Zhu Bajie

Journey to the West is a Chinese novel published in the 16th century that tells a story of Xuanzang or Tripitaka’s journey to retrieve original Buddhist sutras for China. The influence of Journey to the West has become insurmountable in Asian cultures and has managed to help both Taoism and Buddhism to surge in popularity and stay relevant today. Being one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, Journey to the West has been successfully adapted into various forms of media and is

In “The Journey to the West,” the monk was accompanied by Pigsy, the Sha Monk, the Handsome Monkey King, and the horse. Each of these supporting characters possess a certain magical ability that assisted the monk on his journey, additionally they had their own flaws. This contrasts the monk, which has no magical ability and was devoted buddhism. The strengths, weaknesses, and backgrounds of these supporting characters encapsulate the idea of buddhism throughout the novel, and by including them and

2.1 The “Yellow House” Found within the yellow house were incriminating evidence including traces of blood and syringes, proving more than 400 missing post-Kosovo war victims were subject to organ harvesting by the KLA (Lewis, 2008). After Although inquiries were made into the KLA’s involvement regarding organ trade, they were mostly ignored. The syndicate’ heinous act would be “exporting” prisoners across the borders and hiding them in a variety of derelict buildings. Figure 1 illustrates the

The Tang and the Song Dynasties were considered the Golden Age of China. These two dynasties came just after the Han, which is another very successful Dynasty, but somehow these two seem to top it. It was due to many reasons that the Tang and the Song were considered the Golden Age, one main reason being the Silk Road. The Silk Road was a transcontinental trade network connecting China to the Empires living in the Western part of Asia, Africa, and Europe. It was an extremely successful part of

The philosophy of Zhu Xi China is a country with long history, which at the same time comes with a complex philosophy system. Date back to the Warring States period, the rising of Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism, and some other schools captured the attention of the society. These schools created their different and special philosophies, which in some way guided the trend of the society development. With several hundreds years of inherited and people applied their own thoughts to the original philosophy

Neo-Confucian self-cultivation and free speech Introduction In the western civilizations, especially in the United States, people pay a lot of attention to the freedom of speech and expression. We see americans refer to the freedom of speech in TV series, news media, courts and many other places. Such a freedom has been strongly protected from government restrictions by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution since 1791. And the idea of the free speech has been interiorized into the

together to resist the master.They have four people. Tangseng who is the leader of them and has mission to get the holy scriptures,Song Wukong is the smartest person and good at fighting, Zhu Bajie is supposed be the immortal forever, but he made some mistake ,and he needs make those up, and Sha Wujing, who is the same as Zhu Bajie.They all trust each other,and they have Owen duty.Tang Seng is son of Buddha, so the others protect him from the devil.The master who wants to eat Tang Seng for getting higher

Culture differences in the world are reflected in the novels from different regions of the world. Arabian Nights is a novel full of Arabian stories and folktales gathered from the Islamic Golden Age, while The Journey to the West, also known as “XiYouJi” is a Chinese novel full of folk tales from the Ming Dynasty. The Journey to the West is now a popular cartoon and storybook for children in China. These two novels differ slightly in characters, and religion, and the historical context, but they

University: University of Leiden 14 June 2012 Department: Language and Culture of China Course: Visual Political Communication (BA3) Semester: Summer Semester 2011/2012 Lecturer: Florian Schneider Journey to the West A Textual-Visual Discourse Analysis Name: Stefan Ruijsch (Student No. 0620203) Major: Chinese Studies, BA 3 E-mail: s.ruijsch@umail.leidenuniv.nl Phone: 06-48369645 Address: Vrijheidslaan 256, 2321 DP Leiden Word Count: 9,387 Table of Contents

“The Boxer Rebellion was a patriotic movement against imperialism and feudalism.” The sound of my middle school history teacher’s emphasis on Boxer Rebellion before the exam still lingered around my ears, and it interested me to learn more about this subject. With more and more researches and readings, I found that multiple China’s religious beliefs were employed, including buddhism, taoism, and other pre-existing beliefs. The Boxers took advantage of innocent Chinese people by manipulating these