Session 11—Wed, Sep 21: Pre-Tang China ③: Han until Tang dynasty

Topics

❖ Early contacts with Chinese (Han) culture—Very early Chinese tea culture

Thoughts—read before class, revisit for tests

The reading assignments are essentially the same as the previous sessions since these two sessions are linked. I cover what I can in the first session and finish here.

Required—to be completed for today's session

✓ Review if necessary: Contract for a Youth [bSpace, PDF]
✓ Review if necessary: Chinese Tea Culture (Wang Ling, 2000) Chpt 1 [bSpace, PDF] (right-pointing arrow means start reading, left-pointing arrow means stop reading)
✓ Review if necessary up through the Han dynasty: Tea in China (Evans, 1992) Chpt 4 [bSpace, PDF]
✓ View and read: Tang China various [bSpace, PPT]

*Both Wang Ling and John C. Evans need to be read skeptically. Also, they are OCRed and have quite a few spelling errors, missing words, etc. in them. If you need to check something, use the JPEG version found in the "PDFs from JPEGs" folder.

Multimedia notes

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