CHEONGSAM The cheongsam is a body-hugging (modified in Shanghai) one-piece Chinese dress for women; the male version is the changshan. It is known in Mandarin Chinese as the qípáo (旗袍) Wade-Giles ch’i-p’ao‚ and is also known in English as a mandarin gown. The stylish and often tight-fitting cheongsam or qipao (chipao) that is most often associated with today was created in the 1920s in Shanghai and was made fashionable by socialites and upperclass women. HISTORY When the Manchu ruled China during
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The fun thing about being Chinese is that I have two Chinese names‚ a Cantonese one and a Mandarin one. They are the same name‚ just said two different ways. Chosen by my maternal grandmother‚ my Chinese name is 梅雅雯. In Cantonese it is pronounced as mui4 ngaa5 man4‚ and it is pronounced as mei2 ya3 wen2 in Mandarin (the numbers represent the tones). 梅 (mui4/mei2) is my surname “Moey”‚ meaning plum. Other surnames that share the same character are
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Breaching Experiment: The Human Response to the Invasion of Personal Space Have you ever been to a wedding and just felt completely confused because one of the female guests decided she was going to wear a wedding gown of her own to someone else ’s wedding? Wouldn ’t it be weird if one day‚ you walked into one of your discussion classes to find that your cool‚ hip‚ macho male T.A. just all of a sudden decided that to put on make-up‚ wear fake rubber breasts‚ and dress like a female to teach his
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Intonation (linguistics) 1 Intonation (linguistics) Global rise Global fall ↗◌ ↘◌ IPA number 510 511 Encoding Entity (decimal) ↗ ↘ Unicode (hex) U+2197 U+2198 In linguistics‚ intonation is variation of spoken pitch that is not used to distinguish words; instead it is used for a range of functions such as indicating the attitudes and emotions of the speaker‚ signalling the difference between statement and question‚ and between different types of question‚ focussing attention on important
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PESTLE ANALYSIS OF CHINA Introduction Location: It is Northwest of the Tibet. The greater part of the country is mountainous. Its principal ranges are the Tien Shan‚ the Kunlun chain‚ and the Trans-Himalaya. These separating China from South and Central Asia. Mt. Everest (8‚848 m)‚ lies on the China–Nepal border‚ while the world’s second-highest point‚ K2 is situated on China’s border with Pakistan. Capital:- Beijing World’s second-largest country by land area‚and the third- or fourth-largest
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similar. During the Zhou dynasty in classical China‚ promoted the new process of standard language (Mandarin Chinese). This new process spread over the entire middle kingdom and resulted in the largest single group of people speaking the same language in the world at this time. Dialects certainly remained and other languages formed and remained‚ but educated officials soon began to rely on the single Mandarin form of language. As for India‚ their
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generates as much as 20% of China’s GDP. The river is an important physical and cultural dividing line between North and South China. Chinese living north of the Yangtze speaks varying dialects of Mandarin. Most of the provinces south of the river have native Sinitic languages that are unintelligible to Mandarin-speakers. The Yangtze River flows through a diverse array of ecosystems and is itself habitat to several endemic and endangered species including the Yangtze River dolphin‚ Chinese alligator
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viewed a documentary called Speaking in Tongues by California Visions. The film featured four students‚ Durrell‚ Kelly‚ Jason‚ and Julian from four different public schools in San Francisco area. Durell is an African-American second-grader who learns Mandarin. Kelly is a Chinese-American who learns Cantonese‚ the language of her parents’. Jason learns both English and Spanish in his middle school‚ and Julian is a Caucasian 8th grader who learns Cantonese. These four students
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learning English. Richard felt most comfortable speaking Spanish at school and refused to speak English. What motivated him to learn English was his realization that he’s an American. For Amy Tan‚ she grew up with exposure to both English and Mandarin in her household. She embraced English and felt at ease with translating for her mother. This encouraged her to learn English to the best of her ability at school. What motivated her to learn English was the challenge and opportunity to go against
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[Can you help me come up with a hook for this story?] Summer is a great time of the year for every person younger than eighteen because it is a time of year you have little to no responsibilities. You can sleep in‚ relax‚ hang out with friends or just do whatever you want all summer long. These are the reasons I love summer. My summer this year has been great because there was always something to do‚ whether it was playing games‚ to going to seeing a movie‚ to hanging out with friends. The
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