Tuesday, May 27

Hillary's Annotative Bibliography

FML (For Meaningful Life) Home Page. XIAMEN FML IMP.&EXP. CO.,LTD. 22 May 2008 .

The FML (For Meaningful Life) Tea Trading Company exports, manufactures, packages, and wholesales many types of teas including White, Green, Oolong, Black, Flavored, and Blooming. There are tea experts/masters in the company that “guarantee the best quality and reasonable prices”. The site/articles give information about the origins of tea, its health benefits, and just about anything about the stuff. More than 4,000 years ago, tea was discovered in China and is shown to have significant benefits to human health. The components in tea aid in everyday aches or pains, and strengthen the body in ways that regular over the counter medicine could not. There are external links available to other tea sites/resources making the site very reliable on its information. The site provides pictures to give a visual of what tea leaves actually look like. Overall the articles were useful to the topic of tea as a whole because of its versatility in information.
1) Henry - Mahjong
2) Chloe - Dim Sum
3) Hillary - Tea
4) Jimmy - Storytelling

then....

1) Henry - Red Candle (Lindo Jong)
2) Hillary - Scar (An-Mei Hsu)
3) Jimmy - Marriage/Voice (YingYing St.Clair)
4) Chloe - 2 Tickets (Jing-Mei Woo)

good luck guys...we're gonna need it. -________-"

Annotative Bibliography

Chang, Wonona W. “Dim Sum: Appetizers of Your Heart’s Desire” Flavor and Fortune Fall 1996. 22 May 2008

The article serves to inform the audience about the food and culture of Dim Sum. It gives examples of the traditional food and categorizes them. The article gives several recipes to spread Chinese culture to one’s own home. It encourages people to make their own Chinese Dim Sum and to experience new things. The author is very informed about Dim Sum. She is able to give the Chinese pronunciations of the foreign words. The author clearly has tried the experience before, as she gives a fond example of chatting with neighbors sitting on a nearby table. The conversation is polite, though it shares personal experiences, showing that Dim Sum is very social. The author makes an effort to describe the meanings and origins of Dim Sum, suggesting that she is writing for a non-Chinese audience. The article is useful since it gives an example of human interactions in this ancient tradition.

Global Oneness. 2008. Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd. 22 May 2008.

Upon investigation, the article was found to be slightly unreliable. The article was adapted from the Wikipedia article of the same name. Nevertheless, the article still has valuable information. It gave an explanation of what Dim Sum means in different areas of China, including Hong Kong, Guangdong, as well as Northern China. The article gives some information on the utensils used, something I have not found anywhere else. Unlike other articles, this one addresses the subject in a different form. The words Yum Cha itself means “to drink tea” and is synonymous to eating Dim Sum. The article may not attract many viewers as most Americans do not know the relation between the two. They have probably heard of the latter, though probably not the former. Perhaps the most important piece of information is the mention of rituals. Most Americans do not know the idea of finger tapping or flipping the teapot lid. This knowledge shows that research has been made in this area.