- CHIN 5042
Course Credits: 3
Asian Studies Graduate Certificate
Semester(s) Offered:
- Spring 2024
Class Notes
This course will develop your proficiency in reading, analyzing, interpreting, and translating texts in Classical and Literary Chinese. We will read selected texts in poetry and prose from the medieval period, covering a wide spectrum of genres from poems to anecdotes, historical records, and ghost stories. We will focus on linguistic and literary features of these texts in the light of their cultural background and on the question of how to translate them into contemporary English.
Description
Introduces a wide spectrum of texts from medieval China written in classical and literary Chinese: philosophical, historical, ghost stories, and poems (including the Ballad of Mulan). We will read these texts closely, focusing on their linguistic and literary features and on their cultural background. Same as CHIN 4042.
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