Qing Dynasty

Many high school students today studied the Opium War, a battle that is fought between China and Britain. The end result concludes that China lost, so Britain demands reparations from China because they cut off the opium trade with Britain. The British also colonized Hong Kong and restructured the Chinese government, leaving the Chinese powerless. The concept of reparations is used worldwide, whether it be used for justice or for power. In a more modern context, an article, “The Case for…

Torture, starvation, and lack of sleep are all things some people have to face every day. For years the Chinese have allowed for thousands of people to lose their human rights and suffer in labor camps. These labor camps are part of the re-education through labor act. They are meant to house the guilty but often hold the innocent. These camps violate several human rights: freedom from torture, right to rest and leisure, right to a fair public hearing, and the right to belief and religion. The…

Summary: The story was about Jin Wang, who was a American born Chinese growing in the Chinatown of San Francisco. During his childhood at Mayflower Elementary School, he encountered lots of identity problems. For example, classmates made fun of him because they assumed all Chinese ate dogs. He did not know how to respond to this racial stereotype. However, his teacher did nothing to help him out of this struggling myth. She said maybe Jin’s family had stopped eating dogs before going to the US.…

There was controversy towards China from westerners Europeans and in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. After the invention of the compass and gunpowder, the Chinese seemed to not engage in making any new evolutionary progress. Until external connections entered China through the Eighteenth Century that brought new technologies and skills, that help boosts Chinas success When Jesuits missionaries entered China, there was a controversy at first on the attempts to excite the…

Journey to Rainbow Island Christie Hsiao Yu-ning, Metatron, Supurna, Hobaling, Balthazar Setting: Rainbow Island, Gracia Island, Grey City Time: Summer, Fall 383 pages Yu-ning lived on a beautiful island where hatred, jealousy, and strife were not known. This island was a special place in many people’s hearts. It was called Rainbow Island. Yu-ning was an eleven year old dark haired girl. She was the leader of all the island children. A very special girl at that. Yu-ning meant love and…

In the reading “Half the Sky” “Investing in Education,” Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn discusses a thirteen-year-old girl, Dai Manju, a thin girl with black hair and shorter than an average American thirteen-year-old who lives in the Dabie Mountains of central China. The family has no electricity, running water, or any form of transportation. Manju’s parents were illiterate and they did not see any reason for a girl to be educated, especially for $13 per year so she was forced to drop out of…

Research Question: To what extent did the uprising of peasants during the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 contribute to the Chinese Communist Party’s victory over the Chinese Nationalist Party in the Chinese Revolution in 1946? Relevance of the Source: The two sources that are evaluated are Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village by William Hinton and The Reluctant Combatant: Japan and the Second Sino-Japanese War by Lin Si-Yun and Minoru Kitamura. These sources are relevant to my…

“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I 've ever known.”- Chuck Palahniuk. Chuck Palahniuk states that our own identities are not only formed by ourselves, but also by the culture around us. Gene Luen Yang 's Boxers & Saints follows the lives of Bao and Four during the Boxer uprising in China, as they struggle to find their identities. The uprising forces Bao and Four to chose whom they identify with, their fellow countrymen or the foreigners and christians. Through…

First, I want to examine the debate on regulating local currencies in late imperial China. Studying this intellectual debate can explain why the Qing government did not regulate local currencies. Second, I will review the decision making process of currency reform. The way the KMT thought about the local interests was critical to the central-provincial relations. Third, I want to know how the currency…

Sometimes I am curious about what the many different groups of minorities feel like in the United States. For example, their struggles, emotions, and actions they choose to make while trying to adjust to a new environment. Eric Liu’s memoir The Accidental Asian demonstrates just that. It depicts the double consciousness, social structures, instances of identity confusion, and the agency a second-generation Chinese American experiences. In high school, he experiences the social structure of…