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Bo, Mo. “I Was a Teenage Red Guard.” New Internationalist Magazine, Apr. 1987, newint.org/features/1987/04/05/teenage/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2017. This website describes Mo Bo, a Red Guard, who shares his personal experiences, showing the reader the atrocities the Red Guards committed. Although the source is a magazine, it provides a different perspective into the life of a Red Guard. At the same time, while this primary source doesn’t provide straightforward information, it allows for…

A letter written to Queen Victoria by a Chinese official concerning the trade of Opium between Britain and China is the primary document that I have chosen to use. Lin Zexu, the author of the letter, discusses three points about the trade. Firstly, the letter touches upon Britain’s true intentions for the continuous shipment of the illegal cargo. The author begins to discuss the effects of the Opium and accuses Britain to be solely focused on making a profit on China’s destruction. Secondly, the…

The Chinese Cultural Revolution in the mid 19th century brought a forced wave of reverting to traditional values, resulting in “approximately 12 million” (Allen “Dai”) people to be forced into villages. Because of the repetition aspect of history, many writers have written about concepts and ideas that people who are currently suffering will relate to. When writing about issues, authors tend to allude to other literature works. Relying on other authors to help explain characters’ desires or…

Analyzing the Book War by Wang Ping No one knows how being controlled by the government feels like, until you experience it. In the Book War memoir, Wang Ping is a writer that grew up in China in the late 1960’s in which there was a chaotic “Cultural Revolution”. Ping didn 't grew up reading or even seen fairly tales. She didn 't know about them until she found her neighbor outside her house reading The Little Mermaid. A book she had always wanted to read completely, yet if the government found…

Introduction to Maya Deren Maya Deren is one of the prominent figures in American experimental filmmaking, who is celebrated as a ‘legend’ and the “Mother of Avant-Garde” (Hornung 2005, p. 280; Pramaggiore 1997, p. 17). Maya Deren was born Eleanora Derenkowsky into a family of prominent educated Russian Jews in 1917, in Kiev, during the birth of the Revolution (Doneson n.d., p. 327; Fabe 1996, p. 146; McPherson 2005, p. 8). She was the only child of Solomon David Derenkowsky, a psychiatrist…

however this horn was not ever used as a weapon. South (1987) supplements this statement by describing the horn as fleshy and soft, and therefore, incapable of causing harm. According to both South (1987) and Nigg (1995), the two scholars who describe the Chinese unicorn in great detail, the gentle, benevolent, and attractive qualities of the Ki’lin have given it a role in Chinese culture as a source of goodness and wisdom. The Ki’lin is also said to have resembled many different animals (South…

turn ate the shrimps.” (The Lin Family Shop, 0:00-3:20) The movie The Lin Family Shop (1959) was the embodiment of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda, it had all the elements and motifs that Mao would have wanted to be portrayed about the CCP at the time of the film’s release. Taking place in 1931, it tells the story of Mr. Lin, a shop owner in the lower businessman class, or petty bourgeoisie. Mr. Lin is portrayed with a sympathetic eye as he buckles under…

BY STEVEN.O the main character is jeremy lin. the film takes place in palo alto california.jeremy is a now a NBA player ,so he tells his story leading up to his career.he starts of by telling the audience about his early childhood,the he transitions himself to his life as a chinese american playing ball in a ivy league. BY SOME OTHER CRITIC:The story of Jeremy Lin's rise to fame is well known and was exhaustively covered in 2012. The American-born middle son of Taiwanese immigrants, he grew…

monument has to blend with the environment. For example, if the monument is about an awesome person with great power, then the monument should stand tall over the environment. In "Making the Memorial", the designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Maya Lin, states "The idea of destroying the park to create something that by its very nature should commemorate life seemed hypocritical, nor was it in my nature." The materials that create a monument play a big role in memorializing the event or…

Maya Lin is an incredible artist. Hearing her speak only further helped me understand and appreciate her work. She puts so much of her heart and soul into her work and genuinely thinks through each aspect of each piece and how she can better express her thoughts through this art, so that these thoughts can be recognized better and more easily, as well as assumed and agreed with. I was also able to learn that she felt that drawings wouldn’t have been able to describe or interpret the idea for the…