Make-up Assignments

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If you need to miss a session (no more than three in the duration of the seminar), please let us know. You will need to make up each missed session. Please note that the four Saturdays count as two sessions each. If you miss a Saturday, you will need to submit two make-up assignments.

• Attend an event (lecture/meeting/discussion panel, etc.) that focuses on issues related to East Asia or visit a museum exhibition or performance relating to East Asia. The U.S.-China Institute offers at least one public event each month.
• Submit a 150-200 word summary of what you learned, and post it in this thread. 

Attached is a list of resources to help give you an idea of events/places to visit around Los Angeles.

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[Mario Galindo]

Had the opportunity to visit San Diego's Balboa Park for my second Make-up visit. The Museum of Art has an Art of East Asia exhibit highlighting China, Japan, and Korea.

The park is huge with many other museums and goings on. As I walked to the exhibit I found a Japanese Teahouse and display explaining the long tradition that San Diego has had with Japan going back to 1915. One of the earliest Japanese Garden was part of an exposition Panama-California. This initial friendship with Japanese culture continued for years. By the mid fifties the garden and teahouse had closed.

San Diego and Yokohama eventually became sister cities in order to try and reopen the Teahouse and restablish friendship. Not till the late 1970's did definite plans begin. Today it is fully reestablished and, as I passed by, seemed popular with a long lines of people waiting their turn for both the teahouse and garden.

The Art of East Asia exhibit was set up in a way that highlighted each country yet connected them by the East Asia theme. The first piece that caught my attention was an intriguing wooden Japanese sculpture called Flying Apsaras. I learned that figures like this (a woman with flowing long dress and hair) were Buddhist and where seen as heavenly worshippers that accompanied the Buddha.

From Korea the exhibit focused mainly on beautiful animal and organic decoarated pottery and a glazed techinque that Korea mastered called Celadon.

Huge gilded BCE statues of the Buddha were the most impressive pieces from China. The multiple figures dominated the exhibit room demanding your attention.

Along with the attached picture I took more and antcipate using them in class as a way to highlight ancient art.

 

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