Traditionalism

Jin provides small comparisons between Shuyu and Manna in Waiting. He likens Shuyu's eyes to tadpoles but notes that Manna’s pupils were “radiant like a bird” (Jin 51). He compares the way that Shuyu’s bound feet were an embarrassment to Lin to the way that Lin received pleasure from Manna’s feet when he touched them, a nod to Lin desiring traits of New China (Jin 43). Shuyu’s hands were callused and aged from working and taking care of Lin’s parents while Manna’s hands were “warm and smooth”…

Traditions are the identity of a particular society, to rid oneself of these traditions is to take on modernity. The difficulty of living simultaneously with both traditionalism and modernity is portrayed in Khushwant Singh’s The Wog, a story based in India. When Mr. Sen takes part in an arranged marriage with a traditional Hindu woman, he immediately regrets this decision of agreeing to an arranged marriage (Singh 301)…

A Fatal Transformation: Mikhail Gorbachev Leadership in the Soviet Union contained several dimensions of complexities. To significantly change the political system from its former Communist style leadership, the Soviet Union required a dedicated, intelligent, and compassionate leader. Paving the pathway towards building a free society would not happen overnight; rather, it would take years to refine and develop. Transforming the Soviet Union in the late 20th century presented challenges for…

eventual fall of both Empires completely. The fall of the Chinese and Ottoman Empires was due to them not modernizing quick enough, their unwillingness to reform to what the rest of the world was doing and their unwillingness to let go of their traditionalism. “In the World in the Twentieth Century from Empires to Nations” Daniel Brown and Thomas Sander explained the fall of the Chinese and Ottoman Empire. In the seventeenth century the warrior tribes who controlled the Chinese Empire were…

Since the beginning of modernism in the 18th we start seeing art in different ways. It rejected the ideals of traditionalism allowing artist to expand outside their horizons to different mediums and techniques. From there forward we see all types of styles such as impressionism, minimalism, abstract, photorealism, pop art and more. Just like photography, dance is becoming more and more popular in the art industry. The acknowledgment that it has received recently its immense that dance is now a…

parts of the sacred tradition that contribute to such perspectives need to be recognized, critiqued, and rejected, not accorded the status of some divine norm for male behavior and attitudes. While the protests exemplified a shift away from the traditionalism in which gender has been encased, they also represented a shift in the direction of a neoliberal political rationality that is increasingly characterizing and shaping the terms of gender within the global context and international legal…

Gentile society (De Lange and Freud-Kandel 2005, p.83), whilst keeping their own laws. Despite its rejection of criticism and autonomy, Modern Orthodoxy is considered a modern movement due to its basis in intellectualism and it stands between traditionalism and modernism (De Lange 2010,…

Frantz Fanon argues in his piece On Natural Culture that a growing national culture grows in parallel to progress in decolonization. This resistance revitalizes and adds to traditional culture, while often injecting new forms of expression. He writes, “a national culture is the whole body of efforts made by a people in the sphere of thought to describe, justify, and praise the action through which that people has created itself and keeps itself in existence” (Fanon, 492). Fighting for liberation…

respective country, Fowler represents Europe in Vietnamese colonialism because, “Fowler… avoids political engagement… which saves him from the mistakes of Pyle” (Kerr 98). Phuong, Fowler’s Vietnamese girlfriend, symbolizes Vietnamese “innocence” and traditionalism as it comes in contact with European influence, represented by Fowler, as Vietnam transitions from European to American, represented by Pyle, occupation; in which Phuong does briefly leave Fowler for Pyle because of Pyle’s promises for…

the pioneers of this movement. This phenomenon can be seen particularly in reading 2,3,5 and 6. In reading 2, the author first mentioned how China was used to be a country that stayed with traditional visions and believed modernism was all about traditionalism and nationalism only. However, the Yung Wing Mission started in 1850 has set a pathway for the Chinese to go to America for further studies. Although the mission was canceled in a glimpse, it was considered as the beginning of the Chinese…