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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course investigates the rise and the development of ci- poetry, a genre related closely to music. The formal features and their emotional qualities, major modes of expression, and different stages of its development from the 9th to 13th centuries are the foci in the close reading of selected poems. Prerequisite: sophomore standing. Conference. Cross-listed as Literature 325. Not offered 2009-10.
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Full course for one semester. The Yijing, or Book of Changes, is a text of limitless possibilities. This course explores various strategies of reading the text and examines philosophical, religious, historical, andliterary critical implications of the text and the tradition associated with it. The system and the language of the 64 hexagrams and various layers of attached verbalization are the focus of investigation. Readings are in English. Students who take the course for Chinese credit meet for additional tutoring to read parts of the text in the original. Prerequisite: sophomore standing. Conference. Cross-listed as Literature 334. Not offered 2009-10.
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Full course for one semester. This course explores literary realism in modern China as an interdisciplinary topic. We will examine how literary form presupposes a theory of life and why new modes of realism in modern fiction and pictorial representation should be reevaluated in light of the contemporaneous developments in biological science and philosophical inquiry. Both primary and secondary materials are in English. Students who take the course for Chinese credit meet for additional tutoring to read parts of the texts in the original. Prerequisite: sophomore standing. Conference. Cross-listed as Literature 337. Not offered 2009-10.
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Full course for one semester. This course investigates interactions between avant-garde fiction and contemporary Chinese cinema since the 1980s. Issues to be explored include the shared sociohistorical context that conditioned the production of these two cultural forms, and the nuanced differences between them in terms of intended audience, narrative modes, and thematic concerns. Readings are in translation, and films selected are subtitled in English. No Chinese language training is required. Readings in the original Chinese and additional instruction will be offered for students taking this course for Chinese credit. Prerequisite: sophomore standing. Conference. Cross-listed as Literature 346. Not offered 2009-10. Literature 346 Description
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course explores the ways in which early Chinese thinkers attempted to explain the past and to define the meaning and functions of history. Working with a variety of texts from the beginning of writing to the first century BCE, including inscriptions on oracle bones and bronze vessels, myths, poetry, and historical writings, the course analyzes various ways and purposes of recording and transmitting history. Issues related to the authorship will also be addressed, particularly how the writers of history perceived and represented themselves. Primary and secondary materials are in English. Students taking the course for Chinese credit will meet for additional hours for the guided reading of selected texts in the original Chinese. Prerequisite: sophomore standing. Conference. Cross-listed as Literature 353.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course examines various philosophical discourses in the early period leading to the unification in 221 BC. It is a selective discussion of a few major philosophical texts and schools of thought. We investigate the predominant interest in human nature and cultivation, the epistemological models for understanding such emphases, and the implications of Chinese epistemology. Readings in translation. Students taking the course for Chinese credit will meet for additional hours for the guided reading of selected texts in the original Chinese. Conference. Cross-listed as Literature 355. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course will examine the role poetry played in Tang society, as well as how broader social changes-changing composition of the reading public, new technologies of writing, and developing economies of textual circulation-influenced the ways in which poetry was written, for whom, and with what aims. Both primary and secondary materials are in English. Students who take the course for Chinese credit meet for additional tutoring to read parts of the texts in the original. Prerequisite: sophomore standing. Conference. Cross-listed as Literature 360. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. Modern Chinese literature, burdened from its inception with the task of nation building, is often read in terms of national allegories, but the extent to which imaginations of new collective and individual identities are articulated in emotive terms merits critical attention. Writers of all kinds share the belief that for China to transform successfully into a modern nation the sentiments of its subjects must be properly reeducated. This course looks at successive models of affective modernity that are valorized or rejected at various junctures of the 20th century and seeks to understand their vicissitudes in literary history. It also asks at what point nation and emotion part ways and render untenable the assertion that works of modern Chinese literature are always necessarily national allegories. Readings for this course include fiction, supplemented occasionally by poetry and drama, from the late Qing period to contemporary China. An additional hour of class of guided readings in the original will be offered for students taking this course for Chinese credit. Readings are in English. Cross-listed as Literature 369.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course will approach the Chinese narrative tradition through close reading of the Story of the Stone and its literary antecedents. First published in 1792, Story of the Stone recounts the experiences of a magical stone from heaven reborn as the male heir of the immensely wealthy and aristocratic Jia family. Through reading and discussion of poetry, drama, short story, and longer works of fiction from earlier periods alongside selected chapters from the novel, we will explore the ways in which Story of the Stone self-consciously adapts literary conventions, techniques, and motifs from the narrative tradition, and learn to appreciate both China's rich literary tradition and the unique artistic achievements of this novel. An additional hour of class of guided readings in the original will be offered for students taking this course for Chinese credit. Readings in English. Prerequisite: sophomore standing. Conference. Cross-listed as Literature 380.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This is an advanced-level Chinese language course aimed at further developing reading knowledge and writing skills. All reading texts are unadapted originals in 20th-century Chinese literature. Regular exercises in narrative and expository writing. Conducted in Chinese. Prerequisite: Chinese 311, 316, or equivalent. Conference.
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