ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES 312 - Literary and Historical Memory in China:Text,Contexts,and Historical Facts

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Hobart William Smith Colleges

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For centuries many educated Chinese have read traditional literary works with greater interest than they have read historical works. Their appreciation for the "memory" in these literary works helped popularize a variety of novels, short stories, poetry, and plays, as well as immortalize some historical personages and fictional characters. In its idealizing or stigmatizing men and women in history, literary work also historicizes its stories and is commonly accepted as a valuable historical text. This course compares the often disparate memory of China's past in literary and historical texts, focusing substantially on their representation of the image of cultural heroes and heroines, of gender and class inequities, as well as of moral and ethical values. (Huan g, offered occasionally

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3.00

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Lecture

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WWW.HWS.EDU

Phone Number:

(315) 781-3000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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