Project General Topic: Culture Restricted: Western and Chinese More Restricted: Traditional festival Topic Chosen: I am more interested in the culture of traditional festival and know a little about the difference about the festival of Western and Chinese, and I find it has pretty charm. On the other hand, I want to make use of this opportunity to know more about the western culture and history to expand my view. Outline I. Introduction II. Differences between Chinese and Western Traditional
“stumbling blocks.” First of all, there is the assumption of similarities from the beginning of the video, which is the first and the longest stumbling block mentioned in the article. The assumption of similarities happens because we are all human with needs of food and shelter makes us into thinking we are all the same. In the first part of the video, every family member slurps Japanese somen with chopsticks.
family support he is facing despite facing health issues. It is also finding out about my client as a person, as well as his needs, that helps best in finding a solution to his problems. Besides that, it is important for me to look at my client’s culture beyond the context of race and ethnicity. This is because an individual is a complex tangle of everything that has multiple cultural identities which include his own functional ability, community and so
To what extent was the May-Fourth Movement a Chinese Enlightenment movement? I. Introduction May-Fourth Movement is an important intellectual and cultural movement that had a great influence towards China. Originally, the movement was carried out by university students, which aimed at protesting against the government decisions towards the Shandong Province, in which Japan had been given the right to overtake the control, despite China being one of the winning countries after World War I. The
can analyse this work in terms of tracing how Arab-Islamic calligraphy had developed to this stage. Now we turn to the work of Chinese Calligraphy. The work is called Willow Tree by Jin Nong painted in 1754. It’s an Ink of Paper work. We see a willow tree branch in the right side of the painting. At the bottom we see a peach blossom branch. There’s also a series of chinese characters written on the top left of the paper. The entire painting is in black ink with the exception of a small red emblem
Ⅰ. Introduction Throughout history, many translators from home and abroad have dedicated to rendering The Book of Songs into different languages, presenting this oriental masterpiece to readers around the world for the appreciation of Chinese culture. 1.1 The Book of Songs The Book of Songs is the first recorded poetry anthology in China, enjoying high praises throughout history. It includes 305 poems from a wide range of sources with anonymous and unidentified authors, which date back to over 3
for these two settlements being one of the most important port city on the Southeastern region. Therefore, Guangzhou contains both Chinese characteristic and Western influence which is one of the most remarkable
As a typical and common culture phenomenon in both Chinese and English communities, death euphemism, with its long standing history, has been regarded as a crucial component of euphemism, which is both linguistic and cultural ubiquitous in human language and social life since there exists unpleasant or offensive words so that individuals would substitute relatively indirect terms to avoid cultural sensitivity. This paper attempts to make a contrastive analysis of Chinese and English death euphemism
The vigorous evolution of Chinese contemporary art in the last thirty years has incorporated a decent number of art works that could draw connection to the styles of western avant-garde. Although having been formed and developed in an incredibly fast speed, the stylistic connections could not be purely interpreted as the reconstruction of existing western concepts or elements. Rather, the ways and extents that Chinese artists relate themselves to the western styles could vary. While some might have
culture. For centuries, Asia has been depicted in the West as highly exotic, mysterious, and sometimes threatening to Western cultures, ideologies, and physical bodies. This is evident even in contemporary American portrayals of Asia. Popular Hollywood films and series such as The Last Samurai, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Rush Hour all create fantastical and exoticized images of Asian countries and societies. Such portrayals have been thoroughly dissected by scholars across numerous disciplines