The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the topic of American history. Specifically it will link Chinese women immigrants' history to American women's history. Chinese women have a particularly difficult history in America, because many of the first Chinese women to immigr...

Architecture, by definition, is the art or science of planning and building structures. Those are the words used to describe architecture in a dictionary but architecture is so much more than a study of how a building is built. Architecture is a product of human activities, and it is also a mirror o...

The Lost Ones – Young Chinese Americans Due to harsh immigration laws, in American history, Chinese have often relied on illegal means of entering the United States. For example, in 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act (Chinese Exclusion Act, Documents on Anti-Chinese Immigration Policy.) ...

The history of film is an important one. Many people in our society may see film as simply a form of entertainment, but it is indeed more than that. The film is a medium of expression that is unlike no other. It can tell many tales of many different types of people throughout history. Film is also a...

Japanese and Chinese culture in America in the first half of the 20th century was that of a world within a world. Racial differences led these groups to take more time to develop their separate identities. In the case of Japanese Americans, we see a world that was steeped in the traditio...

The Mongol invasion of China was perhaps one of the greatest political, social, and economic upheavals in Chinese history. Fierce and obscure people who lived in the outer reaches of the Gobi Desert, present day Outer Mongolia, accomplished it. The outcome of this invasion was the destruction of th...

Especially over the 7th, 8th and early 9th centuries CE, East Asia was dominated by the great Tang China Empire, which is shown covering the whole area of ethnic China, plus Annam (northern Vietnam) to the south and the Tarim Basin in central Asia (shown gold outlined in the map below). At this ti...

Cultural Difference between Chinese and Americans in Business Since domestic and multinational corporations are now marketing their products and services around the world, an understanding of intercultural differences has become evident. Managers of multinational corporations and joint ventures h...

Recently, China was again granted "Most Favored Nation" (MFN) status by the United States. This year, though, China was granted permanent MFN status by the U.S. contingent on when China is accepted into the World Trade Organization (WTO). This decision was, of course, very controversial. Th...

Manufacturing and Industry in China The Chinese have long since been an enterprising group of people. Long before the introduction of Western technologies and ideas, this country has had a history of local industry dating back some 2000 years. These innovative people, from an ear...

Aesthetic Rewriting in the Translation of Poetry Abstract: This paper attempts to explore the strategy of rewriting, in particular, the method of naturalizing and historicizing, in the translation of poetry to maintain the aesthetic meaning. Theoretical support from Susan Bassnett and others is a...