Hans Scholl

Jialiang Tian Professor: Perez ENG105B 27 November,2017 The Misrepresentation Of Chinese Culture After learning about the misrepresentation of Native Americans in Miranda’s article, I felt that there’re also some misrepresentations of my own culture groups. Nowadays, some Chinese culture misrepresented by people in other countries. In the essay, I will talk about three kinds of misrepresentation of Chinese culture. Due to the movie montage and some exaggerated shooting techniques, some…

statesman of the Han dynasty. The essay’s purpose was to explain to readers that the fall of the Qin dynasty was because of Chen She, who was the leader at the time of the fall. In the essay Jia Yi explains that Chen She is untalented and that he lacked humanness as well as rightness. These are qualities that he felt good leaders should have. Overall Yi felt that the fall of the Qin dynasty occurred because of Chen she’ lack of good leadership. Although, he is a statesman of the Han dynasty,…

The term Ghost has a Germanic origin which means Spirit or Soul. The term ‘Soul’ is complicated because various established and widely followed spiritual doctrines like Buddhism neglect the existence of soul in anybody. But it is strange that Chinese Buddhism has a concept of Hungry Ghost; quite similar to the term ‘Preta’ in Indian Buddhism and Hinduism. So Buddhism will not accept Ghost as somebody’s soul which is appearing on earthly realm to fulfill his desires indeed Ghost is used as…

The cultural plunge project is meant to expose myself to other cultures and their lives. For this specific purpose, I choose to go to Chinatown in downtown Los Angeles. I don’t have friends or acquaintances that are from China or that have Chinese heritage. In all honesty, I only considered Chinese culture in relation to food or restaurants. Apart from its Americanized food, I haven’t before exchanged thoughts and ideas with a person of Chinese descendancy. Therefore, the experience of…

from the teachings of Chuang Tzu (370 — 287 BCE). Confucianism was the child of Confucius (551 – 479 BCE), a political philosopher and educator who founded School of Scholars (儒家, Rújiā), sometimes referred to as the Ru School. Legalism was founded by Han Feizi (279–233 BCE), a Chinese philosopher who founded the School of Law (法家, Fǎjiā). In its most inner core, these schools, as Chuang Tzu puts it, were attempting to answer one question: “How is a man to live in a world dominated by chaos,…

Throughout the long history of China, there are many extraordinary thoughts created by a lot of famous philosophers. Although there are many different schools of teachings and most of them are in opposition to each other, they still share some similarities. In the textbook, Kongzi and Laozi’s teachings serve as a good example. In the Analects, Kongzi emphasizes on ren and xiao which mean benevolence and filial piety, respectively. He believes that filial piety and benevolence are interconnected…

In the recent decade, a heated controversy over the pros and cons of standardized assessment has been witnessed in both fields of education policy and applied linguistics (e.g. Taylor, 1994; Llosa, 2011, etc.). As a result, issues related to standardized language assessment have gained attention internationally. While the United States has been concerned with accountability and high-stakes consequences brought by the No Child Left Behind Act (Abedi, 2004; Menken, 2008), China has been…

involved in the missions of china and later created major problems as the cultural approach of Matteo Ricci was not shared by some of them. In China the Europeans exchanged the presence of Christian communities in China between the Roman Empire and the Han dynasty. Matteo Ricci’s work in china to see the education that he received in his native Italy. Matteo joined the Jesuits when he was eighteen and studied in the roman college where he had astronomer author of the Gregorian that was accepted…

9. Several factors combined to lead to the fall of the Classical Empires. External forces, such as the Germanic tribes and steppe landers outside of the Han dynasty, were jealous of Classical Empire wealth. This led them to invade these empires, which were weakened by being so spread out. Empires also declined because of moral decline, as empires grew comfortable with their lives of luxury. This created…

About 3000 years ago, what is now known as China became the most thriving empire of the time because of the ideas and abilities that the rulers and citizens had. They became extremely successful after a man named Qin Shi Huang Di took the throne and ruled China for many years. During this period of time they mapped a route called the Silk Road. The Silk Road was created to carry the many inventions that are part of our daily lives. Many of the inventions created in china helped it to thrive and…