Answering these questions enables you to relate material from the text to your own personal experiences.
What aspects of Asian culture seem most remote or most “foreign” to you as a Westerner?
Write a diary entry (on the order of Murasaki’s) that records vivid impressions of your immediate environment and its occupants.
What, in your view, is the value of examining the cultures of China, India, or Japan in a humanities course taught in the West and which primarily emphasizes western humanities?
