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    forcing the Chinese to pay head taxes reveal Canada’s racist and unjust past. There is a significant relationship between the increasing amount of head taxes and the decreasing Chinese population in Canada. With the Gold Rush in the 1860s‚ many Chinese immigrants arrived in Canada to search for a fortune of their own. Little did they know that the head taxes would increase from fifty dollars to five hundred dollars in a matter of three years (n.a.‚ Taxing) to reduce the numbers of Chinese immigrants

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    joining work camps or bettering themselves through private business in the US. What is not necessarily common knowledge is the response to this increase in immigration by U.S. citizens‚ whose population were predominantly made of “White” Americans. Chinese Immigrants were socially‚ politically‚ verbally‚ and many cases physically abused at the hands of “White” natural born citizens. The political cartoon featured

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    In American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang‚ the main theme would have to be identity. Despite the graphic novel consisting of three separate storylines‚ the main characters in the book all share the same issue – being uncomfortable with whom they are and connected to. If one were to simplify and boil the message of the book down to one word‚ it would be self-acceptance. The morals of identity and self-acceptance are what American Born Chinese is about. Yang’s novel serves as a reminder that we must

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    The image of the flowering plum has been played a popular role throughout Chinese paintings and poetry. What was the significance of the flowering plum motif during the Southern Song Dynasty (960-1279)? The period of the Song dynasty (960-1279) was particularly noted for its artistic achievements. Although landscape paintings of the Northern Song (960-1127) was predominant during this period‚ flower painting became equally as important during the Southern Song (1127-1279) where artists tended

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    The Mandarin Chinese language (and all other dialects of Chinese including Cantonese) lacks any kind of overt inflectional morphology. In Chinese‚ words are typically formed by one or two written characters. Each character is monosyllabic and can usually stand alone as an unbound morpheme‚ making inflectional changes more or less impossible. As a result‚ the Chinese language family has no method of overtly expressing tense‚ number‚ gender‚ etc. Instead of inflectional changes‚ Chinese uses context

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    When it comes to the Chinese in America the are not seen as one of the first settlers here in California/ America‚ but they were. Also during the gold rush is when one of the biggest ethnicity of immigrants were Chinese. The Chinese have made great contributions in the United States mostly in labor during the transcontinental railroad uprise in the 19th century. Instead of being seen as great hard working cheap labors the Chinese were discriminated against and look down upon in the White society

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    Three Contributions Of Chinese Immigrants The Chinese started immigrating to the United States in 1849. They left China in search of a better life. Life in China in the 1800’s was very hard. There wasn’t enough food‚ money and the cities were overpopulated. They heard about the United States and believed there was an opportunity to start over again. They hoped to find jobs on the railroad or to strike gold. When they arrived in the United States‚ life was difficult. Laws were made

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    expect of Chinatown‚ as I’m not from the area and I only really had a general idea of the community. I knew that Chinatown was a representation of Chinese culture‚ but I was surprised to see how representative it was of many other Asian cultures‚ such as Japanese and Korean. Even in preliminary research that I did‚ I only saw representations of Chinese culture. I was surprised to see Shinto Iconography and popular icons in Japanese culture‚ such as Jibanyan and Komasan from the ever popular Yo-kai

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    Now a lot of westerns can speak Chinese language‚ and they want to read Chinese books‚ so which methods is suitable them? Our mandarin school website editors find followings _ How to read Chinese books‚ then you can read them and learn something for helping to learn mandarin in shanghai. Before you read Chinese books‚ Survey the chapter: the title‚ headings‚ and subheadings captions under pictures‚ charts‚ graphs or maps review questions or teacher-made study guides introductory and concluding

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    My Favorite Chinese Festival The Mid-autumn is my favorite Chinese festival. It always falls on the 15th day of August‚ but this year is on 29th September. “This wonderful tale is a depiction of a Chinese family coming together and preparing to celebrate the moon with a nighttime picnic that embraces their Chinese customs with glowing lanterns and includes traditional dishes‚ such as the moon cakes‚ pomelos‚ and tea.”(LIN 94) A few days before the festival‚ everyone in the family will help to

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