Transformation: Establishment of Chinese-American Identity

In Pangs of Love by David Wong Louie, the identity of Chinese immigrants in America is as fluid and unstable as the perfume Musk 838. The Chinese-born mom harbors deep love for China. Though living in America for forty years, she is still persisting in the Chinese tradition while her American-born sons, on the contrary, are trying to integrate into American life, seemingly ignoring the Chinese origin. By looking at the ideological difference under the Chinese and American historical context, this paper aims to reveal that translating the past, old, what’s Chinese into something meaningful to the present, the new and the reality makes it possible that the first-generation integrates into American culture and the second-generation understands Chinese tradition. It illuminates the ways for possible transformation and demonstrates the possibility to establish a Chinese-American identity to transcend the pangs for embracing each other.     

A Cultural Interpretation of Mother-Daughter Conflicts in The Joy Luck Club

Amy Tan’s novel The Joy Luck Club describes the complex relation between four Chinese immigrant mothers and their daughters who are raised in America.It reveals different cultural connotation between China and America.Misunderstand ing,conflicts,communication and then understanding reflects the process of clash,communication and blending between East and West.In this novel,mother is the medium of national history and memory,the carrier of Chinese culture and the bridge of past and present.On the contrary,daughters are raised in America.They are influenced by American culture.Cultural difference is the main cause of their conflicts.     

Obama＇s State of the Union Address——奥巴马国情咨文演讲片段欣赏

Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, my fellow Americans：
Today in America, a teacher spent extra time with a student who needed it, and did her part to lift America＇s graduation rate entrepreneur flipped on the lights in her to its highest level in more than three decades. An tech startup, and did her part to add to the more than 8 million new jobs our businesses have created over the past four years.     

谁最先发现美洲大陆?

On 12th October 1492, Christopher Columbus, an explorer, landed in America. This is an epic event in world history. Since then, it has been accepted that Columbus was the first person who discovered America.However, Mr Gavin Menzies, a British historian and map expert, challenged the traditional belief on 15th March 2002. Mr Menzies is a former Royal Navy submarine commander. He spoke to more than two hundred diplomats, historians, academics, top navigators and chart makers from around the world at a conference held by the Royal Geographical Society in London.Mr Menzies has been involved in a research for fourteen years. He stated that Columbus reached America seventy-two years behind a Chinese expeditionary force. The force sailed in 1000-foot-long ships and circumnavigated the     

A Comparison between Life of Chinese Women and That of American Ones

The United States is the largest developed country in the world and China is the largest developing country in the world. As America and China are playing increasingly important roles in the world, people are eager to learn more about these countries. This paper makes a comparison of the lives of Chinese and American women so as to give readers an idea of the cultures, customs and values of these two countries. The discussion of women’s lives in China and America is conducted from three aspects, namely, occupation, women and family, women’s education.     

Study of the Politeness Principle in Chinese and English cultures

This thesis attempts to make a comparative study of politeness between English and Chinese cultures.Politeness Can be realized in a number of ways,among which the use of language is an important one.With the development of pragmatics in the past years,language is used to show-politeness and also the differences between different languages and cultures.     

A Man Who Cannot See Himself: Invisibility Caused by the Protagonist’s Weakness in Invisible Man

Invisible Man is both a historical biography of the black man in America and an anguish process of man’s quest for identity in the dehumanizing and absurd society of racial discrimination. Personal weakness of the protagonist: his effort to evade his past functions as the last straw leading to his invisibility. Therefore, this paper tries to analyze the cause of the invisibility of the protagonist by further textual analysis in an attempt to reveal how a nameless African American reflects the existential crisis of modern man.     

The Agony of Early Chinese Immigrants--A Review on Shanghai Girls

The article aims at exploring by the way of a traditional approach—Historical-Biographical the agony confronted by early Chinese immigrants in America based on the novel Shanghai Girls.Early Chinese Americans encountered numerous pains:hardship in their work,discrimination in their lives,and the threat of deportation from the host government.Generally,the sufferings of theirs derive from three sources,namely,their powerless homeland,the hostility of the white and their low education status.Due to the poverty and powerless their homeland,both the sisters encountered countless insults.     

美国东方主义——华美文学之缚(英文)

American Orientalism is a hegemonic discourse that constructs China as America ’s other. This paper aims to sum up American Orientalist representation in the white American literature and its burden on Chinese American writers.     

The Critical Discussion of the Second Language Learning in the Classroom in China

Over the past decades,Chinese students have employed various methods with a large amount of time and enormous efforts on learning English.However,the result is still far from satisfaction.Therefore,how to learn English more effectively in the classroom has become a major concern not only for students,but also for teachers and linguists.This paper consists of two sections,and each section has the same three topics,exploring the second language learning issues according to the literature review and my personal English learning context in China.Hopefully,it can help Chinese students and teachers to have a better understanding of some common issues related to the second language learning.     

The Impacts of the Cultural Differences on Sino - US Business Negotiations

With the emergence of a economic globalization and China’s enter into WTO,China has witnessed a sharp increase in foreign investment and plenty Chinese firms into the international market.Business negotiation is the most common phenomenon in business life and international trade,so understanding the behaviors of the negotiators is a vital presupposition for successful negotiations to obtain a mutually satisfactory agreement.This is still more important if the cultural backgrounds of the parties involved are different,for example,between Chinese and American parties.In fact,the larger the cultural differences,the greater barriers to communication,and the more likely misinterpretation of the negotiation.Intercultural understanding is the foundation and basic for long-term mutually beneficial cooperation,therefore,to negotiate triumphantly,cultural differences between the parties concerned must be identified and solved.This article will expound negotiation behaviors between China and America.     

The Difference between Chinese and American Higher Education System

This paper describes the differences between the Chinese and American higher education system, and different issues behind these differences along with history and contemporary complexities, and analyzes the reason of its emergence, then how to solve these issues. I studied at Iowa Wesleyan College in America for two and a half years. In order to further understand American higher education system, I interviewed a librarian of Iowa Wesleyan College named Sherril Gibbs. And I have used a lot of data of the department of education USA government from Wikipedia and other sources in my paper. Then this paper finds that Chinese and American higher education system has their own strengths and weaknesses. Both the systems have a need to learn from each other to execute a better education system and to ensure development of all students as per their interest and abilities.     

The Impact of Puritanism on the American Spirit

America remains a very religious country nowadays,an indication of deep influence from the early forefathers of America-the Puritans,a group of extremely pious people,who has left a rich legacy on the American culture.It is the most materially prosperous country in the world.Puritanism was the dominant religious force in the early colonial America and is held as the root of American culture.Individualism,enterprising spirit,desire for material wealth through hard work are all spirits that make America a special country and their roots can all be traced back to the early Puritanism.Puritanism in shaping the spirit of America is a most important factor we cannot afford to overlook.     

心路历程--新年

Dear Friends, Your editor in China, Richard, asked me to write an article about the New Year in America. In my columns I deliberately (故意地) avoid writing about life in America. This is for travel a-gents or professional politicians or journalists to do. Instead I prefer to write about matters of universal concern. My columns have been on topics such as life and death, humor, poetry, animals, time, education, peace, and aging. These subjects have resulted in a popular response from our Chinese     

Distinctions between the Three Major Native Dialects of English

This paper focuses on essential distinctions between the major native dialects of English which are often divided by linguists into the three general categories of the British Isles dialects,those of North America and those of Australasia.English learners might want to learn a standard accent,because maybe they need it in a play or maybe they want to impress their friends,or maybe they want to fit in better in a certain English speaking environment.The paper hopes to help Chinese English learners firstly isolate the distinctions among different but widely-used and officially-accepted accents and then speak good English by means of eliminating incorrect accent by imitating Standard English pronunciation.     

A Study on Intercultural Business Negotiation-Based on a Case

Enlightened by excellent works of some well-known anthropologists such as Hofstede and Hall, the author tries to conduct a tentative study on the differences between negotiation styles adopted by Chinese negotiators and those from western countries like America due to different cultures to which they are exposed. The main goal of this paper then is to identify these differences in the hope that understanding and trust can be established as a precondition for a long-lasting mutually beneficial cooperation between China and other countries. As for the research method, the paper mainly adopts a qualitative study with a case from real business negotiations.     

心路历程--叛逆

Dear Friends,Some of our previous columns have been on serious themes. We havedelved into subjects like Love and Death and Ambition and Success. This ispretty heavy stuff. Now, it is time to let our imagination flow into fantasy.In America and in other western nations, every Chinese restaurant serves"fortune cookies" at the end of each meal. Inside each of these cookies is a small slipof paper with a brief message. It is customary for the diners to read their "fortunes"     

高一课文配套短文改错专练（Units 15-18）

Unit 15 Healthy EatingNowadays people have no opinion what is a healthy diet, the Chinese diet and the western diet. In the fact, the Chinese diet is considered be the healthiest in the world because it is rich in fibre and low in sugar and fat. As a result, Chinese people have white healthy teeth, and in the western countries, many people     

A Brief Stylistic Analysis of “Chinese Dreams and American Dreams” Delivered by Bai Yansong

On March 3nd.2009,Chinese famous host Mr.Bai Yansong,a journalist,gave a speech at Yale University.This speech lasted forty minutes.The speech mainly talked about the changes between China and America through over the last thirty years,and mainly focuses on the author’s 40 years experiences and his understanding of Chinese dreams according to his own experiences.The audience,most students from Yale,were impressed a lot by his humorous speaking style.Therefore,it deserves our exploration to exhibit what the stylistic characteristics of speech are.The examination will be carried out in five perspectives,namely,phonological,graphological,lexical,syntactical and semantics analyses.     

臭氧层空洞已变小

On 24th September 2002, the NASA1 of America took some pictures of the ozone layer2 over Antarctica3. The pictures showed that the ozone hole found in the past had become smaller by about 40 per cent and divided into two smaller ones.