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Hi Zhihong, 1) What is 'her fierce defensive dismissal'? 2) Does it prove she has no faith? When Cailing's neighbor went to tell her in great depression that her husband had been missing for two days and took away all their money, instead of soothing her neighbor, Cailing fight back indignantly. She...

Hi Zhihong, 1) What is 'her fierce defensive dismissal'? 2) Does it prove she has no faith? When Cailing's neighbor went to tell her in great depression that her husband had been missing for two days and took away all their money, instead of soothing her neighbor, Cailing fight back indignantly. She...

Hi Zhihong,
1) What is 'her fierce defensive dismissal'?
2) Does it prove she has no faith?
Remember the vignette Cailing's neighbor visited her in great depression after her husband was missing and t

Hi Shuangshuang, Hope this response reaches you before the deadline. Your question about my impression on Chinese women today is fairly big. To my knowledge, Chinese women's access to education has been improved. At PSU, i see a good number of female Chinese students engaging in a wide variety of ma...

Hi Shuangshuang, I really appreciate your feminist view of the movies. I like the concise but precise way you summarize the choices women made to be themselves. I’m also impressed by your strong interpretation of how these self-guided choices mean to women who are long-suppressed in a patriarchal so...

Hello Zhihong, Glad that the essay is well-received. You asked a good question: what is the meaning of “agency”? I should have explained/defined it when it first appeared in the essay, but I didn’t; hence your confusion. The meaning of agency in my essay refers to an individual’s ability to decide/c...

Hi Shuangshuang, Thank you for your response and suggestion. Guess different concerns for audience and writing purpose lead to our different perception of the essay length, paragraph 5-6, in particular. I composed this essay for two purposes. One is to cope with the across-border writing assignment....

“Self” is a universal concept. But how to perceive self (with high or low autonomy) and its relationship with social context (self-oriented or other-oriented), according to some cultural theories, are culturally-bounded. Hofstede (1983), for example, argues that in comparison with Chinese, who view ...