July 11, 2012

On the website of the Association for Asian Studies I noticed the announcement about free access to articles from back issues of Education About Asia. Perhaps you have already done so, but all you have to do is register with your email address and you get a password in your inbox straight away. You can search the tables of contents from all published issues dating back to 1996 but you can only view the articles from issues older than three years—at the moment that is 1996-2008. The searchable options are ‘title keyword’, ‘country or region’, ‘author’ and ‘issue theme’.

My search on ‘literature’ and ‘China’ generated eight results, one of which was the article ‘Culture and Text in Teaching Chinese Literature’ by Professor Yanfang Tang in which he introduces his approach to teaching the ‘Lisao.’ As some of his students thought Qu Yuan was boasting and whining, Tang examined what cultural context is essential for the Lisao so that students understand the right interpretation of the poem. 

But before I stray off: the articles are available in PDF and there is a permissions note saying: ‘archive articles may be downloaded and reproduced for personal or classroom only.’ But of course you can also subscribe to the print publication.

Written by: Audrey