{"id":4,"date":"2019-06-27T19:45:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T02:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asia508a\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2025-01-07T00:10:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T07:10:59","slug":"about-the-course","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asia508a\/","title":{"rendered":"About This Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The goal of this seminar is to introduce students to some of the major problems in Chinese historiography. Emphasis will be placed on issues that are particularly pertinent to the study of later imperial China.<\/p>\n<h2>Assessment of Learning<\/h2>\n<p>For more details on the individual components, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asia508a\/assessment\/\">Assessment<\/a> section.<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asia508a\/assessment\/#participation\">Attendance\/Participation<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">20%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asia508a\/assessment\/#essays\">Short Essays<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">30%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asia508a\/assessment\/#review\">Review Essay<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">50%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>Important Dates (Pacific Time)<\/h2>\n<table style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 20%;\">Jan. 7<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 80%px;\">First meeting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 20%;\">Jan. 17<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 80%px;\">Last date to withdraw without the &#8220;W&#8221; standing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 20%;\">Feb. 18\u201321<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 80%;\">Midterm break<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 20%;\">Mar. 7<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 80%;\">Last date to withdraw<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 20%;\">Apr. 8<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 80%;\">Last meeting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 20%;\">April. 22<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 80%;\">Review essay due<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>Texts<\/h2>\n<p>All required readings are available online or from the instructor.<\/p>\n<h2>Acknowledgment<\/h2>\n<p>UBC\u2019s Point Grey Campus is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xwm\u0259\u03b8kw\u0259y\u0313\u0259m (Musqueam) people. The land it is situated on has always been a place of learning for the Musqueam people, who for millennia have passed on their culture, history, and traditions from one generation to the next on this site.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The goal of this seminar is to introduce students to some of the major problems in Chinese historiography. Emphasis will be placed on issues that are particularly pertinent to the study of later imperial China. Assessment of Learning For more<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asia508a\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asia508a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asia508a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asia508a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asia508a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asia508a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asia508a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asia508a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asia508a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}