After reading “When Cowboy Chicken Came to Town” I began to think about the differences in workplaces between capitalist countries like the United States and communist countries like China. I decided to do a little research on the differences in medical workplaces since I hope to work in such a place in the future. I …
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The Heritage of Chinese Civilization-Confucianism
Government, family, work, relationships, and education? All these have something in common and that is being a human-being. However, some may think deeper into this aspect that being a human also has to do with success, choices, wants/needs, and dreams; the list continues if you ask anyone on the street what is it like to …
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Fullness
As I was reading poems from TAO, the poem on page 15 caught my eye. “Those who sustain TAO/ do not wish to be full/ Because they do not wish to be full/ They can fade away/ Without further effort.” It really stuck out to me because I feel the need to be full all …
The Dao is The Way
I have read the Daodejing before. Three years ago my chosen (…assigned?) FYS course, titled “Yielding, Yin/Yang, and You” focused greatly on how principles from Chinese philosophy impacted ourselves, the community, and the world. Reading the Dao again I am met with difficulty, but also with great appreciation for its teachings. Learning about Chinese culture …
Yin and Yang
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 …
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 …