Histories and traditions

Use multimedia to present a montage of the contributions made by Chinese culture to world heritage in the arts.

Outline features of a range of Chinese musical styles.

Use aesthetic principles from Asia to create a fusion of Australian and Asian ideas in a design work. (Example: a 'Chinese' garden in an Australian office atrium.)

Issues

Discuss differences between the work of female Chinese artists and their male contemporaries.

Develop a story-board based on the tensions between Confucian and Western views of family responsibilities.

Make a video presentation which discusses the idea that 'all influences in the arts flow from the West to the East'.

Places and spaces

Develop a dance which interprets the 'Long March'.

Use a photograph of a Tibetan temple courtyard as stimulus for developing a mask dance with a Tibetan Buddhist theme.

Compose a page layout for a travel magazine highlighting exemplary works of past and present architecture in China.

Continuity and change

Identify the traditional sources of imagery in a contemporary Chinese artist's work.

Script an imaginary interview with a Chinese calligraphy artist.

Create an artwork inspired by an event in China that contributed to the world's knowledge and development. (Example: a dance inspired by the invention of gunpowder.)

Local and global

Write a set of interview questions for a Chinese musician famous for working in a 'Western' classical context.

Identify the contribution of Chinese musical forms to 'world music'.

Combine elements of Chinese musical forms to make a short piece of 'world music'.