“Waiguoren” and occasionally in a hush tone “Laowai,” from a few annoyed costumers, are two terms uttered every so often while interning at Hotwind, a widely-known fashion store in Shanghai. As the semester forges ahead, my classmates and I are grasping a greater understanding of how consumerism is shaping people’s lives in Shanghai today, through our first-hand perspective working in a Chinese retail outlet. We are fully immersing ourselves in an uncommon and unheard-of working environment for…
The places like in Shenzhen and Guangdong have large factories. Factories lives of migrant is very hard. The paper heavily focuses on Chinese migrant workers specially focused on female workers. It focusses the worker origin and the conflict from local workers arriving from others places. The crucial part of workers on the issues that wages is being a huge controversial. It was illegal to pay under the minimum wages. But often time many owners would do that just to save money. Even worker was…
To start with, factor endowments in the United States are very high being that the nation is amongst the most developed, if not the most developed, hence access to exceptional infrastructure amongst other necessary resources. The country’s level of organization through labor unions is also a noteworthy aspect that provides the needed support to propel the country’s production and product marketability hence growing the overall Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The nation’s large population in its…
Sima Qian was a great historian for China during the Han Dynasty (141 - 87 BCE). Under Emperor Wu, he is credited with creating China’s first detailed and compiled history book. He lived from 145 to 86 BCE and made many great accomplishments in his life. His most notable accomplishment was writing a history book called Records of the Grand Historian, without this book the past would have disappeared with the people that lived it. The question that I’m going to be answering in this paper is…
In "Monkey Bridge,” Mai and her mother use key aspects of Vietnamese mythology and traditional beliefs, also known as the “luminous motion,” that encompasses speculation of the past as well as of the future. It reflects between the past and present worlds, telling two engaging stories through the narrative of a mother and daughter. Although, both Mai and her mother have had to quickly adjust to American life, they are immediately confronted with an encounter of cultures and generations that…
China is one of the largest countries in the world not only in terms of size, but also it’s very rich and diverse in language, religion, rituals, traditions, and beliefs. The film Hero has an unusual movie theme, it uses lots of narration and similar stories (events), and are repeated over and over with a different outcome. The movie depicts the ancient China’s Hero, which is none other than Qin Shi Hang the First emperor of China. The tale is about the unnamed warrior and the triumph of Qin’s…
As a first generation American born in a Vietnamese family, my values are heavily influenced by both cultures. Inevitably, as an inhabitant of the United States, I am much more exposed to American culture than to Vietnamese culture. I have learned and assimilated many American values throughout my years in the public school system. Meanwhile, at home, my parents immersed and raised me in their culture. Vietnamese culture is very different from American culture, but not at all far-removed from…
Culture is where we come from, who we are now, and where we are going. Culture is what makes us unique as people. Is the binding forces between family, friends, and nations. The culture I chose to talk about is Chinese it is where I came from. Chinese is the oldest and has the largest number of people who live in China. The Chinese material and non material culture can be different from United States but they also have something in common. The food, clothes, transportation, and sports are very…
The immortalization of the seven peaks of the Taishan Mountain is critical to understanding the cultural significance of the temple. The Temple of Heaven has two main altars along with some smaller altars. Of the two main ones, the first is called the Circular Mound of Heaven, and the other is the Altar of Prayer for Harvest. At the time when the temple was created, China was plagued with ill weather and famines, because of which it became important for the people to pray to the Gods for a…
The international arena is full of rapid change, challenges, and uncertainty. Scholar use theoretical tools to further understand global politics. The most prominent theory driven tools used today are Realism and Liberalism. These two theories vary in definition and people ascribe to them as ways of viewing the world, predicting the future of events and furthering their understanding of state behavior. Two great books that exemplify such theories are “The Tragedy of Great Powers” by John J.…