Managed to write a sentence on my paper today--and it was mainly a quotation. Ah well. Tomorrow I have a meeting, but I might also have some time to work on the paper.
I spent most of the day designing my Canvas site for my Summer 2 course. This is the second time I've taught this particular course online, but the last time was my first time using Canvas, so my design of assignments and modules wasn't very good. Hopefully my new approach will be able to last awhile.
The quotation in my sentence, by the way, was from Chang and Holt. I've only gotten through a couple of chapters, but thus far I'm finding the book informative and useful for my project. My only complaints are that sometimes the translations read a bit awkwardly and that some of the Chinese-language sources are not very helpfully cited in the bibliography. For an instance of the latter, here's a typical citation for a newspaper article from 聯合報:
Tang, X.-m. (2008, September 25). What era is it now! Anti-communism and recovering nation saunter into history. Retrieved from United Daily News, online, available at: www.udndata.com
Since they were unable to give a URL that would take readers directly to the article (which sometimes happens), it would be good to give the title in Chinese as well as English, so that readers could find the article more easily. I'm guessing that the first part of the headline is something like, 這是什麼時代！But the title in Chinese characters or pinyin would help. The odd thing is that sometimes they do provide pinyin for some titles.
Anyway, that's enough complaining for the day. As I say, I've gotten a lot out of the book so far.
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