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Chinese Culture: Tradition
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 4 Sequences
- Introductive Level
Course details
Syllabus
Confucianism: Origins
- Introduction
- Historical background of Confucianism
- Kongzi's efforts to restore Zhou Li
- Significance of Kongzi's teaching to the modern age
Daoism: Laozi and Zhuangzi
- Introduction
- Butterfly and fish: Language and being
- Laozi and Kongzi on order
- Unspeakable knowledge
- One world: Within and outside us
- Interconnection, equality and ecology
Buddhism in China
- Introduction
- From a prince to the Buddha
- The First Noble Truth: Suffering
- The Second Noble Truth: Cause of suffering
- The Third Noble Truth: Elimination of suffering
- The Fourth Noble Truth: Paths to enlightenment
Ancient Chinese Warfare and Sunzi's The Art of War
- Introduction
- Civilization and warfare
- From oracle bones to chariot warfare
- Background of Sunzi's The Art of War
- Understanding The Art of War : Chapters 1 to 7
- Understanding The Art of War : Chapters 8 to 13
Chinese Paintings in the Song Dynasty
- Introduction
- Northern Song Painting Style: Monumental Realism
- Transitional Painting: Li Tang
- Southern Song Painting Style: Lyrical Representation
- Literati Painting (Wenrenhua)
- Chan Painting: Mu Qi
Prerequisite
Instructors
Lang Chen
Research Fellow, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies; Lecturer, Asian Languages and Cultures
University of Michigan
Silvia Fok
Teaching Fellow, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Dr Mark Meulenbeld
Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Culture and Associate Dean, Faculty of Humanities
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Wicky Tse
Associate Professor, Department of History
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
David Wan
Formerly Teaching Fellow, Department of Chinese Culture
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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