Oral presentations: 5/10 and 5/12
Requirements
1. Individually or in group of 2-3 people
2. 10 minute presentation and 3-5 minutes interaction or demonstration of calligraphy
3. Choose a topic from our syllabus or on your own with instructor’s consensus
4. Wise use of tech (ppt, youtube, and others)
5. Handouts
6. Creativity
7. Interaction with the audience
8. Can be the same topic as the one for your final research paper
9. It goes with a 2-3 page written paper, individually or as a group, due to 5/17 during the final
- Requirements: (Goes with number Nine)
- An unforgettable title
- A clear theme
- Nuanced analysis of the theme based on the nature of hanzi and kanji as additional pages
- Include actual calligraphy to enhance your argument and theme
- Cross-cultural comparisons between China/Japan and the US on your theme, conceptually and with specific examples
- A bibliography citing the sources that you have used
- Demonstrate your in-depth understanding of the Chinese/Japanese and your ability to engage the East Asian culture
Final on 5/17 10:30 am
1. All hanzi and kanji that we have covered in the entire semester
2. Major themes:
· The relation between hanzi and kanji
· The basic of being a human
· Confucianism
· Daoism
· Individualism
· Collectivism
· The concept of love
· The concept of family
· The concept of power and its hierarchy
3. Artistic creation through calligraphy (couplets and/or painting if you wish)
Final 5-page research paper due on 5/17 to be brought to the final-optional
Requirements:
1. An unforgettable title
2. A clear theme
3. Nuanced analysis of the theme based on the nature of hanzi and kanji as additional pages
4. Include actual calligraphy to enhance your argument and theme
5. Cross-cultural comparisons between China/Japan and the US on your theme, conceptually and with specific examples
6. A bibliography citing the sources that you have used
7. Demonstrate your in-depth understanding of the Chinese/Japanese and your ability to engage the East Asian culture
Assignment(May 5th, 2011) --in flash cards, not in calligraphy
1. Identify 8 hanzi/kanji that have more abstraction (虚像), then dissect each of them into radicals and strokes to grasp a more concrete meaning and visual representation (实像)
2. Identify the radicals and strokes at the signified level, as visual and concrete as possible, then combine them to make hanzi/kanji as many as you can to get a more abstract meaning.
3. Identify 8 hanzi/kanji that are both signifiers and signifieds
Assignment for Tuesday(5/2)
Don't Forget: Please save the youtube on Chinese/Japanese painting, which gives a
sense of calligraphy, in your email, so that you can share with the
class on Tues.
1.A one-page reflection on love; please discuss the abstract and
concrete dimensions of the hanzi/kanji: 爱（pay attention to the kanji
or Chinese traditional version of the character, which I have
difficulty to write with my computer）
2.Create a piece of calligraphy centered on the theme of love,
lovingly and artistically. Please take p.43 in The Art of Chinese
Calligraphy as a model
3.Please find a youtube about doing Chinese/Japanese painting, which
gives you a sense of the interrelation between painting and
calligraphy
4.Prepare 3 questions on the reading pp 9-19 in Chinese/Japanese Calligraphy
bring your calligraphy set and calligraphy paper on Thur for the quiz
一 ，道教
老子，庄子，道，阴阳，春夏秋冬， 生死， 日月，山水，
男女，和平， 梦，蝴蝶，
淡泊
无为？
二， 孔教 / 儒？教
仁义礼智，君君丞丞父父子子，忠，权，力， 权力，
治理？
三，个人主义
个人，君，我，私，私人，
自己
四，集体主义
群众，从，家，国，林，森，
Assignment for Tuesday
1.Not in calligraphy, organize ALL the hanzi/kanji that we have
studied, associated with Taoism, Confucianism, individualism, and
collectivism.
2.Not in calligraphy, list all “etymologies”/radicals that you know
and form a word with all of them.
3.Readings, Chinese/Japanese Calligraphy, pp. 9-19
4.Readings, zswThe Art of Chinese Calligraphy pp.53-64
studied, associated with Taoism, Confucianism, individualism, and
collectivism.
2.Not in calligraphy, list all “etymologies”/radicals that you know
and form a word with all of them.
3.Readings, Chinese/Japanese Calligraphy, pp. 9-19
4.Readings, zswThe Art of Chinese Calligraphy pp.53-64
Chinese-
1. Combo of phonetics, ideograms, and pictograms
a. Sounds and pictures, meaning
2. Key characters giving clues: Radicals
3. Water = important
a. One of the most important elements of life (The Most!)
b. Daoistic
c. Must have water “qualities” to be enlightened person—leak and flow “slowly”
4. Singular and plural are signaled by the same character!
a. Because it’s individualistic AND collectivistic
5. 64 ways of writing Long life and Happiness (awwww <3)
Assignment (Tuesday, April 12th)
1. Find an example, from your life or from your reading, that blurs the divide between individualism and collectivism
2. Find an example, from your life or from your reading, that individualism works better than collectivism
3. Find an example, from your life or from your reading, that collectivism works better than individualism
4. What makes individualism/collectivism Chinese/Japanese?
5. Do one calligraphy word that can clarify your mind and firm your spirit.
6. Bring the questions on the reading of the book The Chinese Calligraphy by Jean Long, pp. 48-64
Helpful Link!
This is a link where you can go, write/draw in a Chinese character that you don't know and it will give you the pinyin and the english translation.
Check it out, it's real helpful.
Assignment for next Tuesday 4/4
1. Explain culturally the characters that you have chosen to write in calligraphy, associated either with Confucianism or Daoism
2. Reading pp. 48-64, The Art of Chinese Calligraphy. Prepare two probing questions on the reading and bring them to the class.
3. Come up with 3 points on collectivism and 3 points on individualism, in a general sense. Then make a chart to place these points side by side. For example:
collectivism | individualism | |
In the US | ||
In East Asia (China/Japan) | ||
In general | ||
Assignment for Thursday(3/31)
What do the following hanzi/kanji mean? Which ones are associated with Confucianism (孔/儒教)and which one with Daoism （道教）? Why?
淡泊
清高
深远
治理
山
水
人
君君 丞丞 父父 子子
权力
蝴蝶
梦
Assignment for next Tues (3/29)
1. Do calligraphy on Confucianism （儒/孔教）:仁义礼智
2. Do calligraphy on Daoism （道教）: 阴阳
3. Observe spring and write a page of reflection using the teachings of Daoism or observe human behaviors and write a page of reflection using the teachings of Confucianism
4. Prepare a brief oral presentation based on your reflection and calligraphy
Assignment for 3/22: our first research paper (5 pages)
1. Decide a topic for your first research essay-- refer to the syllabus p.2 you can see 14 topics there or come up with one on your own.
2. Write the first research paper (5 pages) in English, with an eye-catching title
3. Illustrate the points that you are making, the thesis that you are presenting, the understanding that you are gaining, or the conclusion that you are getting with calligraphy as an appendix as many hanzi/kanji as you wish, as many pages as you wish.
4. Bring both the English and the calligraphy to class on 3/22. This is not the final version as we will work in it on 3/22.
5. The final version is due on 3/24 after revision following 3/22 class.
Assignment for 3/8
1. Any similar cultural elements in the West when one exams Confucianism?
2. Reading The Art of Chinese Calligraphy pp.48-58
3. Learn the hanzi/kanji from the handout (50 in total). Please make sure you recognize them first, and then try to remember how to write based on the visual, the meaning, and the evolving process.
4. Pick 3 most meaningful to you from the 50 hanzi/kanji from the handout and make 3 flashcards.
5. Start to identify a cultural topic for your first research paper
TEST!
--Study the info on the blog, except Confucianism—英文
--Make sure you know how to write the following in hanzi/kanji :--bring your calligraphy set and paper
Topic 1: the relation between hanzi/kanji
书法
汉字 漢字（my laptop wouldn’t do the 汉in kanji）
中国
日本
Topic 2: basics being a human
手
心---人心
想
2 or 3 of your option
The body parts with other words you know to make meaning
The cultural differences in perceptions of the body/its parts---英文
The assignment for next Tues, 3/1:
1. Pick up one or two hanzi/kanji related to the human body (not necessarily the one assigned to you on the flash cards), which mean something to you. Do calligraphy of these hanzi/kanji, as many times as you wish until you are happy with your "meditation."
2. Bring your calligraphy set including paper
3. Bring a hardcopy of your one-page reflection.
4. Research into the key points of Confucianism y summarize them (no more than 3 points). Then post them on the blog that Coty created us with your name. This way all of us will see who has contributed and how.
The assignment for 2/24:
1. One-page reflection on calligraphy. This is our reflection #1. Please reflect on any aspect of Chinese/Japanese cultures through calligraphy. Would be great if you could use a specific example to demonstrate that you understand the cultural nuances.
2. Pick 2 or 3 hanzi/kanji that we have studied and think about how to form a small unit of meanings among them or with the other hanzi/kanji that you have learned (but not yet covered in our calligraphy class).
Assignment for 2/22
1. Reading pp.36-47 The Art of Chinese Calligraphy
2. Do calligraphy of your word (one of the body parts); research and interpret it in the Chinese/Japanese/American cultural contexts
Assignment for Thur, April 17
Please prepare 5 flash cards, in hanzi or kanji, on the body parts. Bring them to class on 4/17. Don’t forget to bring calligraphy set and paper to class on 4/17.
history of calligraphy
Calligraphy paper _1_
February 10th:
- 中日for calligraphy homework. Write each six times on computerized grids.
February 3rd:
-For your first Blog (Due Tuesday):
- Choose one character from the history of 214 essential chinese/japanese characters. (You will be explaining its story in class)
- Find a weblink describing the relation between kanji and hanzi. List three interesting facts.
