Seminar Announcements

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Hi Folks --
I'll post seminar announcements here (e.g., due dates, homework reminders). The first is simply a copy of the current schedule. You can download, print it, or send it to others as an attachment.

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David Schaberg will not be able to be with us on Saturday. We will, however, briefly review some of the poems he's selected and discuss the place of poetry in China.

We will not use the computer lab on Saturday -- instead we'll use it on Tuesday, May 11.

On Saturday, May 8, we'll:

1. Discuss Chinese philosophy and have a four sided debate among proponents of Confucianism, Mohism, Daoism, and Legalism.

2. Examine the early Chinese empire: the Qin and Han dynasties.

3. Discuss Cosmopolitan East Asia, Chinese literature 200-1300 with distinguished scholar Yang Ye, UC Riverside.

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A copy of the seminar assignment is attached. The core requirements are active participation in each of the seminar's sessions, discussion via this web forum and the Asia in My Classroom web forum, construction of a simple web page, and the creation of a unit -- using materials and methods introduced in the seminar -- to use with your students.

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Most of you have the reader table of contents. In case you don't, I've attached a copy in .pdf format. Simply click on the icon beside the file name to open the file using Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free program.

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For this session, Sam Yamashita will speak about early Japan, including the extensive links between Japan and Korea/China. He'll discuss the establishment of a unified government and the culture that flourished in Nara/Heian during the "classical" period. Then he'll examine the breakdown of that government's control and the rise of the warrior elite.

The reading assignment is outlined in the table of contents of your reader (binder). Some parts are in Murphy and the others are in the photocopied section.

In the afternoon, we'll be working on our webpages. Bring your guide to using Netscape (from the binder) and a blank floppy or cd.

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For this session, Lynne Miyake will lead our exploration of classical and warrior era literature in Japan. Please refer to the table of contents in the binder for the reading assignment. Some of the readings are in the Keene anthology of Japanese literature and some are photocopied and in the binder.

Lynne welcomes your questions -- be sure to bring them and your ideas of how these pieces might be used with your students.

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Hi Folks,

Here's a page where I've put links to 10 websites that I think you will find interesting or you could use with students. If you find them interesting, please comment on them in the web resources section of the Asia in My Classroom forum. Don't put your comments here, share them with all the teachers participating in the forum.

http://international.ucla.edu/asia/ncta/web1.asp

Among the links are Oprah Winfrey's The Good Earth book discussion page and Asia Times articles about the Chinese-Korean dispute over who ran a large section of the Korean peninsula during the period 37 bce - 688 ce.

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Hi Everyone,

In 2005, a California NCTA group will visit Japan. My friend and colleague Jon Weil from LMU will lead the tour. Click on the icon below to download the application. Please feel free to contact me with questions about the tour and application process. Specific questions about the tour itinerary should be directed to Jon. Jon and I were co-leaders of the 2004 tour of China.

In 2006, I'll lead a California NCTA group to China and Japan. Sam Yamashita of Pomona College will be my co-leader. Sam and I partnered on the 2003 tour. We'll spend about 13 days in China and 8 in Japan. We'll have the itinerary, etc. up on the web in the spring and the applications will be available in November 2005.

All UTLA participants who have completed all seminar requirements are eligible to apply for these tours. You may only go on one NCTA-sponsored tour.

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