Mainland China

I was brought to the United States at a young age with my mother hoping to reunite with my father who had left China years earlier to pursue his vision of the “American dream”. Like many immigrant parents, my father recognized early on that he would have the chance to enjoy the “dream” that he worked so hard and sacrificed so much for. My parents abandoned their personal aspirations to ensure that both my brother and I would be able to live a life filled with opportunities that they could never…

The partnership between the UBC Robson Square and the Delta Vancouver Suites will bring each other a variety of benefits. First of all, the UBC Robson Square will experience a better service of the conference rooms provided by Delta Vancouver Suites. Most of the conference rooms from the UBC Robson Square are unique theatre spaces and medium-sized classrooms. (Please see Appendix D for more details). However, they don’t really have lots of spaces for medium-sized meeting rooms. Fortunately,…

Introduction The Fraser Valley contains the eastern part of the Lower Mainland of British Columbia (BC) and extends from Abbotsford and Mission to Hope. It has a mild climate with warm summers and mild winters, which is prior to produce apple crop (Climate Action Initiative, 2015; A Guide to BC’s Agriculture Resources, 2014). Apples are one of the most valuable edible horticulture crops in BC. BC produces 21% of apple in Canada (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 2013). About 2% of BC apples are…

that USSR was no longer fully reliable. The 1971 Ping-Pong Diplomacy can be viewed as the demonstration of a friendly gesture to America Facing the deteriorating relationship with the Soviets, China set aside their ideological differences and other issues, such as the Taiwan problem, agreeing on the Sino-American Rapprochement. For the next part of the essay, I will focus on the how various historians’ viewed the significance of Nixon’s speech and his trip. The orthodox historical analyst of…

no resemblance to reality, let along to the media censorship in China. Yet that assumption could not be more wrong. Fahrenheit 451 symbolizes the reality of censorship that many in China live with during political unrests. But first, try to imagine living in Hong Kong with the following…

working condition are highly secured. Furthermore, staying in Hong Kong can be a lot easier to access to Mainland China, which can be known when Chester stating Tuppy must be making smashing business connections and able to make piles of money on page 168 of the play. At last, we see Hong Kong at least, is relatively independent under “One country, two systems” compared to other cities in China. However, because of the initial fear and selfishness, he has already lost Tuppy even though he…

When web culture enters academic vision, it is also the time to indicate the existence of girl-oriented subculture. In this new field, China can be a special example in many ways, and this makes Chinese girl-oriented subculture an interesting topic. First, a large part of girl-oriented subculture I discuss here is inherited from Japan, including the terms such as “danmei” and “fujoshi”. The different is, Japanese girl subculture started before the Internet age, while the growing up of Chinese…

1. Shidu 5. Birth Tourism The OCP has led to the growth of an interesting phenomenon of pregnant women running out of mainland china for delivery. Hong Kong and Saipan, a US territory are becoming the hot sites of this so called “Birth Tourism” Many went to Hong Kong, which is exempt from the one-child policy. Likewise, a Hong Kong passport differs from China mainland passport by providing additional advantages. Recently though, the Hong Kong government has drastically reduced the quota of…

Against the background of the First Opium War (1840–42), Western photographers visited China for the first time, accompanying Western military personnel, missionaries, and consular officials. The earliest recorded photographic activity in China by Western photographers was in July 1842, only three years after the invention of the medium. Dr. Richard Woosnam (1815–1888) and Major George Alexander Malcolm (1810–1888) made daguerreotypes at Yangtze (Yangzi) River during the final stages of the…

The Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware is run by the government Leisure and Cultural Services department. The building itself was the former Headquarter House of the Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong. In 1984, it turned to be the Museum of Tea Ware, it was the first specialized museum in the world devoted to the collection, study and display of tea wares. The core collections and historical relics were donated by Dr. K.S. Lo, it included about 600 pieces of tea wares and related vessels.…