ASIAN PHILOSOPHY – OBJECT BIOGRAPHY RESEARCH PAPER 900-1000 Word Count
This is a research paper on a specific object. Content of this paper is extremely important and it needs to include as much information of it as possible.
Additionally, you must figure out it’s distinctive characteristic, personality or trait about it.
Objects have lives, sometimes multiple ones, and pathways of life. Objects are actants in the nexus of human societies and their life trajectories play important roles
in culture and history. This “object biography” assignment is designed to allow writers to search, learn about, and write a particular kind of material history of
civilization in China that an object tells.
Content: (This is a compulsory list)
Time period object was produced, made, created, formed, etc
Explore the HIDDEN history of the object
Materiality
Physicality
life trajectories
Raw material used
Form, Shape
Color
Technologies used
Note: Every single item on the content list must be answered with why, what, how, when and who to the best of your ability.
The object that is needed to be written on has already been chosen. Pictures will be provided with some information as well. Texts that are related to china history
during its time period may be requested if available. Other information will require your own personal research.
