Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Asian Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TRADITIONAL CHINESE TALES AND SHORT STORIES ***** Learning Chinese literature and culture through reading vernacular stories, fantastic tales, biographies, and philosophical parables. Discussion topics: literature and Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism; literature and history; self and other; fantastic world and reality; women as domestic aliens and aliens portrayed as women, etc. Readings are in English translation. ***** Also offered as CHIN 334 ***** Instructor(s): Qian