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story, because she struggles with her Chinese heritage as an American citizen living in the United States. The setting acts as an antagonist because her Chinese heritage causes her to feel out of place in her birthplace. California is the main contributor to the conflict, because there probably wouldn't be a conflict if she was born over in China to begin…

than yours? The Chinese narrator of “Fish Cheeks” celebrated Christmas Eve dinner with a United States family. The diverse cultures become evident throughout the short story. Culture diversity only makes one’s culture more unique. The diversity between Chinese and United States culture is unique and is easily shown in “Fish Cheeks.” Chinese customs, traditions, and popular holiday food differ greatly from United States customs, traditions, and popular holiday food. To start, Chinese customs are…

In the American land, a democratic country that believe in freedom, many first generation Chinese immigrants have a big generational distance with their American-born children. Since they were born and grown up in China, they was adopted to their motherland’s culture. Therefore, it’s hard for them to adjust back to the American culture. In the short stories, I select Monfoon Leong, Darrell Lum, and Hsien-Yung Pai to analysis how they deal with a similar issue －cultural maintenance－ in their…

Culture Although I was born in China, my memory of my life there is like a blurry, monochromatic photo and, sometimes, it pains me to feel that mild sense of detachment from my beautiful heritage and culture. However, my genuine interest in Chinese language and culture is the reason why I will always persist in retaining this important aspect of my identity. Sophomore year marked the end of the Middle Years Program at our school. Our final assignment was our personal project, where we were…

The differences between Chinese and American systems of education may seem drastically different, but not everything is so dissimilar. A factor that sets China apart from us here in America, is the intensity at which they educate their youth. Along with this, it is often said that Chinese adults have a heightened level of work ethic than their American counterparts. China’s intense system of education is responsible for their strong work ethic.  Education begins at a young age in China.…

against each other and conform in order to "fit in" and at the same time be better than everyone else. I would compare my level of English and reading comprehension skills to others' because Chinese is my "first language." Though I learned English at the same time as Chinese, Chinese was the most dominant language spoken. And because of that, I have to work twice as hard and it will take me twice as longer to write papers. I know that I shouldn't compare myself to others because "letting go of…

Confucian education as well as training in modern foreign languages and literatures. While in school, he developed socialist convictions and an interest in writing. He became an anarchist in the mid-1920s. After two years of study in France, he moved to Shanghai, where he wrote his first novel, Miewang (“Extinction”), which appeared with great success in 1929. He signed his work with the pen name Ba Jin, the last character of which is the Chinese equivalent of the last…

Compare and Contrast Essay In The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, A few separate stories about mothers and daughter are told. One of the pairs is Jing-Mei and her mom, Suyuan, whom had a complicated relationship. Jing-Mei and her mom often did not see eye to eye and that caused some conflict between them. Likewise, often my mom and me have our disagreements. Our quarrels are frequent and can last from minutes to weeks. Jing Mei and Suyuan are contracting to my mom and me due to the high expectations…

However, the biggest triumph it made was to enhance trading. Goods were sent to Chinese Emperor as tributes, and the emperor paid even more as return. Merchants were also allowed to trade on their trip, and thus all members were benefited from it. Therefore, lots of the kingdoms were willing to join the tribute system with China to set up trade. The desire was so intense that, for example, Japanese was kept out of the Chinese tribute system because of the pirate issue, but they still tried to…

During my junior year of high school, my AP United States history teacher showed us a video about 4 Chinese students that had to take a college placement test. This video was enlightening because I had just received my ACT scores back and I had done better than I had expected to do. I did not think about this video again until February of my senior year when I had a Chinese exchange student come and stay with me. Her American name was Tiffany and she was a sophomore at Jian Ping High School, an…