The Hongs Essays

For this assignment, I interview my friend, Li Jenny. She was born and raised in Hong Kong, but she has resided in the United States for 4 years. She has a fair amount of knowledge about both America as well as Hong Kong. I think she would be an excellent interviewee. As she described, her original culture’s dimensions are almost opposite to the U.S. First of all, Hong Kong is a collectivist society. They put the needs and the benefits of the groups over the individuals. All the decisions they make

1941. Simultaneously, other Japanese forces attacked the British colonies of Hong Kong. The Battle, also known as the Battle of Hong Kong was fought from December 8 to 25 of 1941 after Japan strategically invaded it, in hopes of ruling Asia. The Canadians courageously fought to defend the British colony as it would earn them great respect and gradually lead to their independence as a country. Unfortunately, the defense of Hong Kong did lead to the death of 290 Canadian soldiers in only 17 and a half

In Maxine Hong Kingston’s 1976 novel The Woman Warrior, Hong Kingston, through several novellas, illustrates key moments and stories from her life, including stories of great female warriors like Fa Mulan, and even her own mother, who overcomes adversity and danger, both literal and metaphorical. Through the vehicle of these autobiographical moments and “talk-stories”, Hong Kingston reveals her views on feminism and her views on individual the role and individual liberty of Women in Chinese culture

Steve Jobs once said, “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” This quote may be relevant to many people in many different ways, but it is extremely relevant to the main character in this novel, Maxine Hong Kingston. In Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, Kingston battles to find her true self while having to live with the stereotypes of being a woman in the Chinese Culture. In the Chinese culture, women are of very little value and are considered little better

1. Who is the “no name woman”? Why is her name unknown and her existence to be kept a secret? In the essay, “No Name Woman,” by Maxine Hong Kingston, the author describes the no name women to be Kingston’s aunt. Moving forward in the first paragraphs of the essay, Kingston has a conversation with her mother about her aunt. She begins to explain Kingston that her aunt eliminated herself and her newborn baby by jumping into the families well in China. Furthermore, the night before the baby was born

The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston heavily deals with women and their experiences/roles in society. In each of the five sections, a woman is the central character with little to no male presence, and the novel explored both the humiliation and empowerment of being a woman. Specifically, No Name Woman and White Tigers show two different experiences of being a woman in society by portraying the central character as either more feminine or masculine in terms of character traits. These differences

Silence and storytelling are pivotal themes that run throughout in Maxine Hong Kingston’s ‘The Woman Warrior.’ They are themes that coincide with each other in a major impactful way on both Maxine as the author, the characters she writes about and the audience who reads her stories. Kingston shows the important consequences of being silent in society and how telling stories can break through these moulds that patriarchal societies once set up for women not only in Chinese culture but relating all

Writer, Maxine Hong Kingston, in her excerpt “No Name Woman”, from her book The Woman Warrior, narrates a part of her history from the story of her family. Within her excerpt from paragraph 21 to paragraph 27, Kingston recounts a story of her aunt committing suicide after giving birth to an illegitimate child. Her purpose is to share and inform about her Chinese culture through her family’s past. She expresses an ambivalent tone while retelling her aunt’s story in order to appeal to contradictory

In Maxine Hong Kingston’s nonfictional novel, The Woman Warrior, Kingston tells five different stories separated in chapters. Kingston wanted to express to her readers what it was like living a life as a Chinese-American. Not only did she have difficulties along the way but she also had to manage fitting in. She is constantly being put on the spot due to her parent’s Chinese traditions and her American lifestyle. The structure of The Woman Warrior focuses on both Chinese myths and her experiences

In the essay “No Name Woman”, Maxine Hong Kinston explores her aunt’s life who secretly gets pregnant and commits suicide with her child when it is born in China. The story basically begins with her mum telling a story about her aunt’s scandal that had never been told to anyone in the past fifty years. After Kingston’s aunt’s husband had left to America for many years, her aunt gets pregnant. It is obvious that her aunt had committed adultery. The rural villagers furiously raided their house because

my perspective, I believe the chapter “White Tigers” was fictional. I think the author included this fictional element in her memoir to make a statement in regards to the readers and the traditional Chinese culture. As written in the chapter, Maxine Hong Kingston took on the role of Fa Mu Lan. She used this lifestyle filled with myth and magic to exhibit what she was taught a woman warrior was to be. It created a sense of reality for Kingston even though she wasn’t Fa Mu Lan. The mythical language

Analyzing Rhetorical Techniques: "No Name Woman" In her essay "No Name Woman," Maxine Hong Kingston investigates how gender impacts every element of a person's existence in Chinese society. The typical perspective of women's roles in Chinese culture. Through a fictitious affiliation with the female warrior, she shows the poverty and suffering of Chinatown, the entrenched sexism and racism, and the spiritual sorrow of cultural transition under challenging situations. Kingston uses the story of a

capital more efficiently in order to lower the cost and make a higher profit. Hong Kong has been ranked the freest market for years by the US Heritage Foundation, yet there are a lot of government subsidies and interference as well as monopolies. Secondly, it is the negative effects of capitalism brought about on the food aspect. For example, overfishing which adversely affected the ocean ecology, food waste problem in Hong Kong, farm pollution

My interest to work at Hong Hall comes from the very notion of what it represents which is Serving International Student, and . It’s a place which projects conglomeration of different cultures and ethnicity; which fascinates me. I, Myself, being an International student studying in America and a being part of being part of a global experience. I would definitely want to work at a place which embodies the very notion of International prescriptive. Also, being a cultural enthusiast, I can boost

At the age of 13, Bruce was introduced to Master Yip Man, who taught Bruce kung fu for many years. Bruce was confident and strong after taking up kung fu. He not only was good at martial arts, but he was also a great dancer and in 1958 he won the Hong Kong Cha Cha Championship. He was also a child actor, and by the time he was eighteen, he appeared in twenty movies. Although Bruce had not formally graduated from high school, his family decided that it was time for him to return to the U.S. and find

Jing Mia Woo is a thirty-six-year-old Chinese woman. The story starts off by telling us that she is on a train from the Hong Kong border to Shenzhen. When she is going through the border of Hong Kong she talks about how she is feeling she says, “I can feel the skin on my forehead tingling, my blood rushing through a new course, my bones aching with a familiar pain” (263). Before her journey from San Francisco to China had begun Jing Mia Woo talks about the conversations she would have with her mother

itself at the centre of business and trade in this globalised world. Along with Mainland China, Hong Kong is being recognised as an international finance centre. This is because of its proximity to the mainland China which provides the organisations an ideal location. (Dean Stallard, 2016). Diversity spreads across all levels of organisations and is a fundamental concept in business. Companies in Hong Kong have done a dismal work when it comes to gender equality, with women representing only 9 percent

Hong Kong can be described as a very cosmopolitan city with a lot of international influences and there is a lot less crime. Hong Kong believes that the use of body cameras will allow their officers to better prevent and detect crimes and offenses. The people of Hong Kong are afraid of being filmed for the reason being that they are not sure where exactly the footage may be used and how will it be preserved. Although, the Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor director

OVERVIEW Hiking is considered to be a very popular leisure activity in Hong Kong as it provides the people with an opportunity to get closer to mother nature and experience serenity and tranquility by escaping the bustling city life. Going for a hike enables one to connect with the elements of nature such as the flora and fauna in their native state. The city's enthusiasm towards this activity can be proven by the fact that several famous local hiking events attract thousands of individuals to participate

Growing up as a ‘third culture kid’ in Hong Kong, a multicultural metropolis, sparked my motivation to pursue a life-long career in Law. Known as ‘Asia’s World City’, the transient place I call home, is an eclectic mix of East and West,uniquely governed by ‘one country, two systems’. Moving from Hong Kong to Toronto built my independence and made me an expert at straddling cultural divides. My greatest role model has always been my father, a Cambridge educated doctor, former investment banker,