This class is nothing like I expected it to be but I’ve really enjoyed how it’s turned out so far. At the beginning of the course I wasn’t as open as I could have been concerning the readings. I was looking at the information we were learning not only in a modern context but my […]
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This week all of our readings were centralized around the terracotta warriors, the discovery of and history behind them. Nearly all the readings were textbook chapters each specializing in a different topic like being a simple introduction, the absence of women in the tomb, the past and present, and the people who built the tomb. […]
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This week we read a chapter from the textbook that was centered around The Classics of Mountains and Seas which was essentially a dictionary that had information about different kinds of creatures and medicine in it. What really stood out to me was its function as a map because the examples didn’t really give me […]
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This week we read an article about yinyang, it mainly focused on how while yinyang are seen as opposites they need the other to exist and remain balanced. It stresses the importance of how neither yin nor yang is complete without the other. Some parts of the article I found interesting were the meanings of […]
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This week our readings were focused on divination and other methods used to infer information about the future including oracle bones, omens, and oracles. All methods mention how important it was to Chinese culture and how vital it was for understanding the world around them. It was really interesting to look at events that happen […]
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