Chinese Culture 2023

欢迎！

Before the class starts

Fridays 15:30-17:00 and 17:15-18:45, May 5 – June 23 (30 x 45 min.), Classroom 413 

This class is taught by Martin Woesler in presence. The class language is Chinese, however, some explanations in English/French/German/Japanese/Polish will be given.

1. Please read the terms of Use: By registering for this Wiki, you give your consent that your data (name, study no., study direction, email, technical data of your device, ip address etc.) and your contributions to class (homework, translations, presentations, handouts, final exam papers etc.) is stored for grading, and academic use (teaching and ANONYMIZED for research). You explicitely agree that your contributions can be used by the teacher under his name, e.g. for publication, for improvement of teaching material etc. After reading, please take this quiz to show your understanding of basic concepts of translation and of data usage: http://bit.ly/Eval-01 .

2. Our mentor 課代表 is .... She/he should send a student roll to the teacher and enter all grades from homework and quizzes and those she receives from the teacher into the roll to be kept with the teacher. We still need 1 wiki admin and 5 survey assistants, who know how to use http://wjx.top. If we have more than 100 students, we need 2 teaching assistants. All of them will get extra points for their "performance in class" grade. After registration (see point 3 beneath), please write your names here directly behind the role (e.g. "teaching assistant - Lei Feng"). To change anything on the wiki, please see point 3 beneath.

• Teaching Assistant - ...
• Wiki Admin - ...
• Survey Assistant 1 - ...
• Survey Assistant 2 - ...
• Survey Assistant 3 - ...
• Survey Assistant 4 - ...
• Survey Assistant 5 - ...

3. Please register on this Wiki. From any place you can register following this link: https://bit.ly/WIKIREG. If you are already here, 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: [uvu:Community_Portal] After editing, you will be asked for a password to save changes, this time the password is "wikicaptcha".

4. 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 the following details: "Lei Feng 雷锋 20级 笔译".

5. For communication please add the teacher good_old_cathay to your WeChat contacts.

6. Please take the EU survey here: http://bit.ly/EU-SURVEY.

Here a summary of the most important points in Chinese: @所有人  请各位同学将群聊备注改为姓名拼音 姓名 班级的格式，如 Li Xin 李欣 21级 英语笔译。请各位同学浏览此网站了解本学期的课程要求：https://bou.de/u/wiki/Foundations_of_Chinese_Cultures_2022 （短一点的是https://bou.de/u/ ，然后按我们课的链接）. 我们的课程还需要六位同学分别做网站管理员（1位）和调查助手（5位），期末可以得到一定加分，请有意向的同学在今天晚上六点前私聊我。请大家尽快完成以下课程前准备： http://bit.ly/Eval-01 完成此测验 https://bit.ly/WIKIREG 请在此维基网站上注册，用户名和真实姓名都请填写自己姓名的拼音，像"Li Xin"和"Li Xin"，密码填wikicaptcha，收到邮件确认身份后等待老师通过 完成欧盟调查问卷 http://bit.ly/EU-SURVEY 注：有的链接可能要用vpn才能进 == Student roll:

First Session Fri May 5, 2023 - Organizational Things

Teacher presentation for download:

Media: 01_Chin_Cult_Intro.pptx

Duties in Class

1. Please come to class prepared. This means please read the book chapter, search for more information about the topic online and learn the vocabulary related to the topic 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. You have received the textbook pdf via the WeChat group: Woesler, Martin. (2023). Chinese Culture, Bochum: European University Press, 1000 pages.

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). Please remember to upload and link your presentation and your handout here on this website a week ahead to enable your fellow students to prepare it. Please pick from the following list by adding your name behind any of the topics.

5. Please select a topic of your final exam paper (5,000 English words) until session 3.

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 may 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.

Example for inserting pictures.

Homework of Session 1 for Session 2

1. Please select a topic you want to give a 5-minute ppt presentation on. You can reserve your topic by writing your name behind the topic in the respective section of the Sessions beneath (not above). Please note: If there is no textbook text for the topic, we need 2 more students for this topic, 1 to prepare a textbook text and the 2nd student to write the "terms", "references", "questions" and (please submit to teacher and student assistant): "answers". Please make sure to post the text and appendix at least 1 week ahead of time under the session beneath. Please make sure to send the quiz questions at least 1 week ahead of time to the survey students that they can make a quiz and send the quiz answers at least 1 week ahead of time to the teaching assistant, so that she can grade the quizzes.

2. Please prepare all texts for the next session and take the quiz on these texts before the next session starts.

3. If you have not yet done so, please add the biographical info on yourself on your wiki homepage. You can find your wiki homepage by typing directly into you browser: https://bou.de/u/wiki/User:Wang_Jianguo - of course Wang Jianguo is just a sample name, you would have to replace it with your own username and exchange the space by an understroke.

Special homework for Wiki admin: Please set up all homework texts (I have copied chapter 24 to our homework page and you need to split about 3 lines text in average to each student) on new webpages and link them in all sessions beneath. Please also set up dummy links for ppt upload.

Special homework for Survey assistant Students: Please set up quizzes for all topics on wjx.org, students need to indicate their name and student id. Please paste the link to the quiz here under the respective session and topic beneath. Please tell the teaching assistant the correct answers to the quizzes, so that the teaching assistant can transfer the grades from the quizzes into the student role grade table. Please use

Special homework for Teaching assistant: Please write a grade for each student into the student roll grade list. A student who has done the homework (without Pinyin) gets 100 percent for this, a student who has done the correction of a homework of his fellow student gets another 100 percent. A student who has presented a ppt, written a textbook text or a textbook text appendix gets another 100 percent.

General remarks: I have now created a ranking list of the topics the students selected and published on our course website. Everybody should perform the homework now. This includes special work for the teaching assistant, the wiki admin and the survey students.

Escpecially the Wiki admin needs to split the text which needs to be translated into small parts for each student and indicate the students' names so that they can find it easier. Every student can already pick a topic to do a presentation on and write the name behind the topic.

Also, every student needs to read the textbook texts for coming Monday to be prepared, the survey students need to set up quizzes for the textbook texts and the students need to take the quizzes before class starts on Monday. It is a lot of work, but it will get better, when all of you get used to it. Also, much of the homework, especially setting up webpages for homework etc., including the presentations, creating missing texts in the textbook etc. can be started already now, so that one can do most of the homework for the whole semester already now.

If people want to start writing their final exam papers, they can also start maybe in March, if they like. The earlier things are done the better and the more chances there are to still improve things during the semester.

题目

art, theater (old and new), drama (old and new), aesthetics, concept of high culture, painting (old and new), calligraphy (old and new), traditional poetry, traditional musical theater and its reference in avant-garde drama, Space, line and theatricality in ancient Chinese garden art and modern shaping of the urban landscape, time and space, Stylization, conventionality and symbolism in traditional Chinese culture, Aesthetization and celebration of everyday life in ancient China and today

教材

教材书英文版本我发给大家。中文我们只有一些章回，到时候提供。

Syllabus

中国文化 Kultura chińska

Educational subject description sheet

Basic information

Field of study Sinologia

Speciality -

Department Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures

Study level Second-cycle programme

Study form Full-time

Education profile General academic Didactic cycle 2023/24

Subject code 09SNLS.23K.03201.23

Lecture languages Chinese

Mandatory Obligatory

Block Major subjects

Subject coordinator Hsiu-Ting Yu

Lecturer Hsiu-Ting Yu

Period Semester 1

Activities and hours • Conversatory classes: 30, Graded credit

Number of ECTS points 2

Period Semester 2

Activities and hours • Conversatory classes: 30, Exam

Number of ECTS points 3

Goals

Code Goal

C1 Presentation and discussion on selected topics in the field of traditional Chinese culture, art and theater - from the Zhou Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty - in relation to the phenomena in contemporary Chinese culture, art and theater.

C2 Developing the ability to independently read and analyse selected texts, understand discussed issues, deepen individual knowledge and compare distant phenomena in time.

Entry requirements

Completed courses in the history of China and the history of Chinese literature. Fluent reading comprehension of Chinese texts at the intermediate level.

Subject's learning outcomes

Code Outcomes in terms of Learning outcomes Examination methods Knowledge – Student:

W1 has knowledge of selected aspects of Chinese culture, art, theater, drama and aesthetics SNL_K2_W02 Written exam, Written colloquium, Multimedia presentation

W2 recognizes connections between culture, art, theater and drama of ancient and present China SNL_K2_W02, SNL_K2_W08 Written exam, Written colloquium, Multimedia presentation

W3 understands the idea of continuity of tradition and its modern interpretations and continuations SNL_K2_W08 Written exam, Written colloquium, Multimedia presentation Skills – Student:

U1 performs critical analyzes of cultural texts in Chinese SNL_K2_U02 Written exam, Written colloquium, Multimedia presentation

U2 participates in discussions on topics related to Chinese culture, presents own views and correctly arguing them SNL_K2_U06 Written exam, Written colloquium, Multimedia presentation Social competences – Student:

K1 understands the meaning of high culture and the need to promote the development of international cultural exchange SNL_K2_K05, SNL_K2_K08 Written exam, Written colloquium, Multimedia presentation

Study content

No. Course content Subject's learning outcomes Activities

1. Categories of time and space in ancient Chinese culture W1, W2, W3, U1, U2, K1 Conversatory classes

2. Traditional Chinese painting and its contemporary continuations W1, W2, W3, U1, U2, K1 Conversatory classes

3. Traditional Chinese calligraphy and modern calligraphy W1, W2, W3, U1, U2, K1 Conversatory classes 4. Aesthetics of Chinese traditional poetry W1, W2, W3, U1, U2, K1 Conversatory classes

5. Aesthetics of Chinese traditional musical theater and its reference in avant-garde drama W1, W2, W3, U1, U2, K1 Conversatory classes

6. Space, line and theatricality in ancient Chinese garden art and modern shaping of the urban landscape W1, W2, W3, U1, U2, K1 Conversatory classes

7. Stylization, conventionality and symbolism in traditional Chinese culture W1, W2, W3, U1, U2, K1 Conversatory classes

8. Aesthetization and celebration of everyday life in ancient China and today W1, W2, W3, U1, U2, K1 Conversatory classes

Course advanced

Semester 1

Activities Teaching and learning methods and activities Conversatory classes Conversation lecture, Discussion, Work with text, Audio and/or video demonstrations

Activities Credit conditions

Conversatory classes Attendance at classes is mandatory. The first semester of the course is passed on the basis of a written test.

Semester 2

Activities Teaching and learning methods and activities Conversatory classes Conversation lecture, Discussion, Work with text, Audio and/or video demonstrations

Activities Credit conditions

Conversatory classes The second semester of the course is passed on the basis of preparation of a multimedia presentation and a written exam.

Literature

Obligatory

1. Chinese texts on culture, fine arts and aesthetics are provided during classes by the teacher.

Optional

1.

2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.

Witold Rodziński, Historia Chin, Wrocław 1974 – rozdziały poświęcone kulturze, literaturze, nauce chińskiej od dyn. Zhou do Qing. John King Fairbank, Historia Chin. Nowe spojrzenie, Gdańsk 1996. Patricia Buckley Ebrey , Ilustrowana historia Chin, Warszawa 2002. Laurence Sickman, Aleksander Soper, Sztuka i architektura w Chinach, Warszawa 1984. Craig Clunas, Art In China, Oxford 1997. 5000 lat sztuki chińskiej [album], Warszawa 2014. Adina Zemanek (red.), Estetyka chińska . Antologia, Kraków 2007, Universitas. JeeLoo Liu, Wprowadzenie do filozofii chińskiej, Kraków 2010. Hajime Nakamura, Systemy myślenia ludów Wschodu, Kraków 2003. Benjamin I. Schwartz, Starożytna myśl chińska, Kraków 2009. Livia Kohn, Taoizm. Wprowadzenie, Kraków 2012. Xinzhong Yao, Konfucjanizm. Wprowadzenie, Kraków 2000. Francois Jullien, Drogą okrężną i wprost do celu, Kraków 2006. Francois Jullien, Pochwała nieokreśloności, Kraków 2006. William Dolby, A History of Chinese Drama, London 1976, Paul Elek. Izabella Łabędzka, Obrzędowy teatr Dalekiego Wschodu, Poznań 1999, Wyd. UAM.

Calculation of ECTS points

Semester 1

Activity form Activity hours*

Conversatory classes 30

Preparation for classes 10

Reading the indicated literature 10

Preparation for assessment 10

Student workload Hours 60

Number of ECTS points ECTS 2

• hour means 45 minutes

Semester 2

Activity form Activity hours*

Conversatory classes 30

Preparation for classes 10

Reading the indicated literature 20

Preparation of a multimedia presentation 15

Preparation for the exam 15

Student workload Hours 90

Number of ECTS points ECTS 3

• hour means 45 minutes

Learning outcomes

Code Content

SNL_K2_K05 The graduate is ready to aktywnego działania w społecznościach wielokulturowych i międzynarodowych na rzecz rozwoju wymiany kulturalnej w interesie publicznym w stopniu zaawansowanym.

SNL_K2_K08 The graduate is ready to doceniania dorobku sinologii w zakresie zachowania dziedzictwa kulturowego Azji Wschodniej i uczestnictwo w działaniach na rzecz jego rozwoju.

SNL_K2_U02 The graduate can dobierać odpowiednie źródła i udostępniane przez nie informacje, dokonywać ich oceny, krytycznej analizy, syntezy i wykorzystywać w optymalny sposób.

SNL_K2_U06 The graduate can komunikować się w języku chińskim na tematy specjalistyczne ze zróżnicowanymi kręgami odbiorców przy użyciu różnych kanałów i technik komunikacyjnych.

SNL_K2_W02 The graduate knows and understands w pogłębionym stopniu wybrane fakty, pojęcia i kluczowe zagadnienia z językoznawstwa, literaturoznawstwa i badań interdyscyplinarnych w obszarze sinologii.

SNL_K2_W08 The graduate knows and understands w pogłębionym stopniu fundamentalne dylematy i wyzwania współczesnej cywilizacji związane z językami, literaturą i kulturą Azji Wschodniej.