Music of China

s ignorance truly bliss? Ignorance is the lack of knowledge or information about a particular subject or fact. Such as, at one time, one would think that eating Chinese food, you would start to look Chinese. This portrays ignorance due to the fact that one has a lack of knowledge about a particular culture and it’s food that they misinterpret someone else's culture. Therefore, humans should become more knowledgeable about what is going on around them on a local, national, and global level in…

collection New Songs from a Jade Terrace communicates imagery of women creating silk while a brazier blazes in the background. She then explains how the poem provides insight into to how this scene in the painting could have been interpreted in ancient China (122-123). The way that Blanchard makes reference to and includes the poem suggest that her argument relating to poetry is based on research. Another example of Blanchard’s use of secondary sources discusses the bureau of work. She describes…

Chinese Philosopher, Hsun Tzu is the author of “Encouraging Learning.” He became a significant figure towards the advancement of Chinese philosophy. Continued education was the focus in this article; however, Tzu being a firm promoter of education chose to highlight human nature in the natural world. He covers topics ranging from how to conduct yourself as an educated person to how to apply that knowledge learned. To educate ourselves according to Confucius’s way according to our reading…

The Nineteen Old Poems play an essential role in ancient Chinese literature. There are nineteen poems involved. Each of the poems expresses a unique theme. The first poem I picked is “Nineteen Old Poems XIX” . The poet describes the moonlight at the beginning of the poem. The description of the moonlight begins the whole poem and drives the whole content of the poem. There is only the poet himself in an unfamiliar city. The bright moonlight makes him miss for his hometown and relatives,…

Throughout this summer I read the book “Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language” by Deborah Fallows. It is a memoir about the discoveries Deborah Fallows made through her journey of living in China for three years. She wrote about the good and bad but also the different things she learned in the process. For example she wrote about her troubles when she first started getting introduced to the different tones, but then she learned that although the tones may sound the…

The short story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan tells about a young Chinese girl named Ni Kan who lives in America and learns to play the piano. I will be comparing and contrasting this story to my personal story, where as a child I moved to China and learned to play the piano. There are some similarities and some surprising differences in the stories obstacles, conflicts, and transformations. In the story "Two Kinds" Ni Kan faced many obstacles trying to learn to play the piano. Her first obstacle was…

Chinese Buddhist monk’s journey from China to India. The topic of the essay is directly taken from the excerpt which is the primary source of my essay. It is the account of the journey of a Chinese monk, Faxian, from China to India through Central Asia. Faxian wrote the book from which this excerpt is taken. The excerpt was written to give an account of the journey of Faxian from China to India to seek better copies on the books of Buddhism that were available in China. The source explores some…

In Annie Murphy's " Tiger Moms: Is Tough Parenting Really the Answer" article, the reader know about how mother Amy Chua raised her children in a rigorous matter to ensure that her two daughters were prepared for their future the author, Annie Murphy Paul, describes why Amy Chua, who is a Chinese mother, commonly used the parenting style of Tiger mother to treat and raise her children. First of all, Paul states that the Tiger Moms style is the most effective way to raise our children for…

Li Bai wrote “Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon” in 774AD when he stayed in Chang’an, which is the capital of the Tang Dynasty. In this time, Li Bai would like to achieve his ambitions. Because of his deceit and jealousy, and because his mistrusted Li Bai, Emperor Tang Ming Huang did not put him in an important position, for the emperor did not trust him. For this reason, Li Bai felt lonely, depressed and discontented. Moreover, one of his best friends, Zhizhang He, returned home several months…

On a visit to Japan 1991, Liang Senior identified the microwave oven as a product with great potential in China. Little did he know what was about to unfold in front of him. Over the next 20 years, Galanz became a powerhouse in the microwave oven market, not only in China, but the world. The purpose of this report is to critically discuss three decisions taken by Galanz that successfully reconciled the market-based and resource-based view of strategy from 1997-2003. The three decisions chosen…