Li Xiaolu

Asian cinema is refer to film from East Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, West Asia, and South Asia. What make asian unique is faces, languages, their own traditional costumes and also geophysical location. In the early silent film era, the first short film produced is in Japan called Bake Jizo and Shinin no Sosei from 1898. In the forms of chinese martial arts, emerged in 1920s in Shanghai. Popular with Wuxia ( swordplay) and Gongfu ( kung fu ).While in the early sound era, earliest sound film

Question: Why was Japan able to defeat the Qing in the first Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895? Thesis: Japan was able to defeat the Qing in the first Sino-Japanese War due to corruption in the Qing dynasty’s political, military, and institutional systems. Formal argument: Due to Qing’s major internal problems in the mid-1800s, the war against Japan was unquestionably going to fail. Research Essay: The Sino-Japanese War started on July 25, 1894. The Sino-Japanese war broke out at the naval Battle

Comparison between Hero and The Devil In Miss Prym The book The Devil And Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho and the movie Hero starring Jet Li even though in different languages, share a plethora of similarities. The Devil And Miss Prym tells the story of a young woman from the village of Visco, Chantal Prym. Her life was very simple and seemed so innocent, until the Devil walked into Visco and offered her something she so strongly felt she deserved-- a way out of Visco. Of course there was a small price

Currently I find myself on the planet Almas. It is here that Akial was last spotted. He was teacher at the Jedi academy. Where he most likely lived a leisurely lifestyle. However, after the Republic was brought down, my dear father was pushed to live a life on the run. I first found out about his status as a teacher here on Almas from a couple of wandering tradesmen while I was still enslaved by the Hutts. From the moment the moment the two supposed tradesmen stepped into Oyell the Hutts hall, I

Most Martial arts films in China generally tend to foreground issues of gender. In addition, these films portray a fixed line of gender separation. The Chinese Martial arts film culture has always been more receptive to the general idea of the female character in what Westerners would indeed consider exclusively male role such as the action hero (Castillo 3). In the martial art films several actress have even established their entire reputations as action stars. The action heroes were also held up

The Qing Dynasty led by the Manchus was in midst of a chaotic time from 1850 to 1864. The Taiping Rebellion was one of the rebellions the dynasty had to face against during this time period, however this rebellion almost caused the dynasty to collapse. One of the contributing factors that helped the Manchu led dynasty stayed in power in China was an American mercenary turned Chinese commander, Frederick Townsend Ward. Frederick T. Ward was a man of questionable motives as many historians have wrote

For the vast majority of our contemporary history, female artists and patrons have been left out of the discussion and have not been recognized or studied in depth. In the last few decades, this has started to rapidly change. This essay will examine Harriet Hosmer, a prominent nineteenth century Neo-Classical sculptor and Empress Wu Zetian, a Song Dynasty ruler, as examples of this historical neglect. They will both be discussed in relation to their male contemporaries and how they situated themselves

The Taiping movement originated in Guangxi, and rooted social problems had been generating disorders for half a century. In the region, agriculture was very unstable and many people made their living from challenging and detested trades such as disposing of human waste, mining, and producing charcoal. The lowliest trades frequently involved a minority group, the Hakkas, and tensions between them and the majority were rising. Problems may have been enhanced by sudden changes in the opium trade and

remarkable strength of Western countries and the gradual weakening of Qing, also realized the necessity in strengthening the country so as to resist the invasion of the West. To strengthen and modernize the country, officials such as Zeng Guofan and Li HongZhang led a series of projects known as Self-Strengthening Movement in the 1860s. Advocates of the movement aimed at adopting advanced Western weapons and technology while leaving traditional Confucian values untouched. Bearing this in mind, they

Volto There he was, Ben Johnson, our hero. Nothing more than a high school dropout that could hardly get and keep a job, but Ben had acquired a unique ability while he worked for a company that fixed generators made to power large cities. Let me tell you how he received this power. One day, while working on a generator in the most populated city in America in New York Ben was sitting atop the generator enjoying a nice lunch break, when he spilled some of his water. Now I do not know if