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Katie, Thank you for answering my question about the gendered roles in the United States. The situation in China is slightly different from the States, as a majority of Chinese women are in the labor force, and a working wife/mother is accepted as a social norm. Meanwhile, the responsibility of rais...

Ya-Lin, Thank you for the movie recommendations. As a lover of intertextuallity studies in literature, I find the correlations between films equally exciting. I will surely check out these films later! I would say that social pressure plays a key part in pushing the Chinese society forward. The youn...

Hi Katie, It was a delight to read your thorough analysis. I was led to ruminate on some details in the movies (especially “And the Spring Comes”) which I had perceived as norms. You introduce an intriguing family myth shared by history in general that men are considered breadwinner and women careta...

Hi Ya-Lin: I very much enjoyed reading your essay as it is clearly-structured with abundant background knowledge vital to the understanding of the characters’ motives and actions in the context of American and Chinese culture and society respectively. You highlight the fact that because Katherine is...

Hi Ya-Lin, I really appreciate your reply! Yes I think the theme of "East and West" not only exists between these two movies, but it is also present in both of them respectively. For me this clash introduces the cultural background of the movies on a wider plane. In "And the Spring Co...

Hi Katie, Thank you for your constructive suggestions. Re-reading my essay with your insightful comment, I do feel that I could've given my own opinion more exclusive space instead of integrating most of them into the image and background analyses. With regard to Katherine's role as a teacher in Mon...

Although set in different cultures and different times, And the Spring Comes and Mona Lisa Smile reach the consensus that art is an powerful and sometimes destructive force when it confronts conventional and worldly values. The origin of the conflict is as much geographical as it is social and cultu...