@mingxiasays Wow! I didn't know either.
It's the Luke Daniel version. I'm surprised, because this audiobook is very well produced and Luke's acting is good otherwise. But oh, the pronunciations are a major deterrent!
The English audiobook version of "Three-Body Problem" has a problem. The narrator horribly mispronounces the Chinese names. For example he pronounces "Ye Wenjie" as "Ye Wen-see-yeah." And Liu Cixin as "Liu Cheston." Did no one at minimum coach him on the most important names?!
I also banned technology from the classroom. I noticed student engagement improved from last year. โ
But here's the problem: many students aren't accustomed to taking notes in a physical notebook. I used PPTs and explicit instructions to remind them what to write down.
(4/4)
"She is one of the best professors I had at Stanford so far!!!"
I am humbled to receive this positive teaching evaluation this quarter!
Interestingly, this class was outside of my area of expertise. In the past, I struggled to teach it. Here's what I used to improve:
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For specific lesson activity ideas:
๐"The Discussion Book" by Stephen Brookfield and Stephen Preskill
๐"Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom" by John Bean and Dan Melzer
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Hiring freeze!
I'm confident in my skill as a dedicated instructor, mentor, & researcher. I know I contribute to my team's work ethic & intellectual rigor. I know my mission to promote cultural exchange & deep understanding is worthy. I hope to endure this career uncertainty!
Big question in class today: why does Omelas *need* to have a suffering child?
My theory: it is either a cosmological requirement of the fantasy world
OR
It is an ancient practices that has simply become accepted, uncritically, as truth.
Are there other ideas?
Just arrived! This is one of my favourite books. A bit expensive, but 100% worth while! It offers a bifurcated personal and objective account of the aesthetic evolution of Tiananmen as a space of multiple, shifting political meanings.
Today, ACLS launched a new website for the China Studies Digital Archives Mapping Project. It offers a free guide to open databases for #ChinaStudies research and a list of leading university libraries that offer services to unaffiliated scholars: https://t.co/dMm6ayCxzT
I'm imagining a class where students watch "Crazy Rich Asians" (2018) and "ๅนปๅA Land Imagined" (2018) in the same week.
2 Stories about Singapore. 2 wildly different films.
Xiaohongshu is the first time where a mass scale of Americans are getting exposed to the real** China, in a medium where Chinese voices dominate content creation.
** ofc even here it isn't 100%; filtered via moderation + userbase selection bias (well-to-do younger women)
My new article is out!
"Ecology, (Post)Humanism, and Liu Cixinโs Three-Body Problem,"
Published through Duke University Press's journal, Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature.
https://t.co/XcvH676pbH