Essays Tagged: "chinese tradition"
The Joy Luck Club
Chinese values, beliefs, and traditions have been slowly disregarded by many of the descendants of C ... ed in mother-daughter relationships. Lindo Jong tries to teach Waverly, her daughter, about all the Chinese values, beliefs, and traditions. Waverly is affected greatly by her mother's Chinese culture ... mother's Chinese culture and finally, at the end of the book, finally realizes what it means to be Chinese. Once she realizes what it means to be Chinese, she is able to find her own self-identity.Li ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism
In this paper I would like to compare and contrast 3 doctrines in the Chinese tradition. In Chinese history, Taoism and Buddhism are two great philosophical and religious ... a from India around the second century of the Common Era. We can say that together they have shaped Chinese life and thought for nearly twenty-five hundred years.Eastern society is an enigma to many W ... Taoist principles are the basis of eastern thinking. Blending with Buddhism these doctrines shaped Chinese culture and traditions along Chinese social and political life. It may not be so evident tod ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Hinduism
The Women's World
"Chinese-Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate wh ... d, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who made your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what are the movies?" (Kingston, 5) Nearly all of the first g ... f identity crisis than men due to the complexity of the subservient role they played in traditional Chinese culture. In Maxine Hong Kingston's autobiography -- "The woman Warrior: Memories of a Girlho ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
Use of Mirror and Reflection Imagery in "Mulan"
tory is about the adventures of a young woman in ancient China, named Mulan, inspired by a familiar Chinese folk tale.Mulan is a lovable, spirited girl who doesn't fit in with Chinese tradition becaus ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Purification Of The Heart
wn to peoples who before us. Although we can see within the ancient traditions, for instance in the Chinese tradition, in Chinese medicine, the heart houses what is known as shen which is the spirit a ... ing, thought, love, intending to listen and virtue all contain the ideogram from heart. The ancient Chinese new that, also in almost every culture in the world people use metaphors that deal with the ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Use the text extract from "The Bonesetter's Daughter" by Amy Tan to talk about your own sense of cross cultural identity.
The extract "The Bonesetter's daughter", written by Tan explores how an American born Chinese girl deals with her cross cultural identity.In the text, Ruth is a girl who is totally influ ... enced by the western culture, but she had a very traditional mother who keeps trying to instill the Chinese tradition in her. Ruth grows up in America, she too does not experience or feel many of the ... ny of the things that her mother have experienced, and she does not feel the need to understand the Chinese culture, maybe even so because she feel that she belongs to the western culture, not the Chi ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
"The Jade Peony" by Wayson Choy: With traditions and beliefs, come old world values
d world values. Poh-Poh represents the continuation of old world values because she often tells old Chinese stories to her grandchildren, like Sek-Lung, and she encourages him to speak in his mother's ... language. Lastly, Sek-Lung represents the continuation of old world values because he is taught the Chinese tradition, and he is encouraged by Poh-Poh that living in old china is better than living in ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Chinese Invincible Women Fight With The Tragic Fate In The Past
In the Chinese culture, the gender role stereotype is something that women today need to be aware of. The i ... amilies have been living in the United States. The contents of their two books are the situation of Chinese American life experiences, family and difficulties within the generational problems that occ ... e in America. They talk about the past, the legends passed down from generations and the beliefs of Chinese culture. The two stories expose the fate of women suffering from patriarchy and sexism in Ch ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Issues with Buddhism and Christianity in China
been an insult to the native deities and had thus been the cause of plagues and natural disasters. Chinese society at the time of introduction regarded both Christianity and Buddhism as a foreign rel ... 's personal attainment of nirvana benefited the empire. Much of Buddhism seemed alien and amoral to Chinese sensibilities when it was first introduced. Early Christianity was under attack because of i ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith