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Steven Li Prof. Yang CHIN 355 November 8 2016 A Critique of China: The Connection of Writing Style in Yu Hua and Lu Xun writing Lu Xun’s heavily anti-feudalism and anti-Confucian and Yu Hua’s “China in Ten Words” represent that Chinese citizens have no rights to speak for themselves due to the low level of living environment and corrupted government’s policies also called dictatorship. In both of their works, they seem have nothing similar because they are talking about two completely different…

inferior to men. Daughters had to be obedient to their fathers, wives to their husbands and old women to their son. Women's main job in the household was to have a son to continue the generations. Some baby girls were killed or abandoned, but the Communist banned this act. Foot binding, also known as the "three-inch golden lilies" was a common tradition for women. This was regarded as beautiful…

The Unforeseen Journey of a Karate Master Joseph Campbell, an american mythologist, discovered the many common patterns that ran through the hero’s myths and stories around the world. The many years that Joseph Campbell had researched this topic, he noticed that most and almost every hero's story contained a common pattern , even in diverse cultures. A story that showed this pattern was the movie The Karate Kid. The movie The Karate Kid cataloged the journey of Shao Dre who is learning the…

men and made women of all ages obedient to one of the men in their lives. In addition to being considered inferior to men, the practice of binding the feet of young girls along with the abandonment of female babies were outright banned by the communist party. An additional effect that communism had on China was they regarded women as equal in the workplace and also had to work like men in the communes. However, the mothers that had to work in the communes had their role as a mother damaged…

all Taoist books to be seized and burn, with the exception of the Tao Te Ching and other Taoist books relating to medicine, pharmacy, and science. In 1949, the communist party took over China and banned all religions. The Nationalist Chinese fled to Taiwan and other islands to practice their religion, and to avoid the wrath of the communists. In 1994, the ban over religion was finally lifted, which allowed Taoism to recur in their homeland once…

Balzac and the Little Seamstress follows two boys that have to be re-educated during the Maoist Revolution up in a small village. They meet a Seamstress and find banned books with Western ideas to read to each other. Grass on the Rooftop is a story of a boy that is being re-educated that is believed to have saved a picture of Mao and becomes famous and travels around. Both stories have to do with re-education and how people from this time feel and background information to Maoism and China at…

Ai Weiwei is a Chinese artist, architect, and political activist who is in constant battle with the Chinese government. Ai Weiwei uses art and social media to combat against his nation’s government. As the Tate Modern worded in their interpretation text, of his exhibit, they said,”Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds challenges our first impressions: what you see is not what you see, and what you see is not what it means (Tate Modern 1.)” The 100 million seeds look like real sunflower seed husks and…

The Emperor’s Shadow is a Chinese epic drama depicting Emperor Ying Zheng’s attempts to unify China, his relationship with the musician Gao Jianli, and his attempt to take control of the arts to further his cause. While a tendency towards melodrama is prevalent throughout the film, it maintains an authenticity that is often absent from contemporary American cinema. In comparison to foreign film, the American industry seems to be plagued with an overreliance on visual rhetoric, choosing to…

had rose to power when the Cultural Revolution was reaching its peak, this included Mao’s third wife Jiang Qing, Wang Hongwen, Zhang Chunqiao, and Yao Wenyuan. The group was responsible for carrying out “the harsh policies directed by Chinese Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong during the Cultural Revolution” ("Gang of Four"). The Gang of Four used their influence over China's educational systems to manipulate, and take advantage of young Red Guard soldiers ("Gang of Four"). The corruption of…

From 1960s to the present, the Chinese immigrated to the U.S. exploded dramatically. Political refugees and anti-communist elites came with their intellectually directed children as well as Chinese of all socioeconomic backgrounds came in the last two decades of the twentieth century. Intended to analyze the rise of Chinese American communities from WWII to post-1965, Iris Chang described the escape of intellectuals from mainland China and Taiwan, the rise of immigration under Regan and Deng’s…