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EAS FINAL Flashcards

1
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who wrote woman?

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Chen Ying

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what were the occupations of the man and woman in Chen Ying’s “Woman”?

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authors, wife studied russian literature

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Why did she want to have an abortion?

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she didn’t want to give up her ambitions and didn’t have the means to support her baby

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4
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what was the invisible destructive force in “woman”?

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unwanted pregnancy (fetus)
-guilt for giving up her child

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what is a woman’s natural obligation?

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-they have natural instincts

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how do we interpret or deal with pain?

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language fails to describe pain - Virginia Wolf
ex: scale of 1-10

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who is the youngest of the authors?

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Chen Ying

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what are the 3 major cultural goals of the may 4th movement?

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  • liberation of youth and women
    -emancipation of the invdividual
  • science and democracy
    -national revival
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9
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name the 5 western authors

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  • ibsen
    -shelley
    -tagore
    -goethe
    -virginia woolf
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where did lu xun give his speech?

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beijing women’s college attended by Feng Yuanjun, Yuan Changying, Shi Pingmei, Lu Yin

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11
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Pa chin is also known as …

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Li Yaotang
-born into a wealth gentry family in Sichuan

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12
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where did family take place?

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Beijing

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Chueh-hsin

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-oldest brother
-married to Jui-Chueh
-actually in love with cousin mei
- big brother of the Kao family, he was the eldest son of the an eldest son, his destiny was fate as soon as he cam into this world
- after graduating was supposed to get married with the Li family
- merely nodded and accepted his fate

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Chueh-min

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middle/second brother
-in love with Chin

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Chueh-hui

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-third brother
-humanitarian, didn’t want to be carried in the sedan chairs
-wants to challenge societal ideals, doesn’t want to be apart of the gentry (higher officials) like his brother and grandfather
-in love with bondservant ming-feng
-believed he should rebel
-studied in Shanghai and went against tradition

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16
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what was the beginning of family like?

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-very dark, cold opening to their compound or home
-should be more welcoming as a place of family

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17
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why did Chin want to move schools?

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better school curriculum more foreign works
-Treasure island

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18
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name the 4 western literatures in Family

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  1. Stevenson, Treasure Island
  2. Tolstoy Resurrection
  3. Shakespere, Tales
  4. Ibsen’s a Doll house
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difference between theatre vs. modern drama

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modern: mostly speaking and normal clothing
-realist, act like normal people

Traditional: bizarre unusual clothing, singing

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what happened to pa chin after writing 6 chapters of family?

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his own brother committed suicide

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21
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who murdered mei?

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society, her own family who all knew she loved Chueh-hsin
- chueh-hsin took care of mei’s funeral
-contemplating self destruction

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22
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what is specific to their mourning rituals?

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3-4 people are assigned to weep and wail by the body at the funeral seen in taoism, buddhism, and confucianism

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23
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why was Jui-chueh kicked out of the home when she was supposed to give birth?

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coffin stays in the house as it was the patriarch so by authority the wife must go to a different city to give birth

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24
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what burden do woman carry with childbirth?

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contamination to others as blood is seen as contamination as woman don’t menstruate for 9 months

25
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what is the significance of the door between ju-chueh and chueh-hsin when she was giving birth?

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men and woman occupy different spaces in society
couldn’t go in to help his wife
-emphasizes an expendable member and an essential character

26
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significance of “traitor”

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no longer loyal and filial

27
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who wrote intoxicated?

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ling Shuhua

28
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how does the husband in Intoxicated express his love?

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  • by his environment, warm, with his wife’s company
    -very materialistic complementing her face
29
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what is the wife’s wish in intoxicated?

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to kiss Ziyi the other man

30
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Why is the word kiss and “miss chen and miss chu” in english?

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seen as professions seen in other countries as their were few woman teachers and she studied more western literature kissing was more normalized in western writing

31
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what was the main topic of Ling Shuhua’s Once upon a time?

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female sex love vs. heteronormativity

32
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what happened in Once upon a time?

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centered around two school girls who are in love with one another Yingman and yunlo
- yunlo suddenly returned to school married

33
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who was romeo and juliet in once upon a time?

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-yunlo was juliet
-yingman was romeo

34
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what symbolism was seen in once upon a time?

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moon and star

35
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name the years of the may 4th authors

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  1. 1891 Hu Shi
  2. 1894 Yuan Changying
  3. 1900 Feng Yuanjuan, Ling Shuhua
  4. 1904: Ding Ling Ba Jin
  5. 1911 Xiao Hong
36
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historical significance of 1911

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end of imperial rule

37
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historical significance of 1931

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japanese war invaded a large chunk of china

38
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historical significance of 1937

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japanese invasion of china oficially

39
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why doesn’t xiao hong write in first person?

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-feels distant from her own body
-seen as a clay figurine, discarded sack, bundle of trash

40
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purpose of xiao hong’s sleepless night

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  • hopelessness as a war refugee
  • sense of never having a home
  • woman must marry and belong to a different clan/family
41
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Hu Shi’s “Eight Don’ts”

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  1. don’t neglect substance in writing
  2. don’t imitate the ancients
  3. don’t neglect grammar
  4. don’t groan if you’re not sick
    1. fake emotions, fake crying and whaling
    2. write genuine and authentic emotions
  5. don’t use cliches & stilted poetic diction
  6. don’t use allusions
  7. don’t use parallelisms
  8. don’t avoid colloquialisms
42
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john keats

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  • negative capability: a man is capable of being in uncertainities, to feel that we don’t need a clear answer
    • mysteries, doubts, etc.
  • sense of beauty overcomes every other consideration
43
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lin huiyin

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  • wanted to study architecture
  • very close to her father who died in the war
    -died of tuberculosis and was a war refugee
44
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on the gate tower

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lin huiyin
– talking about the past
- one is talking more than another
- one person talking about the past while another is talking about the present
Possible purposes of the poem
- responding to Xu Zhimo a man who loved her
- could be talking to an imaginary person
- or dialogue between part of her that is thinking abt the past and another thinking about the present

45
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sitting quietly

A

lin huiyin
- winter, time passing
- winter is cold like a flower?
- they wither during this time
- poem contemplates time passing

46
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who said this “I believe that before all else I am a reasonable human being, just as you are”

A

Ibsen’s nora

47
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“We’re young, we are not monsters, not fools. We’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.”

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-chueh-hui family
- pursuit of happiness is a justified cost
- morality of listening to elders, showed that you are a good person

48
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who wrote “on the eve”

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Russian writer Turgenev

49
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which writers were politically on the left?

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Xiao Jun (Xiao Hong’s first husband) & Lu Xu & Ding Ling

50
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Ming Feng’s fate

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  • after working for madam for a long time, she will be sent to an old man’s house to serve him and bear him children
    • happened to pass maid hsi-erh
    • “wretched fate”
51
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In “Intoxicated,” what did the husband want to give his wife for the new year?

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The husband wanted to give her a new years gift or wish. But she wanted to kiss Ziyi, so he allowed her to get close but she didn’t end up kissing him.

51
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At the beginning of “Intoxicated,” why was everyone drunk?

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They were all drinking together and celebrating before New Years eve. But Ziyi the man that Caitiao likes was staying over as he has wife and family troubles.

52
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hamlet meaning

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a person has the right to take control
of their own thought and body, and they can decide for themselves. Whatever the circumstances is, individual
can be faithful to themselves, having freewill.
- he will always love ophelia though he treats her terribly until she passes

53
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how does feng yuanjun use hamlet?

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Feng Yuanjun uses this quote to express that even she was locked up in her room and cannot meet her lover, but her love for her lover cannot be chained up. She cannot
change her circumstances but at least she can control her own love. The free thoughts of love in Feng Yuanjun’s head cannot be shackled.

54
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name of the husband in intoxicated

A

Yongzhang

54
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name of the wife in intoxicated

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Caitiao

55
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what did xiao hong write?

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abandoned child and sleepless night

56
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key themes in xiao hong

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birth vs. death
love vs. abandonment
home vs. homelessness

57
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“Imagine an iron house without windows, absolutely
indestructible, with many people fast asleep inside who will
soon die of suffocation….”
“But if a few awake, you can’t say there is no hope of
destroying the iron house.”

who wrote this?

A

– Lu Xun, “Preface to Call to Arms”

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