Description: TRADITIONAL CHINESE TALES AND SHORT STORIES
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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.
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Also offered as CHIN 334
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Instructor(s): Qian Cross-list: CHIN 334.