Reading these pages in Change and Tradition was very interesting about learning more in depth about the Yin and Yang. Growing up we all have seen and know what this sign was, but myself probably like many have never truly known the origin for it. The emblem shows and tells us how everything in this …
Monthly Archives: September 2019
Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism
These readings really caused me to reflect on my own education about early China. I was really only taught about China in my World History class in high school, and even then China only got a cursory mention before we started to analyze the Renaissance. When we would talk about world religions, we were typically …
Tai Chi and the Yin and Yang
Last year I took my physical well-being, and it ended up that I had enrolled in tai chi. Going into the class, I had not really know what tai chi was, but I learned more about the Chinese culture and movement than I had expected. Throughout the semester one of the topics we talked about …
Obey the Chinese Government
Confucianism, Daosim, and Legalism are three different historical Chinese philosophies. I found an article, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/03/150325-confucius-china-asia-philosophy-communist-party-ngbooktalk/ ,that talks about how these philosophies affect China today. The Communist party uses Confucian’s teaching about “obeying the emperor” as the reason why the Chinese people need to respect the Chinese government now.
The Ying and Yang In American Culture
I found the reading in “Change and Tradition” about the Ying and Yang and what the meaning and significance of the Ying and Yang in the Chinese culture were quite interesting. I knew what the Ying and Yang were prior to reading this section, but I found it interesting to find out what their deeper meaning. …
Yin and Yang
When I read about Yin and Yang, it made me think of Mulan 2 and how Mulan and Shang are given and yin and yang necklace because even though they are both different, together they balance. Yin is dark, while yang is light. You can’t have one without the other and there is beauty in …
International News Involving The United States And China
While researching and writing a current events paper for one of my other courses, I stumbled upon this article. https://www.freightwaves.com/news/us-to-leave-global-postal-union-next-month-barring-last-minute-action-exit-could-send-global-parcel-rates-soaring. This article is an interesting read about the United States (USPS) leaving the Universal Postal Union. There are a couple of reasons for why the USPS wants to leave the Union that has over 192 …
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A Tiger Fighter is Hard to Find
The beginning of this section in the book made me question a lot of things about our current news and news from China as we talked about early on in this class is how much stuff can we believe and why might some people from different regions here news while others may not. This came …
“A Tiger-fighter is hard to Find”
After reading “A Tiger-fighter is Hard to Find” I began to wonder about whether or not the story of Wu Song Beats the Tiger was an actual story within Chinese culture, or if the author had created a second story, within “A Tiger -fighter”. I found that the Shen Yu performing arts performs this story …
“After Cowboy Chicken Came to Town”
I found the short story ”After Cowboy Chicken Came to Town” to be an interesting story. It got me thinking about the different types of American food and how there are many different types of Chinese food as well. I began to wonder what Chinese people think of American food today. Do they have occasional …