Essays on Chinese Culture

To be strong, confident and if not always, at least very often to win – the dream of many boys, guys and already adult men. Of course, you can be strong-willed and strong inside, have the same “core” of a real man, but at the…

Culture is reflected through daily actions, thoughts, and speech. It can dominate one’s conscience in a way that could dishearten them, or cause them to feel great pride. Nevertheless, from childhood to adulthood, culture will always remain a part of one’s self. In the novel…

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 Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan is a moving novel that explores Chinese culture and the role of women in the time of World War II. Throughout the narrative, Winnie Louie recounts her past as Weili in an effort to be truthful to her…

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…

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…