Chinese Culture Essay Examples and Topics

Geographic Location China is located in Southeast Asia along the coastline of the Pacific Ocean, China is the world’s third largest country, after Russia and Canada. With an area of 9.6 million square kilometers and a coastline of 18,000 kilometers. Germany on the other hand…

Family tree is a Chinese traditional culture that carefully records the origin, rules, marriages, cultures, and members in a family, and it is usually recorded in a notebook and handed from generation to generation. Zhang Huan, the Chinese visual artist born in 1965, who created…

In book 1 of the Confucian Analects, Confucius is adamant in bolstering the Chinese philosophies of faithfulness, respect, and sincerity among all followers of the Confucian religion. According to him, listening and adhering to the advice of superiors who are knowledgeable of both the Chinese…

Frederick Douglass said 200 years ago “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men “and today Amy Chua adapt the same concept which she writes about in her 2011 article for The Wall Street Journal, “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior “Chua…

   Buddhism is a major religion based off of the beliefs and ideas of the Buddha. Buddha comes from a little aspect of Hindu tradition and largely from the Buddha’s own path to spiritual enlightenment. There are many religious debates as to whether Buddhism is…

One single historical significance panel from Gene Yang’s graphic novel, Boxers, was on page 225. Where Little bao and his brothers’ discipline, the society of Righteousness and Harmonious Fist, put on their opera clothing and yell the word kill in front of the Main entrance…

As China and the U.S are currently regarded as the top two world powers economically speaking. That being said, it is important to understand the business culture and the differences between Chinese and American culture, and the similarities in our cultures as there have been…

This is once again the most significant human journey luncheon of the planetoid Julian or Spring Festival, which is a large part of Chinese New Year festivals as millions move around the country and exceeding. About 40 billion visits occurring in 40 days. So how…

The Ballad of Mulan (Ode of Mulan) is as a primary source document and mainly describes the protagonist Mulan. She disguises herself into a man to join the army instead of her father, which defeats the enemies and accomplishes the mission successfully. Mulan returns home…

‘Eveline’ is a fiction story wrote by James Joyce which talks about a young Irish girl and her strive to liberate her from the cold and dead life she lives to go live in the beautiful sunny Buenos Aires with the love of her life….

Novels are used as vessels to communicate significant themes about humanity. This is evident in the autobiographical novel “Chinese Cinderella” by Adeline Yen Mah, a text that truly reflects the emphasis of Abandonment by family which triggers resilient and experiences that impact an individual leading…

Nowadays, with the development of the economy and society, the problem of cross-cultural conflict is becoming more and more prominent. How to carry out cross-cultural management in Chinese enterprises and how to learn from the strengths of American culture and formulate reasonable and effective management…

The continuation of the Great Wall of China is, in my eyes, a mistake because it will lead to a heavy loss of life, wasted resources, and a lack of people to farm and keep the population healthy. Not to mention the incredible amount of…

The word propaganda can be traced back to its use in the religious context, established in 1622 by Pope Gregory XV in The Congregatio de Propaganda Fide (“Congregation for propagating the Faith”) as a way to further spread the Catholic missionary activity and the doctrine…

Introduction Politeness theory is mean how to protect our ‘face’ and how to avoid we say somethings that other people don’t like to hear. According to Brummernhenrich, B., & Jucks, R, they quoted ‘The concept of face derives from politeness theory and refers to the…

We chose breakfast as our aspect of culture for this project because it may not seem like an interesting topic from the surface, but becomes one as your research increases. It’s known as the most important meal of the day, after all. Every breakfast has…

People should find their own cultural identities and feel proud of and empowered by their origin and identity. However, It is important to acknowledge that once people immigrate and immerse in a new culture, it is more challenging for them to have a clear definition…

There is a saying where “Dancing is that by which one regulates the eight sources of sounds and thereby conducts the eight winds”. This saying refers to the “eight trigrams” of the Chinese classical instruments being categorized by which material they are made out of….

The Paper Menagerie was written by a Chinese-American author of science fiction and fantasy. The antagonist of this short story is Jack, the main character itself. I found that the author makes Jack to be appears as an aggressive and immature boy in this story….

Long time ago, in the province of Sichuan, near the River Min, there lived a woman and her son. They were very poor but good people. Every day the boy cut grass and sold it to people to get money. One year there was little…

With all the ethnic groups out there, the three I chose to discuss are Chinese, Muslim and Native American. All three of these ethnic groups have fascinating and similar beliefs when it comes to their religion, diets, and pain and health practices. Although Asia has…

Artists create artworks with the intention to communicate meaning and represent their ideas with the audience. The intentions may be to share something personal about themselves, it may be to express their point of view, it may be to reflect the world they live in,…

The Art of War Essay Throughout history there have been many famous works of literature produced. Not all of these works stand the test of time either. Some fade away into the background and others stay around forever. The one being talking about in particular…

An interesting concept I’ve always wanted to learn about was Confucianism and how it came about in different ways. Xinzhong Yao talked about the concept and explained everything in his book called, “An Introduction to Confucianism”. He is a very talented professor of religion/ethics at…

Although the stanza describes the bleak autumn in Jiangnan, it is not confined to this place but brings the readers to the stretching hills and rivers miles away veiled in cold air. The reed and the lonely boat, common views in the rural wilderness, together…

Modern world forces dealing people from different countries. It is getting more and more dipper every year, and this is not bad. It helps develop the world and economies faster. The main point is that countries started to depend from each other, for example Ukraine…

The strategic genius of Chinggis Khan is immortalized in history. The writings of Sun Tzu have established sound military principles that have transcended time and technology. No other conqueror in history had employed strategies so far ahead of their time than Chinggis Khan. He and…

In the Chinese culture there are lucky and unlucky numbers in their culture. In total there are seven lucky numbers and four unlucky numbers. Numbers have always played a significant role in Chinese culture. People in China traditionally combine their fortune with lucky numbers. Chinese…

Through the administrations, the creating of Fu Sigils changed with the way of life. The Fu slides from shamanic rehearses that originate before Taoism, yet in the first century AD it was converged into Taoism, and later, incorporated Confucianism also, Buddhism. They are a critical…

Précis Geremie R. Barme in Chapter 10 of his book In the Red: On Contemporary Chinese Culture talks about and criticizes China in a socio-political retrospect. Beginning his chapter with the notion that there has always been political and military tension between the Chinese and…

When I think of opposite cultures I think of American culture and Chinese culture (almost automatically). I do this because of the main cultural measure individualism vs. collectivism. This chapter dives in deeply on how the meshing of American cultures with Asian cultures effects those…