Peter Hessler 's River Town

The third section of the essay uses narration but also analysis, as Liu examines the effects of his assimilation. As Liu narrates his experiences in college, he analyzes their importance as related to his own acceptance into white American culture. Liu examines the cause and effect of his acts in college, like how he chose not to be pigeonholed by the race-specific clubs. He considers whether it was a good idea to distance himself from his Chinese culture in order to achieve success and respect in America. The third section deals with Liu’s college experience and how it played a part in his

In the “Autobiography of a Chinese immigrant” written in 1903 by Lee Chew, dialogues about his point of view

Jonathan Spence’s novel The Question of Hu covers mid-eighteenth century travels from China to the western world of a Jesuit missionary, Father Jean-Francois Foucquet, and a Chinese scribe, John Hu. The interactions that occur consist of the cultural differences between Chinese and European customs. Hu’s personality becomes a large question Spence raises not only with the title but also throughout the story when Spence talks about Hu’s way of thinking. John Hu’s personality is described by both Father Jean-Francois Foucquet and the narrator as being both insane and oppressed, respectively. The reader is led to have a sympathetic view of Hu, even though the narrator does not come out and explain exactly how the reader should feel,

Fears of polluted air and water, and the extinction of wildlife species due to contamination have overtaken the western world. In an excerpt, titled “The Filth They Breathe in China,” taken from American historian, Michael Auslin’s book, the author focuses on the nation where, due to its rapid industrial growth, these effects of pollution are most prominent, China. In his article, Auslin, uses anecdotes, uses strong diction, and uses appeals to logic and credibility in order to capture the enormity of China’s pollution problem.

This memoir of Ma Bo’s sent shock waves throughout China when it was published and was even first banned by the Communist Government. This passionate story paints a clear picture for what the Great Chinese Cultural Revolution was really like. Many Chinese living today can attest to similar if not identical ordeals as expressed in Ma Bo’s story. The toils of being a young Red Guard in inner China were experienced by many if not millions. The horrors and atrocities were wide spread throughout the country, not just in Inner Mongolia. The experiences illustrated in Blood Red Sunset uniquely belong to Ma Bo’s entire generation of mislead Chinese. As expressed in the books dedication the Cultural Revolution

John Pomfret began his story Chinese Lessons as a third year Stanford student that felt extremely optimistic about gaining the opportunity to benefit from American political efforts to create friendly relations with China. He begins in 1979; here the author takes the reader through the immense difficulties associated with Americans studying abroad on Chinese soil. He describes his first interaction with Cao Guisheng, a Chinese spy (unknown at the time), working as a Chinese Diplomat. With his help, John was then permitted to study the Chinese language at Beijing languages Institute. After the author developed tedious study habits, he applied for Nanjing University, a school that allowed foreigners to

Reid, T. R. Confucius Lives Next Door: What Leaving In The East Teaches Us About Living In the West. United States: Random House Publishing Group, 1999. Print.

In Tripmaster Monkey by Maxine Kingston, the main character Wittman is a highly educated artist who searches to find a way to simultaneously express himself as an artist and fit within a community. When we meet him, he has not yet discovered how to express his art in a way that is acceptable either to the Chinese American or American communities. He is a fourth generation Chinese American who finds himself marginalized by the American community because he is viewed as Chinese, but he is also not accepted by the Chinese American community for his art because it incorporates too much of American culture. Disgusted by his lack of acceptance, Wittman at first wants to withdraw into creating his art just for creation’s sake, but then sees a way to satisfy his artistic aspirations by exploiting the desires of other Chinese Americans who want a culture that celebrates their community. He writes a play that creates a new community that embraces all of the Chinese Americans, but also celebrates all of them as individuals. Ultimately, Wittman uses his own desire to be an acclaimed playwright and accepted individual to forge a new Chinese American society within the play that celebrates everyone’s individuality, highlighting Wittman’s.

Li’s life in Communist China was difficult for him and his family of 9. Li’s family were living in poverty in a town called Qingdao. Li’s family made little money and poor living space with a large family. Li’s family all worked on the farm earning little money for important things in life. Li’s education taught him Chinese culture and language.

The United States is a place where people can have diverging views on how to describe the diverse nation. The country in fact does not have an official language because of the myriad of distinct ethnicities residing within the country. With all this diversity it is only natural for people to struggle with which cultural norm to follow. Of the many immigrants that have journeyed to the U.S. for a better life, Chinese immigrants perhaps have been discriminated against the most because at one point they were considered an alien incapable of assimilating which lead to laws preventing their immigration and

Having claimed my baggage, looking around at the strange faces, I found a seat and gingerly sat down. Cold and exhausted at midnight in an unknown city, I never had the feeling of being exiled after sixteen hours’ journey from my country to the entirely unfamiliar state because it seemed that the whole world totally changed and the only person who knew me was myself. Starring at every word on the arrival screen and listening to the broadcast carefully, I was afraid that I might miss some important information. Faced with the people here, my brain ran so quickly and could not even say a complete sentence, it seemed to have listening exercises all the time, and I had to focus on people’s dialogue to guess the meaning. It was really striking. To be honest, if I was a stranger, I might not be that kind, and I wondered it was probably the same with Americans because I was just a stranger. However, something warmhearted really happened. And it was the first time when I, as an absolute stranger, witnessed the kindness of the people in America and how it influenced me in my later life.

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.

All teachers were ordered to go to the county town to focus on pulling out reactionary gangs, critiquing “Three Villagers". Teacher Lu Changxin became the focus point of criticism, the largest reactionary gang, a member of “Three Villagers". He was isolated, 24 hours monitored, criticized and denounced in large public assemble or small group meetings, nonstop by using wheels tactics. Lu Changxin dedicated himself to education, lifetime depended on educational mission, assiduously. How a spineless, cowardly, modest and courteous, respectful scholar could suffer such injustice and insulting? He was devastated, determined to die fighting. After a half months, at night, while the monitoring personnel weren't pay attention, with high myopia，he ran one step high one step lower, stumbled toward the Songzi River, resolutely jumped into rolling rapids, swallowed his anger, with hatred through the ages, flew down forever, nerve came

When I was on middle school, I spent my holiday vacation with my family to go to China. I went to some part of China such as Beijing, Luoyang, Shanghai and the others, but I only remembered the one in the Beijing mostly. I was really surprised that China got many cultures that I had not known before. These cultures include food, history and some local tradition. In this essay, I will tell my experience in China and some China’s culture that I have gotten in my trip.

When I first met Uguisu, she had just been enrolled in a neighborhood public kindergarten and had begun to make friends with children on her street. Since she was receiving no formal instruction in English at school, Uguisu made for a nice comparison with children who acquire English as their native language. The first evening, I tried unsuccessfully to get Uguisu to speak English. Apparently, her one English phrase was not in particular, which she had picked up from her mother.