Chinese American

Amy Tan is an American author of the novels who writes about Chinese American women and her experience with different cultures. Amy Tan was born on February 19, 1952, in Oakland, California. She grew up in California and in Switzerland. She studied English and linguistics at San Jose State University and the University of California. Amy Tan was a successful business writer, in 1987 when she took her Chinese immigrant mother to revisit China. Tan had difficulty accepting her Chinese heritage.…

Chinese - American Immigrants There are two topics I would like to talk about: education and immigration. Education played a crucial role in my life. Education is important to improve the level of national knowledge, update the living standards, get a decent work, gain a comfortable life, and help others. When I came to the United States, as a new immigrant I encountered many problems. For example, nobody could tell me how to do paper work, how to look for a good college and how to find a good…

Revealing the Chinese-American Hidden Struggle: A Comparative Analysis of The Shadow Hero and “No Name Woman” Since the birth of the United States of America, minority groups have had to fight for equity and equality. Chinese immigrants, as well as natural-born Chinese-Americans, have always been actively involved in this fight, yet there is a hidden struggle that these individuals face every day behind closed doors: cultural assimilation or integration. This is a major concern because…

Marilyn Chin’s Asian American Struggle Toward Self-Definition in “How I Got That Name” Understood by John Cery According to John Cery, Marilyn Chin’s poems are all interconnected in regards to their themes of “authenticity, heritage, and self-erasure,” (25). Cery claims that, “[A] finely honed voice, struggling toward self-definition,” has emerged from Chin’s poems (25). He proves this through his depictions of her “self-mockery and satire,” (36) as well as her “pattern of multiplicity,…

expectations pushed upon us. Both Gene Luen Yang’s graphic novel American Born Chinese and Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye deal with children and young adults wrestling with their relationships with their own ideals and the unreachable expectations but on them by their parents, and peers, but also the culture as a whole. The tumultuous journey of discovering one's own Identity is only…

the first-generation Chinese-American citizens because she was born in California at October 27, 1940 as the eldest child to a poor Chinese family who were wishing for better life, so they decides to immigrate and reside in the United States because of starvation in China, in 1924. Kingston father works as a teacher in China, while her mother works as a midwife there. Chen Lok Chua
 records that the first generation of Chinese immigrants have the same version of the American dream. They call…

the intentions of those who lead each nation. Cultural clusters are increasingly expanding as time progresses furthermore, the incorporation into technology in our lives across the globe unites cultures as well as breaks down barriers. The North American cultural cluster predominantly functions on a similar basis, as do the European Union. Development in societies often shapes the progress of matching with a larger cultural cluster however, religious ideologies as well as historic cultural…

Whether we respond in English or Chinese, the parents will never waver in their unspoken rule to always speak in Chinese. And they’re right to do so, as this is the quickest way to learn a language. Another common theme is to be sent to Chinese school. Language is one of the most important parts of keeping Chinese culture, and in Chinese school, we retain the speech while learning the history. We’re in a class full of other Chinese Americans, and we start to make connections with each…

In her book At America 's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943, Erika Lee convincingly argues that the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act is the start of the United States of America becoming a “gatekeeping” nation, no longer imagining itself as a nation open to all immigrants but instead a nation that carefully monitors who should be allowed to enter America and who should not. Yet Chinese Exclusion did more than simply display American desire to limit the immigration of a…

U.S are family. In China, elders are treated with complete respect and dignity while the young are cherished and nurtured. In the U.S In America, the goal of the family is to encourage independence, particularly that of the children. Unlike the Chinese, older…