Taishan

Year 1928 and 1929 were important years for Los Angeles born Chinese actress Anna May Wong. News reports about her Hollywood movies were decreased, instead, according to an American gossip columnist visiting Europe during Wong’s tenure, she was “acclaimed by nobility” in several European newspapers (Petersen, 2014). Severely limited by the noxious roles she was offered in Hollywood, which misrepresented Asian women, Wong left United States to Europe (Vechten, 2003). She then spent two years in Germany, England and France where helped her gain global attention and led her toward worldwide stardom. This special period in Wong’s life, was also a sensitive period for Chinese immigrants, for all the colored actors and actresses in Hollywood, who barely made livings under severe discrimination in the US and within the film industry itself. Wong’s legendary, as the most radiant, symbolizes a significant fight back of a woman to the segregation in the society. Anna May Wong was born in 1905 in a Chinese immigrant family near Chinatown in Los Angeles. She was the daughter of a laundryman and started her first role in the year of fourteen in a movie called The Red Lantern. From then on, no one could stop her from becoming the most influential Asian Actress in the world. When I first got to know her two-years filming abroad life, I thought that this might only be a way of extension toward her career. However, when I dig into the stories, I found some behind-the-scene truths. To…

The immortalization of the seven peaks of the Taishan Mountain is critical to understanding the cultural significance of the temple. The Temple of Heaven has two main altars along with some smaller altars. Of the two main ones, the first is called the Circular Mound of Heaven, and the other is the Altar of Prayer for Harvest. At the time when the temple was created, China was plagued with ill weather and famines, because of which it became important for the people to pray to the Gods for a…

Xin Xai is a county-level , under the jurisdiction of Tai'an , Shandong Province, located in the central Shandong Province in.2013, an area of 1946 square kilometers, a population of 1 million 332 thousand, 21 towns and streets, 916 administrative villages (residents), 1 provincial hi tech Development Zone, is the national top 100 counties in Shandong Province, 30 counties of Shandong province. 10 the construction of modern , pilot counties. Xin Tai, located in the hinterland of Shandong,…

What is diversity? Diversity is understanding, accepting, and respecting that everyone is unique and has his or her own differences. Whether the difference is race, ethnicity, religious beliefs or other ideologies, the concept of diversity is to look at these differences in a positive, safe and nurturing environment. I was born and partially raised in China. At the age of nine, I came to the U.S. along with my family. I had just finished second grade in my hometown, Taishan, where Mandarin was…

Her hair is a mixture of black and gray hairs and she has some wrinkles on her face. Regardless of her age though, she appears young and timeless because of the smile that never ceases to disappear from her face. When I asked her if I could interview her, she agreed and told me to fire away. From there, she told me about her life starting with her place of birth and parentage. She told me she was born in a coastal county-level city known as Taishan in the southern province, Guangdong which rests…

From the three poems – “A View of Taishan”, “In the quiet of the Night” and “Drinking Alone with the Moon” – it is evident that the poets are driven toward evoking a correlation between feeling and scene to underscore the fundamental nature of the Chinese lyrical relationship. However, what is at the core of this lyrical relationship is the metaphor or Xing in Chinese context. This is because the metaphor is intertwined in all the stages of the poetic process, running from the creative stages to…

To begin with, we need to look back to the history of my native place, Tayshaun. Taishan is a small county in Guangdong, wit h a population no more than 1 million. But it was from here my ancestors began moving to the United States many years ago, resulting in hundreds of their descendants stepping in this foreign country since that. The reason is following: In American history during the Gold Rush, many Chinese arrived in America looking to strike it rich with hopes of being to send money back…

There are few famous Chinese American from Canton who made significant contribution to their motherland after working hard in the US. Firstly, Taishan’s hero Chen Yixi, who was a master of commerce and industry born to an impoverished family to become a wealthy and successful businessman. He is also a labour contractor, a railroad engineer, and owner of a import-export business based in Seattle. He worked in railway construction for more than forty years in America and accumulated rich…

tastes. Chow Mein is believed to have originated in Northern China, specifically in Pearl River Delta. This part of the country is popular for their noodle-based dishes because of the cool climate. This makes it ideal for growing wheat, the main ingredient in making traditional noodles. From its roots in China, the dish was able to find its way to the United States. In the 1920s, it was even mentioned in Main Street, a novel written by Sinclair Lewis. Many Chinese-American restaurants have…