Author: lhughes1

This story is simply a great representation of the marriage culture in China. Parents are in charge of finding their daughters a husband who is rich and can take care of them. We see in this story the girl’s mom does not like the boy… until he becomes rich. Suddenly the mom loves him and… Continue reading An Entrepreneurs story

This story introduced American ways into Chinese Culture. In America buffets are very common and popular, they earn lots of money and are a great way for businesses to promote themselves. However, as we saw in this story it takes a lot of food and money to start the way of dining. The characters were… Continue reading After the Cowboy Chicken Came to Town

Nimei the main character spends the entire portion of the story preparing to impress her old lover. She has not seen him in 17 years and since has started a family, gained weight, and had a simple life. Her family does not have a lot of money and her husband no longer has the job… Continue reading Flame

The Chinese are also pushing the boundaries and ignoring cease fire from India. Military leaders from both countries will be meeting for the 13th time this month and they have made no progress thus far. Pakistan offered to assist India with military however they rejected the help. Both countries have increased there deployment, India is… Continue reading Tensions at the India-China border continue to grow

Recently China has start to fly planes over the island of Taiwan. The President of Taiwan said that they will do what ever it takes to keep China out. She also said that if China successfully invades them “authoritarianism has the upper hand over democracy” A record number of planes have entered into the Taiwan… Continue reading BBC News: Tensions with China worst in 40 years says Taiwan

The levels that the government in China is going to are insane. The people have no freedoms and are always being watched. The level of security that they are implementing in the citizen’s everyday life is a violation of privacy. Why they feel the need to watch their every move is crazy to me. And… Continue reading China Undercover

This article surprised me. I was shocked reading all the rules that women have to follow. I found it helpful that they compared most of the rules of following to western ways because it helped with comparison. This showed me how much freedom women have in the U.S and how little we have to rely… Continue reading Ch’en Tu-hsiu

I can’t believe they were put in jail for making a joke, and the joke got twisted from what they had originally said. It doesn’t seem right to me that these peasants are put in jail for however long the chief wants them to be in jail because of a silly joke. Clearly, they have… Continue reading A Bad Joke

This story shows how much corruption and injustice are in their police system. The police walked all over Mr. Chiu and abused their power. I can’t imagine the frustration he must have felt not being able to defend himself and the confusion he must have felt. If I was in his situation I would have… Continue reading Saboteur

I find this story very odd. The mother and son are very strange. The mother is very controlling of the son at the beginning then starts to be controlling over his relationship with his wife. What I don’t understand is why the daughter-in-law went to the mother about seeing her naked when she could have… Continue reading Mencius’ Mother