The Transnational History of a Chinese Family

Q1

            The family of Chang and its immigration account clarifies the arrival of the Yitang in America as an herbalist. Yitang came from Kaiping County which is among the four districts in the Guangdong province.  This led to the arrival of many Chinese immigrants to America. He later developed an herbal medicine business in Los Angeles and sent some of his cash to China to support his wife and children. His wife later died and he married a Chinese who was born in America who bore him some more children. The international crossing of the Chang family was not a personal journey but a mutual action.  They had a family and affinity connection which created a vital organizing element. For many of the Chinese immigrants, migration in America was not a foreign journey but based on reason choice which was on ambition for social progression (Liu, 2005). 

Q2

            Gentry is a name that is currently used by the Americans that means people from a good breeding and education. It was first introduced to the English language when there was a Norman invasion which and this refers to the modification. The term Gentry family was applied when one gained the title, level or an official rank, and all these titles made the holder of them a member of the Gentry family (Liu, 2005). 

Q3

            The ancestral halls were the most complicated buildings in the Chinese village. Due to the start of economic liberalization, the ancestral halls started retrieving back their prerevolutionary significance as the public centers, ritual centers and pints of lineage supremacy. Despite most of these ancestral halls being destroyed and made as event sites and schools and granaries in harvest times, the norms and the networks of the lineage connection have remained flexible (Liu, 2005).

            The rebuilding of the ancestral halls is mostly in China where lineage organizations were more advanced and this made the public enjoy the aid from the connections abroad. The reconstruction of the ancestral halls has happened despite the opposition of the local officials in some areas and with their unspoken or active support and participation in others. The ancestral sites serve as sites for collective rituals and festivals in which people make bend to their ancestors with offerings of food and other items.  Ancestral halls are different and depend on the wealth and ritual requirements of the members (Liu, 2005).

Q4

            The assessment of the determinants of the intergenerational association in the rural China is is by the use of a large examination of household data. The children from the well financed families were more likely to have a higher education although parental education, economy of the family and the other family features were the same. The important way for the intergenerational spread of education in the post modification period is found to be an education based family culture which was formed as an intergenerational cultural response.  The low income families could also invest in their children’s education (Liu, 2005). 

            Another important feature is that wealthy parents had higher education levels where the parent’s education influenced their children’s education. Level of high education made it able for their children to have higher economic status.  In the elaboration of the class based neglect in education through trials in the education level by birth or social status, this would influence the level of class based prejudice. After this assessment, it can be said that children from rich families who had completed their studies gained higher education although the education in the era depended on the social status (Liu, 2005).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reference

Haiming Liu, The Transnational History of a Chinese Family, Rutgers University, 2005.