Essay draft 2b

Essay Draft 2b

How can we preserve Chinese Opera under the background of globalization?

As the world has become more and more globalized, different cultures have merged together since there have been more and more frequent economic and multicultural cooperation across the world. “As far as International Relations are concerned, globalization of culture stands at a precarious situation. This form of globalization may help the countries to have a better understanding of each other and more tolerance towards each other.” stated a blogger who researches anthropology in his blog.

During the 1980s, China started reforming and opening up to the whole world. But the globalization of media misled people in China.

Great fortune and opportunities flooded into China such that many people who seized the opportunities succeeded out of nowhere. But people then did not evolve intellectually much as they developed in their assets. As a consequence of this social development, western culture promoted through the media has been becoming more and more popular among Chinese citizens while traditional culture such as Chinese Opera has been being neglected.

As traditional culture enhances people’s sense of national identity. Once our traditional culture is neglected, we are losing what means to us for being a Chinese citizen. Hence, we Chinese young generation ought to understand and appreciate traditional culture in order to retain our sense of national identity. Chinese Opera, as a traditional arts, as a intangible inheritance as well, should be understood and appreciated.

Being a Chinese citizen, we should take the responsibilities for our national identity. I suggest that parents as well as social media should help the young generation to understand and appreciate the Chinese Opera, which is simply a specific traditional arts of China.

As Pan (2012) states,”China recently established the Traditional Chinese Cultural Assistance Fund in Beijing,, which is aimed at “researching, protecting ,inheriting and promoting” the traditional Chinese culture.”These actions show us that government have already been aware of what has happened after the revolution in 1980s,which is the loss of traditional culture as the new culture came in. Then for our residents, most of Chinese residents who were born after 1980 have already been parents. Hence, I suggest that parents should first enrich some knowledge about Chinese Opera. Most of elder generation favor in Chinese Opera, thus people born after 1980, who were not familiar with Chinese Opera, could consult their elder generations. By all means, parents who were born after 1980 should first understand and appreciate this type of traditional arts. This is because most of the people born after the revolution were affected more by foreign culture than traditional culture. Although there are pros and cons for every culture, we could adopt the pros and abandon the cons.

After parents have understood and appreciated Chinese Opera, they should exert subtle influence on their children in order to cultivate their interest in traditional culture. When we are in childhood, most of our motivation to learn something is interest. What could parents do to cultivate their children’s interest? First, encourage their children to attend a co-curricular class of Chinese Opera. These class could help develop children’s interest and investigate their gift in performing Chinese Opera, which is beneficial to cultivate the professional Chinese Opera performers. Second, there a channel of CCTV(CCTV11), which display all branch of Chinese Opera 24 hours. Parents should encourage their children to watch more on Chinese Opera—the traditional culture rather than watching some pageant contest which Chinese learnt from western cultures.

For social media, “In international communication theory and research, cultural imperialism theory argued that audiences across the globe are heavily affected by media messages emanating from the Western industrialized countries.” Kraidy(2002)stated. The media has misled people to focus more on the western culture rather that our own traditional culture. Thus what i suggest that for TV channels and radio station, they should increase the number of TV programs concerned about Chinese Opera, which could awake people’s awareness of preserving this traditional arts. They could even hold some Chinese Opera matches showing on the TV. For web media, they should focus more on traditional culture rather than politics. Most of web media are misleading publics consensus to politics or gossiping rather than our national identity. People all often distracted by these web media. What they could is to focus more on our Chinese Opera, or generally our traditional culture, which could awake people’s awareness of preserving it rather than distract people.

In conclusion, although globalization of media brought new culture to China, accompanying with that, it also has eroded many Chinese young people’s interest of our traditional culture, but our social media as well as ourselves could step on and by cultivating interest, understanding and appreciation in Chinese Opera. Chinese people’s awareness of preserving Chinese traditional arts including Chinese Opera could be provoked step by step in the future!

Reference

 

CNTV News Xinhua News(2010): China’s first law for preserving intangible cultural heritage passed http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/video/2011-02/27/c_13752622.htm

Globalization Effecting Chinese Culture http://whatisanthropology.blogspot.sg/2012/12/globalization-effecting-chinese-culture.html

Kraidy M.M(2002) Globalization of Culture through the media

http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1333&context=asc_papers

Official Chinese Peking Opera Website: The future of Peking Opera http://www.jingju.com/zhishi/12211443062968402660.html

Pan. H(2012) Beijing Daily China sets up fund to preserve traditional culture http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90782/7697130.html

Essay Draft 2a

How can we preserve Chinese Opera under the background of globalization?

 

As the world has become more and more globalized, different culture have mingled together since there have been more and more frequently economic and multicultural cooperation across the world. “As far as International Relations are concerned, Globalization of Culture stands at a precarious situation. This form of globalization may help the countries to have a better understanding of each other and more tolerance towards each other”. As a blogger who researches Anthropology states in his blogger. During 1980s, China started to accept the globalization,but the globalization of media mislead people to a fickle situation, mislead the society to a fickle society. According to a survey, the average number of books that a Chinese citizen reads is 6.7, compared with Japan 40, Israel 55. More and more young people cannot stop playing on mobile phones, their blog, weibo etc. As a consequence of the fickle society, fewer and fewer young people focus on traditional culture compared with that more and more people have been fancying about the western culture through media.

 

Why could this happen? The question will lead us to a specific term called“media imperialism”.Marwan(2002) mentioned “media imperialism” in his research,“In international communication theory and research, cultural imperialism theory argued that audiences across the globe are heavily affected by media messages emanating from the Western industrialized countries.” China, as a matter of fact, has been under the media imperialism since 1980s. Media globalization brought new culture into China,but at the period of time, the government focused more on economic growth than the culture. Western culture promoted through the media has been becoming more and more popular among Chinese citizens while traditional culture has been being neglected. Another reason that causes the loss of traditional culture,specifically Chinese Opera, is that indeed Chinese Opera performers now are getting a harder life than the other occupations. The globalization offered people in China a lot fortune and chances. Marketing economics provide much more chances for people such that they could choose other vocations rather than Chinese Opera performer. The fewer people who specialize in a certain field, the fewer people focus on it. Last but not least, as analysts in China declare that because the lack of theories in Chinese Opera, Chinese Opera crawls little by little. All of us could understand that it is more efficient as well as attractive if we could have both theories and practice.

 

Being a Chinese citizen, I should take the responsibility as a citizen and give out my suggestions.

 

As Pan (2012) states,”China recently established the Traditional Chinese Cultural Assistance Fund in Beijing,, which is aimed at “researching, protecting ,inheriting and promoting” the traditional Chinese culture.”These actions show us that government have already been aware of what has happened after the revolution in 1980s,which is the loss of traditional culture as the new culture came in. And recently China has set up a law to preserve and protect the cultural heritage(CNTV,2011). Chinese Opera is also a type of cultural heritage so that it should also be protected legislatively. And as a matter of fact, there are hundreds of pageant contest every year,which are the imitation of the western because of media imperialism But there are actually fewer that concerns about traditional culture. Hence what we could do is to hold matches of Chinese Opera at a frequence on behalf of the country itself, which would properly promote the passion of Chinese People to get involve of Chinese Opera. As a mother culture of every Chinese citizen, we must know our own culture very well. Thus I suggest that the most important action our government should do is that we could involve Chinese Opera in Chinese Primary school as a compulsory course. Young students could grow their interests in Chinese Opera.

 

Along with the government, we Chinese citizens must grow the awareness of preserving the traditional culture ourselves. As the globalization of media is inevitable and same as media imperialism, we must grow the sense of protecting our own culture. For Chinese Opera, as far as I know, there is only one channel among hundreds that focus on Chinese Opera (CCTV 11) among all the TV channels. I suggest that TV channels should focus more on traditional culture including Chinese Opera. Since the globalization of media has caused such many problems thus we could also use media to counteract the impact. Similarly, media such as radio station and web could distribute more time than now focusing on promoting or spreading Chinese traditional culture to citizens not only foreigners.

 

Despite some of Government actions may be time consuming and may be hard to cover across the country, I holds the idea that these kind of establishing process should be executed in a long term. But on the contrary, what we ourselves could do is quite easier to achieve. In order that the cultural identity itself could be preserved by our generation and next generation, we need to grow the awareness of protecting the traditional culture under the background of globalization of media. Parents should help build up the sense of protecting the traditional culture of their children in the childhood. Peers should share the feelings about learning as well as being a heritage of traditional culture.

 

In conclusion, although globalization of media brought new culture to China, accompanying with that, it also has eroded many Chinese young people’s interest of our traditional culture, but our government as well as ourselves could step on and by setting laws as well as involving Chinese Opera into primary education and so on. Chinese people’s awareness of preserving Chinese traditional arts including Chinese Opera could be provoked step by step in the future!

 

Reference

 

CNTV News Xinhua News(2010): China’s first law for preserving intangible cultural heritage passed http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/video/2011-02/27/c_13752622.htm

 

Globalization Effecting Chinese Culture http://whatisanthropology.blogspot.sg/2012/12/globalization-effecting-chinese-culture.html

 

Kraidy M.M(2002) Globalization of Culture through the media

 

http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1333&context=asc_papers

 

Official Chinese Peking Opera Website: The future of Peking Opera http://www.jingju.com/zhishi/12211443062968402660.html

 

Pan. H(2012) Beijing Daily China sets up fund to preserve traditional culture http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90782/7697130.html

Essay Draft 1b

How can we preserve Chinese Opera uder the background of glabalization?

While the world has become more and more globalizaed, different culture have mingled together while there have been more and more frequently economical and multicultural cooperation among the world. “As far as International Relations is concerned, Globalization of Culture stands at a precarious situation. This form of globalization may help the countries to have a better understanding of each other and more tolerance towards each other”. As the blogger researches Anthropology states in his blogger. We could benefit from the globalization of culture that every culture of different origin and background could thrive in the same country. At the same time, people from different culture background could have a better understanding when a foreign culture exists nearby their lives. But the problemsnow occurs at the same time: Less and Less young people who were born after 1980 have been focusing on the traditional culture in China especailly the Chinese Opera.

As analysts in China declares that there are many reasons that cause Chinese culture loss. First and foremost cause is the dizzy economics boom during the 1980s, which is the era China starts to accept the globalization. Although quality of people’s lives improvesdue to the dizzy economics boom, but the education of Chinese people has not been improved as fast as the economics boom.  Secondly, as an occupation, Chinese Opera Performer may get less salary than the other vocations. As the economic boom, people could get a better life by other jobs than the Chinese Opera Performer. The third reason may be that the theory of Chinese Opera has been growing slower than the practical training these years, the theoretical improvement may attract more and more people.(ChinaOpera,2011)

Being a Chinese citizen, I concerns Chinese culture as me mother culture. What Chinese government has done and What I propose in order to preserve Chinese Opera as well Chinese Traditional Culture is on the below.

As Pan (2012) states,”China recently established the Traditional Chinese Cultureal Assistance Funde in Beijing,, which is aimed at “reserching, protecting ,inheriting and promoting” the traditional Chinese culture.”Government actions have already be executed during these years. Although funds have been set, I could suggest the specific actions on the Chinese Opera. As far as we know that China has set up a law to preserve and protect the cultural heritage(CNTV,2011). Why not could we to set up the same law to promote the Chinese Opera? Also, as a governmental action, we could hold matches of Chinese Opera at a frequence on behalf of the country itself, which would properly promote the passion of Chinese People to get involve of Chinese Opera. The most important our government should promote is that we could involve Chinese Opera in Chinese Primary school as a compulsory course. Young students could grow their interests in Chinese Opera.

Along with the government, we Chinese citizens must grow the awareness of preserving the tradtional culture ourselves. For Chinese Opera, as far as I know that there is only one channel among hundreds that focus on Chinese Opera (CCTV 11)I suggest that TV channels should focus more on tradtional culture including Chinese Opera. Furthermore, radio station as well as web media could spend more time than now focusing on promoting or spreading Chinese traditional culture to citizens not only foreigners.

Despite some of Government actions are time consuming and are hard to coverd across the country, I holds the idea that these kind of establishing process should take the impact step by step. But on the contrary, what we ourselves could do is quite easier to achieve. In order that the cultural identity itself could  be preserve by our generation and next, we should be aware of our own tradional culture ourselves.

In conclusion, also that globalization has erosed some Chinese young people’s interest of our traditional culture, but our government as well as ourselves could step on and by setting laws as well as involving Chinese Opera into primary eduacation and so on. Chinese people’s awareness of preserving Chinese traditional arts including Chinese Opera could be provoked step by step in the future!

Reference

Anonymous blogger: Globalization Effecting Chinese Culture http://whatisanthropology.blogspot.sg/2012/12/globalization-effecting-chinese-culture.html

CNTV News Xinhua News  China’s first law for preserving intangible cultural heritage passed http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/video/2011-02/27/c_13752622.htm

Official Chinese Peking Opera Website: The future of Peking Opera http://www.jingju.com/zhishi/12211443062968402660.html

Pan. H Beijing Daily China sets up fund to preserve traditional culture http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90782/7697130.html

Essay Outline

1. Describe A Situation

     As the world has been becoming more and more globalized, culture especially music has spread across the world. But while more and more elements of arts get known by most of Chinese people, fewer and fewer Chinese people pay attention to the traiditional arts originated in China itself.

2. Identification of A Problem

    Because of the more and more globalized world, a lot of fresh information come up people’s horizon. Fewer and fewer people who were born after 1980 favour Chinese Opera, most of people even know little about Chinese Opera. If the phenomenon continuous, Chinese Opera may be extinct in Chinese Culture. What could Chinese people do in order to keep this traditional arts?

3. Solutions

A. Government Actions:

   Ministry of Eduation should promote the Chinese Opera into primary school music or arts book.  On my perspective, making it compulsory for primary students to learn is reasonable. As Chinese people, the original culture should not be forgotten.

   Governments should promote Chinese Opera in following ways:

     1. Media, TV programs as well as Radio, Advertisements.

     2.  Support building the Chinese Opera Club in every Province.

     3. Sponsor the Chinese Opera Perfomers as well as Chinese Opera Performing Team.

      4. Help hold the inter-Province matches or Across-Country matches.

B. Residents’ Actions:

    As more and more people born after 1980 have become parents, they should encourage their childre to pay more attention in traditional arts. Even they could develop their kids’ interest in learning traditional Chinese Opera. As the same time, people need to get more knowledge about traditional arts through internet or Media and grow the sense of keeping traditional arts alive.

4. Evaluation

    For A, the government efforts should be processed in a bit longer time. And it is a little bit hard to execute as China is a very large country as well as the economical difference in different Province is huge. But once the government commits all the efforts, there will be a bright future for Chinese Opera even the traditional arts.

    For B, I suggest that it could be easier to proceed but as a matter of fact that China is country of 1.3 billion population, it also needs a lot of time. But in another way to execute the least, we can promote it to people Province by Province. Such that residents in China could become aware of the importance of keeping Chinese Opera little by little.

Final Draft of Reader Response to The Double Edge of Globalization

  In Nayan Chanda’s (2007) passage, The Double Edge of the Globalization, He shows us the advantages and disadvantages of the globalization by offering us many instances like The World Trade Organization (WTO) as well as China, but he focuses more about the disadvantages.He argues that world media today is interconnected, allowing press and activists to create awareness and encourage involvement in reducing environmental problems. He also suggests that the governmental organization should be held more responsible for environmental degradation,

      When Chanda analyses the disadvantages of globalization, he points out China’s development as a supporting case.  He singled out that  China’s rapid growth provoked by globalization not only attacts the global investments but also causes the environment problems to the whole world. As he says, ” A reseracher traced a plume of dirty air from Asia to New England, where analysis of collected samples revealed the chemicals had originated in China.”   Which proved that globalization really is a two-side coin.

     Actually, in my opinion,  there are many countries degradating the environment with such rapid growth every year. For instance, Indonesians burns the plantain every year, which severly impact the air condition of neighbor countries such as Singapore. But governments’ decisions of their countries’ economic developments may not be affected by the exponential rate of globalisation.For instance, China’s government built the Three Gorges Dam due to the bad geological situtaion of ChangJiang River, which has caused many enviromental problems these years. Wenchuan Earthquake is the most obvious consequence because the work of the Three Gorges Dam has damaged the foundation of the earth in that area. Thus in my perspective, the environmental problem caused by a country’s growth may not simply due to the excitation of globalization. I agree strongly with that governments should take the environmental consequence into consideration when making decisions. Meanwhile, under  good governance and laws, the environmental consequences of globalization could be kept to the slightest!

Chanda, N. (2007). The Double Edge of Globalization. In Yale Global Online  Magazine, 28 June 2007. Retrieved from:

http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/double-edge-globalization

Reader Response to The Double Edge of Globalization

  In Nayan Chanda’s Passage, The Double Edge of Globalization, He shows us the advantages and disadvantages of the globalization by offering us many instances like WTO as well as China, but he focuses more about the disadvantages. He argues that the medias today are much more superconnected across the world so that the press as well as activists could easily provokes people’s sense of protecting the environment problem caused by globalization.  He also suggests the the governmental organization should take more responsibilities of the environmental issues caused by globalization.

      When Chanda analyses the disadvantages of globalization, he posts out China’s development as a supporting case.  He declares that  China’s rapid growth provoked by globalization not only attacts the global investments but also causes the environment problems to the whole world. As he says, ” A reseracher traced a plume of dirty air from Asia to New England, where analysis of collected samples revealed the chemicals had originated in China.”   He certainly points out that globalization really is a two-side coin.

     Actually, in my opinion, China is the largest country among many other countries with such rapid growth. For instance, Indonesians burns the plantain every years, which severly impact the air condition of neighbor countries such as Singapore.  But even without globalization, the decisions made by governments of a countries econmic development may not be affected by the faster and faster globalization. For instance, China’s government built the Three Gorges Dam, which has caused many enviromental probles these years. Wenchuan Earthquake is the most obvious consequences. Thus in my perspective, the environment problem caused by a country’s growth may not due to the excitation of globalization. I agree strongly that governments should take the environmental consequences into consideration when making decisions. Meanwhile, under  good governance and laws, the environmental consequences of globalization could be kept to the slightest!

Chanda, N. (2007). The Double Edge of Globalization. In Yale Global Online Magazine, 28 June 2007. Retrieved from:

http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/double-edge-globalization

Some thoughts about Wentworth Miller’s speech on Seattle’s Human Right Campaign

    Miller told us about what he had experience along his childhood, teenage as well as earlier 30s. He is homosexual, which at that time, even in somewhere across the world nowadays,  was descriminated by most of people. He was targeted as many homosexuals were as a “weird” during him growing up. He could not bear it and failed trying to kill himself. He was set apart from others and he chose to live alone because he thought that he was alone. He tried to conceal it in public place because he was afraid that his career would end. As he said,” I chose to lie, I chose to dissemble”. But finally he thought of speaking it out because he found that he was not the one. He found there are word “we” or “us”. He appealled all the world to take care of the LGBT, not to descriminate them.

      Throughout his speech, I was quite touched by his experience. Imaging when you have a secret, which most people may not acknowledge. You would fight with yourself about whether speaking it or not. You could lie to the public, you could dissemble, because of fear, or anger, or sadness. But finally you commit it yourself, you could find that you will never be the only one in this world. And at that time, maybe the whole world will hear your voice.

    Although it was  a speech for human rights campaign, but what Miler said could give us many enlightment in our lives. Similarly, do not be afraid to speak out what you are thinking of, do not fear the prejudices. Also, be respectful to others whoever they are. It is the main thesis for Human Rights Campaign.

Thesis statement of The Double Edge of Globalization

Globalization brings not only opportunities and fortunes as well as environmental destruction worldwide, awareness as well as efforts should be taken inter countries and among the whold human beings.

Summary of The Double Edge of Globalization

Nayan Chanda was once asked about if globlization should be protested. Throughout the whole text, Nayan showed the both sides of the coin about the globalization. He used several cases including China to demonstrate that globalization brought not only opportunities and fortune but also environment destruction. He also identified that globalization today was much more visible than ever before. As a result, social media transmit all the environmental status to the whole world, which provokes the awareness of protecting the nature. He also linked the greenhouse gas emission with globalzation. Chanda also declared that despite some protocols were signed but most countries were just making perfunctory attempts. Meanwhile, he pointed out that the UN should take more responsibilities as well as efforts in balancing the Double Edge of Globalization.

Summary of Leah’s post–My experiences with English

Leah showed us how she grew up with her English learning especailly the critical argumentative writing. She claimed that she excelled in English until she was required to write the argumentative writing, which she hated.
She expressed her feeling and attitude change about the argumentative essays along with her graduation of Secondary school as well as JC and Qualifying English Test. Her attitude towards argumentative writing was perfunctory because of hatrad. Thus the purpose of her taking this module is to correct her mistakes made during her earlier education.