CHLIT 6607

Readings in Classical Chinese Literature

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2023-2024 Catalog.

A guided reading in the original language designed to introduce students to a variety of genres and styles of classical Chinese literature while at the same time helping students achieve competence in reading classical Chinese at an advanced level. The syllabus, with a rotating thematic focus, normally includes philosophical works, historical texts, poetry and prose, anecdotes and fiction. Please consult the Department of Asian Studies course offerings for each year's thematic focus. An additional weekly seminar session introduces students to contemporary scholarship on critical questions and issues pertaining to the thematic foci of this course.  A final research project on an approved topic pertaining to the central theme of this course is required. 

Permission Note Permission of instructor required.

When Offered Spring.

Course Subfield (LL)

Comments Advanced reading knowledge of classical and modern Chinese required.

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