy towards the Chinese abroad to long periods of silence, silence punctuated until late 1968 by protests against incidents involving the Chinese in South-east Asia. The Cultural Revolution also has provided an insight into the Overseas Chinese policies of the People's Republic of China since 1949. Part I of this paper deals with the latter of these two aspects, while Part II is concerned with the impact of the Cultural Revolution on Overseas Chinese policies and institutions.

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