Culture of China

“The All-American Slurp” by Lensey Namioka is a story about a girl and her family who immigrated to America from China and have a hard time fitting in. They are very embarrassing at restaurants because they don’t exactly know American table manners, but they are starting to fit in. The story shows how the cultures are very different, but also very similar. The Lin family is from a Chinese heritage. They never have dessert, never eat raw veggies, speak Chinese, and zip their celery…

Ensuring Business Negotiation In China As technology advances so does the efficiency in transportation. With fast reliable transportation business people in America want to expand their businesses out of the country. Since China is one of the world largest growing economy, Americans are lure into wanting to make business with them. When Americans go to China, they are not only expose to a new territory but culture as well. By knowing the compare and contrast culture of China, Americans would…

Polyglots tend to be revered by society. They’re masters of many languages, able to comprehend the speech of different countries and cultures. As you stand there, listening to the trained tongue of a polyglot listing off language after language that they have in their arsenal, your eyes begin to glaze over from the continuous rhythm of their words, lulling you to sleep. You fool! How could you fall asleep? Wake up! They have the ability to speak six or more languages, and here you are, you…

Genji’s Future Love Within The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, chapter three titled “Lavender” stands out to encompass many Chinese ideals that help further understand their history and way of life. Throughout the entirety of chapter three, Genji develops a deep interest for a young girl named Murasaki, and the chapter sheds insight on the chase of women and indirectness. In order to fully understand Shikibu’s claims throughout the chapter, it is imperative to unpack the details within the…

Analysis: Kingston recollects her mother’s story telling about heroic Chinese females, similar to Fa Mu Lan, the young lady who went to fight for her father and returned a national legend. Kingston thinks her mother prepares her with the legends of solid women that she could develop into. That is what made Kingston feel that she can be a warrior woman; it is not impossible. In Kingston’s fantasy, she started to follow a bird up into the mounts until she passed by a shelter of an old couples,…

encounters in the United States. The book focuses not only on those who immigrated to the U.S. from China but preferably on the first generation born in this country. Within the woman in question stories the narrator pulls us into her problems of growing up in an immigrant society and her fight with various aspects of her Chinese heritage: her fear of being sold as a slave if she should return to China, her fear of ghosts, her fear of insanity, and her constant fear of being worthless just…

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 mother’s daughters are all American-born so that there is a little bit of a cultural difference between the mothers and their daughters. Amy Tan poses the question of how mothers influence their daughters as they raise them. Tan…

After living in San Francisco for 2 years, Yinyi began to adapt to different kinds of western culture and had the intention of negotiating American culture. At the same times, she continued to maintain and practice her traditional Chinese habits as a part of her daily routine. For example, she used knives and fork when she had dinner in restaurants but accustomed to the use…

The state of being present is a gift in For I Only Needed Awakening Rachel Goldsworthy's short film For I Only Needed Awakening takes its audience on an adventure through the landscape of China. It focuses on many details of the culture, the vast, stunning environment and the unique people that live there. These beautiful images explore the state of being present, which has become a rare gift to receive in a world that is always striving toward the future or immortalizing the past. In the…

their tribulations while living in China, in an effort to pass on messages of empowerment to their daughters. Through their own narratives, they are able to show their daughters how they were able to survive the hard times while still remaining true to themselves and their cultures. The St. Clair and Jong mothers, both use the terrible circumstances they faced in their marriages in China to reach…