ENGL 16180 /36180 - Travelers on the Silk Road

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University of Chicago

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PQ: Advanced standing. This course meets the critical/intellectual methods course requirement for students who are majoring in Comparative Literature. This course is a reading of some of the major travel narratives of the Silk Road and Tibet: Xuanzang, the most famous of the Chinese Buddhist pilgrims who went to the West; Marco Polo and others, who went to the East; a diplomat like Clavijo, who went to see Tamerlane; modern travelers, like the spies the British government sent from India to explore and map the area who were the prototypes for Kipling's Kim; and archaeologists, like Aurel Stein who went both ways on the Silk Road. We learn indirectly about the different religions and political regimes travelers experienced. M. Murrin. Spring.

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3.00

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Instructional Type:

Multiple

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Institution Website:

WWW.UCHICAGO.EDU

Phone Number:

(773) 702-1234

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Quarter

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