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summercomfort) wrote2005-03-03 01:36 am
summercomfort) wrote2005-03-03 01:36 am
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1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.
Alas, mine is "First of all, as late as 1884 much urban land was still not yet redeveloped, but was instead leased for ground rent only to shed-dwelling members of the growing urban underclass" from William T Rowe's "Hankow: Conflict and Community in a Chinese City, 1796-1805" which is part two on his extensive examination of a proto-modern, non-political class 1 commercial city in late Imperial China. (I have plans to use Hankow as a "control" in comparison to the social structure in Shanghai, especially in how city structure and architecture facilitate a semi-autocephalous public associations that are built on merchant same-place associations but organized by streets. If I do my research right, I should also be able to look into the adaption of English rowhouses into that organizational structure. And in the end, compare it all to Weber and his Confraternity-generating Commune.)
But yes, book meme is good way to update on life. I went to Wu Hung's office hours today to talk about my final paper, just because it's something that has to be done. He seems approving. Something to the effect of "this is a challenge for your mind. If you can organize and analyze this properly, it will be a good paper." But yes, it's still kinda blobulous in my head, but hopefully will be good. I want to talk about how the horizontal scroll format is used to portray different types of "journeys" in literati landscape paintings. Physical journeys, mental journeys, everything in-between. Maybe by tracing the role of people in the journeys (as part of the landscape, as traveler, as scholar, etc). But I'll probably also have to address the shifting compositions with between the mountains and the mist. (Handscroll is actually not very portable. At least, less so than albums). The perspective changes on those things boggle my mind. &heart;
I have no idea what's up with EA Civ, but there's gonna be a final paper, and I'll deal with that when it comes. For Revolutions, we have a "Review Paper" due next week where we'll be trying to address three different takes on revolution and sorta applying them to the Meiji Rev. Out of the 12 options, I've since narrowed it down to 4. Well, more like 2 and 2. Definitely taking the de Toqueville (b/c I heart him so) and this other interesting one on counter-revolution, but there's also this one on American Revolution and another one on collective revolution. I think I'll end up taking the American Rev just because it gets overshadowed by the French Rev too often. There's also a final paper for that class.
Overall I've enjoyed this quarter much more than last quarter. Funny. Some of my classes last quarter didn't have many people, either, but this quarter I'm so much more a-participating. Last quarter, even when I did the readings, I didn't have anything to say. But with this quarter, it's like the complete opposite. Also more incentive to do readings, whatnot. :D
I still write crappy papers, though. gah.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.
Alas, mine is "First of all, as late as 1884 much urban land was still not yet redeveloped, but was instead leased for ground rent only to shed-dwelling members of the growing urban underclass" from William T Rowe's "Hankow: Conflict and Community in a Chinese City, 1796-1805" which is part two on his extensive examination of a proto-modern, non-political class 1 commercial city in late Imperial China. (I have plans to use Hankow as a "control" in comparison to the social structure in Shanghai, especially in how city structure and architecture facilitate a semi-autocephalous public associations that are built on merchant same-place associations but organized by streets. If I do my research right, I should also be able to look into the adaption of English rowhouses into that organizational structure. And in the end, compare it all to Weber and his Confraternity-generating Commune.)
But yes, book meme is good way to update on life. I went to Wu Hung's office hours today to talk about my final paper, just because it's something that has to be done. He seems approving. Something to the effect of "this is a challenge for your mind. If you can organize and analyze this properly, it will be a good paper." But yes, it's still kinda blobulous in my head, but hopefully will be good. I want to talk about how the horizontal scroll format is used to portray different types of "journeys" in literati landscape paintings. Physical journeys, mental journeys, everything in-between. Maybe by tracing the role of people in the journeys (as part of the landscape, as traveler, as scholar, etc). But I'll probably also have to address the shifting compositions with between the mountains and the mist. (Handscroll is actually not very portable. At least, less so than albums). The perspective changes on those things boggle my mind. &heart;
I have no idea what's up with EA Civ, but there's gonna be a final paper, and I'll deal with that when it comes. For Revolutions, we have a "Review Paper" due next week where we'll be trying to address three different takes on revolution and sorta applying them to the Meiji Rev. Out of the 12 options, I've since narrowed it down to 4. Well, more like 2 and 2. Definitely taking the de Toqueville (b/c I heart him so) and this other interesting one on counter-revolution, but there's also this one on American Revolution and another one on collective revolution. I think I'll end up taking the American Rev just because it gets overshadowed by the French Rev too often. There's also a final paper for that class.
Overall I've enjoyed this quarter much more than last quarter. Funny. Some of my classes last quarter didn't have many people, either, but this quarter I'm so much more a-participating. Last quarter, even when I did the readings, I didn't have anything to say. But with this quarter, it's like the complete opposite. Also more incentive to do readings, whatnot. :D
I still write crappy papers, though. gah.
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Ferdinand says that in my copy of The Tempest.....