Chinese American history

personal voice is important to individual identity and helps against social injustices. The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston is a memoir that invites readers into the life of one Asian American writer. Kingston narrates the story of several women in her family, and how they are oppressed and silenced by Chinese culture. During the narration, Kingston provides her own voice for those women in the culture that did not have the opportunity to speak out for themselves. Meanwhile, in Pride and…

Finding Kukan proved to be an exciting, and intriguing story of Li Ling-Ai. The filmmaker, Robin Lung produced an educational, and engaging documentary. The main goals of Robin Lung was to ensure that Li Ling-Ai’s story would not be lost in history, as well as to educate viewers of the war in China. Robin Lung’s passion, and dedication to these goals is glaringly obvious while viewing Finding Kukan. As a result, the documentary has won numerous awards across the United States. Li Ling-Ali lived…

shows, it captured high audience ratings at high pace in China. Reality show originated from western countries, and then gradually spread to the world, until now has formed a new wave in the world. With the growing number of viewing audiences, the Chinese reality shows are facing the problem of how to find a balance between entertainment and social responsibility, ethics and audience ratings while paying attention to the impacts of reality shows on society. Of course, the audiences themselves…

memory. Her father 's sister committed suicide after all of the villagers in her rural Chinese village destroyed their home, taking the baby along with her. Then her name is forgotten, her line is severed, and she is denied the sacred burial rites of the Chinese. Kingston reflects on this harsh treatment and wonders at how her aunt was impregnated. Was it rape? Or love? Kingston considers the effect Chinese society had on her aunt 's situation and tries to imagine what was going through her…

The reason I chose Horace Gray as my Supreme Court Justice is that he was the deciding justice on some landmark decisions in United States’ history. For instance there is United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898) as well as Ball v. United States (1896). Another reason I chose Gray as my Justice was due to the fact that he appeared to be really intelligent. He accomplished many things at a much younger age than normal people would. For instance he enrolled into Harvard at just the age of thirteen. He…

As a German American citizen with Hispanic heritage I have overcome many language and cultural barriers that have stood in my path. My move from Germany to the United States of America was difficult and taught me how to quickly assimilate languages. As a child I only understood German and learned Spanish and English at the same time. This is where I developed my love for languages and different cultures. I am fascinated with learning and experiencing different cultures, which is why I really…

The Chinese ice cream market. China is a country that is changing rapidly, is emerging and taking a place in the world as a consumer society, each day there are new products, brands and companies appearing in the life of people in China (Farrell, Gersch and Stephenson). In this occasion the topic is ice cream, some years ago it was considered as a very luxurious snack but nowadays with the increasing disposable income and big economic growth of the population the consumption of ice cream has…

of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” Garvey’s statement is rather applicable in Amy Tan’s A Pair of Tickets especially to the story’s narrator and main character, Jing-mei. As Jing-mei, along with her seventy-two-year-old father, is on her way to Guangzhou, China, she realizes a dilemma that deals with her racial identity. Born of Chinese descent but immersed in the Western culture, Jing-mei never felt as though she possessed any internal Chinese…

It is said that history repeats itself. To a variety of cultures sport has held similar meanings, during different historical periods. Today, sport is often referred to as just a game, but not many of us have dealt with obstacles of being an immigrant in America. Yep (2009) described how a playground in Chinatown San Francisco affected the Chinese immigrant community. The playground provided recognition, a sense of community and a sense of cultural pride to the Chinese immigrants. With the…

expressible sense of self. This singularity is influenced by a number of factors, particularly culture. In Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-born daughters struggle to discover this voice amidst the societal norms imposed upon them. M. Marie Booth Foster proposes, “These feelings often are a result of male domination” (1). Chinese society is androcentric, ruled by males and masculine values. Women are expected to be taciturn and passive, yielding to the…