Lu Xun

historical events. People are able to acquire knowledge about the social situations and thoughts during the time in the past from historical fictions. “The True Story of Ah Q” by Lu Xun gave an idea of how historical fiction play its part in the history studies. “The True Story of Ah Q” was a historical fiction written and published by Lu in 1921 in China. The fiction was about the life story of Ah Q who was an ordinary and homeless man lived around the time of Xinhai Revolution in Weichuang. Ah Q had very

The film, Farewell My Concubine, directed by Chen Kaige drew the attention of the western world onto Chinese Opera at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival by winning the Palme d’Or award that year. Farewell My Concubine is one of the most famous plays in Beijing Opera in which the loyalty of Yu Ji (Beauty Yu) is contested by the King of Chu when his state is defeated. The main character, Cheng Dieyi, mirrors both Mei Langfan and Yu Ji. Mei Langfan is considered the most representative artist in Beijing

East Asia I have learned a lot about East Asia. There are five themes in World Regional Geography that are important to know. Today, I will discuss with you different topics in the themes to give you a better understanding about the region, East Asia. The first important area to know about East Asia is the environment. East Asia’s environment varies depending on the area you are in. The climate of East Asia is a little different than some others. There are much more chilled winters and summers are

Yiyao Su 3/24/17 Career or Family Depicting in both movie Ruan Lingyu and Red Rose White Rose is an album of various types of women during the time of early twentieth century. During this period, the concept of career and family co-ordination has had a significant impact on the real life of women during the Republican period. Females have had to either take on the dual roles of professional women and housewives or make difficult choices between their careers and families. At that time, with the rise

As a solution, city mediation of SSA was implemented: “[census] to count colonized bodies, collect their excrement, and convert this into fertilizer for increased agricultural production” (Henry 668). Japan displaced most of the Koreans outside the prospective tourist and immigration location: “to effectively present Seoul as “salubrious,” “modern,” and “progressive,” Japanese guides to the capital city selectively display “stagnant” part of city inhabited by Koreans” (Henry 669). Certain regulations

choice but to become a nun. In case of a husband's death, the woman was to live with her in-laws. She was not allowed to remarry. There are cases when women committed suicide instead of getting married again. Such case is described in the reading by Lu Xun "Chaste Woman Ni." While there was such a strict view on a woman's right to have more than one husband, men were allowed to have as many concubines as they could afford. In fact, eventually, men's social status was determined not only by the size

INTRODUCTION October 29, 2015, the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) state-run news agency Xinhua announces the government’s plan to end the iconic one-child policy initiated by Deng Xiaoping in the 1970s, allowing up to two children per family. Originally implemented to preserve economic growth from an excessively fast-growing population, this new move marks a watershed in China’s situation, confronted to a low female-to-male ratio and an aging population. Yet, despite massive dissuasion campaigns

texts to discover evidence of cannibalism is a parody of traditional Confucian scholarship. In a sense, the madman is a rebel and social critic whose madness is a kind of sanity. The story reveals Lu Xun's interest in changing society -- in converting people from "cannibalism" to a higher level of humanity. Xun makes it a point to imply that no one is safe from this system, “If it’s all right to exchange children and eat them, then anyone can be exchanged, anyone can be eaten.” (Norton 916) The madman's

Xu Yuanchong and Translation 1.INTRODUCTION Xu Yuanchong, a translator and a professor at the Peking University. He has published at home and abroad sixty works including translation works in Chinese, English and French. He is the only expert in the history to translate the Chinese ancient poems into English verse. In 1999, he was nominated for the Nobel prize for literature. Professor Xu Yuanchong was born in 1921 in Jiangxi province of China. He graduated from department of foreign languages

The Chinese region is profound and quite extensive. In Chinese culture and history, Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism seem to blend together. In the Shang Dynasty around 2000 BC, the people of China were polytheistic, worshipping many gods at a time. People of this time worshipped their own ancestors as gods, as they believed they became like gods after dying. The basic principles of ancient Chinese philosophy consisted of five features: spiritual existence, morality, harmony, intuition, and practice