Part one of term paper
Jing mei went to China, not only to meet her sisters she never met before, but more importantly, to learn more about her family heritage and background. She wanted to find out who she really was deep inside. She also had a number of unanswered questions about her mother that she wanted to discover. Living in the United States all her life, J ...

Part two of term paper
... with her friends at school. She learned from American people and lived in an American society, therefore she felt like she was an American and no one could tell her otherwise. Jing mei had a totally different perception about China before her visit. She imagined China to be not so Americanized. Jing mei saw China as a Communist country. She envisioned a poor country containing small villages, with people who would not have the slightest idea of what it felt like to have the same luxuries that many ...