The feelings that mothers have concerning their daughters, how daughters feel about their mothers, and the competition, love and resentment that takes place among various members of the group are gradually revealed. ... By exploring the lives and relationships of these women, both past and present, it is evident that all of the women share the experience of having to differentiate themselves from what people expect. ... Being the daughter of immigrant parents myself, I understood what was going through the minds of the Chinese women. ...

• Word Count: 604
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

He starts up by stating how as nationalism in Asia increases, incidents such as the continued resentment of the Chinese of the Japanese stemming from atrocities of WWII has impacted recent trade between the two countries. ... What is true of both of these incidents is that even though the country appears to have a calm surface, these "passions" are simmering beneath this surface. ... What I enjoyed was the question he raised as to whether or not conflict was the result of economic competition and the fact that war could be considered as a luxury from the viewpoint of those that consi...

• Word Count: 657
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Economic and political exploitation of China by various Western powers and Japan and humiliating military defeats inflicted by Great Britain in the Opium Wars (1839-1842, 1856-1860) and by Japan in the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) were the main causes of Chinese resentment. ... Wuchang rebels seized control of the government on what would be later known as "Double Ten Day", and changed the name to the Republic of China. ...

• Word Count: 1467
• Approx Pages: 6