GBA Cultural Landscape is a 10-lesson Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) from the School of Foreign Studies, Jinan University. The course explores the cultural diversity, commonality, and uniqueness of each of the 11 cities. Topics covered include an overview of the GBA, languages and characters, overseas Chinese, food culture, architecture, holidays and customs, music, media and arts, and natural landscape from historical and contemporary perspectives.
Overview
Syllabus
- Introdoction
- Unit 1 Overview
- 1.1 Bay Areas in the World
- 1.2 The GBA Cities
- 1.3 People
- Summary
- Unit 2 Multilingual Landscape
- Introduction
- 2.1 Official Languages
- 2.2 Major Chinese Dialects
- 2.3 Writing Systems
- Summary
- Unit 3 Overseas Chinese
- Introduction
- 3.1 Definition Issues
- 3.2 History
- 3.3 Culture
- 3.4 Overseas Flow
- 3.5 Resourses
- Summary
- Unit 4 Food and Drinks
- Introduction
- 4.1 Food and Drinks in Guangdong
- 4.2 Food and Drinks in Hong Kong
- 4.3 Food and Drinks in Macao
- Summary
- Unit 5 Folk Customs
- Introduction
- 5.1 Cantonese Wedding
- 5.2 Commemorating Ancestors
- 5.3 Mazu Worship
- 5.4 Southern Lion
- Summary
- Unit 6 Holidays & Events
- Introduction
- 6.1 Spring Festival
- 6.2 Dragon Boat Festival
- 6.3 Mid-Autumn Festival
- 6.4 Double Ninth Festival
- 6.5 Other Festivals
- Summary
- Unit 7 Intangible Cultural Heritage
- Introduction
- 7.1 Guangcai
- 7.2 Guqin
- 7.3 Cantonese Opera
- 7.4 Xiang Yunsha
- Summary
- Unit 8 Popular Culture
- Introduction
- 8.1 Popular Culture
- 8.2 Cultural-Geographic Features
- 8.3 Pop Music
- 8.4 Movies
- Summary
- Unit 9 Architecture
- Introduction
- 9.1 Lingnan Architecture in Media
- 9.2 A Historical Overview
- 9.3 Typical Lingnan Architecture
- Summary
- Unit 10 Natural Landscape
- Introductioin
- 10.1 CLimate
- 10.2 Land
- 10.3 Islands
- 10.4 Wetlands
- 10.5 Plants & Animals
- Summary
- 期末考试
Taught by
Kiki, Dianna, Wayne, and Lan
