I am a first generation Chinese immigrant living in the bay area. The difference of me from other immigrants that i had my childhood in china, teenager life in Mexico and become an adult in U.S. ... I born in China, Canton, I learned my town dialect that called taisanes, also I learned Cantonese from TV shows, Mandarin from 4 years of elementary school in china. ... So I began study very hard by translating the textbook with a dictionary, at that time I did not have a smartphone to help me to pronounce the word or translate the word, so I carried the dictionary with me to school and during th...

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China, similarly had the same trading systems with cities west of them. ... Unlike China, they didn't (ew!). The Chinese instead focussed on scientific advancements. ... There aren't really any major differences and similarities between these two civilizations because the Indus's form of writing is impossible to translate. ... The Chinese most notably had extremely large palaces (forbidden city) and the Great Wall of China. ...

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Contributors include the ideology of Confucius, a wise Chinese philosopher; the alleged principles behind the status of women in Chinese society; the first emperor to govern a united China, Shi Huangdi; and the numerous religious beliefs, which the people adopted during the era of Traditional China. ... According to Traditional China, such experiences practised on Chinese women proved that they truly were inferior. ... Chinese society was also greatly influenced by various religious beliefs that were extended all over Traditional China. ... The people of Traditional China worshipped nature....

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Although China was fascinating, I also saw many poor aspects. ... Also, at Lutheran I was able to bond with many and I translated for a patient in need. ... During my time of volunteering, I had to translate for one lady. ... Volunteering at Lutheran Medical Center and visiting China was a lifetime experience. ... Also, I had special bonds with the nurses and the patient I translated for. ...

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Social After the fall of the Han Dynasty, the population of China dramatically decreased, about 45 million in 600 C.E.. ... Political Yang Jian sent military expeditions into central Asia and southern china, which by 589 the house of Sui ruled all of China. ... The canal was a series of artificial waterways that reached a vast majority throughout China. ... They translated the Indian term dharma as dao, and translated the indian term nirvana as wuev. ... Indeed, Song military difficulties stemmed partly from the fact that nomadic peoples quickly learned chinese techniques and fashioned their o...

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After the first industrial revolution, the standard of living in Britain or European countries have been exceeded in China, but why the industrial revolution did not happen in China. To answer this question, let we focus on several aspects of China. ... Western geometry and optical science books were translated and published in Ming China. ... This, however, was the case of China. ... Western geometry and optical science books were translated and published in Ming China. ...

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The Day When It Came to China The earliest traceable appearance of "歇斯底里" in Chinese was in the translated version of "The Electrician and electrical engineer" v.06(Electrical Pub. ... Since the only way to import a word is by translating, if there was no earlier source, this could be the place where "歇斯底里/hysteria" was given birth to in Chinese. ... This could also explain why the word "hysteria" was translated into Chinese phonetically as "歇斯底里": Sometimes Chinese-English bilinguals use English words in replace of Chin...

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What the film attempts to show us is that the mothers are Chinese and their daughters are Chinese-American and face a set of problems, that although may seem different than a Caucasian mother-daughter relationship really are not beyond the common. The mothers do have difficult time relating to their daughters, there is not only a generational gap: June Woo " I talked to her in English and she answered back in Chinese" There is also a translation gap: June Woo "We translated each others meanings and I seemed to hear less, while my mother heard more" And cultural gap: Lindo Jong "Why I shou...

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Why squander millions of taxpayer's dollars for ballots to be translated with a high possibility of translation errors? ... Chances are that the translation doesn't come out to great either. In New York City's 1993 Chinese ballot erroneously printed the Chinese character for no as a translation for yes. But the worst translation of all is oral translation. ... The translations have large errors and help for fraud too. ...

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These factors all opened up the gate for Buddhism to enter Chinese society and gain popularity with the Chinese culture. At first, Buddhism was transmitted to the different East Asian countries via the Silk Road, but as its domination grew, many people began to interpret their own meaning of the Buddhist doctrines that had been translated from Indian to Chinese. "By the fourth century AD a much greater number of sutras were available in both north and south China, and the Chinese were beginning to realize the immensity of Buddhist literature." ... At this point in time, there were two m...

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Buddhism today is a widely practiced religion throughout the world. The religion has developed throughout several thousands years and has been adopted by several countries, including China. It originally began around 565 B.C. with the legend of King Shuddhodana Guatama of Kapila and his queen Maya...

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Sullivan pointed out in Linguistic Fallacies: No system of words, no matter how refined or elaborate, can perfectly translate the subtleties of thought or reflect the infinite variety within reality. There will always be an unexpressed margin between language and thought, and this is always a potential source of misunderstanding. 1 Buddhism civilization of China is quite different from Christianity civilization of Western world. ...

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Contributors include the ideology of Confucius, a wise Chinese philosopher; the alleged principles behind the status of women in Chinese society; the first emperor to govern a united China, Qin Shi Huangdi; and the numerous religious beliefs, which the people adopted during the era of Traditional China. ... According to Traditional China, such experiences practiced on Chinese women proved that they truly were inferior. ... Chinese society was also greatly influenced by various religious beliefs that were extended all over Traditional China. ... The people of Traditional China worshipped natu...

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He did this by evenly dividing up the city into sections for different communities such as the Middle East and China. This was done to increase interest in profits from international trade. 11 Eventually, Khanbalik was host to merchants from several other far away countries, such as Italy, India, and North Africa.12 What is more, he decided to let Muslim merchants, called ortoq, to use the yam as well, but on the condition that he was allowed to tax them for using it.13 In addition, China allowed the Mongols to use their ports, such as Fuzhou, Guangzhou, and even China's Grand Canal, t...

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They endeavoured to acquire the knowledge of previous civilizations by obtaining Egyptian, Babylonian, Indian, Chinese, Farsi, Armenian, Hebrew and Roman texts and translating them into Arabic. ... At the same time as acquiring knowledge, the Islamic civilization was able to disperse it, because it had procured the art of paper-making from the Chinese. ... Translating more Arabic texts in Latin, we began to learn. ... We learned "our" Greek heritage by translating the Arabic translations into Latin. ... When translated into Latin, it caused a sensation in Europe - 310 years later. ...

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Confucianism in Japan and China The Japanese people had little civilization of their own until, during the fourth century AD, they began to have contact with the Chinese. ... China's civilization is very ancient. ... In 221 BC China was united under the Ch'in dynasty. ... They especially wanted to establish a strong central government like China's, but they also adopted many aspects of Chinese culture. ... Soon Japan sent missions to China to develop good relations and to bring back Chinese literature and philosophy. ...

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These fires grew as following the 1931 Manchurian incident Japan invaded Manchuria then most China. ... The two main players in this vital struggle for power of the military and thus Japan as a whole were the Koda-ha which translates roughly into the Imperial Way faction and the Tosei-ha which means that Control Faction. ... So any move south into china was not favored by the members of the Koda-ha. ... Another belief of the Tosei-ha faction that contrasted with that of the Koda-ha was that the Tosei-ha unlike the Koda-ha wanted to stay on good terms with the Soviet Union and to make China ...

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However, while a variety of sources were available regarding his Western counterparts such as Montgomery and Eisenhower, copies of books written or translated into English regarding the matter were rare, to say the least. ... So Marcy's pro-Mao work is attributed to his left wing beliefs, Chang's work is linked to her experiences as a participant in the events, and Becker's works are attributed to his insubordination to the Chinese government in his writings for the South China Morning Post. ... Roderick MacFarquhar's Origins of the Cultural Revolution 1 , as the leading ...

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Buddhism spread from India to Tibet, China and Korea. ... India had a surplus, so India traded with China. ... An Shigao, a Buddhist prince translated different Buddhist writings into Chinese (Saunders, 1923, 157). ... Buddhist monks translated texts and entered China during the Han Dynasty. ... With the addition of Buddhist Monks coming into China and spreading these Buddhist ideas, many Chinese people were exposed to Buddhism. ...

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In every aspect, he represents a true leader, one who has translated a vision into a reality. ... When the Chinese military took over Tibet in 1959, the Dalai Lama was forced into exile in India. However, during his years in exile he has made crucial negotiations with the United Nations and China, creating a democratic form of government in Tibet. ...

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Taoism (pronounced Daoism) is an ancient religion that originated in China over 2000 years ago. ... The Tao is a term that's meaning cannot be fully or properly translated, however, can be described as the moral "way", "path" or "principle". ... Taoism has greatly impacted the Chinese culture, as well as surrounding countries and has also spread to western countries, as people have found great interest in the philosophy behind the religion, which is living in harmony and finding "the way". ... This creation story is called "the Myth of Pangu&qu...

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In the following poem, the boy who was Whitman himself in youth translated the meaning of the songs that he-bird sang. ... "The rest might not, but I have treasur"d every notes," Is the translation real or right? ... It is like Chinese said "Play is life, life is play." ...

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After the translations of the many ancient works of Hippocrates and Galen in the 15th and 16th centuries, progress was made in medicine and anatomy. ... With knowledge from exploration beyond Europe and from the first translations of the ancient works of Strabo and Ptolemy, geography was transformed. ... Printing helped spread the religious ideas of the Reformation, and allowed the Europeans to reach greater heights and compete with the civilization of China for the first time. ...

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I took English classes in some English courses in Kediri-, a city far from my hometown where people from different cities around Indonesia come to learn foreign languages like English, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. ... Some that I remember the titles are Grammar for Beginners, Speaking for Beginners, Vocabulary and Expression, English for Kids, Learning English through Singing (Kid Songs in Indonesian that I translated into English), and Commonly Used English Expressions. Besides writing, I sometimes get a translation job, mostly translating English into Indonesian. The most difficult...

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The Chinese economy stagnated during the social-oriented rule of Mao in the 1950's. Instead of focusing on the modernization of the country's agricultural-based economy, China's leader intended to install the many values and doctrines of communism into Chinese society. ... Thus China's market economy was scrapped in favor of one that promoted self-reliance. ... In an effort to encourage economic growth and increase the standard of living among Chinese people, Deng instituted a series of reforms that overhauled Maoist policies concerning China's economy. ... Although th...

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