Essay on The American Woman Vs. the Chinese Woman

Chinese Culture vs. American Culture in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club An author's cultural background can play a large part in the authors writing. Amy Tan, a Chinese-American woman, uses the cultural values of Chinese women in American culture in her novel, The Joy Luck Club. These cultural values shape the outcome of The Joy Luck Club. The two cultural value systems create conflict between the characters. In The Joy Luck Club, the chapter "Waiting Between the Trees" illustrates major concerns

Autobiography, The Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston's autobiography, The Woman Warrior, features a young Chinese-American constantly searching for "an unusual bird" that would serve as her impeccable guide on her quest for individuality (49). Instead of the flawless guide she seeks, Kingston develops under the influence of other teachers who either seem more fallible or less realistic. Dependent upon their guidance, she grows under the influence of American and Chinese schools and the role

what is required of a woman as gender performance, as a given fact, creating a specific narrative gaze that influences how the global

The Unescapable Net: Tradition vs Transformation in Kingston’s Ideology The Woman Warrior, written by Chinese American author Maxine Hong Kingston in 1976, blends traditional Chinese folktales and memoir, and portrays the early 20th century Chinese history in a Chinese-American perspective. For Maxine, it seems Chinese “history” means social and cultural constrains from conventional Chinese doctrines, especially regarding the social status of womanhood, the blind collectivism, and superstition in

movie portrays cultural conflict between Chinese culture and the American culture as portrayed by the lives of four mothers and their daughters. The mothers were born and raised in China, adopting the high-content Chinese culture, while their daughters, born and raised in America, adopted the low-context American culture. This movie clearly brings out the cultural clashes and conflicts between the high context Chinese culture and the low context American culture. As a student studying Intercultural

The issue of cultural stereotypes and misconceptions thematically runs throughout David Henry Hwang’s play M. Butterfly. The play is inspired by a 1986 newspaper story about a former French diplomat and a Chinese opera singer, who turns out to be a spy and a man. Hwang used the newspaper story and deconstructed it into Madame Butterfly to help breakdown the stereotypes that are present between the East and the West. Hwang’s play overall breaks down the sexist and racist clichés that the East-West

As we studied in the previous unit, the American Dream is the idea that everybody is equal to each other and people can live their lives to the fullest. I also believed that this dream was for Americans only. However, after realizing that other countries and cultures had heard of how great life in America is, they wanted to be part of the American Dream as well. These immigrants took action by entering the U.S. through Ellis Island, which used to be the main hub for all foreigners to apply for ability

center “source of life and sustenance, and mother to the men who shaped the physical world (Kussman)” because a woman gives a birth to a twin, and good mind and bad mind create things in the world in a very competitive manner. Also good mind creates a man and a woman out of dirt at the same time. Second of all, let me illustrate how the biblical story The Fall and the Native American literature The Iroquois Creation Story show similarities between Western and Eastern cosmologies. In both of these

short true story ‘No Name Woman’ by Maxine Hong Kingston and ‘Sweat ’ by Zola Neale Hurston. Thesis & Summary: ‘No Name Woman’ by Maxine Hong Kingston The submissive role of women in the society and being declared as an outcast for adultery in the Chinese society is the main theme of the article. ‘No Name Woman’ describes the gender conflict present in China during the 1920’s. Women at this point were not considered to have freedom of choice in the then conservative Chinese society. The author’s aunt

I was born and raised in the U.S., yet I still do not fully understand what it means to be Asian-American. There have been times where I was embarrassed to be seen together with my parents in public because I wanted to distance myself from my Asian background that was the center of many jokes I heard in school. For the sake of trying to fit in, I have lost a lot of what it means to be Asian. I used to be embarrassed bringing my mom’s home-cooked meals to school because everyone else thought it was