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The lyrics of the Beatles’ ‘’Long and Winding Road’’ is the perfect metaphor for the chapter that ends the Joy Luck Club. This can be seen on two levels. The Joy Luck Club book begins with Suyuan Woo and, in a way, it ends with Suyuan Woo albeit in the person of the daughter Jing-Mei. The road followed by the members of the Joy Luck Club has taken them from China to America and now in the person of Jing-Mei the road has led them back again. On another level, the ‘’Long and Winding Road’’…

In an article titled “Marriage and Family Therapy with People from China”, Wang and Crane (1994) discuss why most Chinese families do not seek therapy. They talk about why therapists have a difficult time providing services to them. The authors also notes how important it is for therapists to not just assume all people from China are the same in regards of beliefs, culture or social economic standings. This article examines some of the difference beliefs in the families from different parts of…

War can change many people in many ways. A prime example was the protagonist of Empire of the Sun, Jim. In the beginning of this movie, Jim was a very upbeat and curious character, but was also very stubborn. The story takes place in China, with a population of British people living in an area that is like a “mini-Britain”. What happens next would be traumatizing for anyone. The Japanese, had planned an attack on China, to try and take the country for themselves. There were mobs of people being…

I learned a lot about Taiwan’s values. China has strong relations with Taiwan but I never thought it was to the degree which their values are much the same. Also being part Chinese, I’m able understand and connect to many of the values such as the confusion ideal of filial piety which talks about having respect for one’s parents, the opposing forces of yin-yang, and fengshui which a way of looking at things as they flow naturally. In contrast, I can connect to Hawaiian values as since I was…

The Taoism and Confucianism are both the religion that are play important role in the early ancient Chinese history. Taoism believing in the personal practice, they believed that what they are doing on religion purpose is their personal things, and it will not effect by other peoples. Also, they believed that people practice in this religion is trying to free their soul and for the chance to live forever. In Taoism, their highest belief is the “Tao”, which translate to as “way”. The general…

Introduction On September 2, 1885, a league of bitter white coal miners and their families took guns and axes to attack the local Chinatown, the immigrant workers living there defenseless as they were celebrating a homeland holiday. An estimated over thirty men killed, many more injured, the five hundred Chinese living there fled from the Union Pacific Railroad, where they worked for far lower wages than their white peers in hopes of gathering enough fortune to provide for their families back…

The two millennial old highway known as the Silk Road, stretched from Spain to the Southeastern Asia’s ports . Human intercommunication was essential for the advancement of human history and technology, the Silk Road was the first and an effective human invention bringing a way for the Eastern and Western cultures of Afro-Eurasia to interact, thus not only; spreading religion, reformation of governments, intercommunication between diverse ethnicities for the first time, making advancements in…

the virtues of obedience to the state rather than speculations about God and heaven. Confucius, or King Fuzi, preached Confucianism, which was a system of ethics stressing virtue and reverence throughout society. Additionally, during the Qin and Han dynasties, an alternate system of political thought arose called Legalism. This philosophical belief was centered around the notion that human nature was naturally evil and required restraint and discipline. Finally, Daoism emerged in the latter…

Taoism and Confucianism are two of the most famous philosophies that originated in China around 500 B.C.E. Lao-Tzu, translated as “the old master”, was known for having founded the philosophy of Taoism as well as being the author of the Tao Te Ching. The main concept of Taoism is the “Tao”, otherwise known as the “the way”, which pertains to the way of the universe as well as the way of humans. At the center of Confucianism was Confucius, a teacher whose teachings were recorded and compiled into…

The Han and Qin Empires are particularly good at showing the contrast between successful and unsuccessful Empires. They both developed in a similar part of China, and are only separated by about 100 years. The Han Empire probably owes some of their success to learning form the example of the Qin Empire and not repeating the same mistakes. Shihuangdi Qin ruled by the philosophy of Legalism, which advocates extremely strict laws and harsh punishments. His extreme punishments gave him control, but…