Song Dynasty

As a community largely formed by immigrants, the local and community organizations available to certain ethnic groups can be a very important factor in the health, social and economic conditions of the group. The organizations that we will discuss next are only the main organizations that have been officially established and recognized. Judging by the fact that there are so many local/community organizations specifically tailored towards this ethnic group, we can conclude that the Chinese…

Social and Cultural Risks 1. Religion The religious landscape of China is extremely diverse with 100 million followers of various faiths. Chinese religion is generally known to have two opposed and complimentary principles; yin and yang. The dominant religion is Buddhism, followed by Confucianism, and Taoism. The core value of harmony is where these beliefs overlap. 2. Family There is a tremendous emphasis placed on lineage and family ties. Many Chinese citizens can trace their genealogy…

Kingston opens her autobiography with a tale of a nameless aunt. She describes the way in which women who are impregnated out of wedlock are treated in China, in this case, utterly erased from memory. Her father 's sister committed suicide after all of the villagers in her rural Chinese village destroyed their home, taking the baby along with her. Then her name is forgotten, her line is severed, and she is denied the sacred burial rites of the Chinese. Kingston reflects on this harsh treatment…

As the Chinese made their way for America most of their intentions were to make money in order to send money to their families back in China. For men from China, they would make their journey across the Pacific Ocean and start their work while searching for a woman to make a prosperous family. Women in China would hope for a man to need a wife in America by way of an arranged marriage rather than being in China where they would not have as bright of futures. If an arranged marriage was set up…

Chinese American Students Experience High Parental Pressure According to the data from the U.S. Census Bureau, Chinese Americans are the largest ethnic group of Asian demographic in the United States. Their population has been increasing tremendously by 37.9% in this decade (Hoeffel 15). Being one of the largest ethnic group in the United States, their presence has significant impacts on various aspects that relate to the overall development of the country, these include but are not limited to…

Kingston displays in a “A Song for A Barbarian Reed Pipe, a story of a displaced mother raising her children in a culture and language different than that of her homeland when she begins, “Here is a story my mother told me, not when I was young, but recently, when I told her I also talk story.” (Kingston 206). Being the focus of the story, character Ts’ai Yen represents the plight of both the reality and collective fiction of the author when she begins to sing her own song amidst the alien…

Chinese Acrobats I chose to do my reflection on my experience seeing the Chinese Acrobats. The Chinese acrobats performed at the World Theater at California State University Monterey Bay. The acrobats were from Peoples Republic of China, and used their skills to engage the audience through talented gymnastics, dance, and martial arts. Each distinctive and special talent offered a very unique outlook of the Chinese culture. The Peoples Republic of China’s culture is very important to their…

In Mona in the Promised Land, by Gish Jen, Mona Chang’s parents immigrate from China. In doing so, Mona, a teenager, is forced to assimilate to American culture. Mona’s friends, Barbara Gugelstein, helps her navigate through American culture; however, Mona’s parents help her hold on to her own culture. On the other hand, Ramón de las Casas, or Papi, in Negocios, by Junot Díaz, comes to America by himself, struggling to look for a stable home and job, having no one to look up to. Ramón and Mona…

.“This Land so Rich in Beauty” is an ink paiting drawed by Guan Shanyue and Fu Baoshi in 1959. The calligraphy is not by either of the painters, but based on one of the poems written by Mao Zedong who is the chairman of the Communist Part. It is the decoration of the government buildings, the Great Hall of the People, and highly praised by contemporaries in all the immense collaborative paintings.(p.218, Art in China) The inscription on the top of the left is a sentence from the poem which named…

Works of literature raise several questions throughout their stories. Each work of art poses a main question that does not quite offer an answer as a critic named Roland Barthes has once stated. Amy Tan illustrates a question that does not completely offer an answer in her novel The Joy Luck Club in which Tan narrates the lives of four different mothers who are part of this club which meets to eat food and discuss things which brought all of them joy. The mothers emigrated from China and those…