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  • Course Schedule F22
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    • Finals Week
      • Final Check-in conversation
    • Week 15
    • Week 14: Popular religion in the present
    • Week 13: Mme White Snake
    • Week 12: Story of the Stone
    • Week 11: Dragons
    • Week 10: Foxes and textbook work
    • Week 9: Mountains and Textbook work
    • Week 8: Short stories and Textbook work
    • Week 7: Library and Buddhist hell*
    • Week 6: Library and Pressbooks
    • Week 5: First Emperor’s Tomb & Early China review
    • Week 4: Masters; the Afterlife
    • Week 3: Five Phases; Classic of Mountains and Seas
    • Week 2: Divination
    • Week 1: Introductions!
    • Course schedule (S20)
      • Week 15: Wrapping up!
      • OPTIONAL Week 14: Story of the Stone
      • Week 13: Monkey!
      • Week 12: Dragons, and a bit of medicine
      • Week 11: Mountains
      • Week 10: Foxes!
      • HST107: Remote learning revised schedule and information
      • Week 9: regrouping and restarting
      • Week 8: Buddhist hell (x2)
      • Week 7: Early China retrospective; Pressbooks and Open Education
      • Week 6: First Emperor’s Tomb; Chu culture
      • Week 5: Masters of the Strange; Information Literacy in the library
      • Week 4: Yin-Yang and Five Phases; ghosts and spirits (part 1)
      • Week 3: Oracle Bones, and Classic of Mountains and Seas
      • Week 2: Common beliefs, then and now
      • Week 1: how to prepare for class
  • Assignments Fall 2022
    • Final Check-in conversation
    • Third Reflection
    • Second Reflection
    • First Reflection (Fall 2022)
    • Assignments S20
      • Final project: bite by bite
      • Portfolio/website assignments
      • Week 7: Assignments
      • Week 6: Assignments
      • Week 5: Assignments
      • Week 4: assignments
      • Week 3: Assignments
      • Week 2: assignments
      • Week 1: assignments
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    • Topics portal
      • Suggestions for topics for further exploration
      • Yin and yang 陰陽 ☯️
      • Book of Changes (Yijing, I Ching) 易經
      • Astrology and Astronomy
      • The culture of Chu
      • Tombs and afterlife, before Buddhism
      • The First Emperor’s Tomb and the Terra Cotta Warriors
      • Sun Wukong: Monkey king
    • Library Resources during #Covid19
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  • Week 1, Aug. 30: First class
  • Week 1: Sept. 1: In the beginning/First encounters
  • Week 2: Sept. 6: Shang oracle bones
  • Week 2 Sept. 8: Book of Changes/ Yijing
  • Week 3: Sept. 13: yinyang, Five Phases
  • Week 3: Sept. 15: Classic of Mountains and Seas
  • Week 4: Sept. 19: Fangshi: Masters of the strange
  • Week 4: Sept. 21: (cont. Fangshi) + Afterlife before Buddhism
  • Week 5: Sept. 27: On Ghosts, and the First Emperor
  • Week 7: Oct. 13: Buddhist Hell
  • Week 8: Oct. 18: Set 1: Self study slides; Set 2: class slides
  • Week 9: Oct. 25: Mountains and their creatures
  • Week 10: Nov. 1: Foxes
  • Week 11: Nov. 8: Dragons
  • Week 12: Nov. 15: Story of the Stone
  • Week 13: Nov. 22: The White Snake
  • Week 14: Nov. 29: Popular Religion
  • Week 15: Review!
Book of Changes: Random Hexagram

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