As we have just hit the 5-week mark in the semester, and I look back at the work that I have done and the material that we have covered as a class I think that it has been one of my more challenging classes this semester. I say that not because what we have been reading has been impossible to decipher or because writing the post each week has been particularly difficult but because I wouldn\u2019t describe my relationship with history subjects usually as passionate. Saying this however I think that as I have continued to read and immerse myself in the materials each week this class has become progressively more interesting and easier. Moreover, I would even go as so far as to say that this class and learning about modern China, which is something that I have not studied in the past and has been somewhat of an unknown to me, has begun to rekindle my liking of history. Thus, answering the question of how I have engaged with the course material so far, I think that I have done well to try and make sure to read everything and write an honest reflect of what it was that interested me each week. Additionally, I think that I am doing better and better each week to continue reading the additional materials or looking up things because I am becoming increasingly interested in what we are looking at and how it is that some of these events still have implications to today\u2019s world and China\u2019s relationships with the West. I would like in the coming weeks to try and watch the lectures that I miss (as it clashes with basketball practice) more often as I think that the discussion that happens in class is interesting, and I like hearing how it is that my peers have responded to the materials for each week. In terms of what I have done well in the class so far, I think that I have tried give thoughtful responses to each week\u2019s materials as well as responses to my classmate\u2019s posts. This I will try to continue doing for the rest of this class as I believe that it is a valuable learning tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moving onto the second question that I am engaging in this response, which is what I have learned in this course and how it is, if at all, that I am beginning to think like a historian. Thinking about this question I believe that the biggest indicator of me learning about this material and starting think like a historian is my curiosity about the topic. What I mean by this is that often times I have caught myself after or in the midst of reading the class materials looking up different events or what certain places are called now. This to me has not been something that I have done for a long time and has been exciting to me. One of the overarching threads that I have been particularly interested in as the class has gone on and I have tried to find connections to in our readings is how all these events, especially those concerning interactions with the Western world, have had an effect on how it is that China interacts with the West today and why it is that there seems to be such competition between the West and China. This is something that I am definitely going to continue thinking about as the course goes on and I am eager to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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