Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: TRADITIONAL CHINESE TALES AND SHORT STORIES

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: ASIA 334.