Author: jwu1

On October 6, 2021, I attended the second Indiana Association of Chinese Americans (IACA) meeting where I got to meet Benny Ko. He introduced himself stating that he had moved here to the United States to attend Indiana State University and later attend medical school at Indiana University. He then went on to lecture us… Continue reading 10/6 IACA Meeting Reflection

Today, I had the opportunity to volunteer and help Kwan out at the Global Village grand opening. Global Village is a new gallery that showcases different cultural elements of different continents. Right when you enter the building, you can see a long line of flags against the left wall. Since I got there a bit… Continue reading IACA Global Village Grand Opening ~ 10/1

The big takeaway that I got from this short story was that being homosexual was considered to be a sickness, and a crime, and was just overall not accepted in Chinese culture. People were arrested or were sent to mental hospitals to be treated even though there is no cure for this “disease.” In the… Continue reading “The Bridegroom” Reflection

On September 22nd, I attended the first meeting with Kwan Hui from the IACA organization. We started out having some Chinese takeout; we had lo mein and dumplings. He then went on to talk about how the organization came to be and some important people within the organization, and the different activities and things they… Continue reading 9/22 ~ IACA Meeting Reflection 1

In the short story “Flame,” Nimei asks her husband, Jiang Bing, to buy and cook fish for Director Liao who is in the hospital. In China, fish represents and is considered to bring wealth and prosperity. This came to be because the Chinese word for fish is “魚 yú” which also means “abundance” or “affluence”… Continue reading “Flame” Reflection

I noticed a lot of poems expressed the idea of everything having an equal opposite. For example, poems 58 and 59 talk about how if the government does one thing, the people will do the opposite. A line that I really liked from the poems is the line in poem 55 where they describe a… Continue reading Dao De Jing 41-81

In English, there are words that sound exactly the same but are spelled differently. In Mandarin, there are words that are spelled the same in pinyin but have a slight difference in pronunciation due to the tones. There are also situations where the pinyin is spelled the same and has the same tones, but have… Continue reading Excerpts from the Analects of Confucius

When reading this short story about Huping fighting a real-life tiger for a movie, one of the first things that I thought about was the Chinese Zodiac Animals. I decided to look into the zodiac animal of the tiger and the personality traits and characteristics that are linked with that animal. To my surprise, Huping… Continue reading “A Tiger-Fighter Is Hard to Find”