Sichuan

known and are considered the “four great culinary traditions of China” (Bai, 2012; Swislocki, 2009) coming from all four sides: Shandong or Lu cuisine in the North, Huaiyang or Jiangsu cuisine in the East, Guangdong or Yue cuisine in the South, and Sichuan or Chuan in the west. These four great cuisines will be assessed in this paper. Locals of China distinguish the four great cuisines briefly by detailing that, “South is sweet, north is salty; east is spicy, and west is sour” (Li, 2015).…

GoGreen research on Apple Apple is a world famous technology company 1. What product the company produces and how Apple producing mobile phones and computers, the pollution happened as the electronic producer. Korean company LG made LCD Panels, Samsung made Batteries, and SK Hynix made Chipset. Taiwan company TSMC made DRAM & Flash Memory of the iPhone. A French-Italian company STMicroelecronics produced the Gyroscope in iPhone. 85% of all are assembled in China Foxconn. 2. What externalities…

One winter break, we group of five friends planned to spend time together. We came up with the idea to go trekking to Ghandruk- a popular trekking destination located in Annapurna Region of Nepal and is the 200-kilometer drive from Kathmandu (the Capital City of Nepal). I was much delighted to visit the magnificent and charming beauty of Ghandruk since I was virtually enjoying the glamorous view through television and internet. Finally, it was the moment to unveil the ravishing scene of Ghandruk…

China’s ethnic composition is much homogeneous with 91.9% of population being Han peoples, other ethnicities are Hui, Mongols, Zhuang, Miao, Tibetans and Uyghurs. Some ethnic groups are more distinguishable due to physical appearances and relatively low intermarriage rates. They have intermarried with Han Chinese, and have similar appearances. They are less distinguishable from Han people, especially a growing number of ethnic minorities are fluent at a native level in Mandarin Chinese. In…

For the social justice interview, I chose Wei Zhou, a professor at Sichuan University and member of Constitutional and Civil Rights Center. The Center is a public interest litigation organization in China. Its mission is to protect basic civil rights of citizens, promote the enforcement of the Constitution, and realize social justice. I chose him for some reasons. First, he is involved in social justice. Second, he has taken some measures to initiate social changes. Third, as a professor, he is…

In 2009, there is an estimated population of 145 million rural-urban migrants in China, which represents 11% of the total population in China (Hu, 2012). Nearly 80% of the total migrants in China are located in the provinces of Guangdong, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangsu and the cities of Beijing and Shanghai (Tuñón, 2006). Migration into urban areas has created overcrowding, increased competition for resources and congestion in transportations. The rural areas deserted by the migrants faced new…

Mary Roach's 2003 novel, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, explores rich and diverse experiences that post-mortem bodies undergo in the non-life phase. Roach gives a detailed description using open, uncensored episodes of interviews of people who work in close proximity with cadavers ranging from doctors to morticians to body farm personnel. Through personal fascination and humorous experiences, Roach shows how cadavers are the uncelebrated heroes of our past, present, and future time…

migrant laborers return to their native villages. This egress is the largest human migration in the world. The documentary films one couple who has emplaned on these annual hegiras for nearly two decades. The Zhangs departed their home village in Sichuan province and their children to seek job in a garment factory in Guangzhou for 16 years and travel back only once a year — like countless rural poor. This film represents both the struggles of migrant laborers and the issue of China’s rural-urban…

The giant panda, also known as panda bear is a bear that is native to south central China. The scientific classification of the giant panda is that it originates from the kingdom: Animalia, phylum: Chordata, class: Mammalia, family: Ursidae, genus: Ailuropoda, and species: A. melanoleuca3. The giant panda has been added to the endangered species list in 2007. Conservation needs to be done by humans to prevent damage to the world that humans have caused. Without conservation, our lives will…

The hunting was excessive but desirable since the pandas’ coats were very soft and warm. One last reason why Giant Pandas are endangered is harvesting. People harvest medicinal plants to sell, but the pandas eat and need these plants to thrive (Sichuan Giant Pandas). Likewise, people also use the trees of the forest to make fires to light stoves and the like. The trees are also part of the pandas’ habitat and taking them causes an impact on them. These are a few reasons that the Giant Panda…