Religion in China

The practice of Buddhism and several Buddhism connections by the samurai transformed from the end of the Heian Period to the Tokugawa Period, especially the for the shoen system in Japan. During the Heian Period, the control of land and agricultural production was an important concept to the samurai. However, during the Kamakura Period, the jito came into the picture and took over the shoen system. By the mid-fourteenth to the late sixteenth century, the shoen declined due to four different…

Throughout history people seem to have always come together, though certainly not all through the same means, with the most successful cultures eventually establishing civilizations. These civilizations are as different as the environments they developed in and the societies that composed them. One such civilization that is worth taking note of is one of the longest lasting and most impressive that has ever existed. Its impressive history is rivaled by few: Ancient Egypt. These were a people…

All the kids are doing it. They’re doing it in the park, in their yard, between buildings, and just about anywhere there’s two structures to tie down to. I’m talking about the latest sport activity trend, slacklining. Hikers first used slacklining way back in the 70’s. They used the activity as a way to exercise their balance in between hiking adventures. Now, it has grown from an exercise to an everyday activity. The people who participate in slacklining, are often humorously called slackers.…

her train leaves Hong Kong and enters China? Jing-Mei feels like she is becoming Chinese. What does Jing-Mei’s name mean and what does her name make the essence of? The beginning part of her name means pure essence and the other part means younger sister. Her name makes the essence of her two sisters. Who found the abandoned babies? They were found by a peasant couple who raised them. How does this novel relate to Tan’s life? Tan visited her half sisters in China after her mother suffered an…

popular stereotype of the Chinese and Japanese people being rash and unloving. "Dreaming of Li Po" by Tu Fu, "Analects" by Confucious, Tanka Poetry, and "Fish Cheeks" by Amy Tan, prove these statements to be untrue. They impact our perceptions of China and Japan into ones of stark human emotions that everyone around the world can relate to.…

On March 29, 1974, at Xi’an in China, three local farmers were digging a well in hopes to find water, but instead broke into a pit that contained 6000 Terracotta figures. This was only one of the pits that they had found until an excavation started in 1976, which revealed two more pits of Terracotta Warriors. This is now known as the Terracotta Army, which I think is a wonderful historic mystery for a young adult (teen) -action, mystery, romance etc.- novel. Than my other studied Historical…

Yuan, northern China was taken over by the Jurchen/Tartars, a semi-nomadic pastoral group consisting of skilled riders and archers. Huizong, who was the last emperor of the Song dynasty, focused his time on the arts rather than China’s nomadic or foreign relationships. His disinterest caused the take-over to be more plausible. The Yellow River, which protected China from foreign attacks as well as fed their agriculture, was included in the land taken by the Jurchen/Tartars. China, feeling…

In my CASPA personal statement, I wrote about my parents, who are my role models and inspiration for pursuing a career in the medical field. They were immigrants from China and taught me Chinese, my first language. When I was a child, I spoke almost exclusively in Chinese until I started preschool. After I started school, I worked diligently to improve my English. Years of hard work paid off and I became fluent in English but, unfortunately, my Chinese language skills diminished. Because my…

Brooklyn’s Chinatown also known as 8th Avenue by current residents, is one of the most widespread growing areas populated with Chinese immigrants. It is also known as Little Fuzhou mainly due to the immigrants from Fujian, a province in the mainland of China. Rapidly growing in population, immigrants from Fujian are spreading to areas between the boroughs of Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens, drawing away the original Cantonese residents with many concerns of the discriminations brought upon the…

Kingston’s mother uses the celebration of Fa Mu Lan’s return from war to teach Kingston how to become a perfect Chinese woman warrior who fights modern day injustice. After being criticised for being a girl while seeing the boys get praised, Kingston tries her best to be like a boy. Kingston points out, ”I went away to college- Berkeley in the sixties- and I studied, and I marched to change the world, but I did not turn into a boy. I would have liked to bring myself back as a boy for my parents…