Chinese people

Chinese Information and Service Center (CISC) is a nonprofit organization that offers services for Chinese and other Asian immigrants throughout King County since 1972. The official website for CISC aims to be the platform for Asian immigrants and their families to gain information and resources to make their life transition in the United States an easier progress. The website is intended for Asian immigrants of all ages and also for those who are interested in helping the organization through…

China-India: Differences Asia is home to two of the biggest countries in the world in regards to population. Those countries are no other than India and China. These two countries both have a population of 1.3 billion, and are often regarded as very similar countries. However, India has a population of 1.324 billion, while China has a population of 1.379 billion. They may be on the same continent, but they're both poles apart. China and India are two countries that appear to be similar, but in…

heard the racial joke that begins with “An American, a Chinese and a Hispanic man are in a plane?” Or how about the one that takes place with different religious leaders meeting in a casual bar? If you live in the United States, especially California I would assume you would have heard these jokes or similar ones. Although they are extremely offensive, they help show how culturally diverse our country is. Being culturally diverse, many people of different religions and backgrounds are exposed…

affected by these changes. Ning’s home city of Penglai remains agrarian throughout the novel, meanwhile, Peiping and Chefoo were industrial centers. Penglai embodies the conservative values and traditions that China strived to maintain in which the people followed strict protocols and rules of Confucianism to create order for society. Gradually, Ning’s quality of life in Penglai declines as she strives to follow these…

I am particularly interested in Dr. Oliver Moore’s and Dr. Katarzyna Cwiertka’s respective research. Dr. Moore’s exploration of Chinese visual and material culture of late imperial and early modern periods aligns with my own research interests. I have also used his online directory of sources for the study of Art and Material Culture of China in my own research. I am also interested…

develop an empathy. While researching the discrimination their forefathers endured, they’ll discover how difficult it was for the Chinese to create families. For example, the Page Law prevent family formation and created an even greater gender imbalance within the Chinese American community. These laws created by sinophobes led to the emergence of services for the Chinese to find connections, enjoy leisure and relax in a comfortable environment that seemed like home. Ultimately, these led to the…

The Chinese ice cream market. China is a country that is changing rapidly, is emerging and taking a place in the world as a consumer society, each day there are new products, brands and companies appearing in the life of people in China (Farrell, Gersch and Stephenson). In this occasion the topic is ice cream, some years ago it was considered as a very luxurious snack but nowadays with the increasing disposable income and big economic growth of the population the consumption of ice cream has…

The relationships between intellectuals/students and the Chinese state have differed greatly starting from the Cultural Revolution to the Tiananmen Square Incident of 1989. During the Cultural Revolution, intellectuals and the Chinese state was disharmonious while the students’ relationship with the Chinese state was cooperative and harmonious. Intellectuals had the potential to poison the students’ minds with anti-revolutionary ideas and thoughts. The students were at the forefront of the…

Based on the summary on the back of the book, people may think the book is good and it’s going to be quite interesting. The first chapter made the book seem like it was going to be boring because it started off really slow and very descriptive with a lot of description. But after chapter 1, the story started to gain some momentum and it became interesting. What makes the book more interesting is the fact that it discusses sexuality and self-identity which is a huge topic right now in America. At…

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…