Related Documents
Documents related to talks:
Why the Buddha Was Different: The Emergence of Buddhism in the Indian Context
Film clip from "the Long Search" (From minute 37 through minute 43. Available from www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3r202etWLE)
Supplemental reading:
Ottoman History
Websites and Online Curriculum about the Ottoman Empire - from Primary Source
Perspectives: (PDF)
Perspectives: issue on (PDF)
The History of the Chinese Writing System and Related Cultural Production
Good basic intro to Chinese art: Craig Clunas, The Art of China; Michael Sullivan, The Three Perfections: Chinese Painting, Poetry, and Calligraphy (revised edition)
Good intro to Chinese writing without needing knowledge of the language (good for basic exercises): Peggy Goldstein, Long was a Dragon: Chinese Writing for Children
Small display of work by Xu Bing at Museum of Fine Arts in Houston: Xu Bing is the artist who creates “fake” characters. This display is of old-style Chinese books with archaic looking graphs!
Nationalism and Regionalism in India
Supplemental reading:
Mongols
Meeting of Frontiers (Russia/Alaska)
"Moskau" by Dschinghis Khan -- because nothing teaches concepts better than a 1980 German disco/new wave video!