This week our readings focused on religion and how it showed up in China. Our textbook chapter for the week was “Graves, Grave digging, Ancestors and Luck” and the first thing that I found really interesting was that people’s bodies would be dug back up after a certain amount of time. For a culture that […]
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This week, all of our readings had to do with foxes and their significance in Chinese traditions. Of the two textbook chapters we read, the first one, Fox Spirits, first details how foxes are a very complex creature, being called both mischievous and honorable. They also serve as a spotlight on women in China, since […]
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This week we read two textbook chapters, a PDF document, and a scroll painting. The first chapter, “Mount Kunlun, the Jade Mountain, and the Queen Mother of the West” talks about the symbolism behind each mountain and what it represents in Chinese culture. The Queen Mother of the West lived on Jade Mountain which incited […]
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