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Welcome to our course website Foundations of Chinese Cultures 2021. Whenever you visit this site, please see if there is anything in English not yet translated into Chinese and make a Chinese translation beneath (one paragraph English, one paragraph Chinese). Any correction or improvement of earlier translations is welcome!

欢迎访问我们中国文化基础网页。…………--Root (talk) 07:43, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

Organizational Things

Please register for the Course Wiki.
Please prepare each session during the week before, so that you come prepared to class.

Description of Homework

We need a website admin student (see description beneath)

Regular students

1. Please read and prepare all the texts for the next textbook unit.

2. Please find a Chinese sentence in the internet about each of the 3-4 topics we deal with in each session (see textbook content page or on this webpage here "schedule"). Copy these sentences on our homework webpage and write translations into English (for international students: find an English sentence and translate into Chinese). Do not forget to sign by typing - - ~ ~ ~ ~ (without spaces) at the end.

Then please help your fellow students to correct and improve their translations. Do not forget to sign by typing - - ~ ~ ~ ~ (without spaces) at the end.

3. Once in the semester, you give a presentation on a topic of the textbook. Please do not just repeat the content, but say something from the perspective of a translator: What problems do you encounter when translating the textbook text or when translating texts of this topic. One student can do a presentation, the other can do a handout. Both contributions are graded separately.

Website Admin student

Thank you for helping to watch the Wiki website! Please make sure that it looks nice (formatting, especially if a fellow students makes a mess by putting the wrong format etc., should not look to crowded, so make sub-websites for homework etc.).

Online Survey students

There will be several online surveys conducted throughout the semester. Please fill in the first survey after session 1: http://bit.ly/EU-SURVEY Please fill in the 2nd quiz (to show that you have read the texts for session 2) before session 2.

Edits

Every student is required to edit something every week. This can be:

Translate a pragraph from English to Chinese.
Correct an earlier translation.
Prepare an article (please link to from this page) and/or a powerpoint (please upload here) on a topic you will present during the semester.

Material

The coursebook will be provided to you in the WeChat Group.

Please rate the 127 topics on http://shijiehanxue.mikecrm.com/uysEi5J or http://bit.ly/rate_topics (you can only rate once). We will select the top 45 topics and deal with 3 topics per week/session.

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Schedule

1st Session: Organizational things

Vote on the topics for the current semester.

At the end of the session: Take the EU survey http://bit.ly/EU-SURVEY

2nd session: (topic chosen by students)

3rd session: (topic chosen by students)

4th session: (topic chosen by students)

5th session: (topic chosen by students)

6th session: (topic chosen by students)

7th session: (topic chosen by students)

8th session: (topic chosen by students)

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New topics suggested by students: ...

1st Session

Teacher Classroom presentation 01 Teacher presentation of 1st session

Teacher Course Book Course book 2021

Teacher Course Book Handout for topic

Introduction to the course. Organizational things. Working with the Wiki.

Homework of Session 1 (Mar 3, 2021), due for Session 2 (Mar 10, 2021)

1. Every student receives a short paragraph in English to translate into Chinese. You can write it here.

2. Help a fellow student to improve his/her translation on that page.

3. Please answer the quiz on ...

Media:Chengjiaben.doc

2nd Session: Unit 1

Text A Topic

Topic Classroom presentation Presentation on topic

Topic Handout Handout for topic

Order	Date	Topic	Chapter	points	Popularity
1	10.03.2021	Traditional Festivals	2	474	79%
2	10.03.2021	Traditional Festivals: Spring Festival Couplets	3	468	78%
3	10.03.2021	Traditional Festivals: Lattice on Ancient Chinese Windows	4	451	75%
4	17.03.2021	Science and Technology: Ancient Science and Technology	5	433	72%
5	17.03.2021	Science and Technology: Compass	6	432	72%
6	17.03.2021	Science and Technology: China's Four New Inventions	7	427	71%
7	24.03.2021	Science and Technology: Douyin (Tik Tok)	8	423	71%
8	24.03.2021	Chinese Writing: Chinese Characters	9	417	70%
9	24.03.2021	Chinese Writing: Chinese Characters and Scripts	10	415	69%
10	31.03.2021	Chinese Writing: Calligraphy	11	409	68%
11	31.03.2021	Chinese Writing: The Evolution of Calligraphy	12	406	68%
12	31.03.2021	Chinese Writing: Ancient Writing and Painting Tool, Writing Brush	13	404	67%
13	07.04.2021	Traditional Crafts: Embroidery	14	401	67%
14	07.04.2021	Traditional Crafts: Cloisonne	15	396	66%
15	07.04.2021	Traditional Crafts: Lacquerware	16	395	66%
16	14.04.2021	Traditional Crafts: Carving	17	385	64%
17	14.04.2021	Traditional Crafts: Handcraft - Chinese Knots	18	384	64%
18	14.04.2021	Traditional Crafts: Folk Art - Chinese Paper-cutting	19	383	64%
19	21.04.2021	Beverages: Tea	20	377	63%
20	21.04.2021	Beverages: Milk Tea	21	375	63%
21	21.04.2021	Beverages: The Liquor Culture of Ancient China	22	372	62%
22	28.04.2021	Traditional Cuisine: Chinese Dining Etiquette	23	371	62%
23	28.04.2021	Traditional Cuisine: Four Distinct Regional Cuisines	24	369	62%
24	28.04.2021	Traditional Cuisine: The Art of Chinese Cooking	25	368	61%
25	05.05.2021	Traditional Cuisine: Two Famous Dishes	26	366	61%
26	05.05.2021	Traditional Cuisine: Chopsticks	27	365	61%
27	05.05.2021	Silk and porcelain: Silk	29	364	61%
28	12.05.2021	Traditional Cuisine: Eight Major Cuisines in China	28	364	61%
29	12.05.2021	Silk and porcelain: Porcelain	30	362	60%
30	12.05.2021	Silk and porcelain: Celadon and Celadon Song 《青花瓷》歌词	31	361	60%
31	19.05.2021	Fine Arts: Painting	32	360	60%
32	19.05.2021	Fine Arts: Bada Shanren and Qi Baishi	34	357	60%
33	19.05.2021	Fine Arts: Seal-cutting	33	357	60%
34	26.05.2021	Architecture	35	356	59%
35	26.05.2021	Architecture: Architecture and Gardens, The Forbidden City	36	349	58%
36	26.05.2021	Architecture: Four Great Pavilions	37	346	58%
37	02.06.2021	Architecture: Three Great Towers in China	38	346	58%
38	02.06.2021	Architecture: Bridges	39	344	57%
39	02.06.2021	Garden Culture: Gardens	40	338	56%
40	09.06.2021	Garden Culture: The Summer Palace	41	336	56%
41	09.06.2021	Garden Culture: Qingming Riverside Landscspe Garden	42	333	56%
42	09.06.2021	Garden Culture: Bonsai (Penjing)	43	326	54%
43	16.06.2021	Chinese language	44	319	53%
44	16.06.2021	Ancient literature: Classical Literature	46	317	53%
45	16.06.2021	Chinese language: Chinese Dialects	45	317	53%
46	46	Ancient literature: Yue Fu	47	316	53%
47	47	Ancient literature: Chinese Mythology	48	312	52%
48	48	Ancient literature: Four Folk Stories of Ancient China	49	309	52%
49	49	Ancient literature: Chinese Classical Fairy Tales	50	308	51%
50	50	Premodern literature: Tang and Song (2 texts)	51	306	51%
51	51	Premodern literature: Li Bai's 李白《长干行》 and its translations	52	305	51%
52	52	Premodern literature: China's Four Great Classical Novels	53	304	51%
53	53	Premodern literature: Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio	54	304	51%
54	54	Modern and Contemporary Literature: Modern Literature	55	303	51%
55	55	Modern and Contemporary Literature: Qian Zhongshu (Ch'ien Chung-shu)	56	302	50%
56	56	Modern and Contemporary Literature: Novels	57	300	50%
57	57	Modern and Contemporary Literature: Contemporary Literature	58	299	50%
58	58	Modern and Contemporary Literature: Literature, Science Fiction, and Fantasy	59	297	50%
59	59	Beijing Opera	60	296	49%
60	60	Beijing Opera: Actor Mei Lanfang	61	296	49%
61	61	Beijing Opera: Beijing Opera Acrobatics	62	294	49%
62	62	Martial Arts: Wushu	63	294	49%
63	63	Martial Arts: Qigong	64	291	49%
64	64	Martial Arts: Huo Yuanjia	65	289	48%
65	65	Chinese Medicine: Diagnosis and Pharmacology	66	288	48%
66	66	Chinese Medicine: Acupuncture and Moxibustion	67	286	48%
67	67	Chinese Medicine: The Development of Chinese Medicine	68	284	47%
68	68	Chinese Astrology: Chinese Astrology	70	283	47%
69	69	Chinese Astrology: Twelve Animals of the Chinese Zodiac	71	283	47%
70	70	Chinese Medicine: Zhang Zhongjing	69	283	47%
71	71	Chinese Astrology: Calendar, The 24 Solar Terms	72	281	47%
72	72	Chinese Mythology: Huli-jing	73	281	47%
73	73	Chinese Mythology: Gods and Immortals	74	279	47%
74	74	Religions: Buddhism	75	275	46%
75	75	Religions: Daoism	76	275	46%
76	76	Religions: Islam	77	275	46%
77	77	Religions: Christianity	78	274	46%
78	78	Confucianism: Four Main Philosophic Schools	79	273	46%
79	79	Confucianism: Classical Philosophy - Confucius and Confucianism	80	272	45%
80	80	Confucianism: Confucian Culture	81	272	45%
81	81	Confucianism: Classical Philosophy - Reading The Analects	82	270	45%
82	82	Confucianism: Chinese Traditional Culture-Five Constant Virtues	83	267	45%
83	83	Philosophical Schools (Daoism, Buddhism, Legalism): Classical Philosophy – Daoism	84	265	44%
84	84	Philosophical Schools (Daoism, Buddhism, Legalism): Classical Philosophy - Reading Tao Te Ching	85	264	44%
85	85	Philosophical Schools (Daoism, Buddhism, Legalism): Classical Philosophy - Reading The Sutra of Hui-neng	86	263	44%
86	86	Philosophical Schools (Daoism, Buddhism, Legalism): Classical Philosophy - Reading The Importance of Living	87	262	44%
87	87	Philosophical Schools (Daoism, Buddhism, Legalism): Legalism	88	261	44%
88	88	Silk Road - by land and by sea: Zhang Qian and the Silk Road	89	260	43%
89	89	Silk Road - by land and by sea: Zheng He and the Maritime Silk Road	90	260	43%
90	90	Silk Road - by land and by sea: Zheng He's Voyages	91	260	43%
91	91	Music and instruments: Guzheng	94	259	43%
92	92	Westernization: The Eastward Spread of Western Learning	92	259	43%
93	93	Westernization: The Westernization Movement	93	259	43%
94	94	Music and instruments: Pipa	95	258	43%
95	95	Facial Make-up	96	255	43%
96	96	Facial Make-up: Face Changing in Sichuan Opera	97	253	42%
97	97	Facial Make-up: Cosmetics, Traditional Chinese Make-Up	98	247	41%
98	98	Stage entertainment: Crosstalk 相声	99	242	40%
99	99	Stage entertainment: Shadow Play	100	237	40%
100	100	Stage entertainment: Chinese cinema (dramas and movies) and its popularity and affection in Vietnam	101	236	39%
101	101	Body movement performance: Stilts	102	234	39%
102	102	Body movement performance: Traditional Chinese Dance	103	233	39%
103	103	Body movement performance: Chinese Lion Dancing	104	231	39%
104	104	Money culture: Currency, Jiaozi (A Paper Currency in Northern Song Dynasty)	105	231	39%
105	105	Money culture: The tradition of Red Envelope and Lucky Money	106	229	38%
106	106	Games: Go 围棋	107	226	38%
107	107	Aesthetic ideals and social customs: The Four Most Handsome Men in Ancient China	108	225	38%
108	108	Aesthetic ideals and social customs: Habits, Ways of Contacting	109	219	37%
109	109	Aesthetic ideals and social customs: Chinese Marriage Customs	110	213	36%
110	110	Chinese clothing / interieur: Cheongsam	113	211	35%
111	111	Chinese clothing / interieur: Chinese clothing	112	211	35%
112	112	Minority cultures: Lisu People and Daogan Festival of Lisu Ethnic Minority	111	211	35%
113	113	Chinese clothing / interieur: Batik	114	210	35%
114	114	Chinese clothing / interieur: The Folding Screen	115	210	35%
115	115	Education: Ancient Chinese Education	116	210	35%
116	116	Education: Yuelu Academy (One of the Four Most Prestigious Academies)	117	209	35%
117	117	Education: The Nine-Grade Official Selection System in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties	118	204	34%
118	118	Education: Historical Figures, The Four Talented Women of Ancient China	119	203	34%
119	119	Army and weapons: Terracotta Army	120	197	33%
120	120	Army and weapons: Chinese Ancient Weapons	121	196	33%
121	121	Landscapes and tourism: Landscape, Five Famous Mountains	122	195	33%
122	122	Landscapes and tourism: The Ancient Tea Horse Road	123	194	32%
123	123	Landscapes and tourism: Mogao Grottoes	124	176	29%
124	124	Landscapes and tourism: Four State-Level Cultural Relics	125	171	29%
125	125	Landscapes and tourism: Tourism, Nanjing-An Ancient Capital of Six Dynasties	126	170	28%
126	126	Landscapes and tourism: Four Buddhist Shrines	127	168	28%
127	127	Animals: Panda	128	154	26%

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