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Modern attitudes toward the traditional Chinese practice of footbinding are often harsh and unforgiving, casting it as a barbaric, archaic form of patriarchal torture. While much of the western world has historically been appalled by the custom, in the years since its ban, many Chinese nationals have also vehemently decried it, raising questions as to how and why this practice survived for roughly 700 years. Public audiences tend to consider footbinding a best-forgotten, undesirable tool of…

postcolonial studies on the case of Korean Chinese who are doubly dislocated and otherized, as I argue. It examines the identity of Korean Chinese as Korean ethnic minority in China and also ethnic return migrants in South Korea expressed in the literature. It explores the factors that trigger the identity crisis of Korean Chinese and constantly causing them to search for a new home. In doing so, two works written by a second-generation of Korean Chinese novelist named Hŏ Ryŏn-sun (1955-),…

Knowing that American employees are individualist, Ben should explain that Chinese employees like to work in teams and value each others opinion not because they have to but because they respect each other and every team member. Perhaps, it would be easier for Ben to explain it by Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions. According to Worldwide…

cultures, the Chinese culture has its own way of communication both verbally and nonverbally. Chinese people use less expressions compare to the western countries. There are some nonverbal communication styles used in Chinese culture to show their expression. Their style of greeting involves bowing their head while shaking hands with people. On the order hand, when greeting an elderly person, they lower their head and slightly bend forward to show some sign of respect. The Chinese culture does…

explore this social phenomenon by targeting the Chinese immigrant women in Toronto, the topic becomes even more worthwhile to address since Chinese immigrants group is the second largest visible minority group in Toronto with a number over 1,324,700 in 20111 and the feminization of labor force has significant impacts on the family structure as well as the development of our next generations. Thus, the research question of this paper is: How do immigrant Chinese mothers in Toronto manage…

MAJOR THEMES IN THE NOVEL Individualism A white tiger symbolizes power and majesty in East Asian cultures, such as in China and Japan. It is also a symbol for individualism and uniqueness. Balram is seen as different from those he grew up with. He is the one who got out of the “Darkness” and found his way into the “Light”. Throughout the book, there are references to how Balram is very different from those back in his home environment. He is referred to as the “White Tiger” Freedom In an…

lack of economies of scale and government policies that hindered their expansion efforts originally. Low profit margins of 2% to 3% forced Wal-mart to increase the amount of product they produced in order to succeed in the long run. However, with Chinese culture factoring in, Wal-mart had to decrease number of units packaged into each finished product. Government policies also took a role in how Wal-mart China operated when first entering the market and throughout it’s existence in China. In…

Abstract The paper analyses the competitiveness of Electrolux as a multinational corporation. There are reasons that make the company to be fit for competition with the local Chinese manufacturers of home appliances. The paper also discusses how Electrolux is influenced by the resource based view in its strategy. In view of Porters four generic strategies, Electrolux would be much safer with cost leadership strategy and differentiation. The company has shown leaning towards making itself…

everyday lives. Why media is so important in Chinese society? Perhaps the media can instruct each individual person of what is going on around the world, it is a very important role that help informs people about news, history, entertainment, music, and politics, which is used as a form of communication and obtaining knowledge from expertise. Certainly, most media are likely to provide accurate information to the people. Over the pass couples of decade Chinese media have gone through a rapid…

Book Review Anne Pegler-Gordon 's in Sight of America: Photography and the development of U.S. immigration policy, is a study that illustrates the importance of photography and the development of photographic identity documentation and its role in the regulation of immigrants. In addition the study explains how these developments produced racial distinction and how these distinctions contributed to the immigration policy of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Pegler Gordon main…