Tang and Song Screencast Assignment

You're going to make a screencast. What's a screencast? Here's one from a student last year:



Download the assignment here.
Storyboard Template here.
Background reading here.
China Brittanica here.


Tang:
Websites (my Diigo links)

Books:
Poetry: (Li Po and Do Fu): Translations one and two

Chang'An and cities
Chinese Warfare
Calligraphy
Han Yu's anti-Buddhist letter to emperor
Clothing and fashion
Art and Culture
Museums

Song:
Websites (my Diigo links) more here
Books:
Footbinding
Confucian Exams
Scholar Gardens:

1. Excerpt from the Craft of Gardens
2. Chinese gardens slideshow
3. Chinese gardens book
4. Gardens of Suzhou video

Shipbuilding

Topics:

B1:
TANG:
Marianna: Poetry
Natalie: Cosmopolitan Chang'An
Susan: Buddhism rise, Empress Wu, Han Yu, decline
Lakshmi: An Lushan rebellion: Effects
Sarah: Xuanzong and Yang Guifei
Cillian: An Lushan general (inner court, military system, strengths and weaknesses)
Jong Ha: Jurchen invasion

SONG:
Lena: Confucian exams
Angela: Industrial and Commercial Revolutions
Hillary: Footbinding
Riki: Shipbuidling
Kevin: Song literati gardens (Suzhou, Hangzhou)
Sung Won: Sea trade

B2:
TANG:
Vanessa: Painting
Joy: Lyric poetry
Zach: Buddhism rise, Empress Wu, Han Yu, decline
Garret: Silk Road
Jonathan: Han Yu and Buddhism's threat
Michael: An Lushan
Alex: Yang Guifei


SONG:
Lars: Confucian exams
Megan: Tea
Summit: Foot-binding
Eric: Sea Trade and Industrial Rev
Will: Rise of Commerce (can I talk you into Scholar gardens?)

B3:
TANG
Allie: Porcelain and Landscapes
Genki: Lyric poetry
Sam: Chang'An
Aimee: Xuanzong and Yang Guifei
Nia: Tang women
Sartaj: Grand Canal

SONG:
Jae Yong: Foreign relations: Jurchens
Buo: Invasion/Southern Song
Jeffrey: Industrial Revolution
Adam: Shipbuilding and sea trade
Billy: Confucian exams
Amber: (can I talk you into Scholar gardens?)