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1.25 Credits
Allen, Tang, Zhao An introductory course that teaches the skills of listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing in Mandarin Chinese. Emphasis is on pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and communication. Computer programs for pronunciation, listening comprehension, grammar, and writing Chinese characters will be used extensively. Four 70-minute classes plus one 30-minute small-group session. Each semester earns 1.25 units of credit; however, both semesters must be completed satisfactorily to receive credit for either course. Prerequisite: None. Open only to students with no Chinese language background. Distribution: None Semester: Fall, Spring Unit: 1.25
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1.00 Credits
Zhao, Chen An introductory course that teaches the skills of listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing in Mandarin Chinese. Emphasis is on pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and communication. Computer programs for pronunciation, listening comprehension, grammar, and writing Chinese characters will be used extensively. Three 70-minute classes. Each semester earns 1.0 unit of credit; however, both semesters must be completed satisfactorily to receive credit for either course. Prerequisite: Open to students who can speak some Chinese (Mandarin or other Chinese dialect), or who have some knowledge about reading and writing Chinese characters. Department placement test is required. Distribution: None Semester: Fall, Spring Unit: 1.0
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3.00 Credits
Allen (East Asian Languages and Literatures) How do individual voices establish their identities within and against the demands of the community How does the drive to assert the individuality of the self balance the comfort and security of being part of a group We will examine these questions through the lens of Chinese literature, from its beginnings in songs and kings' proclamations in the first millennium B.C.E., through modern writers' reaction against their literary inheritance in the early twentieth century. Our scope will be broad, from lyric poems and essays on political philoso-phy, to love songs and bawdy plays. The works we will read continue to be read by much of the educated populace and constitute a herit-age that writers today emulate, play off of, and rebel against . No prior knowledge of Chinese literature or language is required. This course satisfies the WRIT 125 requirement and counts as a unit toward the major in Chinese. Includes a third session each week. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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1.25 Credits
Chen, Hu, Zhao Further training in listening comprehension, oral expression, reading and writing. Four 70-minute classes plus one 30-minute small group session. Each semester earns 1.25 unit of credit; however, both semesters must be completed satisfactorily to receive credit for either course. Prerequisite: 101-102 or placement by the department. Distribution: One unit of Language and Literature for 202 Semester: Fall, Spring Unit: 1.25
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1.00 Credits
Tham, Tang Further training in listening comprehension, oral expression, reading and writing. Three 70-minute classes. Each semester earns 1.0 unit of credit; however, both semesters must be completed satisfactorily to receive credit for either course. Prerequisite: 103-104 or placement by the department. Distribution: One unit of Language and Literature for 204 Semester: Fall, Spring Unit: 1.0
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3.00 Credits
NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. Over the course of the twentieth century, China underwent enormous changes in the sweep of moderniza-tion, which opened the door to a wealth of experimentation, especially in literature and culture. The primary focus of this course is to ex-plore how literary forms adapted to the dominant political and cultural movements of modern China. At the same time, individual Chinese writers crafted unique visions from their experiences ?on the ground.? In works that date from the late Qing to the present, we will explore the varied representations of Chinese modernity, including topics, such as the individual and society, revolution and tradition, the country-side and the city, gender and sexuality. No prior knowledge of Chinese literature or Chinese language is required . Prerequisite: None Distribution: Historical Studies or Language and Literature Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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3.00 Credits
Allen The Tang dynasty has long been considered a high point of Chinese civilization. Travelers from lands as distant as India and Rome brought everything from exotic objects to new dances and new religious ideas, making foreign influence stronger than in any period until the modern era. The dynasty was also a period of transition in which modes of literature, thought, and government that would dominate for the next thousand years first emerged. In this class, we will examine the literary and intellectual culture of Tang dynasty China, exploring such topics as the capital city as an urban space and a nexus of Chinese and foreign cultures; intellectual trends inspired by Buddhism and a reevaluation of Confucian ideas; and representations of the dynasty in later periods. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature or Historical Studies Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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3.00 Credits
Widmer Variously known in English as The Dream of the Red Chamber, A Dream of Red Mansions, and The Story of the Stone, Honglou meng is the most widely discussed Chinese novel of all time. Written in the mid-eighteenth century, the novel offers telling insight into Chinese cul-ture as it once was and as it remains today. The novel is still wildly popular due to its tragic love story, its sensitive depiction of the plight of the talented woman in late imperial culture, and its narrative intricacies. The goal of the course is to understand the novel both as a literary text and as a cultural phenomenon. Optional extra sessions will accommodate those who wish to read and discuss the novel in Chinese. This course may be taken as 211 or, with additional assignments, 311. Prerequisite: None for 211. For 311, one previous course on Chinese history or culture. Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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3.00 Credits
NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. To understand China and its culture it is imperative to understand its poetry. Poetry played complex and va-ried roles in Chinese society: emperors used poems to justify their rule; ordinary men and women used poems to comment on the times and to give voice to their innermost feelings. The poetry they wrote is still read and treasured as one of the highlights of Chinese civiliza-tion, and Chinese poems have influenced concepts of poetry around the world. What is the enduring appeal of these poems How did poetry come to hold such an important place in Chinese culture We will trace the development of the lyric voice in China, examining poems, the men and women who wrote them, and the historical contexts that produced them. This course may be taken as 212 or, with additional readings in Chinese and additional meetings, 312. 212 is not open to students who have previously taken 312. Prerequisite: None for 212; for 312, two or more years of modern Chinese or the equivalent. Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0
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3.00 Credits
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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