1. Chinese Art day 1(do not panic)Byo jnghung

2. Ai Weiwei, Han DynastyUrn with Coca-Cola Logo,1994, Urn, Western HanDyn. (206 BC- 24AD) 3. Han dynasty grave goods, ca. 25-200 CE 4. Ai Wei Wei,Sunflower Seedsinstallation atTurbine Hall, TateModern, 5. Longshan periodeggshell pottery ca. 2500-1700 BCE 6. Ai Weiwei, Study of Perspective-Tiananmen,1995-2003, black/whitephotographic print. 7. Remembering, Installation of backpacks for the facadeof the Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2009 (Title of theshow was So Sorry) 8. School collapsed after Chengdu, Sichuan earthquake, 2008 9. Biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru, ca. 1095 CE 10. Fisherman, Yuan dynasty (12711368), ca. 1350Wu Zhen (Chinese, 12801354) 11. Chinese Words & Names Rule #1: Dont Panic Romanization Chinese is a character-based, tonal language Wade-Giles (now obsolete but often appears in older scholarship) Pinyin (currently used, official choice of PRC) Guides to pronunciation and Romanization converters on Bb 12. A note on dates BCE and CE (Before the Common Era and Common Era) BC and AD (Before Christ and Anno Domini, Year of Our Lord) BCE = BC CE = AD 13. Timeline weirdness 17th century BCE = 1600s BCE 17th century CE = 1600s CE Which is earlier: 1700 BCE or 1600 BCE? 1700 BCE Which is earlier: 1600 CE or 1700 CE? 1600 CEBC/BCE Buddha Christ AD2007 1700 1600 5001 1 1600 1700 2007Muhammad570 14. Major Dynasties & Western World Art Periods Shang 1766-1027 BCE = (Egypt, Neolithic/Bronze Age,Aegean) Zhou 1122-256 BCE = (Greece, Rome) Han 206 BCE- 220 CE = (Roman Empire) Tang 618-907 CE = (Birth of Islam, Early Middle Ages) Sung 969-1279 CE = (Carolingian, Romanesque,Gothic) Yuan 1279-1368 CE = (Gothic, Renaissance) Ming 1368-1644 CE = (Renaissance, Baroque) Qing 1644-1912 CE = (Enlightenment, Romanticism,Realism, Neoclassical, Modern) PRC (Peoples Republic of China) 1949-ff.