Essays Tagged: "Chinese culture"

Story-Telling using 'The Woman Warrior' by Maxine Hong Kingston

se with enough attentiveness and intelligence to learn from the mistakes of their predecessors. The Chinese culture, like many others world wide, base their beliefs largely on stories passed down from ... earlier generation and avoid possible similar situations.The Woman Warrior is a book about lives of Chinese American women, their struggles, hardships, hopes and joy. Hong's story, however focuses on ...

(2 pages) 137 0 4.7 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Chinese Canadians On Politics

The Hong Kong Chinese community is an affluent, educated, and swelling population in the Greater Toronto Area. The ... nt whatsoever.' 'In Hong Kong, there's never been any democratic procedure until a few years ago.' 'Chinese culture through thousands of years has never had an elected-representative type of Western d ... h Wong, whose community activism has earned him the Order of Canada, thinks that despite changes in Chinese attitudes, fear is still an obstacle towards political evolution. People are not afraid to d ...

(3 pages) 48 0 5.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Specific Policies

Mark Salzmann 's book "Iron and Silk" About losing face

my job, too worried of loosing creditability. In Mark Salzmann's book "Iron and Silk", he shows the Chinese culture and how important it is to keep face in front of a foreigner.Early in the book, Mark ... o know why public sighs of affection were so rare in China. Mark said the only time he had seen two Chinese people kissing was when a mother kissed her infant child. Children any older than five shoul ...

(4 pages) 51 0 4.5 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Chinese myths

The Chinese cultureThis report is about the myths and beliefs of the Chinese culture. It's about the sto ... that becoming overconfident will eventually hurt you and that no one could beat their destiny. The Chinese in this story believed in the gods, they were very religious people and this myth tells that ... ve as much as a strong believe in ghosts and goblins as our ancestors did.BibliographyBirch, Cyril. Chinese Myths And Fantasies. Great Britain: London, 1992.Fei, Charles. Strange Creatures. New York, ...

(6 pages) 54 0 3.7 Dec/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Mythology

Chinese myths

The Chinese cultureThis report is about the myths and beliefs of the Chinese culture. It's about the sto ... that becoming overconfident will eventually hurt you and that no one could beat their destiny. The Chinese in this story believed in the gods, they were very religious people and this myth tells that ... ve as much as a strong believe in ghosts and goblins as our ancestors did.BibliographyBirch, Cyril. Chinese Myths And Fantasies. Great Britain: London, 1992.Fei, Charles. Strange Creatures. New York, ...

(6 pages) 45 0 3.5 Dec/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Mythology

"The Good Earth" essay. A Chinese book of a farmer's hard life working on the land.

Chapters 1-13 EssayThe Good Earth is a Chinese book of a farmer's hard life working on the land. Ittells of the farmer's good times and bad ... iet and she does not talkunless it is neccessary.Chapter 2: Something I found very different in the Chinese culture is that thespouse you marry is not yet wholly yours until you have had sex. Wang Lun ...

(4 pages) 59 0 3.5 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

"A Pair of Ticket"

mother's wish of seeing the twin daughters once again. At the beginning of thestory, she denies her Chinese culture, but through the trip to China, she matures and begins to realizeher true self.When ... bones. This pain comes form her internal conflict between two different culture, herdenial of being Chinese, and the missed opportunity for her to truly know her mother. Accordingto Stanley L. Fong, ' ...

(6 pages) 203 0 3.6 Mar/1995

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Mao Zedong and him as a leader

hroughout thousands of years. In retrospect, revolution and rotation has always been the essence of Chinese culture, from the early Hsia dynasty to the present Communist reign. Dynasties went through ... own evils. Out of the vacuum created by the fall of the republic under Chiang Kai-shek, emerged the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), with a young visionary at its head: Mao Zedong. Even before the decla ...

(18 pages) 329 1 3.6 Mar/1997

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

North Korea, a land and its people

of the country.Early GovernmentBefore 313 A.D., the area which is now North Korea was inhabited by Chinese tribes. One city in the area, Lolang, was a great center of Chinese culture including commer ... the area, Lolang, was a great center of Chinese culture including commerce, industry, and art. The Chinese inhabitants of the area patterned much of their civilization and government after the tradit ...

(18 pages) 233 1 4.6 Jan/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Wedding and Marriage Customs of the Chinese Culture

Wedding and Marriage Customs of the Chinese CultureNote: Add in some quotesBibliography includedIt would be a horrifying nightmare for a ... ng ceremonies are things used to justify his actions with.The role of the father in the traditional Chinese family is very important. He is the "unquestionable power" who makes all the "right" decisio ... of a religious figure or a wise man who provides them with the best fung shui, which is essentially Chinese superstition. An example of Fung Shui includes selecting a 'good day' according the bride, g ...

(3 pages) 98 0 5.0 Nov/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Woman Warrior by Maxine Hongs Kingston.

w country. The setting of Women Warrior tells a life of Maxine Hong Kingston as a second-generation Chinese- American girl. She realizes that she must combine Chinese langue, culture, and family tradi ... y tradition with American standards. Kingston has many problems struggling with her life to balance Chinese life at home while going to American school. She must deal with being a quiet woman trying t ...

(4 pages) 128 0 3.7 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

"The Kitchen God's Wife": Chinese Culture, Relationships, Adversity

"The Kitchen God's Wife":Chinese Culture, Relationships, AdversityAmy Tan's novel "The Kitchen God's Wife" is the story of a ... s with many of the women writers' issues. Tan addresses the issues of the inequality given women in Chinese culture, and also deals with issues such as Chinese culture's expectations of women, abortio ... f adversity. Tan even sets the feminist mood with the title of the book, which refers to a woman in Chinese Mythology who cared for a selfish man who became a minor god. She pulls from her own life ex ...

(11 pages) 128 0 4.7 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Raise the Red Lantern Reviews the role of the male characters in the chinese film raise the red lanter

The film Raise the Red Lantern was an interesting look at Chinese culture in the 1920s. I thought particularly interesting the fact that the master and the ot ...

(4 pages) 84 1 3.7 Dec/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

The Beauty Industry in China

earance of their bodies. The changing results make for interesting reading. The dramatic changes in Chinese culture have significantly altered peoples' perceptions of themselves.Images of Beauty are e ... despite this preoccupation with beauty and despite the well publicized health risks over a third of Chinese are maybe not obese. But yet, while one third are maybe obese, for others anorexia nervosa i ...

(3 pages) 63 1 0.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Chinese Medicinal Meals (Yao Shan) in the West.

cs therapies have been reported around the world by anthropologists and doctors. With more and more Chinese restaurants appear in west countries, Chinese herbal food, using medicinal diet-cuisine with ... d would provide an alternative and effective therapy for everyone. However, it seems to me that the Chinese medicinal food might not be fit to be a universally effective therapy food due to the fact t ...

(13 pages) 99 0 3.5 May/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology

This essay is about the history of concubines in China.

Though we may see it as wrong, concubines have been apart of the Chinese culture for centuries. Many people do not understand what the life of a concubine was like, ... growing issue.A concubine was a woman that had been shifted from her own family, to another family. Chinese women were dishonored as men were acclaimed. All that a woman could aspire to was wifeliness ... could aspire to was wifeliness, motherliness, and devotion and veneration to parents and family. In Chinese culture, it was the height of embarrassment to remain single; if it took being a concubine t ...

(2 pages) 61 0 4.5 Jun/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

Beijing Opera (or Peking Opera) .

eking Opera) has existed for over 200 years. It is widely regarded as the highest expression of the Chinese culture. It is known as one of the three main theatrical systems in the world. Artistically, ... is perhaps the most refined form of opera in the world. It has deeply influenced the hearts of the Chinese people. Although it is called Beijing Opera, its origins are not in Beijing but in the Chine ...

(2 pages) 78 2 3.3 Jun/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts

Acupuncture: Finding a Home in America.

a Home in America"Acupuncture has stood the test of time through twenty-five hundred years, twelve Chinese dynasties, and hundreds of millions of patients," states the founder of the first American s ... cture" 54). Scientific research is now proving that acupuncture, for years a myth explained only by Chinese culture, is an effective medical practice in the United States. This idea, along with newly ...

(11 pages) 90 0 5.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

An analysis of the classic "Rickshaw" by Chinese literary great Lao She.

f everything that a woman should be in the traditional society of that period. In the time-honoured Chinese culture, there has long been a strong prejudice against women of power. Every unfavourable i ... ce of escaping the rickshaw-puller's misfortunes when he rejects Hu Niu.In the broader sense of the Chinese history, women who have held power have often been blamed as the cause for ruin of an entire ...

(20 pages) 45 0 5.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Authors

Essay on Maxine Hong Kingston's "No Name Woman" and how she utilizes this story to help her integrate her two cultural identities into her own.

Name Woman", Maxine Hong Kingston recalls the events of her aunt's life in the elusive world of her Chinese roots. The story of her aunt is told by her mother and Kingston recreates the events into an ... eates the events into an exploratory story to help herself figure out what part of her existence is Chinese and help her better understand the Chinese culture. By retelling her aunt's story, Kingston ...

(7 pages) 141 0 3.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American