The history of Chinatown must be considered harsh. However after decades of struggle, Chinatown rose inspiring a symbol of resilience. They thrived and prospered even after the toughest moments. Although the citizens believed that the immigrants didn’t belong in San Francisco, that was in the distant past. Chinatown now represents the symbol of the immigrants struggles, and their strength during adversity. For the San Francisco community, the April 29, 1906 quake must have had dramatic…
part of United States’ history. Between the years of 1870 and 1910, more than 20 million individuals migrated to the nation. As the years progressed, many of the American natives began to treat migrants unfairly. The group of migrants that I have chosen to focus on is the Chinese. Many Chinese migrants dwelled together in Los Angeles’s Chinatown. The immigration process for the Chinese was both a positive and negative experience. After coming to the United States, the Chinese were able to find…
and evaluate exceptionalism in Chinese and American cultures are different, so the symbolic meanings of this word vary a lot. In American mythologies, exceptionalism means unique since theism is accepted by most of them, and they consider their race is selected by the God. America is a glorious country; its culture is the collection of cultures from various religions, laws, and different countries or areas. On the contrary, there is no religion in China, so Chinese mythologies of exceptionalism…
Year 1928 and 1929 were important years for Los Angeles born Chinese actress Anna May Wong. News reports about her Hollywood movies were decreased, instead, according to an American gossip columnist visiting Europe during Wong’s tenure, she was “acclaimed by nobility” in several European newspapers (Petersen, 2014). Severely limited by the noxious roles she was offered in Hollywood, which misrepresented Asian women, Wong left United States to Europe (Vechten, 2003). She then spent two years in…
discuss about Chinese cultural diet which is the one of the most different cultural diet compare to other types of the cultural diet countries. The main meals in China contains carbs and starch. Moreover, the food also like rice, noodles, fish and mantou are the main part of the Chinese cultural diet which are helpful in dieting and also aware from the diseases and infection. However, I’m going to research about Chinese cultural diet which contains some steps to look about the history and…
how authentic American Chinese food is. In her book, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, she uses multiple themes to illustrate her findings and her research, such as diversity, food, race and history, but I think her book is mostly about the culture aspect of American-Chinese and Chinese people. I think the author’s purpose of writing was to inform people about the American-Chinese food and its origins. I also think she wanted to inform people about the differences between American-Chinese food and…
educate degree seeking students on many things that are essential to every career. Without being educated in the humanities, students are missing out on skills and information that are not taught in the STEM subjects such as foreign language, culture, history, literature and philosophy. The humanities subjects should be incorporated into the STEM curriculum so that students can focus on their career path as well as learn things that are significant to their career as well as their everyday life.…
According to Chinese mythology, Pan-gu was primordial being born from the cosmic egg and grew 10 feet every day for 18,000 years (Lindemans). After he was hatched, the upper part of the egg became Heaven and the lower part became Earth, which is also known as the Yang and the Yin (Lindemans). Pan-gu’s his eyes became the sun and the moon, his head the four holy mountains, his blood the oceans and rivers, his hair the trees and grass, his breath the wind, his perspiration the rain, his voice the…
Herb Tam is a Chinese-American curator who was born in Hongkong and raised in San Fracisco, Bay area. He is now working as the curator and director of exhibitions at the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) in Manhattan Chinatown, New York. He curated lots of exhibitions focusing on Chinese identity, Chinatown, Chinese-American culture and history as well as their current life in America. Tam, a Chinese-American, is recognized as the minority person. He suffered from some unfairness and…
Angel Island was home to many Chinese Immigrants during the 1910s. Through 1910-1940 the migrants would go there and wait until they were told other wise. During that time the Chinese migrants would work for their right to go to America. The immigrants would be go through hell because of the hardships during that time. This is the story of the Chinese immigrants going through Angel Island. Angel island was a Place built for the immigrants who wanted to go to America to live there. They would…