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Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change Reflection

After reading the book “Chinese Migrant Networks”, there are different ideas it sparked in me. It is therefore important to make a reflection on such ideas. The reflection on the book will show that I have read and understood the book and still I have some scholarly insights based on the text and the experience I gained on reading it. One of the key ideas that I can make a reflection on is the idea of capitalism, migration, violence between migrants,economic depression, and negotiating political shifts.

Capitalism

Capitalism is slowly becoming lesser popular among the younger generation. I have once heard about capitalism floating around within the last couple of years. The agenda of capitalism was fit within the white Americans in Hawaii. Nevertheless, it would have been a problem among the Chinese merchants together with the rice planters(McKeown 4).I understood that a rational economic decision that can be made by farmer anywhere within the world is based on the capitalist economic logic.The entire idea of capitalism may end up being irrational to the group of farmers.

I understood that capitalism can be used in containing the wealthy nations including China. China may have taken advantage of the American market. Nevertheless, they were directly linked to the different business networks that were trying them back to China rather than in California (McKeown 4). That made me aware that the entire idea of capitalism can be used in referring to the enterprise economy or even the free market economy. I learned that production can be guided while at the same time income being distributed largely by the operations of the market.

Migration

Migration is generally the way of moving from one place to another with the aim of either working or living in that respective place. It seems that different places or nations are impacted through migration. It is obvious that the idea of migration is among the defining features of the current society. Migration spans the history of a variety of regions and nations and therefore it is expected to be addressed from a global perspective (McKeown 5). I understood how the idea of migration has been polarized between a variety of concepts including push and pull, or tradition and adaptation that has the responsibility of privileging the perspective of countries framing two ends of migrant journeys. I learned that different metaphors such as “transplanted” can be used when describing migration as a type of break.

Migration can sometimes be beneficial to the migrants, their families or even their countries of origin. But situations may change at the country of origin before the migrant comes back. I learned that the majority of the migrants may wish to go back once they have realized that things are not the same as they left (McKeown 8). People should always reduce the expectations when migrants are going back to their countries of origin reason being all countries can never be the same. Instead of going back, the migrants should develop a way that they can adapt to the changes in their countries of origin.

Violence between Migrants

Violence incidences may take place between and within the migrant communities. In most cases, the causal relationship between migrants is limited because of the weak instruments that can be used in determining causality.The key issue facing the immigrants rotates around the locations of the immigrants that are endogenous meaning that immigrants tend to be located around places where there are higher incidences of crime. Nevertheless, the issue of distribution of representation was debated violently in various huiguan while at the same time declined in both its size and power (McKeown 182). I understood that legal status can highly determine violence between either legal or illegal immigrants.

Significant attention should be given to the violence caused by the people in the process of migration.Violence among the migrants is now common in the world while the total number of people being victimized increasing annually hence exploiting human hope and desperation. Among the largest incidences of violence among migrants that have already been recorded in the incidence between the bendi and Hakkas (McKeown 182). I learned that it is important to have an understanding of the nature and extent of violence that is always faced by the migrants. Once the irregular situations faced by the migrants are not well recorded, then their victimization may not be well recorded.

Economic Depression

Economic depression can be termed as the prolonged period of an economic recession that is always marked by the significant decline in either income or employment. Nevertheless, the entire idea of economic depression has not well been determined. There was a rapid increase in the population of the Chinese in California where an economic depression resulted in most of the unemployed Chinese move to San Francisco (McKeown 183). I understood that economic depression can result in a reduction in the progress of different projects while companies moving out of normal operations. I realized that some of the common factors that can be used in characterizing economic depression are increased unemployment.

Economic depression is a widespread economic decline that can take place for a long period of time. There is no specific period when the economic depression can take place since it can take place for some months or even for a couple of decades. Personal services and participation tend to emerge under the influence of ambitious merchants (McKeown 183). I understood that the economic depression can reach is the lowest points after incidences of unemployment have been created. No one benefits from economic depression, not even the respective countries so the nations need to ensure they have clearly addressed the issue.

Negotiating Political Shifts

Under some particular situations, challenges of political shifts may be overcome through the institutional rules of collective engagement that may enable the collaborative negotiation of the political shifts. Negotiation of the political shifts may sometimes be characterized by mutual justification while at the same time looking for some fair terms of outcomes. Although the Chinese migrants were facing different troubles, they flourished in Hawaii between 1876 and 1898 (McKeown 231). Their economic strengths increased dramatically and they started being entrenched at the nodes of different local power networks. I understood that such kind of negotiations can entail pure deliberation.

In most cases, the deliberative negotiation can include what is termed as the partially integrative negotiation. Such kind of negotiation includes different political parties bringing various issues that they face in different priorities hence start trading on such issues with higher priorities with the ones that have lower priorities for others. The stipulation of the Reciprocity Treaty that took place in 1876 worked with the declining native population so that it can emphasize creating opportunities that can result in the entrenchment of the interests of the Chinese people (McKeown 231). I learned that while linking the interests of different parties within a negotiation should be actively sought out and brought into the discussion. Negotiating political shifts can sometimes include the search for fair compromises.

Conclusion

The book addressed different significant ideas that can be reflected in. Some of the key ideas that I can make a reflection on is the idea of capitalism, migration, violence between migrants, economic depression, and negotiating political shifts. Production can be guided while at the same time income being distributed largely by the operations of the market.

 

Work Cited

McKeown, Adam. Chinese migrant networks and cultural change: Peru, Chicago, and Hawaii 1900-1936. University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Explain how quality can be measured in an environment such as the one in which the company currently operates (the passenger tire market).

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Expanding Product Offerings and Quality

A major producer of passenger tires has launched an advertising campaign in which it is trying to market windshield wipers to the public under its brand name, which has been highly successful in the passenger tire market. Perform the following elements of this assignment:

  • Explain why the passenger tire company might choose a product line like windshield wipers to expand its product offerings (as opposed to making steering wheels, opening a bank, or starting a clothing line).
  • Perform a SWOT analysis of the company’s decision to offer windshield wipers, being in the passenger tire business.
  • Analyze and describe what impact this attempt to expand the product line will have on quality (answer both in terms of the company’s existing product line, which is passenger tires, and its new product line, which is windshield wipers).
  • Explain how quality can be measured in an environment such as the one in which the company currently operates (the passenger tire market). In other words, what constitutes quality and how can we quantitatively determine whether the company has it?

 

Explain what has been done with regard to mitigation, recovery, and/or response efforts within your community.

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Due by Monday night 01/25/21

SafeAssign will be used to check for plagiarism. 

Instructions

For the Unit VI Case Study, you will focus on structural damage and building requirements in Riverside County California USA. This can include actions taken to protect against earthquakes, wild fires, etc.

Start by conducting research on Riverside county for examples of mitigation and structure protection. These examples may include design of services and roads, land-use regulation, flood control, levees, dams, updated building codes, earthquake resistant community buildings, warming shelters, evacuation shelters, and structural reinforcement of building materials.

Incorporate no less than 4 pictures of what you find so that you can show your professor what your area has done to address the issue.

Using what you learned about Riverside county, Ca. and what you learned about past disasters from this course, write a case study, a minimum of four pages in length, that addresses the following points.

  • Explain what has      been done with regard to mitigation, recovery, and/or response efforts      within your community.
  • Explain who      conducted these efforts and the vulnerabilities they faced in their      community, and include the role these individuals or groups play with      mitigating, responding, and/or recovering from the risk.
  • Research at      least one major, historical disaster that resulted in structural damage      (this is not limited to your community). Explain the event that caused the      damage and the results.
  • What      collaborative efforts were employed during the historical disaster you      researched?
  • What can your      community learn from the past disaster you researched?
  • Consider the      legal issues that would apply to those who did not follow land-use or      building code requirements. When researching the mitigation and or      structure protection occurring in your area or the location you choose,      also discuss the organizations that would be involved with ensuring      compliance as well as what sanctions would apply for those who were out of      compliance.

Your paper should be a minimum of four pages in length not counting the title and reference pages. You are required to use a minimum of three outside sources as part of your case study.. All sources, including the textbook, must be cited and referenced according to APA guidelines.

Marvel Of Art

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LIST OF FILMS:

Dramatic films about visual artists

1. The Agony and the Ecstasy, 1965, American film starring Charlton Heston, based on the Irving Stone novel about Michelangelo.

2. Lust for Life, 1956, American film starring Kirk Douglas, based on the Irving Stone novel about the life of Vincent Van Gogh.

3. Vincent and Theo, 1990, American film directed by Robert Altman and starring Tim Roth about the life of Vincent Van Gogh and his brother.

4. Loving Vincent, 2017, An animated (hand-painted) film worked on in the UK, Poland and US. The film uses 125+ artists to animate the story behind new evidence concerning Vincent’s death/suicide.

5. Camille Claudel, 1988, French film with subtitles about the 19th century female sculptor who worked in Paris with Auguste Rodin, became his mistress and struggled with the art world and society.

6. Total Eclipse, 1995, a dark dramatic film shot in the UK, Belgium, and US about the lives of 19th century French poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio.

7. Moulin Rouge, 1952, British film directed by John Houston, based on the life of 19th century French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. (This is not the 2001 film with Nicole Kidman.)

8. Girl with a Pearl Earring, 2003, American film about the Dutch painter Vermeer which stars Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth

9. Frida, 2002, American film about the life of Mexican Surrealist painter Frida Kahlo and her marriage to Diego Riveria. Stars Salma Hayek.

10. Pollock, 2000, American film about the 20th century Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock. Stars Ed Harris.

11. Artemisia, 1997, French film about female Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi

12. Goya’s Ghost, 2006, American film about the Spanish Baroque painter Francisco Goya. Stars Natalie Portman and Javier Bardem

13. Big Eyes, 2014, American film based on the life and strange story of 1960’s pop artist Margaret Keane. Directed by Tim Burton

14. Modigliani, 2004, Film based on the early modernist Italian painter based in Paris. Stars Any Garcia.

15. Caravaggio, 1986, A UK film, a fictionalized biopic of famed 17th century Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi de Caravaggio. Directed by Derek Jarman. An odd mix of fact and myth.

16. Basquiat, 1996, An American film based on the all too short life of 20th century NYC painter Jean Michel Basquiat who rises to fame and overdoses. Directed by Julian Schnabel (famous NYC painter) and stars Dennis Hopper, Willem Dafoe, and David Bowie as Andy Warhol.

17. Factory Girl, 2006, American film about the relationship between 1960’s NYC socialite Edie Sedgwick and pop artist Andy Warhol.

18. My Left Foot, 1989, UK biopic based on the true story of Irish painter, Christy Brown, who fights cerebral palsy to become an artist. Stars Daniel Day Lewis who won the Best Actor Oscar for his performance.

19. Final Portrait, 2017, UK biopic about 20th century NYC sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti. Stars Geoffrey Rush

20. Shine, 1996, Australian biopic of the dramatic life of 20th century pianist David Helfgott. Stars Geoffrey Rush who won a Best Actor Oscar for his performance.

21. Amadeus, 1984, American film based on the comic/tragic life of 18th century composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Winner of 8 Academy Awards and 4 Golden Globes.

22. Born to be Blue, 2016 American film of the re-imaging of the life of Jazz musician Chet Baker. Staring Ethan Hawke

23. Miss Hokusai, 2015, Japanese animated film Set in 1814, Miss Hokusai focuses on O-Ei, the daughter of famed artist Tetsuzo, better known by his pen name Hokusai, as she tries to navigate the various aspects of her life.

24. The Monuments Men, 2014, American film based directly on the story of the Nazi attempt to gather Europe’s great masterpieces of painting and sculpture to take them back to Berlin during WWII. An American group of artists, architects, and museum directors travel to Italy and France to find and save the artworks. Stars Gorge Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, and John Goodman*

25. American Splendor, 2003, American film which is an original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar. It stars Paul Giamatti and Harvey Pekar. Nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe Award and has won several other film festival awards.

26. I’m Not There, 2007, An innovative biopic about Bob Dylan where the musician is played by six very different actors (and one actress) during different scenes from his life. It is a wild ride to stitch this story together as you watch it but a very creative take on the story. The film is hard to quantify as part biopic, part myth. It was nominated for an Oscar and has won dozens of film awards.

 

 

 

 

Documentary Films about visual artists and musicians.

1. River and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy working with Time, 2001, a documentary about Scottish natural material sculptor/photographer Andy Goldsworthy. Interviews and video of several of his recent projects.

2. Exit through the Gift Shop, 2010, A strange documentary about trying to locate the graffiti artist known as Banksy. The film covers several artists who are a part of world of graffiti culture.

3. Faces Places, 2017, Agnes Varda, one of the leading lights of France’s honored French New Wave cinema era, and professional photographer and muralist, J.R., partake on a special art project. Together, they travel around France in a special box truck equipped as a portable photo booth and traveling printing facility as they take photographs of people around the country. With that inspiration, they also create special colossal mural pictures of individuals, communities and places they want to honor and celebrate. Winner of several film awards and nominated for an Oscar

4. Crumb, 1994, An intimate (and at times uncomfortable) documentary about the 1960’s cartoonist Robert Crumb. As creator of Zap Comics, Fritz the Cat, and Mr. Natural, this film follows Crumb around and interviews his family (who are as strange as they come). Directed by Terry Zigoff

5. Maria Abramovic, the Artist is Present, 2012, Documentary film about the Serbian performance artist, in connection with her 2012 art performance at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, The Artist is Present

6. Tim’s Vermeer, 2013, Inventor and graphic artist Tim Jenison seeks to understand and recreate the painting techniques used by Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer*

7. Waste Land, 2010, On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro is Jardim Gramacho, the world’s largest landfill, where men and women sift through garbage for a living. Artist Vik Muniz produces portraits of the workers and learns about their lives. Nominated for an Oscar and winner of a number of film festival awards*

8. Finding Vivian Maier, 2013, While working on a history book in the winter of 2007, John Maloof, an avid flea market and auction attendee, purchases a box of negatives at an auction in hopes that he can find photographs for his project. He only knows that the photographs were taken by an unknown person named Vivian Maier. Although he does not find any photograph appropriate for his book, John does believe that the photographs have an artistic quality rivaling that of the most renowned photographers of the era. In whatever public forms he displays the photographs, he gets the same response to them from the general person on the street. In addition to eventually acquiring all the other boxes of negatives of Vivian’s that were at the auction, John goes on a quest to find out as much as he can about Vivian to understand better the woman behind the camera and perhaps her motivations and/or the reason for the photographs themselves*

9. The Devil and Daniel Johnston, 2005, A documentary about the noted outsider musician Daniel Johnston and his fight with bipolar disorder. The film won the top award for the director at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. Daniel Johnston, manic-depressive genius singer/songwriter/artist is revealed in this portrait of madness, creativity and love.

10. Sky Ladder:The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang, 2016, Trace the rise of contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang from childhood in Mao’s China to global art world superstar, and join his quest to realize his lifelong obsession: Sky Ladder. The artist’s main medium is fire and fireworks and his huge performance events will ignite your imagination

11. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, 2012, A documentary that chronicles artist and activist Ai Weiwei as he prepares for a series of exhibitions and gets into an increasing number of clashes with the Chinese government. His rise in the international art world centers around his political/protest ideas and his ability to mount huge exhibitions. This film won a long list of awards and nominations from film festivals world wide

12. A day in the Life of Andy Warhol, 2015, Andy Warhol created some of the most instantly recognizable art of the 20th century. But perhaps his greatest work of art was himself – the cool, enigmatic pop art superstar. In this film, Stephen Smith sets out to discover the real Andy Warhol – in the hour-by-hour detail of his daily life

13. The Cardboard Bernini, 2012, A documentary about the making of a large series of sculptures made out of cardboard by artist James Grashow.

14. Lady Gaga Five Foot Two, 2017, About the life and activities of Lady Gaga. Shows her offstage life and struggles. Recently won an MTV award.

15. Searching for Sugar Man, 2012, Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock n roller known as “Sugar man”. The musician released two albums in Detroit in the 1970’s that became very popular in South Africa without the musician knowing about it.

16. Marely, 2012, A documentary about the life and legacy of the reggae star Bob Marley. Interviews with family and friends and discussion of the singers past and beliefs.

17. Basquiat, Rage to Riches, 2017, Nearly 30 years after his death, this documentary film of Jean-Michel Basquiat details how the self-taught Brooklyn-born artist rose to be one of the greats on the international art marketplace.

18. Gerhard Richter-Painting, 2011, a documentary film starring Gerhard Richter, Norbert Arns, and Hubert Becker. A documentary on the German artist that includes glimpses at his studio, which has not been seen in decades.

19. Chef’s Table, Grant Achatz, (TV show 2015-), Discover the amazing story of one of the greatest innovators of cooking as an art, how he started experimenting with flavors, textures and aromas, and how he battled a disease that almost killed him

 

 

 

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