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This weeks reading covered the third and fourth section of Joy Luck Club: American Translation and Queen Mother of the Western Skies. These sections contain stories from both the daughters and mothers from the Joy Luck Club, with Jing-Mei’s story continued across them both. In American Translation, the daughters of the Joy Luck Club discuss the problems they have encountered as adults- mainly marital and career troubles. In Queen Mother of the Western Skies the mothers and Jing-Mei rediscover…

The wolf on the hill is never as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill. This powerful quote by Arnold Schwarzenegger goes hand to hand with Chen Guangcheng author of The Barefoot Lawyer. Chen Guangcheng a man who is blind, self-taught, and determined to fight for justice; who goes against all the odds to make sure justice was served to the people who had injustice from the government of China. In this analytical essay, I will use The Barefoot Lawyer to analyze three topics how the barefoot…

That was 2003. I went to the city of Shenyang located in the northeaster district of China. There were a lot of South Koreans as well as North Korean defectors hiding out. At first, I rent a room at 300 won per a month. I was firmly determined not to be trafficked by strangers and did everything, such as a mother’s help, a restaurant’s server, to earn money. Yet, it was very hard to get a well-paid job since I could not speak Chinese. Although I said I was not a North Korean, people could know…

The Joy Luck Club is a book that presents a conflict between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-born daughters who have different language and culture. Mothers want to share their past with her daughters and daughters try to understand their mothers’ pasts with understanding the difference. I chose to write a letter because it is an appropriate text type that can express one’s opinion to give the advice of problem that daughters have and effectively convey one’s thought with the…

Two equal and extremely important parts of China that were affected by the west were economics of China and the social situations. The economic influences of the west were made by a market of trading/lack of trading that affected China . Just like the economics of China, the Social and society of China had changed; some were good changes while other changes were not. Both of these “problems” did influence china in how they, the people of China, acted and how they dealt with foreigners and…

Australia • China-born people in Australia predominately speak Mandarin, Cantonese and Chinese at home (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2011). • The majority of China-born people speak English well or very well (67.1%), whilst approximately 32% do not speak English well or at all (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2011). China • Mandarin is the official language of the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan. • Chinese people from Hong Kong and the Guangdong province of the People’s Republic of…

Since the mid-1800s in the United States, through the hardships of discrimination and demeaning labor, Chinese immigrants have never fully acclimated or been accepted completely into American culture and society. However, over the years Chinese Americans have overcome their initial hardships when first immigrating and have been successful in making a home for themselves here in the United States. Some such examples of this can be seen in New York Chinatowns and in San Francisco suburbs, and…

Dear Fùmǔ (Parents), I am very sorry it has taken me so many years to write back to you after coming to Tan Heung Shan (Hawaii). I miss you both very much, it has been a great burden not to see or hear from my dear family in Kwangtung for so long. In some ways Tan Heung Shan reminds me of our homeland along the Pearl River Delta, the climate and geography are not so different. Many other Chinese have come here from Kwangtung, so it is not as strange to live here as you might think. Having now…

Ever since she was young Yunoha had always been an incredibly unsocial child. This was due to her extreme shyness, and the ideals that she would never fit in with the other children. Even when others in her class would try and reach out for her (in call of trying to befriend said girl or even striking up polite conversation) their advances would always be inevitably rejected. This unfortunately led for each and every one of her classmates to slowly stop trying. To this day, Yunoha regrets not…

Trying to Find Chinatown is a play about two men arguing over identity. The play was written by David Henry Hwang in 1996. Trying to Find Chinatown features numerous themes including: the value of culture, the search for belonging and acceptance, and the negative outcome of having preconceived notions. However, the one theme that stands above the rest is the complicated matter of identity. To first understand the term identity, a few questions must be asked. What is identity? Some argue that…