Chinese American

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…

In Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, the author chooses to primarily focus her novel on the miscommunications between traditional Chinese mothers and their American-born daughters via the use vignettes from almost every character. Throughout the novel, Tan writes about several characters that have made a hero’s journey according to Joseph Campbell. Campbell states that a hero’s journey includes: a departure, how a hero sets off onto their journey, a fulfillment, their goal that is being accomplished,…

The community that I choose to research is the community of northeast China (or Dongbei in Chinese). People in this community speak Northeastern Mandarin, which is a dialect that is related to but obviously different from standard Mandarin. The research article examines language attitudes towards Northeastern Mandarin and Standard Mandarin. The article also discusses the implications of such attitudes and possible reasons behind language attitudes. In the introduction part, the author reviewed…

there was a usage of postal pigeons in the Olympic Games. History also documents that in 200 B.C. until 100 B.C. messengers on horse or on foot were a common phenomenon in Egypt and China, where there were even stations for supplying them. The Chinese 2000 years before are estimated to have had a system of sending messages through pipes at the Great Wall or two paper cones that were connected with rope. In 37 B.C. we have the first documented usage of mirrors from the Roman Emperor Tiberius of…

A. Why does Jing-Mei feel different when her train leaves Hong Kong and enters China? Jing-Mei feels like she is becoming Chinese. What does Jing-Mei’s name mean and what does her name make the essence of? The beginning part of her name means pure essence and the other part means younger sister. Her name makes the essence of her two sisters. Who found the abandoned babies? They were found by a peasant couple who raised them. How does this novel relate to Tan’s life? Tan visited her half sisters…

distinctive way of pronouncing a language, especially one associated with a particular country, area or social class.(“Accent”, n.d.) A common example is the differences in the English language in different countries. Australian English different from American and British English in that it has a bias towards invention, humour, profanity and a classless society. Australian English today, particularly the humorous slang, can be traced back to its convict foundations (Convict Creations, n.d.).…

Yiyun Li, a Chinese American writer, is known for her perception of peoples’ feelings, thoughts, behavioral traits, and characteristics. She expresses her perception through her novels and short stories (“Yiyun Li”). One of her short stories, “Love in the Marketplace,” illustrates the despondent life of a Chinese, female school teacher, Sansan. The jilt to America by her husband, Tu, and her best friend, Min, led to her breakdown ten years later. Tu and Min get a divorce, and Sansan’s mother…

example, Europe and China both had a “Golden Age”, but in the modern world, Europe becomes the “sole power”, and China lives in just a corner of the world. Same mankind, but why were the Europeans able to connect territories of the world, and why did Chinese choose to isolate itself? If China invented all of the fundamental technologies,…

Yuchin is the unrealistic character of The Bane of the Internet, a short story written by Ha Jin. This story has an almost humorous tone as two sisters, one who lives in China and the other in New York, communicate with each other. This character and her older sister wrote and sent each other letters via the postal service as their main means of communication until they discovered email. The name of the older sister is unknown but this story is told through her point of view. The narrator is…

countries like Russia, Japan, Australia, China, Mexico and many others “found themselves in the island's detention barracks upon arrival”. Among these was a young, poor Chinese man traveling under a false name who wanted a better life. 31-year-old Wong Chung Hong arrived in San Francisco on the steamship China on January 22, 1910. “A Chinese merchant with partnerships in a general merchandise store and a dried fruit business in and around Canton, Wong hoped to expand his business in the United…