India & China

Literature

India & China.  IN COMPARATIVE AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE.  California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.  Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities
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Literature

Studying Chinese literature provides students with ample opportunity to see philosophy in action. The abstract ideas of Daoism, Confucianism and Buddhism become concrete as students read poetry and folk tales which illustrate the Chinese way of life.

The following is a link to an activity about how the Han Chinese used bedtime stories to teach their children cultural values:

bedtimestories.pdf