Waiting‚ the winner of the National Book Award in 1999‚ was written by Ha Jin‚ a contemporary Chinese-expatriate writer. Ha Jin was born in a military family in China in 1950s. At the age of fourteen‚ Jin joined the Chinese Liberation Army against the riot of Civil Revolution. Jin ended his military career in 1977. A few years later‚ Jin received his master degree in Anglo-English literature at Shandong University in China. He then emigrated to the U.S. to pursue his Ph.D. in English during 1985
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Conference Week 8 Question: 1.What led to the traumatic events in Tiananmen Square in 1989? Why did China’s leadership react to the students as they did? How would you characterize political reform in China under Deng Xiaoping and his successors? The reasons that led to the event in Tiananmen Square in 1989 are because of the challenge of the reforms and the invasion of freedom and democracy. The event started from the death of famous Chinese governor Hu‚ Yaobang. In year 1989‚ Fang Lizhi‚
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In “Du Tenth Sinks the Jewel Box in Anger”‚ the author Feng Menglong shared a short story with us. In Ming dynasty‚ the courtesan Du Mei fell in love with the young stylish master‚ Li Jia. With the help of Li Jia’s friend‚ Liu Yuchun‚ they successfully get rid of madam’s control and became a real couple. But Li Jia was afraid of his traditional stubborn father not accepting them and wanted to maintain his great fortune and status in his family. In the same time‚ his new friend Sun Fu offered him
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The book “Daily life in China On the eve of the Mongol Invasion 1250-1276” is a Chinese historical book that historians and readers will enjoy to read because it has information written about all aspects of life during 1250 in such a vivid way that it would not be insane to say that is possible to picture the stories and documents found within the book. This book mentions about a time when the population of China was only six million inhabitants compared to the 1.3 billion of today but was the riches
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Reasons for the Outcome of the Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 Topic and Thesis Statement In April 1989‚ people from all over China gathered in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square to mourn the death of the Communist Party Leader Hu Yaobang. The gathering grew larger each day and more and more people expressed their dissatisfaction with the party. People could not see the results of the reforms that they had been promised and students‚ in particular‚ were agitated due to the rising corruption in the party
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In 1945-1949‚ the Guomindang (GMD) and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) fought for the ultimate control over China in the Second Civil War. In the beginning‚ the GMD had a great advantage over the CCP as the GMD had a larger arsenal and the Americans gave them large amounts of money. However‚ the CCP eventually won the Civil War‚ due to 4 main factors: (1) many GMD troops surrendered to the CCP‚ bringing American Weapons with them; (2) the CCP continued land reform whilst the GMD returned land to the
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The purport of this work is to reveal the influence of eventual failure of the Chinese market on the world’s economy from a globalist’s point of view. China‚ as a growing world power‚ has a significant impact on the global economy. An eventual downturn of its market will lead to dramatic consequences for the economy on national and world-wide level. As the country with the highest IT goods export rate‚ its failure will lead the global community to a larger poverty gap‚ less investment‚ less technology:
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During the Soviet Union’s superpower-years‚ many could have suspected that it could have easily been ahead of China‚ who then had a peasant society compared to highly literate country with enormous numbers of scientific‚ technical and other specialists‚ in the present day. However a high economic growth rates and increasing number of competitive industries‚ such as the technology industries‚ China is nowadays a huge player on a global scale. Russia on the other hand has not integrated as deeply
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The film Mulan is set in ancient China‚ in an undefined dynasty. The Huns have penetrated the Great Wall and have invaded China. The emperor orders that new soldiers be drafted. Mulan‚ a girl who recently humiliated her family by failing the Matchmaker’s assessment‚ in order to save her aging father from death at war‚ steals her father’s armor and masquerades as a soldier. Throughout the film‚ several historical inaccuracies‚ as well as accurate portrayals‚ become apparent‚ in such respects as religious
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In the massacre of 1989 Tian An men Square. 50000 students took it to the streets on april 29th of Beijing and protested peacefully. On May 4‚ approximately 100‚000 students and workers marched in Beijing making demands for free media reform and a formal dialogue between the authorities and student-elected representatives. The government rejected the proposed dialogue‚ only agreeing to talk to members of appointed student organizations. On May 13‚ large groups of students occupied Tiananmen Square
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