Misconception Of China

“Well, and I suppose that means you do not want to work on the land and I shall not have a son on my own land, and I with sons and to spare.’ This he said with bitterness, but the boy said nothing” This conversation between him and his son made him finally realize that they wouldn’t carry on their father’s great values, and that is because during the time he was rich he left some traditions behind. Wang lung valued his land and above all he had faith in his gods once again. Traditional values were forgotten by the result of wealthy living, the kids not caring about the farmlands and not understanding the earth gods prove that wealth destroyed ancient traditions.

“Chinese Immigrant Lee Chew Denounces Prejudice in America, 1882” A Comprehensive view of Discrimination in Nineteenth Century America

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Some Americans recognized the racism in Nativism and unlike the majority, advocated for Chinese immigrants. For example, Twain and Addams were public supporters of the immigration and integration of Chinese people. Twain, a 19th century author, stated in his book, Roughing It, that Chinese immigrants, rather than being menacing to the U.S., are “a harmless race when white men either let them alone or treat them no worse than dogs” (Document 4). Twain recognized the abuses that the American people

Soon after, the Hwang family, due to overspending, becomes much poorer. This leads to Wang Lung purchasing their fertile rice fields. Wang Lung endures prosperous times for a long period. Until, O-lan gives birth to a girl, their third child. After the birth of the 3rd child, their land produce little crops. Later, Wang Lung and his family have to leave town and relocate for the oncoming winter. While in the southern town, O-lan and the children beg for food and money. However, Wang Lung makes a living by pushing people on a rickshaw. The family earns barely any money. Wang Lung and a group of other destitute people raid a wealthy house. Wang Lung steals a satchel of gold. Now wealthy, Wang Lung returns home and buys nearly all of the land from the once wealthy Hwang's. Wang Lung hires workers to tend to and care for his land. Wang Lung once again endures prosperous times. Due to a flood, Wang Lung is forced to become much more

Master Hsing Yun grew up in an impoverished, rural village with his family, but the influence of his maternal grandmother helped develop his compassionate and hardworking nature. While his family was out at work, he would do everything he could, including but not limited to tidying up the house, in the hopes of giving his parents a pleasant surprise when they got home. His hard work

The Chinese had a different culture and by trickling into the American population, they were creating ripples American culture. They “followed a different religion, used opium, played different gambling games (fan tan), spoke a different language, wore different clothes and styles, ate different foods, celebrated different holidays, and for lived in a bachelor society rather than as family men with wives and children” (“The Chinese Experience in America”) and people were being exposed to these aspects of their culture. The exposure elicited reactions from white Americans, especially negative ones. The Americans of European backgrounds “could not understand how the Chinese could live in such crowded, poor conditions and work so hard for such low wages” and they couldn’t understand why they were so different. So they resorted to reasoning Chinese immigrants were simply inferior and that the only explanation for the Chinese people's’ differences was that they harbored some superhuman abilities. Novelists during this time took these ideas and wrote stories of Chinese characters. This served as a form of propaganda that only spread these ideas of the Chinese being “superhumans”. A part of the propaganda was spreading that Chinese immigrants were part of a secret plan to invade and take over the government of the United States replacing

At first, Wang Lung struggles to take care of him and his father. His father sets an arranged marriage with a slave girl from the House of Hwang named O-Lan, they get along fine. O-Lan doesn’t speak much, but when she

Wang Lung’s life is a roller coaster, it has ups and downs. In the story, Wang Lung goes from poor farmer, to well off, to a very poor beggar, to a very rich man in a very rich house. He does not earn everything in a linear path throughout his life. Sometimes he loses, sometimes he gains. That is the way life is as well; it’s a mystery.

In the mid 19th century, America was viewed as a hotspot for freedom and wealth. When the noise of the gold rush flooded the world, immigrants started to see America more appetizing than ever. The Chinese saw America as a place to have a fresh start and as a place of refuge because of it’s generosity, so they immigrated to the west in great numbers. There was a large Chinese population in Virginia and all along the Pacific coast. Writers Mark Twain and Maxine Hong Kingston both wrote in great detail about the Chinese Immigrants. They went into detail about the immigrants and how they came over and why. Although Twain and Kingston both wrote about the immigrants in a positive light, Twain was sympathetic of the immigrants and Kingston focused more on their image and her ancestors.

The book begins with the main character Wang Lung waking up on his wedding day, preparing to be wed to a slave of the rich house of Hwang. His father is disapproving of Wang Lung’s feeling to impress his soon to be wife. The chinese culture at the time emphasised the role of a wife is to serve the husband, even if the husband is just a poor farmer. As Wang Lung and O-lan progress in their marriage, O-lan works feverishly to help Wang Lung in the fields. This eventually leads to a slight increase in wealth and social class along with the birth of their first born son. Wang Lung and O-lan continue to work the fields, gain wealth and have another son and their first daughter. Soon after the birth of their third child a great famine hits the town of Wang Lung and the entire household decides to trek north in hopes of finding food in the extravagant city. Once reaching the city, O-lan and the children beg and steal for food while Wang Lung works to provide money. After narrowly avoiding seizure because of a war in the region, all the jobs dry up and Wang Lung starts to debate selling his youngest child t pay for travel back to his homeland. Then a fellow beggar announces that the great palace gates are open and Wang Lung rushes in and seizes enough gold to fund his travel back to his land without selling any of his children. When Wang Lung arrives back home, his house is empty but he uses his leftover money from the palace to start tending the fields immediately.

For example, neither of them need to be spoiled. O-lan spends much of her life in poverty, from her early days as a slave to the days of her and Wang Lung begging in the streets. This parallels The Virtuous Woman, when she is described in Proverbs 31:11-12 “The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.” This verse shows that The Virtuous Woman is like O-lan in respect to her humility and acceptance of life. Another way that these characters are similar is there tendency to give to their families. O-lan and the virtuous woman always make sure that their family are taken care of. These good qualities are shared between the two characters, highlighting both of their

The earth is the foundation of the house, providing the family with shelter. From the earth, Wang Lung grows crops, such as rice, wheat and corn. Not only do these crops feed the Wang family, but Lung can sell them in the market to obtain money. With this money, Lung can buy other necessities, such as fabric for clothing. As time goes on, the earth continues to produce abundant amounts of crops, leading to Lung’s growth in wealth. Just like the earth, O-lan continually provides for the family. She does all of the cooking and cleaning in the house, even when severely ill. She goes above what is necessary and works in the fields with Lung to help cultivate and harvest crops. She bears many children, three of which are sons, for Wang Lung and cares for them all. The Wang family is reliant on what the earth supplies and O-lan’s actions to provide so their needs are

Wang Lung takes O-lan as his wife, and their union is far from a loving one. Throughout the story, Wang Lung is obsessed with his land and values it above all else, this certainly includes O-lan. I found a certain point in the story to be very significant. When O-lan grows very ill, and it's clear that she will not come out of it.

The extraordinary economic growth of China in the past 30 years is a miracle in many aspects. China has the second highest GDP in the world after the United States, and it is expecting that to surpass the American economy by 2025 (Zhao, 2014). Comparing the GDP of 2012 and 1978, there was a 142 times increase. The GDP per capita has increase 101 times as well. It has lifted more than 500 million people out of poverty (Zhao, 2014). This economic miracle is credited to the economic reforms that started in 1978, which in many ways, learned from the experiences of the model of developmental state in Korea and Japan. These series of reforms put China’s economy back to track after the Great Leap Forward, a failed and catastrophic social and economic campaign between 1958 and 1961, and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, a devastating turmoil between 1966 and 1976. The extraordinary economic growth of China in the past 30 years is a miracle in many aspects. China has the second highest GDP in the world after the United States, and it is expecting that to surpass the American economy by 2025 (Zhao, 2014). Comparing the GDP of 2012 and 1978, there was a 142 times increase. The GDP per capita has increase 101 times as well. It has lifted more than 500 million people out of poverty (Zhao, 2014). This economic miracle is credited to Deng Xiaoping, one of the greatest leaders and reformists in China. He initiated a series of neoliberal economic