Thoughts about session 4

[Rob_Hugo@PortNW]

Hi everyone,

Please reply to this message and share your thoughts about our April 27 by Clayton Dube on China. For those who already posted your thoughts by starting your own threat, please feel free to take a look at the responses from your classmates and make your comments.

-Xin

[Anonymous]

I really enjoyed this session. Sorry it has taken me so long to respond. I can't believe we are already moving on from China, I feel like I have learned so much! I'm looking forward to learning about Japan!

[Anonymous]

Hello all,
I thoroughly enjoyed this session. There are so many things that I'm learning about China and yet it still feels as if this is just the tip of the iceberg. It is so important to share this type of information with students so they can learn and appreciate the customs, history and cultures of such a diverse land.

[Anonymous]

When it comes to history, it is hard to beat China for great stories. What a magnificent setting. Among its myriad of extraordinary characters, even the Empress Cixi can’t compete with the Chairman. I love Mao’s dedication to the common man and his early struggle against government corruption. What fiction author could have written a character who would intervene when a Manchurian warlord kidnaps his worst enemy? What villain could be more ungrateful than Chiang Kai Shek when he forces Mao and his troops on the Long March – 8000 miles, 360 days? But, oh how our hero is fallen when, at last, the CPC comes to power. Is it possible for one man to wreak such havoc on an entire nation? I am waiting to hear the rest of the story.

[Anonymous]

Wow, yeah, time is passing by fast and reading over the posts, I see I have neglected my duties to respond to the class session! Sorry about that! I was thinking during the session how it's kind of funny- I feel like I know SO MUCH more than I did before- about a 1000% more, which I do- and I kind of think I now have something to share with my students (and I do!) but in reality how much can you really learn about East Asia in ten sessions?! The most we can do is to barely juts scratch the surface, but that is useful in that we have then broken through to beneath it and now I find myself already delving deeper into the topics that really interest me (as though I wasn't having enough trouble keeping up with the readings as it were!) But I do need down time (read: bad tv) and there are commercials on there...so...that's my fun internet time. That's when I look up weird topics about the atomic bomb, communism (versus socialism), and Buddha.

[Anonymous]

Clay gives a great presentation! I can see how engrossed he is in the subject and it really tells in the presentation this evening. A whirlwind tour of the history of China; concise yet deep in its understanding. Can't wait for the next installment.

[Anonymous]

I have to give Clayton Dube much credit for being able to present so much history covering hundreds of years in such a coherent way. I feel I have a much better grasp of the important factors that brought about China as we know it today. The way the European (& US) colonialists manipulated China was shameful and explains why China deals with foreign powers the way she does. There is so much mistrust because of past abuses.

[Anonymous]

Dr. Dube did the execerise in the earlier seminar of the newspaper and 7 people standing on it to represent the number of people on a Japanese commute train. I asked my friend who lived in Japan for a number of years about it. He told me that he only takes the men only trains because it is less of a hassle. He was falsely accused twice by women who said he touched them, when he did not. He was reading a book and was so engrossed that he accidently bumped into a woman. She shoved him and began yelling. He said that men need to ride the train with their hands up or they get faslely accused.

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