Chinese thought

Chinese Acrobats I chose to do my reflection on my experience seeing the Chinese Acrobats. The Chinese acrobats performed at the World Theater at California State University Monterey Bay. The acrobats were from Peoples Republic of China, and used their skills to engage the audience through talented gymnastics, dance, and martial arts. Each distinctive and special talent offered a very unique outlook of the Chinese culture. The Peoples Republic of China’s culture is very important to their…

sentiment roots towards the hatred for the Chinese people’s menial job takeover, which began during the Gold Rush. Americans were afraid that the Chinese, and eventually the Japanese, would steal all the jobs. This created a lot of hostility among working class Americans and even caused a major riot. Denis Kearney, an anti-asian riot leader, rampaged through parts of Chinatown, a community the Chinese made for themselves after being isolated. Eventually, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed due…

Chinese philosopher, Zhuang Zhou, once said “So it is said, for him who understands Heavenly joy, life is the working of Heaven; death is the transformation of things. In stillness, he and the yin share a single Virtue; in motion, he and the yang share a single flow.” The idea of Yin and Yang is very influential in the Chinese culture, representing the balance between good and bad. Through Amy Tan’s Joy Luck Club, the author demonstrates the long, conflicting journey that young Chinese women…

The Chinese during the Qing dynasty followed three main philosophies; Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism. The rulers were strong followers of Buddhism. However, discrimination existed heavily in the society. For example, the Manchu were not allowed to marry Han Chinese who forms the majority of the society and were considered a lower social class. Representative Confucian was the social and ethical philosophy during this era. Huang Zongxi, Wang Fuzhi, and Gu Yanwu were the three main scholars…

Various forms of entertainment, such as listening to music and watching a movie, exist in modern society. People can choose whatever they want if some conditions are satisfied. What about Chinese people in the past? How did they enjoy their spare time? According to Li Huarui, who is a professor at Capital Normal University, “Landscape painting was a “gentlemanly” pastime exclusively favored by literati just as rustic retreats were literati places,” (Huarui). Twelve Views of Landscape, which is a…

Absence of trade restrictions: Lenovo benefitted in its early years when Chinese govt did not impose any trade restrictions such as quotas, tariffs, Value added taxes on imports, restrictions on ownership and investment Association with Govt: Lenovo also benefitted with its association with the Chinese Govt. For success in global markets Lenovo chose the path grow through Mergers and Acquisitions which was a risky process in line…

During the Eastern Zhou era (770-256 B.C.E), a numerous number of Chinese noble struggled for supremacy. These Chinese nobles acted as independent warriors in their own realm and imposed their own way of ruling. Consequently, the Chinese sense of unity and central authority ceased and the Zhou dynasty ended. The fall of the Zhou dynasty led to chaos, which lasted for about two centuries. The duration of anarchy was called the “Warring States Period” (403-221 B.C.E). During this period, the…

Reading Questions: 3. The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first major piece of immigration legislation in the United States and set a path for immigration in the 20th century. In 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was created and it only affected Chinese Laborers. This act made it illegal for Chinese laborers to enter the United States, but continued to allow merchants and teachers from China into the country. The textbook stated that the act was renewed in 1892, and made permanent in 1902, and…

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…

which always bring harvest. That's why red color in Chinese become a symbol of good luck, health, honor and happiness. At traditional Chinese wedding, everything is red, the bride wears an embroidered gown, a Phoenix coronet shawl on bead and a red scarf. Phoenix patterns on the clothing are indispensable in China's culture. It symbolizes female and indicates auspicious. For the red scarf, it should be uncovered by the bridegroom until…