{"id":225,"date":"2022-12-12T23:03:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T23:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/lotus\/?page_id=225"},"modified":"2025-12-01T20:41:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:41:33","slug":"2021-2022","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/lotus\/articles-2\/2021-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"2021-2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The 1911 Revolution and Gender Inequality in&nbsp;China<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>From ancient times to the early 20th century, women in China have experienced gender inequality in family, marriage, and society. Women revolutionaries played an important role in bringing the end of the Qing Dynasty and calling for changes in gender inequality in China. Following the past revolutions, the 1911 revolution addressed gender inequality by emancipating\u2026\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/lotus\/2022\/04\/22\/the-1911-revolution-and-gender-inequality-in-china\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Sakura Festival<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>After a long and harsh winter, the cherry blossoms (Japanese: Sakura) are blooming with the rising temperature represent the coming spring. Traces of cherry blossoms can be seen in embankments, parks, streets, schools, and many other places. Events held in parks with many cherry blossom trees, tree-lined avenues, and other flower\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/lotus\/2022\/04\/27\/sakura-festival\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Lu Xun\u2019s Critics of Chinese Feudal&nbsp;Ethics<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A leading figure of modern Chinese literature, Lu Xun was a Chinese writer, essayist, poet, and literary critic. He was highly acclaimed by the Chinese government after 1949, when the People&#8217;s Republic of China was founded, and Mao Zedong was a lifelong admirer of Lu Xun&#8217;s writing. According to Lu Xun\u2019s preface to\u2026\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/lotus\/2022\/03\/31\/lu-xuns-critics-of-chinese-feudal-ethics\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>History of Instant&nbsp;Noodle<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the many achievements that have benefited humanity, a survey from December in 2000 showed that the Japanese voted instant noodles as Japan&#8217;s greatest invention of the 20th century (BBC, 2000). The results of this survey may be unbelievable, but do you know how such a convenient and delicious food was invented? Image from Cup\u2026\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/lotus\/2022\/03\/31\/history-of-instant-noodle\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Deepa Iyer\u2019s Talk \u201cFrom Silos to Solidarities: 9\/11 and&nbsp;Beyond\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>On January 31st, 2022, the Forever Foreign series invited lawyer, activist, and writer Deepa Iyer to talk about solidarity post the 9\/11 era in the webinar \u201cFrom Silos to Solidarities: 9\/11 and Beyond.\u201d \u201cSolidarity\u201d is one of those terms that have been thrown around quite a bit in relation to activism, but\u2026what\u2026\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/lotus\/2022\/02\/24\/deepa-iyers-talk-from-silos-to-solidarities-9-11-and-beyond\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Hot Pot \u706b\u934b<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Hot Pot, also known as steamboat or soup-food, is a cooking method in which raw ingredients are cooked in a\u00a0simmering broth. It is characterized by cooking and eating at the same time. The food is still hot when eating. People, therefore, love to have hot pot in freezing winter. Typical ingredients to put in\u2026\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/lotus\/2022\/02\/24\/hot-pot-%e7%81%ab%e9%8d%8b\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Global Perspectives of Environmental Policy Offered by China and Bhutan&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The high rate of economic growth has been an important element of the environmental debate in Asia. Meeting the desire for economic growth with long-term protection of the environment is one of the most fundamental challenges in attempting to achieve sustainable development into the next century in Asia as well as the rest of the\u2026\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/lotus\/2022\/01\/27\/the-global-perspectives-of-environmental-policy-offered-by-china-and-bhutan\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Upcoming Forever Foreign&nbsp;Events<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this academic year, CC launched its year-long series, \u201cForever Foreign: Asian America, Global Asia, and the Problem of Anti-Asian Racism,\u201d to address the ongoing, racist violence the Asian and Asian American diasporas in the United States face. Anti-Asian violence is not new. During the pandemic, the increase of news coverage of anti-Asian violence, such\u2026\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/lotus\/2022\/01\/27\/upcoming-forever-foreign-events\/\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u51ac\u81f3 Dongzhi, the Winter&nbsp;Solstice<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Dongzhi, also known as Winter Solstice, Winter Festival, and Tunji (in Japanese), is the twenty-second solar term of the 24 solar terms. The ancients divided a year into 24 solar periods based on the annual motion of the sun. Each period was called a solar term. The winter solstice festival originated in the Zhou Dynasty,\u2026\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/lotus\/2022\/01\/27\/%e5%86%ac%e8%87%b3-dongzhi-the-winter-solstice\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Lantern Festival<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lantern Festival, also known as the &#8220;Little Lunar New Year,\u201d falls on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar and is the end of the New Year celebration. The ancients called the night &#8220;Xiao.&#8221; It is the night of the first full moon in the year, and it is also\u2026\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/lotus\/2022\/01\/27\/lantern-festival\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Filipino American History&nbsp;Month<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSomeday\u201d by Ruby Ibarra Line:\u00a0I said, &#8220;Mama, we gon\u2019 make it here someday&#8221; (Someday) Last spring, Filipino American, Ruby Ibarra, Zoomed in with Colorado College students and staff for a mini-online concert in celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. When October came and I found out that it was Filipino American History\u2026\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/lotus\/2021\/12\/06\/filipino-american-history-month\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Film Review of&nbsp;Shang-Chi<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The first Marvel movie to feature a predominantly Asian cast, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings was released in theaters on Sept. 3. 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