{"title":"Evolution of written language technology and not state building causes positive economic growth","authors":"Halvor Naess, MD, PhD","doi":"10.21694/2379-2914.20007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21694/2379-2914.20007","url":null,"abstract":"Creativity means the formation or discovery of something that is new, surprising and valuable (true, meaningful, beautiful, useful). Products of creativity include innovations, economic goods, and institutions underlying economic growth. It has previously been shown that creativity in all domains is based on selectionist mechanisms dependent on discrete representation such as the alphabet. Using historical data on energy capture as a proxy for economic growth, this paper shows that positive economic growth the last 11,000 years was significantly associated with the sophistication of information technology and literacy rate, but not state or society organization (despotic, non-despotic or anarchic).","PeriodicalId":191947,"journal":{"name":"American Research Journal of History and Culture","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129856025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"International Relation: The Trade War between the United States and China","authors":"Jin Lin","doi":"10.21694/2379-2914.19003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21694/2379-2914.19003","url":null,"abstract":"From both a military and economic perspective, the United States of America and the People’s Republic of China represent two of the most powerful countries in the world. Since their initial interaction, the relationship between these two nations has been at times amicable and at other times confrontational. After the election of Donald Trump in 2016, the tension between the two has grown, especially with respect to Chinese economic policies, which the U.S. has long claim were unfairly organized. The present trade war between the U.S. and China is one of the most important but also controversial issuestoday. While it is still boiling, the international society is hopefully seeking ways to eliminate the tension and to restore peaceful economic relations. This paper will assess the present trade war from two perspectives. First, it will situate the disagreement between China and the U.S. in historical context, looking back to moments in history that have led up to the present engagement. Secondly, the paper will address potential strategies that the two nations can pursue as the attempt the negotiate their differences. This paper argues that the primary cause of the trade war is the shift in China from a purely manufacturing economy to a technological one. This shift has created enormous anxiety in America, specifically around the question of national security. The present trade war represents the American attempt to regain control of this sector.","PeriodicalId":191947,"journal":{"name":"American Research Journal of History and Culture","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125959210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The US-China Trade War and what about it","authors":"Yawei Li","doi":"10.21694/2379-2914.19004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21694/2379-2914.19004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":191947,"journal":{"name":"American Research Journal of History and Culture","volume":"128 49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124037305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Tiananmen Square Incident of 1989","authors":"Z. Xie","doi":"10.21694/2379-2914.19002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21694/2379-2914.19002","url":null,"abstract":"On June 4th, 1989, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) forces brought an abrupt end to an unprecedented protest that lasted for two months at Tiananmen Square in China. The estimated death toll of the crackdown varies from several hundred to several thousand.1 While the Chinese government denied the existence of massive killing and claimed that the incident was simply a suppression of a counter-revolutionary rebellion, the foreign media characterized the event as an aggressive “massacre” that severely abused human rights. However, according to Wei Ling Chua, “Technically speaking, the nature of the protest was similar to the 2011 Wall Street protest in America. From a historical perspective, it is nothing more than another incident of mass discontent against an existing government at a time of economic hardship.”2 But why did the Tiananmen Square Incident become the one that still gets mentioned even thirty years after it happened? The Tiananmen Square Incident of 1989 remains as an unforgettable event that still attracts exceptional, continuous attention from many people today. This is because of the huge difference between what the protestors sought and the violent responses that the Chinese government had on handling the demonstrations, and the exaggerated reports from the Western media who assigned China a paralyzed image.","PeriodicalId":191947,"journal":{"name":"American Research Journal of History and Culture","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115030934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Road to Infamy: Interwar Pacific Under the Washington Naval Treaty","authors":"Shaoming Zhai","doi":"10.21694/2379-2914.19001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21694/2379-2914.19001","url":null,"abstract":"Towards the end of the 19th century, internal weakness of China and heightened worldwide imperialism led western powers in China to carve out respective spheres of influence in which they exerted de facto political power and gained exclusive privileges to commerce and resources, such as the rights to banking, mining, and railroad construction. German initiated the “scramble for China” when it coerced Chinese government to accept a list of demands, including major concessions in Shantung province.[1] Britain followed by establishing its own influences along the Yangtze River; Russia then gained control of Manchuria; Japan annexed Korea and Fukien; France acquired authority in Kwangtung, Guangxi, and Yunnan provinces.","PeriodicalId":191947,"journal":{"name":"American Research Journal of History and Culture","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127161176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}