Xiao Hong

In the essay Chinatown: A Contested Urban Space, by Mary Ting Yi Lui, Chinatowns collectively occupy a special place in the collective imagination of American ethnic history and the nation’s contemporary multicultural identity, as evidenced by their serving as the settings for various motion pictures. From coast to coast, Chinatowns remain major tourist draws, and continued immigration from the Chinese diaspora ensures that Chinatown will retain their social and cultural significance for many years

For my artifact project, I’ll be focusing on Shanghainese xiao long bao, often known as “soup dumplings” in English-speaking countries. Although there are actually several kinds of soup dumplings in Eastern China, xiao long bao is the variation that managed to have a global reach. My first personal experience with xiao long bao was in my sophomore year of high school, when my friend and her mother took me to a Shanghainese restaurant in Chinatown. I was (and still am) somewhat of a novice to any

Yixing always knew that something fishy was happening when Lu Han called him out for lunch and that whatever problem that his elder had tangled himself in had to be especially awful when he'd been summoned to their favourite restaurant, as usual, he prepared himself for the worst. His half-brother, a cat-boy, had been the result of an affair their father had with his hybrid assistant before Yixing had come into the world. However, after their father and Lu Han's mother had absconded, leaving the

HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF THE PRACTICE OF MUSIC THERAPY IN HONG KONG By LAM HOI YAN April, 2007 04002865 ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to examine the development of music therapy in Hong Kong. Specifically, a number of related issues were studied including definition of music therapy, the origin of music therapy, the recent developments in music therapy in China, establishment of a music therapy session, and the setting of

San Francisco, as a multicultural city, undoubtedly included a large variety of groups of people from all around the world. In English 162 course, we’ve learned a lot about history and culture of the bay area. From the gold rush the outsiders came, to the diversity of the Fillmore, we can see that even people far from the other side of the earth came here for a better life. As for myself, I came from a Chinese culture country, which is surely different from the culture here in America. Besides “The

In 2002, the film Infernal Affairs was released in Hong Kong, telling the tale of an undercover officer named Yan who is a mole within the ranks of a mafia called the triads and trying to take the organization down> Yet Inspector Lau on the Hong Kong police force is a mole for the triads. The two race to uncover the respective moles while fighting to maintain their cover. Due to the film’s popularity, an American director, by the name of Martin Scorsese, created an American adaptation of Infernal

the climax of life or whatever fantastic. Someone who could successfully choose jeans can never tell you how to be a winner in the game of life. I have friends who I can hang out with and have fun. I cannot tell how my path would be if I stayed in Hong Kong. Well, I trouble myself too much sometimes. I should forget the past and cherish now assuming that it is the best situation led by all the decisions

Being a speech therapist has always been my dream. When I was small, my grandmother suffered from severe stroke. It was disheartening to see her struggling for speech and for consuming food independently. With the help of speech therapists, her condition improved gradually and now she could nearly go back to live the life the way she did before. Six years later, I applied for the Programme Bachelor of Science in Speech and Hearing Sciences and I got rejected. Yet this does not extinguish my

DBQ: Opium in China While most of the Western Hemisphere was undergoing drastic advancements, such as former colonies gaining their independence and transforming into more modernized nations, a lot of mishaps were occurring in the Eastern Hemisphere—China, specifically—a nation that was notorious for its isolation from foreign influences. European nations began to greedily eye China’s abundance of desirable resources, such as tea, porcelain, and silk. However, China had very little need or desire

In Hong Kong, more than 50% of HKSAR government public expenditure is spent in providing social welfare services. Education, housing, medical and health services and social welfare are four major aspects of the social policy. As point out by R. Titmuss (1974), the objective of social policy is to meet people’s needs and promote social integration and discourage alienation. It means that an effective and efficient social policy can build up social cohesion and unity amount social groups and individual