Although the Democracy Movement was violently suppressed, images of demonstrators confronting tanks and marching with the "Goddess of Democracy- figure, bearing a striking resemblance to the Statue of Liberty, formed an imaginative link between China and America on global television screens. ... Thus, Vanishing Son encourages cross-cultural understanding in its support of Chinese political dissent and romances between Jian-Wa and Euro-American women and, at the same time, points to the impossibility of assimilating the criminal, Asian alien into American society. ...

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Thus, an analysis of the relationships between nature and physical sensations, and their roles in the formation and function of imagination in Wordsworths "Tintern Abbey" and Anna Barboulds "A Summer Evenings Meditation," demonstrate the ways in which these poems constitute Romantic lyrics. ... He remarks, "again I hear / These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs / With a sweet inland murmur, Once again / Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs, / Which on a wild secluded scene impress / Thoughts of more deep seclusion" (Wordsworth, 2-7). In these lines, the neutral sound of the rive...

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