CHIN 225 - Representations of the Other in Traditional Chinese Literature

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Wellesley College

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NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. Examining what an individual, or a culture, defines as ?other? often reveals much about how that individual or culture views itself. In this course, we will explore ways in which traditional Chinese literature constructed notions of the other. Our scope will be broad: from poems on the Zhou dynasty's conquest of enemy tribes around 1000 B.C.E., to accounts of China's encounters with the West in the eighteenth century; from spirit journeys through the terrors of the underworld, to romanticized visions of rural life in the poems of aristocrats. We will approach these texts both as works of art in their own right and as windows onto the changing paradigms Chinese writers used to understand themselves and their wor ld. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: N/O Unit: 1

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3.00

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Lecture

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www.wellesley.edu

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(781) 283-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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