Happy Lunar New Year!

For this coming week, please read Murphey, chapter 5, on Chinese civilization (22 pages) by Monday and Murphey, chapter 6, for more on Indian civilization (14 pages) by Wednesday. Blog posts are due by midnight on Wednesday.

Lunar New Year falls on Saturday (1/28). It is the year of the rooster. How are you going to celebrate? (check out funcheapsf).

Traditional Societies (pre-1900)

The readings for this coming week are Murphey, Chapter 3 (20 pages), due on Monday before class, and Murphey, Chapter 4 (15 pages), due before class on Wednesday. Blog posts are due by midnight on Wednesday.

“The Living Chinese”
Exhibited under the auspices of P.T. Barnum, proprietor of American and Chinese museums New York and Barnum’s Museum Philadelphia.
From L to R: Miss Pwam-Ye-Koo, aged 17 years a young lady with feet 2-1/2 inches long.  Miss Lum-Akum, aged 23 years her maid servant. Miss Amoon, aged 7 years, Master Mun-Chung, aged 5 years, son and daughter of the professor. Mr. Aleet-Mong, aged 18 years an interpreter.  Mr. Soo-Chune, aged 32 years, professor of Music. 
Library of Congress, control number 2002708598 

Asian Religions

As I mentioned in class today, the next reading is short, but it is foundational for everything we do going forward, so please take time to read it carefully and thoughtfully. Some of you still don't have the textbook, so I have scanned a copy of Chapter 2 and posted it on the campus portal for our class. Log into the campus portal, and then follow this link.

I've got the majority of the student blog URLs up, but not for two original students, whose names rhyme, and not for the new students. Please get them to me ASAP.

Have an excellent long weekend--see you Wednesday!

Welcome to Monsoon Asia

Your first dangerous assignment is to create your own dedicated Asian Studies blog, preferably with blogger.com, and send me the URL (e.g., http://xx.blogger.com).

If you don't already have the textbook, please get one ASAP. You can order it from wherever you prefer as long as you get the correct edition of Murphey (ISBN-13: 9780205168552). For example, a quick Google search of the ISBN shows that Barnes & Noble has a particularly good deal on the textbook right now. If you find a better deal, please let us know in the comments below. Resist the urge to use the e-text version (we have an electronics-free classroom).

I will post the Intro and first chapter on the campus portal to tide you over. There will be no excuse for not reading the introduction and first chapter of Murphey, pp. 1-26, before Wednesday's class. Please make sure that you can answer the review questions on pages 8 and 26.