Chapter 1: A Short Story

Explanation: When the war between China and Japan becomes more and more intensely, every Chinese people including the aboard hate Japan because Japan invade their land and attack their compatriots. But Meiying, who is a wonderful girl in Chinatown, has a boyfriend as a Japanese people. In that time, it is such a terrible thing because the Chinese people believe that people who has communication with Japanese is a traitor. Meiying keeps the secret for such a long time but

Jin Wang is embarrassed to even be apart of his family by the way he acts and how he represents their culture. He now can see how hard it is to fit in.

Synopsis: The year of the panda , by Miriam Schlein. Lu yi a young boy living in a farm with his father learning how to do things just the way he taught him. The young boy wasn't like any other kids his curiosity led him to many other things such as discovering strange things finding objects on the floor when he worked with his father Lu yi had many characteristics that made him different and showed that he was special. One day while he was working with his father he heard two cars pull up to his driveway, lu yi quickly ran to hide behind some bushes and began to pay attention as two men began to approach his father. One of the guys began to talk to Lu yi’s father and started telling him that he needed to move from the farm that he was

When Jing Mei recognizes the similarities between her mother and herself she begins to understand not only her mother but herself as well. There are subtle connections and likenesses from the beginning between Jing Mei and her mother that Jing Mei does not see. The book commences with Jing Mei taking her mother's place at the mah jong table, creating a similarity between them from the beginning. Suyuan dies two months before the start of the book, and therefore is not able to tell the stories. Jing Mei has learned and must tell her stories in her place, forming another parallelism between mother and daughter. Because Suyuan is dead, Jing Mei must act in place of her mother when she goes to meet her Chinese sisters in China. Throughout the book Jing Mei takes the place of Suyuan, showing she and her mother

As Jing-Mei grows older, her mother decides to give her daughter a gift, the piano.  Suyuan says, “You pick up fast.  You have natural talent.  You could be a genius if you want to,” (154).  This represents forgiveness, both forgetting what happened in the past.  Suyuan goes on to tell her daughter that she was not trying when she was younger.  Part of the Chinese culture was to always keep trying,

However, once Jing-mei stepped off the plane and saw her sisters, she was able to embrace them with "all hesitations and expectations forgotten"(331). The rapport between Jing-mei and her sisters demonstrates the capability of Jing-mei to forget her fears and have faith that she can do anything. Both Suyuan and Jing-mei worked through their problems by remaining strong and willful, making their lives much easier in the end.

Also, their relationship is shaped by the pressure Suyuan puts on her daughter. When Jing-Mei was growing up, her mother had the need for her daughter to be smart, talented, and a respectful Chinese daughter. This pressure put on Jing-Mei resulted in misunderstanding between mother and daughter. Jing-Mei constantly believed, “that she was disappointing her mother,” because she felt as if she failed at everything her mother wanted her to do. She believed she could never be as perfect as her mother was. Therefore she doesn’t think she is worthy enough to take her mother’s place at the Joy Luck Club “They must wonder now how someone like me can take my mother’s place” (Tan, 27). Jing-Mei does not understand that her mother wanted the best for her; Suyuan wanted Jing-Mei to challenge herself because that is how one builds up character. Suyuan thinks her daughter could do anything she proposed to do but never put enough effort into anything “Lazy to rise to expectations” (Tan 31). Furthermore, Suyuan forced Jing-Mei to learn how to play the piano and then perform at a recital. Jing-Mei rebelled against her mother and refused to learn how to play the piano well. So, at the recital she ends up forgetting the music notes. Jing-Mei blames her embarrassment on her mother and states,

In contrast, during the era of The Story Yingying, the cultural norm for a woman was to be submissive, patient, and passive. Yingying upheld all of these cultural standards. After meeting Zhang for the first time Yingying showed no interest in him at all but overtime Yingying finally gave into Zhang and fell in love and they became engaged. Unfortunately, Zhang had to leave for a year to go take a civil service examination, but he promised her he would come back to her. She waited patiently and after a year, her fiancé returned but shortly after had to leave again to retake the examination. Again she waited patiently for his return, but he never came back. After waiting for years for her fiancé to return, she became eager to

The name of Xin-hua translates to New China and it was her powerful belief for a new China that made her determination so strong. Throughout Forbidden City her determination seemed to grow. It required a lot of guts and determination for the powerless ordinary people to take on the all-powerful government. Determination, though not her only characteristic, was certainly the strongest one, but through her determination she showed Alex a different world. To die for your country is not as heart rending than to be executed by an army who used to die for their country instead of killing their people. Xin-hua, though fictional, was one among thousands of people who died for their beliefs and still had no effect on China's Communist Party.

Elliott gives an exuberant furthermore, captivating story that touches upon various parts of the Qianlong rule. The initial three sections take after a generally ordered approach, itemizing thusly Qianlong's early life, his first years in control, and familial obligations and their effect on his run the show. As Elliott notes, `A distraction

Jing-Mei feels differently though, “Unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to. I could only be me,” (359/80) and she was correct for she had no natural musical talent. Jing-Mei has a desire to please her mother, but an even stronger one to choose her own life. She pacifies her mother by going to piano lessons but puts in no effort. Jing-Mei is “…determined to put a stop to her blind foolishness,” (356/48) but her mother’s desire to create a prodigy to compete with Aunt Lindo’s daughter, keeps her focused on the impossible. That is, until Jing-Mei escalates this conflict to its breaking point in rebellion. Stunning her mother, she shouts “Then I wish I’d never been born! I wish I were dead! Like them,” (359/77) referring to the twin daughters her mother lost in China. Sadly, the mother’s desire to have Jing-Mei conform to her expectations creates a constant battle between mother and daughter, and, in rejecting those expectations, seeing disappointment in her mother’s face all too often causes Jing-Mei to feel, “something inside me began to die” (353/18).

Furthermore, Jing-mei discovers, “Old Chong’s eyes were too slow to keep up with wrong notes [she] was playing,”(472). As a result, Jing-mei performs “Pleading Child” miserably at the talent show her parents and all of the members of the Joy Luck Club attended. Jing-mei saw the disapproval and shame on her mother’s face, and decided to stop practicing piano. If Jing-mei’s mother wouldn’t have looked so disappointed and been proud of her daughter Jing-mei wouldn’t have been so discouraged. Jing-mei would’ve still had faith in herself like she did before her performance. “When my turn came, I was very confident. I remember my childish excitement. It was as if I knew, without a doubt, that the prodigy side of me really did exist. I had no fear whatsoever, no nervousness. This is it!” (474). After seeing the dismay in her parents eyes Jing-mei changed her whole outlook on the situation, which weakened Jing-mei’s pride, causing her to fully rebel from being a prodigy. Furthermore, encouraging her to be who she wanted to be.

A. Introduction In Chinese history, sometimes beauties are being blamed for the downfall of a regime. Chen Yuanyuan, a courtesan who lived during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, was one of them. Popular Chinese stories used her relationship with Wu Sangui, a Ming general, as a subject to explain Wu's fateful surrender to Qing. This essay will tackle the ethical dilemma in this context to scrutinize the moral status of Wu’s act by applying three main ethical theories: consequentialism, deontology and virtue ethics.

Her mother new she would have that sudden change of mind set because she new eventually Jing Mei would visit China and finally feel what it was like to feel Chinese. When her mother passes away and Jing Mei has to go find her mothers twin daughters to tell them the tragedy that had happened we see this affects her in a profound way. We see a change in Jing Mei when they arrive to Guangzhou. Her father and her where there to meet her fathers aunt and family members, we see how Jing Mei realizes the change in her fathers mood when her arrives to his homeland in comparison when he was in San Francisco. She notices that while her father was traveling he saw nothing out the window, nothing impressive, but when he arrived at Guangzhou she felt his joy to be there and see his family he hadn’t seen in so long.

Xi Jinping is the second son of Xi Zhongxun with his second wife Qi Xin. When Xi was a young child, Xi’s family was very affluent and lived in Zhongnanhai leadership compound next to the Forbidden City. However, in 1962, Xi Zhongxun was accused by Mao Zedong of forming an anti-party clique and purged from all leadership positions. Consequently, the family was kicked out from Zhongnanhai and lost much of their wealth and status. In 1965, Xi’s father was sent to Luoyang in Henan as the deputy manager of a tractor factory. His mother was also sent down to a work camp in the countryside in 1966 when Mao launched the Cultural Revolution. His father was further punished in 1968 and was finally jailed.