Readings: Waley: I-VII
Bernstein Intro and Ch 1 & 2
 
video: "Monkey"

Chinese History outline

Chinese Language

Chinese Dynastic TimeLine

Readings: Waley Chapters VIII- XII.  
        Bernstein Chapters 3 - 4

"Supernatural Retribution and Human destiny"
    "The Journey"

Film: "A Heat Wave Called Turfan"

Main charcters of the story: Monkey,
Friar Sand, Zhu Baojie, Xuanzang
 
Tang Taisong, 

early Chinese religion

Readings:  Waley Chapters XIII- XVII.
    Bernstein Chapters 5-6
"Laotzi""Inner Cultivation" "Yellow Court"

Film: "Taoism"

video:  the Travelers meet the White Bone demon

  "Ginseng Fruit"

Taoism

Laotzu

Readings:  Waley Chapters XVIII - XXI
Bernstein Chapters 7 - 8

Analects "Imperial Rites" "Examinations" "Examination Hell" "Eight-legged Essay"

examination system

Film: "Confucius - a biography"
Video: Fire Boy

Confucianism

Readings:Waley Chapters. XXII-XXIV      

"Guanshiyin" "Scripture in 42 Sections"

Film:  "Buddhism in China"

Menander's Questions

Chinese Adaptations

History of Buddhism in China

Precepts

Deadly sins

Lecture notes

Film: "The Mao Years"

Mao on Culture and Art

lecture notes communism

Lady Iron Fan