Chinese literature

Guan Hanqing was an acclaimed Zaju dramatist of the Yuan Dynasty, and one of the delegate figures of old Chinese musical show play essayists too(West, Stephen H.70). His best-known work is Injustice to Dou E, which is one of the four extraordinary tragedies of the Yuan Drama, the other three pieces of his work are; Autumn in the Han Palace by Ma Zhiyuan, The Firmiana Rain by Bai Pu and The Orphan of Zhao by Ji Junxiang. The Injustice to Dou remains one of Guan’s greatest pieces of writing. The…

The Chinese pangolins (Manis pentadactyla) are mostly found in Taiwan and southern China in a wide range of habitats such as limestone forests, bamboo forests, broad-leaf and coniferous forests, grasslands and agricultural fields (Chao Jung-Tai 1989, Gurung 1996). It is one of eight species of pangolin, and they are all on the decline. The IUCN reports that the number of Chinese pangolins has declined rapidly over the past fifteen years, and this species is critically endangered nowadays due to…

will inform you about the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty was one of the many significant dynasties in China. It succeeded from 1368 to 1644 for a total of 276 years. It was the fourth longest Dynasty out of thirteen dynasties, and the last ethnic Chinese dynasty between the Mongol-led Yuan and Manchurian Qing Dynasties. Da Ming, meaning “Great Brightness” inspired Zhu YuanZhang to name his new dynasty, “The Ming Dynasty”. What effects did the Ming Dynasty have on its’ era and how did the reign…

background of Chinese poetry. First, Watson addresses the “antiquity and remarkable continuity” and the universal appeal of Chinese poetic tradition (1). Composed by people of different working classes, especially the scholar-officials, from around 300 B.C, poetic output in China has never stopped. Further fuelling the spread and preservation of poetry were the inventions of paper and printing in China (2). However, one most note that there is more than one form of poetry in Chinese…

Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman”, shows us much about the ideals and customs upheld by Ning Liao TaiTai, one of the many ethnically Han Chinese woman living through the later Qing period and the so called Republican Period of China spanning the breakdown of the empires to the formation of the People’s Republic of China. Ning Liao Taitai, in describing her life and conditions in detail to Ida Pruitt can be said to present a valuable and informative insight into the life of a Chinese…

doing things. For example, Americans do not bother much about looking smart or dressing well as long as a person has what it takes to deliver the point home. On the contrary, Chinese value dressing and physical presentation very much. A rich American will wear what pleases his or her body without looking at the cost but a Chinese counterpart selects the latest fashion in the market in an effort to confirm his or her success. 6 dimensions of Hofstede cultural scale Professor Hofstede conducted…

Asia. This seemed like a very interesting topic since we hadn’t even had heard or mentioned it in class. Like many forms of theatre around the world Chinese theatre evolved from the act of religious rituals. This paper will outline the ancient Chinese theatre from past to present. One thing to note that the single most interesting thing about Chinese theatre is that it doesn’t lack a large…

made it to the Chinese mainland. He would not be able to fill his desire to convert China into Christianity. Xavier died waiting for permission to land. Prior to the reductions, there was only limited missionary work to Macau, which was an autonomous…

The legal rights of Chinese women remain almost nonexistent during the 14th to 17th century Ming Dynasty rule, however, modern day China is controlled by a government working to achieve equality for both genders. Throughout the 276 years that the Ming Dynasty was controlling China, a plethora of achievements in the areas of education, philosophy, literature, and art changed Chinese society. However, these changes affected mainly males because women were treated as nothing. For instance, the main…

Little Chinese Seamstress, written by Dai Sijie, is an instrument which remarks upon the re-education and revolution of China during the early 1960s. Dai’s commentary of the revolution is finite and expressed through circumstances of particular characters predominantly the narrator's. This commentary is intriguingly delicate in its attack towards communism which minimizes opinions in the novel. An exemplification of this is when Narrator is performing a tooth decay extraction on the headman. A…