Fujian

In 2009, there is an estimated population of 145 million rural-urban migrants in China, which represents 11% of the total population in China (Hu, 2012). Nearly 80% of the total migrants in China are located in the provinces of Guangdong, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangsu and the cities of Beijing and Shanghai (Tuñón, 2006). Migration into urban areas has created overcrowding, increased competition for resources and congestion in transportations. The rural areas deserted by the migrants faced new…

On November 8 in the year 1875, Qiu Jin was born into a Chinese family of high society. Although she was born in Xiamen, Fujian, she quickly moved to Shanyin Village in Shaoxing, Zhejiang. As was common for children of her social class, her parents provided her with the best education money could buy. A lover of reading and writing, Qiu spent her days writing poems filled with beautiful imagery. Ambitiously, she dreamed of becoming a professional writer. Early poems depicted nature and were…

dispute concerning whether these four are adequately comprehensive to represent China’s main regional cuisines so an additional four types are sometimes included to form the “eight great culinary traditions” (Bai, 2012; Swislocki, 2009). These include Fujian or Min cuisine, Hunan or Xiang cuisine, Zhejiang or Zhe cuisine, and Anhui or Hui cuisine. China’s regional cuisines are distinct from one another in more ways than the ingredients they employ. Each of the great cuisines are guided by their…

be as seaworthy. They traveled all along the Arabian Peninsula but did the majority of their trading in the posts of Southeast Asia and India. In the thirteenth century a man named Zhau Rugua was the inspector of foreign trade for the province of Fujian in South China, his real job was to collect tariffs on imported goods, but instead he made a very descriptive catalog of not only the goods they…

The Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware is run by the government Leisure and Cultural Services department. The building itself was the former Headquarter House of the Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong. In 1984, it turned to be the Museum of Tea Ware, it was the first specialized museum in the world devoted to the collection, study and display of tea wares. The core collections and historical relics were donated by Dr. K.S. Lo, it included about 600 pieces of tea wares and related vessels.…

The world before the 1500’s had many obvious problems and inefficient ways that we find quite simple in today’s modern times. Communication is the most noticeable one. Messages from far lands could take months to deliver. By the time a voyage is completed, many events have happened. In today’s society, one could find information on the internet in seconds from the opposite end of the planet. Huge problems arose in the previous centuries making fallacies and assumptions of foreign lands. Many of…

Jessica Liu MUSI 2361 Paper One: Jiangnan sizhu The term sizhu is a musical term that has been used all throughout history in East Asian countries especially Taiwan and China, which describes what the instruments in the genre are made of. Si meaning silk, which is what the strings are made up of in string instruments, and zhu meaning bamboo, which is what the wind instruments in Jiangnan sizhu, are made of. Despite the fact that sizhu is used in different countries, Jiangnan is a “geographical…

In Chapter 1 the Jesuits, they are set apart from other orders for many reasons. The first big one is that they grew the fastest they traveled places such as northern Italy as well as central, India, Southeast asia, Brazil, Japan, and many more places. As the book says that “The Society of Jesus was only one of several new religious orders founded at the same time, but it grew and achieved status that far exceeded the others” (O'Malley 114). Thus proving that the Jesuits were really growing.…

Weeks prior to the procession, Sheng Xuanhuai’s family had engaged in a grueling lobbying campaign to seek a permit for the funeral cortege to go through Nanjing 南京 Road and other major streets in the International Settlement. On October 25, 1917, the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce (Shanghai zong shanghui 上海總商會) filed a written request to the SMC at the behest of the Sheng family for the use of Nanjing Road for the procession. In the letter, Sheng was portrayed as a highly accomplished…

things are memorable so what was the most signification event you have ever experienced?” “The Golden Venture tragedy brought to world attention the thriving multinational criminal enterprise that made millions by transporting immigrants from Fujian Province to the US. And that is one of reason I came to America.” “I believe recall your life some of people did give you guides and inspire your life like you did to me. So who do you appreciate most in your life? “My parents,…