E ASIAN 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Proverb, Social Stratification, W. M. Keck Observatory
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Audio recording started: 3:36 pm thursday, january 11, 2018. Plot is kinda going between dreams and reality. Time- don"t know when it happened for the male. But he says he dreamed of the girl. Language it flowery bc classical chinese, lotsa verses. Talks about what happens in play, in general. He is descendant of poet from tang dynasty. (tang is golden age of poetry). Anyone who"s talented must be a great poet. It"s like smartphone + computer + everything else. Commit a small crime, and you compose a poem, they might be more lenient on you. If they"re a precocious child, they might be composing poems at 7. learning is associated w poetry. Too much time studying poems and learning how to write them, not enough time to study for examinations. Each person is supposed to pass 3 levels of tests- county, provincial, national. Don"t have to kneel down when you see officials.