Course Catalog - 2014-2015

     

CHIN 334 - TRADITIONAL CHINESE TALES

Long Title: TRADITIONAL CHINESE TALES AND SHORT STORIES
Department: Cntr Lang & Intercultural Comm
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.