Schedule of Topics and Assignments

Complete required readings (R) before class on the day listed, and bring primary texts (readings in Owen and the Course Readers) to class on the day for which they are assigned.

Week 01

M 3/27 Course Mechanics

T 3/28 Course Themes

• R: Idema 24-60 (Recommended: Idema 3-23)

W 3/29 Qu Verse

• R: Idema 149-158

Th 3/30 Yuan Sanqu

• R: Idema 165-180; Owen 723-743 (OwenSanqu.pdf)

F 3/31 Yuan Sanqu (cont.)

Week 02

M 4/3 Narrative and Romance

• R: Idema 134-139; Owen 540-549 (OwenYingying.pdf)

T 4/4 Zhugongdiao

• R: Reader, Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance

W 4/5 Theater

• R: Reader, "Country Cousin at the Theater"

Th 4/6 Zaju; Guan Hanqing

• R: Reader, The Injustice Done to Tou Ngo

F 4/7 NO CLASS

Week 03

M 4/10 NO CLASS

T 4/11 The Story of the Western Wing

• R: Reader, The Story of the Western Wing (selection)

W 4/12 Pinghua

• R: Idema 159-164, 181-184; Reader, "The Monk Tripitaka"

Th 4/13 The Ming Novel: The Journey to the West

• R: Idema 198-211; Reader, The Journey to the West

F 4/14 The Ming Novel: The Water Margin

• R: Reader, The Tiger Killers

Week 04

M 4/17 MIDTERM 1

T 4/18 Ming Informal Prose

• R: Idema 185-190; Owen, 807-833 (OwenInformalProse.pdf)

W 4/19 Jin Shengtan

• R: Reader, "Wu Sung Fights the Tiger"

Th 4/20 Feng Menglong

• R: Idema 212-218; Owen, 834-855 (OwenDuTenth.pdf)

F 4/21 The Ming Vernacular Story

• R: Owen, 856-879 (OwenCensorXue.pdf)

Week 05

M 4/24 Ming Chuanqi

• R: Idema 191-197; Owen, 880-906 (OwenPeony.pdf)

T 4/25 Ming Chuanqi (cont.)

W 4/26 Li Yu

• R: Owen, 909-941 (OwenSilentOpera.pdf)

Th 4/27 Qing Chuanqi; The Peach Blossom Fan

• R: Owen, 942-972 (OwenPeachBlossom.pdf)

F 4/30 Qing Chuanqi; The Peach Blossom Fan (cont.)

Week 06

M 5/1 Qing Poetry and Yuan Mei

• R: Owen, 1128-1149 (OwenQingPoetry1.pdf); Reader, Yuan Mei, poems and Censored by Confucius

T 5/2 Pu Songling

• R: Owen, 1103-1127 (OwenPuSongling.pdf)

W 5/3 The Qing Novel: The Scholars

• R: Idema 219-230; Reader, The Scholars

Th 5/4 The Qing Novel: The Story of the Stone

• R: Reader, "A Burial Mound for Flowers"

F 5/5 The Qing Novel: Flowers in the Mirror

• R: Reader, "The Women's Kingdom"

Week 07

M 5/8 The Late Qing

• R: Idema 241-246; Owen, 1149-1152 (OwenQingPoetry2.pdf)

T 5/9 Liang Qichao

• R: Reader, "Fiction and the Government of the People"

W 5/10 Late Qing Fiction

• R: Idema 247-251; Reader, Li Boyuan, Modern Times

Th 5/11 Baihua and the Literary Revolution

• R: Idema 255-266; Reader, Hu Shi, "Some Modest Proposals," poems

F 5/12 MIDTERM 2

Week 08

M 5/15 Lu Xun

• R: Idema 267-276; Reader, "Preface to Call to Arms," "A Madman's Diary"

T 5/16 Romanticism

• R: Reader,Yu Dafu, "Sinking"

W 5/17 Women's Voices

• R: Reader, Ling Shuhua, "The Night of the Midautumn Festival;" Xiao Hong, "Hands"

Th 5/18 Realism and Revolution

• R: Reader, Mao Dun, "Spring Silkworms"

F 5/19 Alternatives: Regionalism and Decadence

• R: Reader, Shen Congwen, "Xiaoxiao;" Shi Zhicun, "One Evening in the Rainy Season"

Week 09

M 5/22 The New Poetry

• R: Idema 277-282; Reader, poems by Guo Moruo (Kuo Mo-jo), Xu Zhimo, Wen Yiduo, Li Jinfa, Dai Wangshu

T 5/23 The New Drama

• R: Idema 282-286; T'ien Han, Kuan han-ch'ing

W 5/24 Yan'an

• R: Idema 287-301; Reader, Ding Ling, "When I Was in Xia Village;" Mao Zedong, "Talks at the Yan'an Forum"

Th 5/25 Flowers and Weeds

• R: Reader, Wang Meng, "The Newcomer"

F 5/26 Literature of and for the People

• R: Reader, Hao Ran, "Firm and Impartial"

Week 10

M 5/29 NO CLASS: Memorial Day Holiday

T 5/30 Scars and Mist

• R: Reader, Lu Xinhua, "The Wounded;" Bei Dao, Shu Ting, Gu Cheng, poems

W 5/31 Roots and the Avant-Garde

• R: Reader, Han Shaogong, "DÈj‡ vu;" Yu Hua, "On the Road at Eighteen"

Th 6/1 Taiwan I

• R: Reader, Yu Guangzhong, Yang Mu, poems; Bai Xianyong, "Wandering in the Garden, Waking from a Dream"

F 6/2 Taiwan II

• R: Reader, Huang Chunming, " The Drowning of an Old Cat"

Final Exam 8:30-10:20 a.m. Monday, Jun. 5, 2006