Just one fact to tell. I'm a Chinese-background student, but I was below median in midterm, final, and paper. Maybe I'm too vegetable! Fortunately, I received an A, as Professor Li himself is a really nice and helpful guy.

I just got out of the final and I just wanted to recap for future students who are thinking of taking this class. First of all, this is not an "easy" GE. If you are looking for GE where you can get away with an A with minimal effort, this class IS NOT for you. I had to solely rely on the textbook to study for the tests because the lectures were not very effective. The professor would often go on tangents and talk about material that was not going to be tested on. I am not completely bashing on this class, though. The professor provided us with study guides so we can know what we needed to know for the test. These study guides were very reflective of what was going to be on the tests. The midterm consisted of only 20 multiple choice questions, which was a lot of pressure. The final consisted of 24 multiple choice questions, 2 map questions, and 6 short answers. If you are genuinely interested in Chinese civilization, then feel more than welcome to take this class. The professor is passionate about the topic and seemed like he always welcomed students to office hours. Overall, this class consisted of a lot of reading and memorizing. I honestly studied more for this class than my upperdivsion classes that I am currently taking for my major.

He had much passion and is extremely knowledgable in materials and research related to Chinese civilization. But the course itself - or the way he tried to teach it, could be more organized than it was... and ... thousands of slides.

Very unclear and unfocused class. I have no idea what to study for the midterm, in fact the professor did not provide any information for the midterm. Lectures and Textbooks are covering extremely different topics. Every single one of my classmates I've talked to are either confused or stressed heading into tomorrow's midterm. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS.

Lmao, on the first day of class, li min just stared at the students and said "wow probably 90% of students here are of east asian descent"