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- 121: Women In China During The Long
- Women In China During The Long Eighteenth Century During the 18th Century women in China continued to be subordinated and subjected to men. Their status was maintained by laws, official policies, cultural traditions, as well as philosophical concepts. The Confucian ideology of Thrice Following identified to whom a women must ... women were consigned to the inner domestic realm and excluded from the outer realm of examinations, politics and public life. For the most part, this ideology determined the reality of a woman s live during China s long eighteenth century? This is especially true for upper class women. The philosophical idea of yin and yang is found throughout Chinese culture, literature, and social structure. The idea is that the world ...
- 122: China
- China For Chinese people what is the advantage of having many children? They provide many hands to work and ensure that the land will be worked when the parents are old. In the early seventies the population of China was a little under a billion. That is why in 1972 the Chinese government decided to implant the "wan xi shao" family planning program. This program allowed families to have no more than two children ... there will be a disadvantageous distribution of the Chinese population according to age. There will be a small group of workers that will have to support a large group of retired people. The only way China can maintain a constant population of 1.2 billion is if married couples average less than two children for much of the 1990's.
- 123: European Imperialism Of Japan
- ... peoples. By the 1800s, the Western powers had advantages in this process. They led the world in technological advances, giving them a dominance when conquering other countries. The European Imperialists made attempts to conquer China and Japan. In this process, they succeeded by influencing Japan greatly. However, they were not as successful with China. At the end of the eighteenth century, Chinas goods were much desired by Britain. However, the Chinese saw Europeans as savages and did not want to trade with them. During trade, there was an imbalance in Chinas favor, because the ...
- 124: Creative Writing: The Case of the Broken Hutch
- ... it was a straight shot into the house. The mother was there the whole time that we were moving everything into the house. We only had one piece left, it was the top of the china hutch, which was glassed filled and very fragile. Instead of put it on the dolly we decided it would be easier and better if we were to carry it in. As we were walking into the garage we hit the top piece on the edge of the garage door. We placed it on top of the base and examined were we had hit the china hutch top, we did not notice anything and the mother was there and she made no reference to anything wrong. We went on with the rest of our day, normal as usual. As we were ... s merchandise and that we were not careful and safe in the way that we delivered the merchandise. I guess the customer called up later in the day and said that we had broke her china hutch. My first response was, "We didn't break it, we hit the top but we check out everything, and it was all right. The mother was there also and she didn't say ...
- 125: The Good Earth: Summary
- The Good Earth: Summary Pearl Bucks novel, The Good Earth, takes place in the early twentieth century in China just before the Revolution. Buck lived in China months after she was born until she was 17 and returned to America for college. She soon returned to China to marry John Buck, an American agricultural specialist who taught American farming methods to the Chinese. In 1931 she published her second book, The Good Earth, which is a collection of three novels- The ...
- 126: The American Dream
- ... Pacific, and half the Samoan Islands; the other half belonging to Germany. Hawaii, another Pacific island, had always been important to the U.S. It served as an important base for trade with Japan and China. When the U.S annexed Hawaii in 1893 after a coup, to justify it, the U.S claimed it was an important strategic military foothold. They also claimed that the inferior Hawaiian natives were incapable ... proves the "American Dream"/"Ciity upon a hill" being about superiority. The invasion of South Korea by North Korea was the opportunity the U.S needed to invade and de-communize North Korea thus causing China to intervene therefore justifying the possible invasion of China. When World War II ended, the U.S and U.S.S.R agreed to occupy Korea. The U.S occupied south of the 38th parallel, and the U.S.S.R North. Both ...
- 127: Educational System
- ... with alternative teaching strategies, and promotes interaction among their peers. In 1998, a television program called 60 Minutes , aired a special investigation of the United States educational system when compared to the educational system of China and Germany. The results of this investigation surprised many citizens of the U.S., including myself. According to 60 minutes, the United States system of education is failing tremendously when compared to other to Germany and China. They found a direct connection between the failure of U.S. students and the teaching methods the U.S. imposes on them. Also, the success of the student s of China and Germany shared a similar philosophy. China and Germany greatly promotes interaction between the students at a very young age. In America, the students are more interested in individual success. American students learn to ...
- 128: Joy Luck Club
- ... into an individual and adult. Parents play the largest role in evolving a person. Amy Tan, author of the Joy Luck Club, uses this theme in her book. Four mothers have migrated to America from China because of their own struggles. They all want their daughters to grow up successful and without any of the hardships they went through. One mother, Suyuan, imparts her knowledge on her daughter through stories. The ... tell her stories in her place, forming another parallelism between mother and daughter. Because Suyuan is dead, Jing Mei must act in place of her mother when she goes to meet her Chinese sisters in China. Throughout the book Jing Mei takes the place of Suyuan, showing she and her mother have a unique link even with the barrier of the living world. Jing Mei finally begins to realize her identity and past when she travels in place of her mother to China to meet her two twin sisters. Suyuan had to make the hard decision to leave her twin babies on the side of the road in hopes some kind stranger would take them in, that ...
- 129: The Joy Luck Club
- ... s extremes. Jing-Mei completes the fourth corner of the Club after her mother's death, only to find that the Aunts wish her to correct a greater imbalance: to meet her two sisters in China, and fulfill her filial obligation to tell her sisters about their mother. The entire novel pivots around the Aunt's tension ("Tell them!") about the transference of the mother-tradition (Tan, 31). The second tale ... circumvents it with her integrity intact. She laments that in America promises are virtually meaningless, or at least work by a different system than she is used to (Tan 42). In her backwater province of China, duty meant "stupid, old-fashioned customs" such as matchmaking of wives who would "raise proper sons, care for the old people, and sweep the family burial grounds" (Tan, 45). This is the sum and total ... and honor her. In this eerie conclusion, Jing-Mei embodies the ghost of her mother by becoming her mother's rhythms, knowing her through them (Tan, 236). IV. Buddhism was a comparatively late addition to China's religious traditions, and in a similar way makes a late appearance in the last section of the novel, "Queen Mother of the Western Skies." For Tan, Buddhism is important in relation to the ...
- 130: The Joy Luck Club 2
- ... s extremes. Jing-Mei completes the fourth corner of the Club after her mother's death, only to find that the Aunts wish her to correct a greater imbalance: to meet her two sisters in China, and fulfill her filial obligation to tell her sisters about their mother. The entire novel pivots around the Aunt's tension ("Tell them!") about the transference of the mother-tradition (Tan, 31). The second tale ... circumvents it with her integrity intact. She laments that in America promises are virtually meaningless, or at least work by a different system than she is used to (Tan 42). In her backwater province of China, duty meant "stupid, old-fashioned customs" such as matchmaking of wives who would "raise proper sons, care for the old people, and sweep the family burial grounds" (Tan, 45). This is the sum and total ... and honor her. In this eerie conclusion, Jing-Mei embodies the ghost of her mother by becoming her mother's rhythms, knowing her through them (Tan, 236). IV. Buddhism was a comparatively late addition to China's religious traditions, and in a similar way makes a late appearance in the last section of the novel, "Queen Mother of the Western Skies." For Tan, Buddhism is important in relation to the ...
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