Music of China

The Skeletons’ Illusory Performance (Palace Museum), is an ink and colors on silk painting produced by the artist Li Song in the 13th century. This painting has the dimensions of a width of 10 5/8 inches by a height of 10 ⅜ inches. The painting is showing with minute brushstrokes a woman holding a child sitting next to a skeleton playing with a puppet of a smaller skeleton and a child and woman facing them mesmerized by the puppet. The brushstrokes are very difficult to see from afar, but as it…

In such an increasingly connected world, the cultural communication between countries and regions has been intensified, but some of them have lost their own identity. Globalization and political tactics have benefited economic development and stabilized regions but in the long run, the disadvantages overweigh advantages. Globalization and the political strategy have made their unique design more homogenous and naturally impacted its development in the present and future. It is vital that the…

suspense and certain expectation about just what might happen as well as empathize with the narrator’s mother, who had had to abandon her babies while fleeing from Kweilin. Another aspect of the setting is the place describes in the story Guangzhou, China, which relates to thing the character feel. An example can be notice in the shoving and pushing of the crowd as the narrator was getting off the train in Guangzhou. Using imagery to show the reader the story, Tan also uses color, background,…

civilisation. Confucianism, Daoism, and legalism. I will tell you all about all three philosophies and how they work. The first one is Confucianism. It started in 551 to 479 B.C.E. The founder’s name was Confucius and he was born in Lu in eastern China. He deeply respected the Chinese traditions. Confucianism is the golden rule; respect others above you like father and son. Older sibling and younger sibling, friend and friend. It made the government better because they had to put more respect…

1 (A) Shu Ting compares time, trees and stars to an assembly line in the poem of the same name. (B) The comparison of nature to an assembly line helps to create the mood of sadness and gloom. Her comparison also shows the audience how nature is dull just like the poets emotions. 2 (A) Shu Tin’s interpretation of Bei Doa’s poem is said to be bleak, gloomy or pessimistic. (B) It seems that the author is making a reference to nature again and how the roots of the positive future to come had…

There is a drastic difference in the concepts of male and female equality during the time Lindo was a girl in China versus Waverly in America. In China, there was an invisible yet strong rule that men and women have different duties in life, as well as different privileges. Lindo, when she was a small child was betrothed to a boy whom she didn’t know. This is because back then, girls didn’t have any choice nor could have any opinion on which man they could and wanted to marry. A good portion of…

In this day and age students are tested. They are tested in everything. Once a child enters school they are in for a lifetime of being tested. Many people believe these tests do not represent all types of intelligence, and that children have their own unique aptitudes. In “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” Amy Chua goes on to describe this as “Western” thinking. Is this why the Chinese and a multitude of other Asian countries test scores tower above those of the average child raised by western…

In the East, particular within the great ancient Chinese civilizations, two very different kinds of point to view of being Human had come to flourish in the Chinese culture. Which till this very day influences the day by day tasks and challenges faced by many. On one side there is the world renowned teachings of Confucius (Kongzi) which talks of becoming the perfect society via men who become the perfect gentlemen that followed his teachings in his Analects. On the other side we have the life…

Men’s superior status to women was raised to a philosophical form, which is the theory of Yin-Yang and Qian-Kun. The metaphor of Yin-Yang and Qian-Kun can be generally treated as the conceptual counterpart of the Western notion of femaleness and masculinity, however, their early forms were not intended to denote any human relations. “Yin-Yang” first appeared as a geographical concept, and with the development of society, was given the different meanings of softness and strength, extending to the…

The novel, “The Power of Place: Geography, Destiny, and Globalization’s Rough Landscape”, by Harm De Blij has taught me many things ranging from medical aspects to cultural problems within countries all around Earth. De Blij taught me as the world is “flattening” we are being able to connect easier to different places all over the world, but as the world is “flattening” cities are becoming less like the ones around them and more like different cities across the globe. As these cities are…