Week 1 (01/14/2014)
Perceptions of Chinese and other “Third World People”
1. Nature and problem of stereotype
Stereotype can be positive or negative, based on our recognition. Stereotype is collection of images and cliché.
Stereotype is influenced by the races, shaping perception of other people as well.
a. Pre-conception
Societal curricula
Third world: during or after the Cold War, Asia, Africa, and Latin America
b. Selective perceptions
Explaining what is going on to them
Develop perception based on the experience they had
2. Cinematic conventions
a. Circle of civilization
Reflecting how we think about ourselves
Understanding people
People within that circle, when they stop their camera, earn something about their hopes, which is the human eyes of the circle
b. Hierarchy of dependency
c. Shadow of humanity
d. Force of darkness
3. Continuing change

Week (01/21/2014)
State’s Society: Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)
1. Ideology: Confucianism Confucius; he was a short man and old and with long beard
Confucius:
Powerful but to be ethical Loyal to the state State is the extension of basic family He tried to explore the characters of virtues and individuals. The universe was an organic hole; individuals are all connected with each other. People can mess out, because people are stupid, irresponsible and perverse.
a. Son of Heaven
He is the mother and father of the people. The emperor is responsible for those below him as well as the King in western countries.
b. Mandate of Heaven The emperor emphasizes the rule of man and the rule of law. If you overthrow the dynasty, you will lose the mandate; if you establish a dynasty, you earn the mandate.
c. Dynastic cycle It refers to one dynasty is replaced by another one. It is a given. A dynasty starts with the first good emperor, in the history, which is the most virtue, and brilliant emperor. The cycle reaches the highest point and then recycles In the Qing Dynasty, the acme顶点 is at the middle of the 19th century The replacement’s factors are about economics, politics, environments and etc.
The history is used to teach emperors how to behave.
2. Government
a. Emperor
Head of the state and family, because the country is ruled by a family
b. Structure
Head of three branches: Civil administration, Military administration, Censorial administration
c. Six Boards:
Personnel（吏部）
Find the best and the brightest to rule the country
Rites（礼部）
Ceremonies of the country
Revenue（户部）
Collecting money to support them
Works（工部）
Water control, maintaining the properly environment and disasters etc.
Justice（刑部）
War（兵部）
d. County magistrate (长官，法官) Pointed by the emperor Have the power to select the right people to the country, based on the official examination The number one of the examination will be admired by the entire country, since they know the person will bring almost everything to his country and his surroundings.
China has been good with emperor for thousands of years, but time changes the society, which leads to the end of the emperor time. States and society have changed.
3. Society
a. Classes
b. Values

Week 3(01/28/2014)
Chinese values
1. Extended family and kin network Parents will try to teach you all of the extended family, which is encouraged by the Chinese society.
2. Veneration of age
3. Traditional subjugation and submissive role of women
4. Primacy of group welfare over individual interest
5. Hierarchical structuring of society
6. Respect for and importance attached to learning
7. Awareness of and importance attached to the past

Week 4 (02/04/2014)
Coming of the West
1. Chinese system of foreign relations
2.
The Imperial tributary system of China was the network of trade and foreign relations between China and China's "tributaries" whose ideals in one form or another, for millennia, drove much of East Asian affairs. Chinese suzerainty over East Asia,