Freelance Journey

Book Reviews of 2021 I don't usually read a lot of books these days. The books I usually end up reading are more likely textbooks for my classes at Cosumnes River College. However, the books that I did read are from my Asian Humanities 320 class. Although there were some parts of the book that were a bit too difficult to understand, there were also parts of the book that I did enjoy reading about and took a keen interest in.   Awakening: An Introduction to the History of Eastern Thought by Patrick S. Bresnan, 1999 The Awakening From reading this book, I was able to learn a lot about the different cultures in Asia. Some of the chapters I read about were the Indus Valley Civilization, Hinduism, Buddhism, China, and Japan. It was interesting to know how some of the early civilizations were able to adapt and pass down their knowledge to the next generation. Patrick S. Bresnan's Awakening was definitely a wonderful book to read. The Bhagavad Gita: A Walkthrough for Westerners by Jac

Museum The museum that I visited is called the National Museum of Ancient Art where I focused more on the  Parting with Words: Gentleman Artists of the Mind dynasty section. I chose this museum because I was intrigued by some of the art that was displayed here in this museum.  One category of the art display that caught my attention were the paintings called "Painting with words," where it displays paintings from the Ming Dynasty such as "In Full Flower" for example. During the Ming Dynasty, there were three genres that came to be known as the "Three Perfections" due to their phenomenal expressions of Chinese literati culture. Those three genres include calligraphy, painting, and poetry. In Full Flower JSTOR The JSTOR article that I have identified with in comparison to my museum visit is called "A Chinese Painting of the Ming Dynasty."  The reason why I chose this article is because the artist T'ang Yin comes from the Ming Dynasty just like