My Experience Essay: My Trip To China

Four Chinese mothers have migrated to America. Each hope for their daughter’s success and pray that they will not experience the hardships faced in China. One mother, Suyuan, imparts her knowledge on her daughter through stories. The American culture influences her daughter, Jing Mei, to such a degree that it is hard for Jing Mei to understand her mother's culture and life lessons. Yet it is not until Jing Mei realizes that the key to understanding who her

History is passed down from generation to generation through stories and these stories about traditions are an important part of conversations in the Chinese culture (Wang, Leichtman & Davies, 2010).

Her perspective and personal experiences can help to drive in the point that there are two different generations of Chinese people and how one looks down on the other because of their birth place. Liu’s article is reliable because it is a personal experience of growing up Chinese American and shows the different perspective on how growing up with two different generations of Chinese shaped her life. Maria Liu is also a reliable source because she is a student and writer for the

Their Saturdays are often filled with studying and Sundays are usually devoted to studying, sports, and for some families, church. For the adults, fathers spend most of their time working and mothers spend their time working, cooking, or teaching their children when they are home from school. According to Ella, both friends and family are very important and equally valued in her culture. Along with friends and family, the Chinese also value their hobbies, money, and being unique. Food is another part of their culture that is very important. In America we often eat food in a rush, on the go, or not even at a table. But in China they take their time eating, follow a slow process eating course by course, and do it all together as a family and even with friends. History is also very important to the Chinese culture. With such a rich and long history of their country, students spend much time learning about China's past and they even learn the old Chinese language. The main purpose in the lives of Chinese people is to have children, grow their family, and leave a legacy. In China things like school, family, friends, and their history are just a few things that their culture greatly

living in China in the 1800’s, which showed us the reason why the Chinese moved to

Described as utopian in nature, the Chinese culture is often in pursuit for the perfect individual, a harmonious and structured society where the citizens as a whole create the ideal culture. In a collection of short stories entitled The Bridegroom, author Ha Jin documents this aspect of reality in homeland China. Primarily for the purposes of instruction and satirical verse, Ha Jin, shows how people are trying to find themselves in a society that focuses on the ‘whole’ of the country rather than the individual. He is able to interconnect this theme of individualism through four major stories in the book while presenting ‘Chineseness’ or satire of fictional verse as a way to focus on the changes throughout China

In the early years of China, the Chinese began a period of establishment in the world with ideas and teachings of new religions, changing powers, and building empires. In a nutshell the Chinese were progressing toward new technology, writings, and belief systems. The Chinese saw many dynasties come and go as well as many ups and downs experienced with societies over the course of history. As all nation’s go through change, the Chinese experienced changes from other lands far away and produced many concepts in which helped other realms to see change for themselves. The Chinese used many inventive innovations to prosper as an economic power and stabilize intellectually. Change mixed with innovation proved to be the roots of China’s

While on a family trip in the summer after 7th grade, I traveled to China for a purpose to tour the country’s largest monuments. I indeed received knowledge about the history of China, but there was something else I learned from

The Retreat of the Elephants is a book in which the author Mark Elvin presents two large issues: How has the Chinese culture changed in the past four thousand years? And, in what ways did the distinctive characteristics of this ancient civilization effect the process of change?

One experience so far in China that left a strong impression on my mind was a visit to the Shaanxi museum of history. Our tour guide was a locally educated young woman in her twenties. As she took us through the different periods of Chinese history, at every exhibit showing some sort of tool or mechanistic contraption she would turn and say “as you can see, the Chinese people are very smart!” She also recounted a story in which she was very offended that an American made a comment that Chinese people are short, to which she replied “yes, we are, but we have five thousand years of history and culture!” Both the richness and vastness of Chinese history was a huge source of pride for her, as her slightly illogical response to the American’s comment shows. In retrospect, her age denotes that she grew up on the government’s campaign in the 1990s to educated students about China’s greatness, to foster pride.

The movie Beijing Rocks depicts a struggling musician, Michael Ng, who now has to improve his Mandarin while escaping the punishment for his crime of assault. He had grown up in America, though was born into a wealthy family in Hong Kong. His father who is disconnected from him sends him back to the mainland of China due to these legalities. While there, Michael meets and befriends a band that are also struggling but in different ways. He discusses their differences- like poverty- with a girl named Yang Yin who is the girlfriend of the lead singer, Road. Road, who is not only a firecracker ready to go off, is also a mentally abusive boyfriend; he constantly yells at Yin when they are having a civil conversation and threatens to leave. After growing close with Yin, Michael starts to develop feelings towards her, and inspiration for new songs. However, she is still blissfully ignorant and always promises to love Road.

Chinese families are highly misunderstood and stereotyped in the United States. It is important to understand a different culture before one makes the assumptions produced by these stereotypes. In order to find a better understanding about Chinese immigrants and Chinese Americans, one must do research on that countries heritage, traditions, and other customs before submerging one-self into a Chinese families home. I chose to experience and observe a Chinese family who was kind enough to let me be a guest in their home to share dinner.

China has about five thousand years history which is a very long period of time. Also, the Chinese civilization was growing with these periods of time and it will continues greater than ever. Many wars and unhappinesses were happening during this period. Although, the time has passed, the histories and the civilizations have not passed. These family virtues, serious, working attitudes, sense of justice and the great Confucian tradition have been deeply assimilated into the Chinese people. Some Chinese traditions are different from North American’s. The Chinese culture has many special characteristics which are very interesting for people to learn.

The People's Republic of China established in 1949.The flag is red and yellow,It symbolizes the soldiers blood. Five yellow star represents the government and unity of the people. Red on flag symbol of revolution and yellow star said the Chinese nation for the Yellow race. Five star means we are big group. China is located in the eastern and Central Asia the west coast of Pacific Ocean.But its shape on earth like a chicken. In fact China total land area of 9600000 square kilometers.

In the second part of this essay, I will move on to analysis Chinese New Year in greater detail from the psychological and cultural