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Back To China Woman Warrior
1,431 wordsBy the middle of this century, Chinese women had been playing a subservient role for more than 2000 years. In a woman's lifetime, she was supposed to obey her father when she was a girl, obey her husband when she got married, and obey her son when her husband died. She had no right to inherit family property and was not even allowed to keep her own name after marriage; she was addressed as her husband's wife or her child's mother. In addition, women were deprived of the right of education, and i...
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Hours A Day Back To China
908 wordsAfter 12 hours of hard labor work, Wong is exhausted and was fast asleep right after he finish every other mine workers laundry. Wong is a Chinese immigrant from China. Back in China he was a farmer peasant, who works 13 hours a day to earn some food for his family. But 13 hours of work was not enough, the crops that he grew is only enough to pay the debt for the land lords, he did not have any left for his family. Sometimes his family would starve for days with nothing but water. Life was espec...
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Back To China Woman Warrior
1,424 wordsBy the middle of this century, Chinese women had been playing a subservient role for more than 2000 years. In a womans lifetime, she was supposed to obey her father when she was a girl, obey her husband when she got married, and obey her son when her husband died. She had no right to inherit family property and was not even allowed to keep her own name after marriage; she was addressed as her husbands wife or her childs mother. In addition, women were deprived of the right of education, and it w...
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19 Th Century Back To China
642 wordsThis movie is based on Ruthann e Lum McCunns 1981 true-story book of the same name, follows the story of a young Chinese woman, Lalu, brought to the United States in the 19 th century by a wife trader and sold as a wife to an unscrupulous saloon owner. Lalu attempts to earn the money to buy her freedom and return to China. It truly depicts the trials and tribulations a Chinese immigrant went through in the days of old. In addition, it allows those of Chinese descent to recognized the efforts the...
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Back To China Three Daughters
792 wordsMadame Liang essay In the book Three Daughters of Madame Liang there is a big emphasis on art. Art played a big role in the liver of the four main women in the novel. Joy, Madame Liang, Mercy, and Grace without art these four womens lives would have been drastically changed. You may believe that the Liang family is not perceived as an artsy or artistic family, but in fact they are really a very artsy or artistic family. They have Joy the painter, Madame Liang the woman with style, Mercy the musi...
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Back To China Chinese Immigrants
682 wordsIn the 1850 s the early immigrants to Canada suffered also of ethnic prejudice and were considered unfit for full citizenship. Even though residents of BC considered the Chinese unassailable under any circumstances, they tolerated them because the Chinese were a useful form of cheap labor. But in 1885 the Canadian government imposed a head tax to decrease the Chinese immigration to Canada, since the construction of the CPR was over. To be admitted into Canada, Chinese immigrants had to pay an $ ...
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