Chinese Classics Translation 2022

Welcome to our course Chinese Classics Translation 2022

Here you will find some quick links soon for homework pages, final exam paper pages etc.

Before the class starts

1. We need 1 teaching assistant, 1 wiki administrator and 5 survey assistants. All of them will get extra points for their "performance in class" grade.

2. Please register on this Wiki. Click on "register" on the top right corner, and then on "request one". Then please register with your real name in Pinyin (with blank space between the family name and the given name) for the two names (username and real name), so two times "Lei Feng" and "Lei Feng". Please check the box that you agree to the Terms and Conditions. Then type in the password "wikicaptcha" and click on "submit". You will receive a confirmation email with a link. You can click on the link, confirm your identity and create a password. Then you need to wait 1-2 days until the teacher grants you access. You will receive another email when it will work. With the access to this wiki, you can directly edit everything, including this page. If you want to learn how to edit on Wiki, please read here: ###

3. Please register on the WeChat Group of this class. The WeChat Group will be created by the Teaching Assistant. Please make sure to display your name in the group with "Lei Feng 雷锋 20级".

4. Please add the teacher good_old_cathay to your WeChat contacts.

5. Please take the EU survey here: ###.

First Session Wed 25, 2022 14:30-16:40 - Organizational Things

Duties in Class

1. Please come to class prepared. This means please read the primary and secondary literature for each session in advance. It is much more benefetial for yourself and for the others. Also the discussions in class then can be conducted on a much more sophisticated level. Please reserve at least two hours of preparation for each session.

2. Please do your homework seriously every week and submit it in wiki 3 days before the class starts and the corrections of your fellow student's homework 1 day before the class starts.

3. Please participate actively in class. This means for each session: Please ask at least one question or participate with at least one contribution in the discussion.

4. Please select the topic for the presentation you will do in class already until session 2 (if we have more students than sessions, then build groups of two - one doing presentation, one a written handout on the same topic).

5. Please select a topic of your final exam paper (5,000 English words) until session 2.

Joint agreement on use of time inside and outside the classroom

Since it does not make sense to come together in the classroom and then jointly start reading the primary or secondary literature, please read the texts before class so that we can save the precious classroom time for a well informed discussion about the texts.

Joint agreement on weight of grades

• Final Exam paper: 70 percent
• Performance in class: 30 percent (consisting out of oral contributions/participation, 1 presentation or handout per term, participation in surveys and quizzes, homework) - this grade gets extra points if you take over additional duties like survey assistants.

Note: Grades make take months to be entered into the grade system, since sometimes there are more than 100 students and the teachers want to pay respect to each student and read their final exam paper carefully.