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The Sun of the Revolution by Liang Heng, is intriguing and vivid, and gives us a complex and compelling perspective on Chines culture during a confusing time period. We get the opportunity to learn the story of a young man with a promising future, but an unpleasant childhood. Liang Heng was exposed to every aspect of the Cultural Revolution in China, and shares his experiences with us, since the book is written from Liang perspective, we do not have a biased opinion from an elite member in the Chinese society nor the poor we get an honest opinion from the People’s Republic of China. Liang only had the fortunate opportunity of expressing these events due his relationship with his wife, An American woman whom helps him write the book. When

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

My life starts on a high note. When Shanghai is librated from the Nationalist Party I dance as a little red flower in a celebration party, expecting a bright future in the new China.

Being born and raised in India, married in the US to my beloved who is orignially from China, and currently living and raising our two kids in China for the last several years, I have had the opportunity to observe a lot of what this book talks about in an up-close and personal way. While I am impressed by the amount of research and effort that has obviously gone into this book, I am ultimately disappointed by the author's inability to transcend his own biases and the tendency to measure everything from what may be best called a "Western" viewpoint. The author's understanding of India is clearly much superior than his familiarity with China. China is a notoriously difficult onion to peel and I'm afraid the author does not get beyond a couple

Wild Swans by Jung Chang takes us on a journey through the multiple regime changes in China in the 20th century through the perspective of her grandmother, mother, and herself. Through their perspectives we get firsthand accounts on the events in China leading to the Communist Revolution. For the purpose of this paper I will be focusing on the events up to the Communist takeover of mainland China. The book is far from short on shock value as Chang provides the reader with grizzly accounts of the treatment of people under the Japanese. Her mother also describes her own rationale essentially for wanting to join the Communists in overthrowing the Nationalist government.

Dark red Sunset is a Memoir of Ma Bo 's that sent a stun wave all through China when it was distributed and was even prohibited by the Communist Government for a set timeframe. This story paints an unmistakable picture for what the Great Chinese Cultural Revolution was truly similar to. Chinese living today can bear witness to if this the life that they needed to persevere amid the Cultural Revolution comparable if not indistinguishable experiences as communicated in Ma Bo 's story. The drudges of being a youthful Red Guard in inward China were experienced by many if not millions. The revulsions and monstrosities were across the board all through the nation, not simply in Inner Mongolia. The encounters outlined in Blood Red Sunset

Their identity has been forced to change in order to fit in with the White Australia’s lifestyle. “They are chained in their stubbornness, but we are free, and if we need to go forward without them, then we must”. The parralism of ‘they’ and ‘we’ makes the audience feel included and the composer cleverly uses this to make the responders feel motivated to defeat inequality. In “The Ride of Zhu Bao Sheng”, Zhu is Chinese boy alone in a new place. “They were not Chinese people, and he could not speak to people who were not Chinese”.

“Dear Scott, you are about to embark on the ride of your life, so, buckle up dude,” writes author Scott Kronick in the opening line of a letter his younger self. “…When you have the chance to move to China in 1995, jump at this. It will be an inflection point in your life you will not forget.” Kronick, CEO of Ogilvy Public Relations, Asia Pacific, the leading public relations consultancy in Asia, has lived in China for nearly two decades, during which he’s experienced tremendous social, economic and personal change. The Lighter Side of China, while diminutive in weight, is more than an autobiography or travelogue, it’s Kronick’s professionally refined “CliffsNotes” on how to survive 20 years as a foreigner in modern China. They key to it all, to happiness in business and at home, Kronick explains, is to continuously “seek to understand.”

Serve the People!,” smoothly translated by Julia Lovell, offers an initial sample of Yan Lianke’s writing to an English-speaking audience. A bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases Mao Zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the Chairman’s precepts too literally. To a Western sensibility, the broad strokes of Yan Lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. But then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a Western sensibility. It lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes Chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century China, more than three decades after

I write a great number of film and book reviews on Chinese blogs and have received plenty appreciation, among which the most popular is the review on the movie American Beauty that clears up common misunderstandings about the movie’s theme. Moreover, (in May 2016)on the workshop on Wang Anyi’s new novel Anonymous, when the discussion hit the bottleneck I suggested interpreting the novel from the point of view of Taoism, existentialism and some theories of Stephen Hawking’s, and that to reconsider the relationship between human being and the universe(with China’s rapid urbanization) through the novel. My speaking gained recognition from both Professor Xudong Zhang and Wang Anyi, because, as Wang said herself, even she was not sure where to start cracking her experimental

In a New York Times article dated February 20th, 1997, author Patrick E. Tyler writes about a political “wizard” who put China on the road to capitalism. The Chinese “capitalist” (this is not capitalism in a western sense, but more of a communist/capitalist mix) Revolution is very significant in the study of world history; especially considering the Maoist form of government it sprang from. Notably, there is one small-statured Chinese leader who this essay will focus on in the context of the revolution: Deng Xiaoping. Although his slightness of size didn’t offer any insight into his grand political stature, an inquiry into his life certainly does. This essay will provide an informative glimpse into the life and times of Deng Xiaoping

6) and themes of touching on nostalgia and his homeland of West Hunan in Chapter 7. The conclusion provides a nice summary about how each of these chapters contributed to the overall theme of the book – the expansion and innovation of 20th-century Chinese literature after Lu Xun.

Cao Xueqin’s Story of the Stone is a classic in Chinese literature, showcasing the life and exploits of the wealthy Jia clan during the feudal era. Through Cao’s depiction, the reader is afforded a glimpse into the customs and lifestyle of the time. Chinese mode of thought is depicted as it occurred in daily life, with the coexisting beliefs of Confucianism and Taoism. While the positive aspects of both ideologies are presented, Cao ultimately depicts Taoism as the paramount, essential system of belief that guides the character Bao-yu to his eventual enlightenment.

“One of the language style of American News Press is to use bold language, to pursue the novelty. Copywriters always create new words according to the news theme and news context to attract audiences’ intention”. [2] This is the same as foreigners’ personalities—adventure spirit, creative mind, self-centeredness, novelty seeking, so they tend to use foreignization translation theory. While Chinese are reserved and cautious, ignore themselves, care more about others’ feelings, so Chinese media always take western audiences as their center

Between 1927 and through the latter part of the twentieth century, China and its people endured major economic and social changes, and hardships, brought about by competing ideologies and forms of government. In the works, China in World History, To Live, and Coming Home, the impact of a changing society and economy are threaded through the course of individuals’ lifetimes. These important impacts (which are detailed in China in World History) serve as a base for understanding the context in the two works of fiction—To Live and Coming Home—and guide the reader in comprehending the characters’ decisions.