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Week 6 Discussion
This week we discussed textiles in Chinese history and interacted with the processes used to create textiles during class. Xue’s text “Cotton Textile Production in Medieval China Unravelled the Patriarchy” identified women as the main producers of textiles. The new industry gave the women of China the ability to make their own income. Despite the…
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Final Project Proposal
I have looked into many topics for my final project but many of them I felt did not provide enough information for me to base a whole project off of. I have found Chinese art and sculpture to be very interesting, and specifically the use of jade in sculptures. Jade as a material is beautiful…
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Week 4 Reflection
This week we covered the tombs of early China, and the items left behind in them. Figurines and architectural models were left in tombs to provide comfort to the deceased and maintain the status one held while living in the afterlife. Prior to this class I had heard about the terra cotta army, as I’m…
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Week 3 Reflection
For Tuesday I chose to read Arthur Waldron’s “The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth” and William Lindesay’s “The Great Wall in 50 Objects”. Waldron’s text offered a historical background on the Great Wall and its construction. What interested me most was looking at how the wall was set up location wise when…
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Week 2 Reflection
This week I chose to explore oracle bones, and was incredibly surprised by the lengthy process used to prepare them. Oracle bones were used as a connection between the Shang and their gods, they were used in rituals and prayers often. Preparing the bones was extensive, it began with scraping the bones, and making preparations…
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Week 1
This week we discussed Patricia Crone’s “Pre-Industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World”, in which the author discusses how society developed from primitive to reliant on trade and complex systems. Crone’s mention of the dilemma of the golden goose interested me greatly, she defined the dilemma as when “[…] one cannot specialize in the production…
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Self Reflective Cat
Receiving feedback from others helps to reveal the potential others see in you, and realize your potential.
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