In the story of “Xiao Xiao”, Sheng Congwen gives an image of how people in rural China looks like. For women, they have no power at all and are dependent on men a lot. For example, when Xiao Xiao found out that she had feeling toward to Motley Mutt, she is fear and she asked her husband to stay closer her which she would feel more comfortable. From this point, we may know how men are important to women. Even a little boy, women would also feel safe beside him. Also women in rural China contain the characteristics of innocence, naiveté, hard-working, kind, traditional and uneducated. Xiao Xiao is a good representation of the women with those characteristics. Even Xiao Xiao’s life filled with tragedy but she still keeps her part of innocent and kind. In the other hand, men in rural China sees rough, vulgar and lack of education. We may see that from the way Motley Mutt has speech with Xiao Xiao and the way he seduces Xiao Xiao.…
Jan Wong starts out as a naïve, nineteen year old, Canadian student who is displeased with the capitalistic nature of her surroundings. It was the early seventies and to the author, she was experiencing a cultural revolution all her own. Opposition to the Vietnam War was strongly prevalent, the notion of feminism was beginning to arise, and there was a strong desire against conformity of any nature. The author grew up middle class to second generation Chinese citizens and was fueled by bourgeois guilt, and by a feeling of separation from her roots. “Curiosity about my ancestry made me feel ashamed that I couldn’t speak Chinese and knew so little about China” (14). After devouring every morsel of information that she could, she firmly believed Mao and his “comrades” were the only people who had a legit shot at establishing a utopic society. It was official. Jan Wong was going to Beijing.…
“They don’t even know it’s Christmas” sung and performed by the members of band aid in 1984’s is about third world countries suffering from famine and continually dying, and the people in those counties not even knowing or caring that it is Christmas and that the greatest gift to them is life. During the song the singers used and sung lyrics such as “And there won’t be any snow in Africa, the greatest gift they’ll get this year is life” and “Where nothing ever grows, no rain or river flows”. These lyrics are stating that it is hard everyday to live in a place with no rain or rivers, and that their fight for survival is very harsh and hard. Also that they’re greatest gift this year is life makes the audience think of how grateful we are to be able to live everyday while people in Africa are struggling to stay alive along with keeping their family alive.…
Confucius informed was to advise that he has an outlook objective that approaches its learning and the things he educates would demonstrate an insightful thought upon what respects through his eyes. He likewise would addresses and be on edge all through what could emit, be that as it may, when he's furious, he thinks about the negative things through his indignation, and he rather has an exemplary nature…
The memoir uses Chinese traditional tales, such as that of Fa Mu Lan, to contrast Chinese values, such as family, the collective community, and the oppression of women to newly learned American ideals, which mostly focus on the…
In old China, men and women were treated in unequal way. Men controlled the whole society but women are treated as objects. Marriage was one of the most important events in people’s life. Because of the Confucian values, people did not have right to control their marriage. Mao also experienced the old values of China. When he was young, he was arranged a marriage with a young woman but he…
The story happens during reconstruction period, China was becoming open for foreign influence again. Lots of new thoughts and new ideas came to people’s life. From the beginning of the story, when Zhu Xiaofen describes those women she sees on the streets they all wore makeups. There are lots of foreign influence during reconstruction period, not only for the country’s reform, but also in people’s normal life. The background timeline also can be considered as a factor affects Zhu Xiaofen developing her independence.…
My paper will seek to examine the competing depiction of women in Pu Songling’s “Lian-Xiang”. It will discuss the difference between Fox and Ghost behavior, and it will highlight the gender relationship within Ancient China. I will show the competing depiction of women in “Lian-Xiang” by comparing and contrasting the Role of Li and Lian-Xiang at the beginning of the story and at the end. Sang’s two lover’s Li and Lian-Xiang are both from the supernatural world. Li is a fox and Lian-Xiang is a ghost. At first, Li’s presence robs Sang of his vitality; however, Sang’s lust for Li makes him unable to let her go, forcing him to the brink of death. Lian-Xiang warns Sang and eventually saves him after his continued disregard for her advice. The women start off as enemies, blaming one another for Sang’s declining health, but end up becoming very intimate. Li is transformed from a cursed fox, into a member of Sang’s household. Both Li and Lian-Xiang seek to become members of the living world. In Pu Songling’s narrative, the uncontrollable and strange become domesticated and ordinary. This story depicts women as seductresses and servants. Similar to the story of “The Magic Sword and the Magic Handbag”, female promiscuity is associated with negative outcomes.…
This study analyzes two stories outlined in the two books; New Year’s Sacrifice by Lu Xun and Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang. The two stories describe experiences of two women who go through different experiences that define their future. They suffer the adverse effects of traditional Chinese customs and practices though one has a happy ending while the other suffers to the very end. Though they lived in different cities and at various time, it is evident how society built prejudices against gender roles, and the different ways that women tried to fight against the unfavorable beliefs, practices, and customs.…
The Little Chinese Seamstress experiences the most change in this novel. When first meeting the boy's the seamstress was coy and lacked city intellect. As the two boy's worked with the seamstress they taught her how to read and told her story's from different lands. The seamstress increasing attraction to city way's was apparent as she started changing thru ought the novel. Her loss of innocents was most noticeable as she fell in love with Luo and eventually made love with him, a crime because she neither was nether old enough nor married to Luo…
had a difficulty with their living life. There were many things that they had struggled…
1. Read the first few paragraphs, which discuss the morning of the Wang Lung's wedding day. What do you notice about the writing and the details provided?…
In the first section of the story Tan introduces the main character Jing-Mei, accompanied by her elderly father Canning Woo on a train to Guangzhou in China where they will visit with some family that Canning has not seen since childhood. Throughout the train ride and even after the two arrived to Guangzhou and met the family, Jing-Mei possessed many stereotypical viewpoints about China and the Chinese culture. En route to Guangzhou, Jing-Mei reminisced about her mother, Suyuan who passed away three months ago, and how she would always remind her Chinese roots saying that someday the Chinese in her will finally be let out because when Jing-Mei was fifteen she would always deny that she had any Chinese in her. During these conversations, she said she felt herself transforming like a werewolf. In a way Jing-Mei felt that she would finally come to terms with her Chinese roots only by force. Tan informs the reader that aside from…
The short fictions written in the Tang Dynasty emphasize the strength and the independence of the female characters, specifically their male-like personalities and behaviors. In Chen Xuanyou’s “The Departed Spirit,” Shen Jiji’s “Miss Ren, or The Fox Lady,” and Yuan Zhen’s “The Story of Yingying,” the female protagonists are depicted as male characters in three ways. First, their external and internal intelligence make them different from conventional women. Second, they dominate in the relationships with the male characters. Third, they get rid of the conventional social etiquette by displaying untamed behaviors.…
‘Dream of Red Chamber’, written by Cao Xueqin in the eighteenth century, is the first Chinese novel which used a love tragedy to convey the message of the miserable marriage life of the Chinese. It was a common practice for author to turn a love tragedy into a happy ending instead. For example: in ‘The palace of eternal youth’, despite troubles in the present life, the two main characters, Li Longji and Yang Yuhuan, were able to be with each other in their future lives after death, with the help of heavenly Emperor. Since ‘Dream of Red Chamber’ made such a breakthrough in Chinese literature, this paper will focus on how he love tragedy between Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai reflects the rigid marriage system in imperial China.…