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    change and bring relief. They choose to record the atrocities and injustices happening before their eyes because they feel a moral obligation to capture every moment so that they are not forgotten by society. Dai Sijie writer of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress in his book narrates the story of two privileged friends whose parents were considered enemies of the state because they were educated professionals. Sijie himself was re-educated in the 70s in a village very similar to the one his

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    mother tongue Chinese, because learning Chinese characters is different from others languages. Chinese characters are logograms, of which we have almost ten thousands Chinese characters in our written language, but only a few thousands in common use. Most Chinese characters are monosyllable. In modern Chinese, characters mainly divided into simplified and traditional, which Wikipedia explains as kinds of characters used in Asian countries and regions: “Simplified forms of certain characters are used in

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    Chinese RAFT Argument Directions: Please copy and paste your lead, body paragraphs, counterclaim, and conclusion in this document. Make sure you have your footnotes. Gentle movement flows in the brush as ink drains out of the bottom creating one of the most beautiful and respected forms of writing on earth. There are many quotes that prove how ancient the writing is. The tools are very decorative signaling how important they are. It is very important that you pay attention to your writing and

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    unique poetic and visual language that is within the ‘art context’. By repeating 1000 waves the form of calligraphy and poetry, it conveys loss and separation ; The movement of Mazu and the lover convey the Chinese perspective of the tragedy. conveys the theme of migration that the Chinese cockle pickers did in search for a better life. The experience conveyed focus and darkness in the meaning of the work . With the repetition of 10000 waves in the form of a poetry and calligraphy, it conveys

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    The way that a word looks has nothing to do with the meaning of the word. On the other hand, the most recognized form of Asian writing, Chinese characters, are completely pictographic. A single character is correlated to one sound or meaning. To convey more complicated meanings, pictographs are either combined into new pictographs, or multiple characters are simply used in succession. The meaning of words is depicted through pictographs, but for the most part, there is no

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    revealed in the travel blogs by Chinese tourists who have already visited the country. The approach used here differs from the traditional types of methodology such as interviews and questionnaires, but instead this study adopted a content analysis approach. A thorough literature review was first conducted at the beginning of this study in attempt to understand what information is already established in regards to destination image and what is important to Chinese tourists when they are planning

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    arc-shaped calligraphy hanging on the ceiling, ancient Chinese books opened on a big square of stage, two other calligraphies arranged on two sides of the walls of the stage, I was visiting the Book from the Sky by Xu Bing, one of the most well-known Chinese artists. Surrounding by the aesthetic collections, I was impacted by the deep strength from the work. Although I knew Chinese, I was shocked because I didn’t recognize any of the characters, regardless how similar they are to the actual ones, in

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    as an extension of film, The Joy Luck Club. The themes of misplaced identities, strength, and hopefulness are similar in details, furthermore, both are set in America and China. While the film offers a closer look into the backstory of the main characters—A Pair of Tickets expound on the storyline. Together the stories permit the protagonist to be defined as the “good sister “as she is continually confronted with external and internal conflicts (190). Generational matriarchal characteristics are

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    The Translation Method for Chinese Specific Words ----The Comparative Study Between Domestic and Foreign Media Abstract: In this paper, the author mainly seeks to find out that how domestic media to translate Chinese specific words and what translation methods will the domestic media take in a prosperous China. By analyzing different translation methods token by domestic and foreign media using to translate Chinese specific words, the author finds out that foreign media usually takes foreignazation

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    and how much of the film is the American perspective on Chinese culture. After an anthropological analysis of the film, it is seen that the gender stereotypes, use of accents, and racial differences not only assist the characterization of what is “Chinese”, but also provide the audience identification and relatability to the protagonist.            Primarily, the protagonist Fa Mulan’s struggle against idealizations on females in Chinese society bring attention to the crucial unit of gender roles

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