China’s One-Child Policy

While reading Ha Jin’s short story, “The Woman from New York”, I began to question when this story was taking place. I have always been aware that China had a one-child limit to help slow the population growth and it had continued for decades and was only recently lifted. According to this article from 2015, …

Reading and Class Discussion 10/3

The dynasties discussed are the Qin (256-206 BC), Former Han dynasty (206-8AD), and Later Han dynasty (25-220 AD). Women are discussed throughout the dynasties. Women were expected to first obey her parents, then obey her husband, and then lastly obey her son. They were expected to be humble to display her low status and respecting …

Taiwan Mainland Ban

Taiwan is looking to ban mainland protesters who were involved in vandalism crimes in Hong Kong during the protests. In addition to this, President Tsai Ing-wen also wants to impose sanctions and travel bans on individuals who were involved in harassment crimes during their stay in Taiwan. With famous national monuments such as the Lennon …

Unification of China 10.03.19

In the beginning of Chapter 2, it talks about how China was started and where everyone was settling into. It brings up a point that if “the western civilization had experienced similar continuity it would have progressed all over current Europe”. This would have been crazy to see a modern work of all of that …

Chinese Marriage

https://www.thoughtco.com/chinese-wedding-rituals-687490 This article discusses modern and ancient China marriage. In ancient China, marriages were arranged, and were influenced by Confucian principles. There were two reforms that changed ancient Chinese traditional weddings to what they are today. The first reform was in 1950 and the second reform was in 1980. Chinese were able to select their …