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the mom invited over a family for a Christmas Eve dinner. The main character was not happy about them coming over because she wants to be like all of her friends and doesn’t want to be different. “You want to be the same as American girls on the outside. But inside you must always be Chinese” (Tan). Just because the Chinese Christmas Eve is different from the American Christmas Eve doesn’t mean its not celebrated wrongly. The Chinese New Year and the American New Year are perfect examples of the…

In Gish Jen’s “Who's Irish” short story the author tells the conflict of a Chinese grandmother and her struggle to accept other cultures different from her own. In this short story, the character that stood out the most is the grandmother. Her character was built based on how she was raised back in China. The short story “Who’s Irish” reminds me of my father who’s just like the grandmother, he wants me to be raised in African culture. In his mind I should know how to cook African food in order…

play strip poker with a pair of Chinese converts in order to gain their clothing as a disguise. It ends…

Anna May Wong, considered to be the first Chinese-American movie star, was very influential in the rise of Asian-American prominence in film. She was born as her chinese name Wong Liu Tsong, meaning ‘frosted yellow willow’, and told those around her, “I represent one considerable spot of yellow that’s come to stay in the silver of the screen” (Corliss 2, “Anna May Wong: In Her Own Words”). Through her work, Wong has helped to normalize the image of Asian Americans on screen, and proved the…

novel is about performing the experience of a community of people, which is best achieved through Amy Tan’s remarkable writing style. Since the book is really a series of stories, I realize that the exposition is not consolidated by time, place, or character. Instead, most of the book fill…

When discussing the topic of politeness in Chinese culture it is important to address the concept of Confucianism and the role that it played in forming what Chinese culture is today. Confucianism can be defined as a way of life that was first established by Confucius in the 6th–5th century BCE. Confucianism is a western term used to describe the set of values propagated by Confucius himself, this set of rules and values have been the foundations of Chinese society for over two millennia; this…

Misrepresentation Of Chinese Culture After learning about the misrepresentation of Native Americans in Miranda’s article, I felt that there’re also some misrepresentations of my own culture groups. Nowadays, some Chinese culture misrepresented by people in other countries. In the essay, I will talk about three kinds of misrepresentation of Chinese culture. Due to the movie montage and some exaggerated shooting techniques, some foreigners have a deep misunderstanding of Chinese Kung-Fu (like…

Joy Luck Club is a novel written by Amy Tan, an American writer who was born to Chinese immigrant parents in Oakland, California, in 1989. In her work, Tan often explores the mother-daughter relationship and the misunderstandings between Chinese and American culture. The Joy Luck Club is Tan’s best-selling novel. It was a novel popular enough to be adapted into a film release. In the story, Tan focuses on four Chinese immigrant families who joined the San Francisco version of the Joy Luck Club…

the story and main character Jing Mei along with a few other characters, including her father, will be an example of how setting plays a part in affecting the characters and their actions within the story. The different encounters throughout the story will also be affected by when and where an event takes place. Jing Mei was born and has spent much of her life in San Francisco, California. Being born and raised here she has always denied having so much as an ounce of “Chinese”…

increase in today 's economy and the international status of China, Chinese education is beginning to show a wide range of trends. In order to adapt to the different educational needs of a wide range of Chinese language training institutions have emerged, such as private training, public schools offer foreign language classes or electives, etc. Confucius Institute. There are many potential threats to the traditional model of Chinese complementary schools…