This two week's discussion is about Arts. Arts in like many forms like singing, dancing, playing instruments, and many many more. But here today I will talk about the instruments of the east Asia and the South Asia.
As I've always said that different places have different types of things that they are proficient in. But for music, for instrument playing, they have their pros at both of the civilization. Just that the pros in the field of instruments are different. There are so many types of instruments throughout the world and we can't really like identify how many if we don't do a specific research. China alone have more than 20 instruments that could be played. For example, we have Er Hu （二胡）, PiPa (琵琶）, and more and forth. Er Hu is somehow similar to Violin and the PiPa is somehow similar to the Guitar.
For Indian, I can't tell for sure. But they also have a variety of instruments that they play. So I have to do my research on that. So, what are we gonna do with all these things? We use them for performance of course. For Chinese, our traditional instruments are basically used as talents. Many of us do not play those Chinese Traditional Instrument anymore. It is because the way we write on the music scores are totally different from the west.
Speaking of West. Something pops out in my mind. Why does all these instruments not in the Western Countries? When we go to the western, we can hear the more frequent used instruments. We know that the European Country did came to Asia and started taking over places like China and India. But when they were there, they took a lot of the paintings and porcelains. But why did they not take the instruments? Why did they not learn for the music?
Do they think that Chinese Music is not one of the treasures? Somehow when I think of it, I do feel quite lucky that they did not take it. It they do, now, there are even lesser people that will be playing on the instruments. Just a fact.
So here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkjRrM5k_Co. This is a fusion of East Asian and the Western music instruments. Have a look.
So because this topic is quite short, I will be adding on some of my own topics that I've read for the panel discussion. I've forgotten to say. This two week's discussion were being done in a Panel Discussion way. In a group of three to four members, we are to discuss on the readings that we were given and discuss. Not present but discuss. My topic is on GuoHua which means National Paintings.
China had been such a wealthy country for century. It's full of treasures, in the sense of the jewellery, paintings, arts, porcelains, and many more. Just that paintings are far more easier to be taken. So when the europeans went to China, they took mostly gold and paintings. Half of them were taken, half of them were burnt when the Chinese tried to defend their palace, some were missing and some, I don't even wanna talk about it.
People in the Republic of China are looking more heavily towards this paintings. When time passes, the people had to adapt to the system. A lot of the painters changes their way of drawing the painting from using floral and animals to draw on love and filial piety and yeah some other stuff to what they draw today, of politics, economics, well mostly on the current matters that they faced.
So it is very hard to find someone that is proficient in drawing using Calligraphy brushes and ink. One painting nowadays using calligraphy brush from a painter can cost up to thousands but if you have the traditional paintings from the Ching or Ming Dynasty, you could be a millionaire in the matter of minutes.
So here, I am going to end my topic. I'm gonna do a little conclusion on the subject.
Throughout the semester, I've learn so many things that I have not had ever dreamt of studying. I had actually no interest in the subject. When I saw that I have to choose between Psychology and this, I had a brief idea of taking on psychology and not this. But in the end, I chose this. I explored so many things. Things that were not in my comfort zone. I've learn to scan texts and not read the whole passage form head to toe. It had been a wild journey for me in my university life so far but it had been a great experience.
I must thank my lecturer, Dr. Clarissa for guiding us throughout the semester. Without her guidance, I think I will die doing this course. Initially from the previous lecturer, this course was to be a lot of memorizing and theories but Dr Clarissa changed it. She changed it to be more to reading and understanding of the texts. So much thanks for it.
It was fun being able to write all my thoughts and I am so proud of myself to see how I've grown as a student. In the way of thinking and everything. I've learn so so much from this whole course. So I think this is getting faker. So I'm going to stop here.
Lastly, I really thank Dr. Clarissa for everything. For more information on Dr. Clarissa, Please do visit her blog. https://scandalousthoughts.wordpress.com/
This is it for Eastern Civilization Forum Posting.
I hereby announce that I've finally ended in writing the blog posting.
Cheerios,
YiXin
P/S: If you still have question and comments, you are always welcome to post something or comment on something. XD
Discussion Week 11: The Roles and Problems of Gender in Asian Civilizations
This is for week 11, where one of my best course mate is presenting for this topic. Carmen is the one presenting but unfortunately, she was ill and could not present well. So, she prepared a script for me and I presented it for her stead. So yeah. Let's get started.
This week's topic was discussed together with Carmen, one of my best reliable course mate that I've met. Better than someone else. So much better. It was about Gender and Inequality. When we talk about gender what do we normally think? Men and Woman? Like seriously? Hahahahahahaha. Yes. Most of us think of Gender or for some one else sex as this. Men and Woman. But try thinking it in a different perspective. Someone might have a different view of things.
So here are mine. In some parts of the world, I think in most part of the world, women are not being look at as important figures during times where World War 2 started. It only became an issue due to improvement of civilization. They only give more respect to woman after World War 2 when the world is at the stake of falling backward.
Inequality treatment in woman. Like how? Looking back in China. There have been so many dynasties and so many rulers of China but HOW MANY do you see them as a female? Or I should say, How many of them are Female? Only One. Wu Ze Tian (武则天). If you want to know more about her, there is a drama in China that talks about her. Go google it up. Find 'The Empress of China' and you will find it.
Women are being treated as not important back in that time. Their jobs is stay at home, take care of the houses, clean the house, take care of the children, cook, wash, take care of the elders and I guess that is most probably it. They have practically no rights on everything. Why does this happen? I think that is because the men always have the chance to go out and fight for the family. Where woman, they will just depend on the men, back in those days.
For a woman now, it is about their rights. What they do and what they have. Sometimes for some woman, they tend to misuse their rights here. It became something that annoys anyone when the woman misuse the rights. But I won't talk about that just yet. I will be talking about what they look forward to now.
Alright then. Woman nowadays tend to look more heavy on the money that they earn, they position that they have and a few percentage of them don't put their family on top. Some, they could not because of some factors but some they tend to neglect it by choice. They wanted to focus on their work and all but what will you do when you are old and things? So I don't feel like talking more on this. The more I talk, the more woman I will be offending, the worse ending that I will have.
I think that's it for now.
Thanks for being through with me for this few weeks.
The next posting will be the last. I will combine 4 discussion together as one.
So yeah
Cheerios,
YiXin.
This week's topic was discussed together with Carmen, one of my best reliable course mate that I've met. Better than someone else. So much better. It was about Gender and Inequality. When we talk about gender what do we normally think? Men and Woman? Like seriously? Hahahahahahaha. Yes. Most of us think of Gender or for some one else sex as this. Men and Woman. But try thinking it in a different perspective. Someone might have a different view of things.
So here are mine. In some parts of the world, I think in most part of the world, women are not being look at as important figures during times where World War 2 started. It only became an issue due to improvement of civilization. They only give more respect to woman after World War 2 when the world is at the stake of falling backward.
Inequality treatment in woman. Like how? Looking back in China. There have been so many dynasties and so many rulers of China but HOW MANY do you see them as a female? Or I should say, How many of them are Female? Only One. Wu Ze Tian (武则天). If you want to know more about her, there is a drama in China that talks about her. Go google it up. Find 'The Empress of China' and you will find it.
Women are being treated as not important back in that time. Their jobs is stay at home, take care of the houses, clean the house, take care of the children, cook, wash, take care of the elders and I guess that is most probably it. They have practically no rights on everything. Why does this happen? I think that is because the men always have the chance to go out and fight for the family. Where woman, they will just depend on the men, back in those days.
For a woman now, it is about their rights. What they do and what they have. Sometimes for some woman, they tend to misuse their rights here. It became something that annoys anyone when the woman misuse the rights. But I won't talk about that just yet. I will be talking about what they look forward to now.
Alright then. Woman nowadays tend to look more heavy on the money that they earn, they position that they have and a few percentage of them don't put their family on top. Some, they could not because of some factors but some they tend to neglect it by choice. They wanted to focus on their work and all but what will you do when you are old and things? So I don't feel like talking more on this. The more I talk, the more woman I will be offending, the worse ending that I will have.
I think that's it for now.
Thanks for being through with me for this few weeks.
The next posting will be the last. I will combine 4 discussion together as one.
So yeah
Cheerios,
YiXin.
Discussion on Week 10: Knowledge and Political Economy of East Asia
So Here I am back to this boring job of writing blog postings. Just kidding. I love writing blogposts. I just do not have the time to do it. I really love writing the postings. Seriously I do. Believe me. >.<
So here I am today, I will be writing on the Knowledge and Political Economy of East Asia. There are 4 readings that were posted up on our system. To be honest, I did not read any of those things. So today's posting will be more on what I thought and what are my opinions on stuff.
First off, answering the questions. I seriously do hope that I can.
1. What do you think if the European Industry Revolution did not occur?
Well, from what I think, it would not affect too much on the day now. For what reason I said this? Think back from week 1 of this lessons. Try to think back to what I've came through for the whole of the semester. For this whole semester, I've taken two subjects that are deeply connected together, which is this, Eastern Civilization and another one TITAS. So in both subject, we talk so deeply about Eastern Civilization. And after so many weeks of processing, I think the definition of Civilization will change from what I've proposed during the first blog posting. Let me get back to the posting and give you a screenshot.
So I've wrote a 2 paragraph long words to describe what Civilization means during that time of the time. But now, I think my perspective got changed a little. Civilization does need improvement from the things that we have. So yeah. If the European Industrial Revolution does not occur, we will still have what we have today. Because of IMPROVING. Improving is something every one in this world are doing.
Take China for example. China was once a so successful civilization, a so so successful nation that everyone wants to have a relation with. Of course, it got worse and the Republic of China took over. But that's not the point. As we know, China invented the 4 most greatest things, which are, Paper, Printing Technology, Gunpowder and Compass. The thing about China, during that time, is that they do not improve. Taking Gunpowder as example. Although they invented it and well, used it for as firecrackers during their time, but they did not improve it to be better. And so, people outside get to know about this and they used the technology and made it their own.
Till the Last China Dynasty, Ching Dynasty, they were invaded by the Europeans and they mess up terribly in defending themselves. What I wanted to say here is that China is not stupid. They just did not know of the importance of improving until they fall and now, they are one of the biggest country in the world. If they would have improved, now people would be wearing Traditional Ching Dynasty clothes with all the embroideries and patterns and large headpiece on their head instead of a plain sexy dress. Just kidding.
So to conclude the answer, I think that the evolution of the technology, political views, knowledge and economy will still be going on if the European Industry Revolution did not happen. People of every places are improving.
2. Based on your discussion, are you in favour of Capitalism to be your nation's economical system?
Well, let's not get into any conclusions yet before we know clearly of what Capitalism is.
So here I am today, I will be writing on the Knowledge and Political Economy of East Asia. There are 4 readings that were posted up on our system. To be honest, I did not read any of those things. So today's posting will be more on what I thought and what are my opinions on stuff.
First off, answering the questions. I seriously do hope that I can.
1. What do you think if the European Industry Revolution did not occur?
Well, from what I think, it would not affect too much on the day now. For what reason I said this? Think back from week 1 of this lessons. Try to think back to what I've came through for the whole of the semester. For this whole semester, I've taken two subjects that are deeply connected together, which is this, Eastern Civilization and another one TITAS. So in both subject, we talk so deeply about Eastern Civilization. And after so many weeks of processing, I think the definition of Civilization will change from what I've proposed during the first blog posting. Let me get back to the posting and give you a screenshot.
So I've wrote a 2 paragraph long words to describe what Civilization means during that time of the time. But now, I think my perspective got changed a little. Civilization does need improvement from the things that we have. So yeah. If the European Industrial Revolution does not occur, we will still have what we have today. Because of IMPROVING. Improving is something every one in this world are doing.
Take China for example. China was once a so successful civilization, a so so successful nation that everyone wants to have a relation with. Of course, it got worse and the Republic of China took over. But that's not the point. As we know, China invented the 4 most greatest things, which are, Paper, Printing Technology, Gunpowder and Compass. The thing about China, during that time, is that they do not improve. Taking Gunpowder as example. Although they invented it and well, used it for as firecrackers during their time, but they did not improve it to be better. And so, people outside get to know about this and they used the technology and made it their own.
Till the Last China Dynasty, Ching Dynasty, they were invaded by the Europeans and they mess up terribly in defending themselves. What I wanted to say here is that China is not stupid. They just did not know of the importance of improving until they fall and now, they are one of the biggest country in the world. If they would have improved, now people would be wearing Traditional Ching Dynasty clothes with all the embroideries and patterns and large headpiece on their head instead of a plain sexy dress. Just kidding.
So to conclude the answer, I think that the evolution of the technology, political views, knowledge and economy will still be going on if the European Industry Revolution did not happen. People of every places are improving.
2. Based on your discussion, are you in favour of Capitalism to be your nation's economical system?
Well, let's not get into any conclusions yet before we know clearly of what Capitalism is.
(Copied from wikipedia)
So for me personally, parts of me will agree to this and part of me won't. Why do I say this is because everything have a good side and a bad side. For Why I agree is that it helps in building the nation's economics. It is like the country tax you and they earn from what we earn. Yeah. It sounds so nice. People could be uber rich and uber poor here. And that is the bad thing. When people are uber rich, some they don't tend to give back to the people. Eh. Where you think your business come from? Where do you think your money come from? Your money come from the society that buys your products. I think that is why Malaysian Government make all the company to do charity work for the society twice in a year. So yeah. Funny right?
People might agree on this and might disagree on this but I think that the economics in Malaysia to better be like China. Their gap of rich and poor people are not that widely separated. So I think it is much better in so many ways. We have equal amount of money for all people. But another problem is that Malaysia still does not have the ability to do so. Let's not discuss it here on why. I might be caught under ISA. So no thanks.
I think that is my post for this discussion. The next post I think will be up in 2 hours. For now, Cheers
Cheerios,
YiXin :)
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