Guangzhou

The article “Homing Guangzhou: Emplacement, belonging and precarity among Africans in China” by Roberto Castillo, is a well written work on the emergence of African nationalities in Southern China and how their vulnerability and uncertainty makes them far from settling or calling Guangzhou home. Yet, the ability of these individuals to organize and provide ways to create opportunities for themselves and their fellow Africans is something that is inspiring. The structuring solidarity through football part of the article was something I could personally relate to; as I was involved in similar program in the U.S. called “soccer without borders” when I first arrived from Eritrea. Football has been a key instrument to bring individuals together,…

admires the foreign art that has been transported along the Maritime Silk Road centuries ago while visiting the museum of the Tomb of King Nanyue. After graduating 7 years ago from his university in Los Angeles, Nat came to Guangzhou because of a work opportunity. He has experienced a totally new life in this city with its many different cultures, customs, foods and languages. Nat enjoys his life and has a thriving social circle here, and since he knows Guangzhou as well as any native, his expat…

Hong Kong and Guangzhou are world-famous international metropolis. There are many similarities and differences in their growth in history. And education is the future of the next generation. Both cities have special emphasis on education. The similarities and differences of Hong Kong and Guangzhou in education are listed as followed. Firstly, similarities. As two of the world's most famous cities with a long history, they have many similarities in education. First of all is preschool education.…

The Chinese way of life in Amy Tan’s story, “A Pair of Tickets” is described by the scenery, the influence of the American lifestyle, and the unbreakable bond of family. When May and her family arrive at in Guangzhou, they take a taxi into the city. Before reaching the city, May describes the outskirts as being very crowed while the taxi weaves in and out of traffic. As the taxi driver continually honks the horn, May notices rows of apartments with laundry hanging over the balconies above her.…

Zaha Hadid Architectures Zaha Mohammad Hadid was an Iraqi-British architect, born on 31 October 1950, in Baghdad, Iraq to an upper-class Iraqi family. Hadid studied mathematics at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon before moving to London in 1972 to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture. Hadid has about 950 projects in 44 different countries according to Zaha Hadid Architects website. Hadid also worked with the interior architecture, product, and fashion design.…

communication performance with the Hongkong Children’s Choir in Hongkong. In February, 2009 I won the golden prize in Teenage Group in The Star of Huaxia, the National Youth Art Competition, which organized by the Music Education Professional Committee of China Education Institute. It is an individual prize, and I competed in the voice section in this competition. I joined the performance “I fly together with my country”, sang in a choir and this performance was shown in CCTV. From 2009 to…

Some of them also help jobs in publications, such as the Journal of Current Pictorial. With jobs like that they could spred the world of the revolution all across China. There were also criminal organizations that were anti-Manchu, including the Green Gang and Hongmen Zhigongtang. Sun Yat-sen himself came in contact with the Hongmen, also known as Tiandihui (Heaven and Earth society). With members in publication and criminal members it shows how diverse the support for the revolution was and…

The Setting of “A Pair of Tickets” by Amy Tan The setting of a story is defined as the time and place in which it takes place. In “A Pair of Tickets” the setting would be both the cities of Shenzhen and Guangzhou located in Communist China. The setting affects the protagonist in a major way. Although she was born in America she is of chinese heritage. Returning to her cultural homeland changes her drastically from the American woman she thought she was, to the Chinese-American woman she becomes.…

Russia continues to improve its technology, and in the 1890’s (less than a decade ago), military defense, access to water, agriculture, and transportation began to advance at a rapid rate. Russia began to create new weaponry for its military, created new ports for trade overseas, and even established the Trans-Siberian railroad for military transportation across Russia and Siberia. Evidently, China did not and still does not wish to lag behind Russia in terms of technological modernity, and we,…

Anna Waas Core 1 Group B History Character Project Hello, my name is Zhang Min Xu. I have long, straight, black hair. I am 5’1 and 32 years old. I have two kids. A girl named Li Na and a boy named after my father, Liang. I was born in the Guangdong province of China. My mother was a wealthy merchant in the Cantonese province. In addition to that, she was a member of a thirteen member guild of Chinese trade merchants. They acted as representatives for the Qing ruler to manage trade with…