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Binte Hairy, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Ancient Chinese Characters & Chinese Writing System – Its complexity and richness. The Chinese Language has evolved greatly over almost four thousand years. It has survived invasions, threat of reforming the national language, missionaries and western influence. The language is much less studied and appreciated as compared to western languages. The development of ancient Chinese reflected greatly the social lifestyle of the people and to what

2. The characteristics of Four-character Chinese idioms The characteristics of Four-character Chinese idioms embodies many characteristics of Chinese culture itself, such as the form of duality(偶对思维), concretization(具象思维), and showing respect to the ancestors(尚古思维). 2.1 The form of duality The Chinese people showed special preference to the form of duality and changed it into the strong pursuit of symmetry beauty from of old. The logo symbolized ‘two’(二) in Oracle's(3100--3400 years before today)

Today 's Chinese characters were officially established very recently, but they have one of the longest histories in the world. Chinese characters have continuously developed for more than three thousand years and finally the characters that are currently used are officially confirmed just around 50 years ago, actually in 1956 by "The First Scheme of Simplified Chinese Characters" and in 1977 by "The Second Scheme of Simplified Chinese Characters". By means of simplification, history is divided before

Nüshu (Chinese: 女書) is known as "women's writing". It is an asyllabic script and made up by simplified Chinese characters that was used exclusively among women in Hunan province of southern China (Jiangyong Country). [5] 
The uses of Nüshu script is to write a Chinese local dialect, Xiangnan Tuhua (Chinese: 湘南土話, 'Southern HunaneseTuhua'). This dialect is used by people in Xiao and Yongming River of northern Jiangyong County. [6] This dialect is different to the other parts of Hunan that it is not

In the novel Chinese Handcuffs, the main character Dillon showed several sides of him throughout the book, if Dillon had a time capsule he would place multiple items in it that would resemble his personality change throughout the story. In the center of the capsule, Dillon has shards of broken glass. Often times Dillon wrote letters to his deceased brother, Dillon writes: “ but you left by the back door and you left early and to my way of thinking that’s a cowardly way out”(Crutcher 11).An Angry

realize that if they live with themselves they will be a lot happier and have a more positive outlook on themselves. The novels American Born Chinese, A Raisin In The Sun, and War Brothers are all examples of people and books all trying to look different, get richer and change the way they are living also know as faustian bargain. In the book American Born Chinese cousin Danny is trying to get rid of his annoying cousin Chin-Kee because Chinkee won't let him live in peace. The monkey King is trying to

2:The story 2.2-Character (Prepare Character Analysis) Kelvin Palaguachi In the graphic novel “American Born Chinese” every character such as The Monkey King, Jing Wang, and Danny all go through an external and internal conflict and a specific character arc. These characters suffer throughout the novel trying to accept their culture, tradition and aspects. Eventually these characters learn to accept and understand their true identity through a certain conflict. This also changes their

our society, as it affects the mindset of people to make racial taunts to other cultural communities. American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang shows how there is ethical discrimination among American teens who face stereotypical adversities. Jin Wang the main character in this novel faces a loss in self-confidence because of the discrimination and conflict against him being Chinese. Second, there is an introduction of Danny who is Jin’s alter ego, and who Jin wants to be like. Danny is an, all American

In the novel “American Born Chinese ” by Gene Luen Yang Racism there racism occurring also everywhere in books, in the news, people's talk about it, and though people lives. In “American Born Chinese” there is three character different characters that have one simple goal is to “fit in”. Jin Wang wants to be an All-American boy, he loves an American girl, his best friend is Wei Chen. In the end, Jin realizes much about his perceptions of life and identity and sets off on his own path of redemption

An American Born Chinese Struggle Imagine going to a place, somewhere you have never been before. You are optimistic, but once you get there, you start to see differences between you and the other people there. You have never really seen those differences before, but now people are treating you differently because of them. You start to wonder if there is something wrong with you and if it would not be better if you were exactly like them. Gene Luen Yang’s novel American Born Chinese deals with this