Hum 230 Foundations of Chinese Civilization
Spring 2011

The Great Song Transition

I. Description

The transformation of Chinese civilization during the "Song renaissance" (960-1279) is our major concern of the spring semester. China mentally realigned itself, first because it had to acknowledge other players in the world such as the powerful nomad states along its own northern borders and second because those nomads would occupy the northern half of China during what is called the "Southern Song" (1127-1279). Foreign religions such as Tiantai and Chan Buddhism flourished alongside the indigenous popular pantheon, all of which we will study through their primary texts. Furthermore China was undergoing internal changes such as the emergence of a vibrant urban culture, a culture we will hear via Song storytelling and see via Song cityscape paintings. Self-representation changed in tandem with the rise of a new social stratum, the shidafu, and the literati culture it produced. Our study of daoxue, or the "Learning of the Way," examines China’s second-most famous scholar, Zhu Xi, and his creation of a new Confucian canon. Change rippled into the fine arts as well. In literature, we will study Song shi-poetry, which expanded the topics discussed, and ci-poetry, which transformed the very notion of poetics; in art, we will analyze monumental landscape painting, printed illustrations, and Song aesthetic theory. The Qin/Han unification may have laid the basic foundation of China, but many have argued that the Song gave modern China its true cultural heritage.

II. Requirements

  1. Reading and pondering all assigned readings before conferences. (This will include regularly writing of reading responses, discussion questions, and visual exploratories, and the like in all sections.)
  2. Active and substantive conference participation.
  3. Attending all lectures (which also means keeping 11:00-11:50 a.m. open on Wednesdays and Fridays for additional lectures or activities). Unless otherwise noted, the weekly lecture will be given in Physics 123 and begin at 11:00 a.m. sharp.
  4. Three short (5-7 pages) analytical papers, deadlines to be set by conference leaders.
  5. One group project (to be designed by individual conference leaders). We'll plan to share the final results at our annual end-of-semester banquet.

III. Faculty

Ken Brashier Lecturer ETC 203 x 7377
Evan Dawley Conference leader E 423 x 4844
Jing JIANG Lecturer E 119 x 7376
Michele Matteini Lecturer L 323 x 7364
Hyong Rhew Conference leader E 122 x 7392

IV. Reading schedule

  1. E-Reserves can be obtained by visiting the Reed Library website (http://library.reed.edu/) and selecting "Reserves," and search for Hum 230 e-reserves readings.
  2. "Reserves" refers to items on 2-hour Library book reserves. Be sure to copy these items early, for there are limited copies on reserve.
  3. All starred items are supplementary readings.
  4. We do ask that you read and ponder all assigned readings before they are discussed in conference; please bring your own e- or hard-copy of all readings to class for easy reference during close reading.

Week 1: Positioning the Song in Time

Monday (31 January) lecturer: Dawley

During this first week, we would like you to become familiar with a famous panoramic image of the Song as a frame of reference, namely the Qingming scroll (http://academic.reed.edu/chinese/qingming/scroll/):

Dawley's section: Wednesday (2 February), 11-11:50 a.m. in ETC 211.

Rhew’s section: Friday (4 February), 11-11:50 a.m. in ETC 211.

Kuhn, Dieter. The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. Pp. 1-70. Text (available in the book store)

Liu, James T.C. "Ou-yang Hsiu." Pp. 808-816 in Sung Biographies. Herbert Franke, ed. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1976. E-Reserves & Reserves: DS751.5 S96 1976, v.1 & v.2; DS751.5 S96 1978 v.2-3

OUYANG Xiu. "Basic annals of Liang," "Biographies of the royal families: Liang," "Biographies of martyrs to virtue," "Biographies of court musicians and actors," "Biographies of eunuchs," "Zhang Yanze," "Feng Dao," and "Lü Qi." Pp. 14-22, 117-129, 265-272, 309-315, 316-322, 429-433, 438-443, 456-459. Historical Records of the Five Dynasties. Richard David, trans. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. E-Reserves & Reserves: DS749.5 O9313 2004, 3 copies

Week 2: Pure Land Buddhism

Please note there are two lectures this week, the first on Buddhism and the second on the Sukhāvatīvyūha sutra.

Monday (7 February) and Wednesday (9 February) lecturer: Brashier

Land of Bliss : The Paradise of the Buddha of Measureless Light : Sanskrit and Chinese Versions of the Sukhāvatīvyūha Sutras. Luis O. Gómez, trans. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996. Reserves: BQ2012 E5 G66 1996, 6 copies. Assigned readings in this text: Introductions to Sanskrit texts: pp. 3-13, 23-59; Sanskrit shorter sutra: pp. 15-22; Introductions to Chinese texts: 125-143; Chinese shorter sutra: pp. 145-151; Chinese longer sutra: pp. 153-222.

Gregory, Peter. "The vitality of Buddhism in the Sung." Pp. 1-20 in Buddhism in the Sung. Peter Gregory and Daniel Getz, eds. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999. E-Reserves & Reserves: BQ640 B83 1999, 1 copy

Lai, Whalen. "Legends of births and the Pure Land tradition in China." Pp. 173-232 in The Pure Land Tradition: History and Development. James Foard, et al., eds. Berkeley: University of California Regents, 1996. E-Reserves & Reserves: BQ8612.3 P87 2006, 1 copy

* "The Pure Land school." Pp. 481-491 in Vol 1 of the Sources of Chinese Tradition. New and revised edition. T. deBary & I. Bloom, comp. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Reserves: DS721 D37 1999, v. 1, 6 copies

* Lopez, Donald S. "Introduction." Pp. 3-36 in Buddhism in Practice. Donald Lopez, ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Reserves: BQ1012 B83 1995, 7 copies

Week 3: Song-Liao, Song-Jin Relations

Monday (14 February) lecturer: Dawley

Maps useful for understanding Song-Liao, Song-Jin relations

Kuhn, Dieter. "The Song in the south." Pp. 71-98 in The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. Text

OUYANG Xiu. "Biographies of the royal families: Jin." Pp. 162-75 in Historical records of the Five Dynasties. Davis, Richard L., trans. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. E-Reserves & Reserves: DS749.5 O9313 2004, 3 copies

Standen, Naomi. "(Re)Constructing the frontiers of tenth-century north China." Pp. 55-79 in Frontiers in Question: Eurasian Borderlands, 700-1700. N. Standen & D. Power, eds. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. E-Reserves & Reserves: D34 A83 F76 1999, 3 copies

Lau, Nap-yin. "Waging war for peace? The peace accord between the Song and the Liao in AD 1005." Pp. 180-221 in Warfare in Chinese History. Hans van de Ven, ed. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2000. E-Reserves & Reserves: DS738 .W36 2000, 1 copy

Yang, Lien-sheng. "A ‘posthumous letter’ from the Chin [Later Jin] emperor to the Khitan [Qitan, Liao] emperor in 942." Pp. 114-24 in Excursions in Sinology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1969. E-Reserves & Reserves: DS721 Y248 1969, 1 copy

LU Chen [LU Zhen]. "Ch'eng-yao lu." Pp. 5-8, 21-47 in The Ambassadors Records: Eleventh-century Reports of Sung Embassies to the Liao. David Wright, trans. Papers on Inner Asia, No. 29. Bloomington: Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, Indiana University, 1998. E-Reserves & Reserves: DS751 W74 1998, 3 copies

LOU Yue (1137-1213). "A diary of My Journey to the North." Stephen West, trans. E-Reserves

* Wang, Gongwu. "The rhetoric of a lesser empire: Early Sung relations with its neighbors." Pp. 46-65 in China Among Equals: The Middle Kingdom and its Neighbors, 10th - 14th Centuries. Morris Rossabi, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. Reserves: DS750.82 C46 1983, 7 copies

* Tao, Jing-shen. "Barbarians or northerners: Northern Sung images of the Khitans." Pp. 66-86 in China Among Equals: The Middle Kingdom and its Neighbors, 10th - 14th Centuries. Morris Rossabi, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. Reserves: DS750.82 C46 1983, 7 copies

* Gilded Splendor: Treasures of China's Liao Empire (907-1125). Shen Hsueh-man, ed. New York: Asia Society, 2006. Reserves: N7343.3 G55 2006, 1 copy

Week 4: Shi-Poetry

Monday (21 February) lecturer: Rhew

Fuller, Michael A. "Sung Dynasty shih poetry." Pp. 337-369 in The Columbia History of Chinese Literature. Victor Mair, ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. E-Reserves & Reserves: PL2265 C65 2001, 1 copy

"Tang poetry: General introduction." Pp. 371-384 in An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911. Stephen Owen, ed. & trans. New York: Norton, 1996. Text

"Song classical poetry." Pp. 684-703 in An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911. Stephen Owen, ed. & trans. New York: Norton, 1996. Text

"SU Shi (1037-1101)." Pp. 663-683 in An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911. Stephen Owen, ed. & trans. New York: Norton, 1996. Text

OUYANG Xiu. "Remarks on poetry: Shih-hua." Pp. 359-389 in Readings in Chinese Literary Thought. Stephen Owen, trans. Cambridge: Harvard Council on East Asian Studies, 1992. E-reserves & Reserves: PL2262.2 R4 1992, 1 copy

* "WANG Wei (ca. 699-761)," "Du Fu (712-770)." Pp. 385-395, 413-440 in An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911. Stephen Owen, ed. & trans. New York: Norton, 1996. Text

* "Interlude: WEN Tian-xiang (1236-1282) and the fall of the Song." Pp. 704-720 in An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911. Stephen Owen, trans. New York: Norton, 1996. Text

Week 5: Song Gardens

Monday (28 February) lecturer: Jiang

Field Trip to Chinese Garden (TBA by conference instructors)

Image archive: Song gardens (http://academic.reed.edu/chinese/chin-hum/materials/)

OUYANG Xiu. "Luoyang mudan ji [Account of the tree-peonies of Luoyang]." Pp. 401-406 in Science and Civilisation in China. Vol. 6, Biology and Biological Technology, Pt. 1, Botany. Joseph Needham, et al, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. E-Reserves & Reserves: DS721 N4 v. 6:1, 1 copy

SIMA Guang. "Dule yuan ji [On Garden of Solitary Pleasure]." Hyong Rhew, trans. E-Reserves

Egan, Ronald. "The peony's allure: Botanical treatises and floral beauty." Pp. 109-161 in The Problem of Beauty: Aesthetic Thought and Pursuits in Northern Song Dynasty China. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2006. E-Reserves & Reserves: DS750.72 E43 2006, 1 copy

Yang, Xiaoshan. "Li Geifei's Luoyang mingyuan ji [A record of the celebrated gardens of Luoyang]: Text and context." Monumenta Serica 52 (2004): 221-255. E-Reserves

Yang, Xiaoshan. "Old men at home: The rhetorics of joy and leisure." Pp. 197-242 Metamorphosis of the Private Sphere: Gardens and Objects in Tang-Song poetry. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2003. E-Reserves & Reserves: PL2321 Y39 2003, 1 copy

Xu, Yinong. "Boundaries, centres, and peripheries in Chinese gardens: A case of Suzhou in the eleventh century." Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes 24, i (Jan-Mar 2004): 21-37. E-Reserves

West, Stephen. "Spectacle, ritual, and social relations: The Son of Heaven, citizens, and created space in imperial gardens in the Northern Song." Pp. 291-320 in Baroque Garden Cultures: Emulation, Sublimation, Subversion. Michel Conan, ed. Washington: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2005. E-Reserves & Reserves: SB457.536 B37 2005, 1 copy

* Lee, Hui-shu. "West Lake and the mapping of Southern Song art." Pp. 19-59 in Exquisite Moments: West Lake and Southern Song Art. New York: China Institute Gallery, 2001. Reserves: N7343.4 L43 2001, 4 copies

Week 6: Nature and Landscape Painting in the Song

Monday (7 March) lecturer: Lecturer: Matteini

Image archive: Song landscape paintings (http://academic.reed.edu/chinese/chin-hum/materials/)

Kuhn, Dieter. "Exploring the world within and without." Pp 160-186 The Age of Confucian rRule: The Song Transformation of China. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. Text

JING Hao. "Bifa ji [Notes on the method for the brush]." Pp. 202-244 in Ways with Words: Writing about Reading Texts from Early China. Pauline Yu, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Reserves: Z1003.5.C45 W39 2000, 7 copies

KUO Hsi [GUO Xi]. "An essay on landscape painting." Sakanishi Shio, trans. London: Murray, 1935. Pp. 27-64. E-Reserves & Reserves: ND1366 K86 1935, 1 copy

Hay, Jonathan. "Interventions: The mediating work of art." Art Bulletin 89, iii (2007): 435-459. Academic Search Premier

Foong, Ping. "Guo Xi's intimate landscapes and the case of 'Old trees, level distance'." Metropolitan Museum Journal 35 (2000): 87-115. JSTOR

* Lee, Hui-shu. "West Lake and the mapping of Southern Song art." Pp. 19-59 in Exquisite Moments: West Lake and Southern Song Art. New York: China Institute Gallery, 2001. Reserves: N7343.4 L43 2001, 4 copies

* Grand View: Special Exhibition of Northern Sung Painting and Calligraphy. Taipei: National Palace Museum, [2006?]. Reserves: ND1043.4 G73 2006, 1 copy

* Gu gong bo wu yuan (China). Zhongguo li dai hui hua: Gu Gong Bo Wu Yuan cang hua ji. Beijing : Ren min mei shu chu ban she, 1978-1991. Reserves: ND1042 C538 1991 v 1, 2, & 3

* Possessing the Past: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei. Wen FONG & James Watt, eds. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996. Reserves: N3750.T32 A87 1996, 6 copies

* CHING Hao [JING Hao]. Pi-fa-chi : A Note on the Art of Brush. Munakata Kiyohiko, trans. Ascona: Artibus Asiae Publishers, 1974. Pp. 11-49. Reserves: ND1505 C4213 1974, 1 copy

Week 7: Ci-Poetry

Monday (14 March) lecturer: Jiang

Owen, Stephen. "Meaning the words: The genuine as a value in the tradition of the Song lyric." Pp. 30-69 in Voices of the Song Lyric in China. Pauline Yu, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. E-Reserves & Reserves: PL2336 V65 1994, 1 copy

"Traditions of Song lyric (Tang and Song Dynasties)." Pp. 559-590 in An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911. Stephen Owen, ed. & trans. New York: Norton, 1996. Text

Li Qingzhao (1084-1151?). "On the song-lyric (Lun ci)." John Wixted, trans. Pp. 672-675 in Women Writers of Traditional China: an Anthology of Poetry and Criticism. Chang Kang-i Sun, et al, eds. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. Reserves: PL2278 W65 1999, 1 copy; Pl2278 W65 1999eb

"Interlude: Li Qing-zhao's epilogue to Records on metal and stone." Pp. 591-596 in An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911. Stephen Owen, trans. New York: Norton, 1996. Text

* How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology. CAI Zong-qi, ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. Reserves: Oversize PL2308 H65 2007, 1 copy. Three chapters relevant to ci-poetry are: Maija B. Samei, "Short song lyrics," pp. 245-261; Lian Xinda, "Long song lyrics," 262-285; Lin Shuen-fu, "Long song lyrics on objects," pp. 286-307.

* Egan, Ronald. The Problem of Beauty: Aesthetic Thought and Pursuits in Northern Song Dynasty China. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2006. Reserves: DS750.72 E43 2006, 1 copy

Spring Break

Week 8: Chan Buddhism

Monday (28 March) lecturer: Rhew

Yampolsky, Philip. "The birth of a patriarch: Biography of Hui-neng." Pp. 58-88 in The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch: The Text of the Tun-huang Manuscript. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978. Text

"The Platform sutra of the Sixth Patriarch." Pp. 123-183 in The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch: The Text of the Tun-huang Manuscript. Philip Yampolsky, trans. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978. Text

Schlütter, Morten. "Chan Buddhism in the Song: Some background." Pp. 13-30 in How Zen became Zen: The Dispute over Enlightenment and the Formation of Chan Buddhism in Song-Dynasty China. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2008. E-reserves & Reserves: BQ9262.9 C5 S35 2008, 1 copy

Foulk, T. Griffith. "Myth, ritual, and monastic practice in Sung Ch'an Buddhism." Pp. 147-208 in Religion and Society in T'ang and Sung China. P. Gregory and P. Ebrey, eds. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993. E-Reserves & Reserves: BL1802 .R45 1993, 2 copies

Foulk, T. Griffith. "The form and function of koan literature: A historical overview." Pp. 15-45 in The koan: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism. Steven Heine and Dale Wright, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. E-Reserves & Reserves: BQ9289.5 K625 2000, 1 copy

* The Origins of Buddhist Monastic Codes in China: An Annotated Translation and Study of the Chua yuan qing gui. Yifa, trans. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002. Reserves: BQ9295 Z653 Y54 2002, 1 copy.

* Brinker, Helmut. Zen, Masters of Meditation in Images and Writings. Zürich: Artibus Asiae, 1996. Reserves: ND197 B7513 1996, 1 copy

Week 9: Qingming shanghe tu

Monday (4 April) lecturer: Matteini

Image archive: The Qingming shanghe tu scroll: (http://academic.reed.edu/chinese/chin-hum/materials/)

Kuhn, Dieter. "Transforming the capitals." Pp. 187-212 in The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. Text

"Recollections of the Northern Song capital." West, Stephen, trans. Pp. 405-422 in Hawai'i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture. Victor Mair, et al, eds. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005. E-Reserves & Reserves: DS721 H338 2005, 2 copies

"The attractions of the capital" [from Ducheng jisheng]. Pp. 178-185 in Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook. 2nd ed. Patricia Ebrey, ed. New York: The Free Press, 1993. Reserves: DS721 C517 1993, 5 copies

* West, Stephen. "Body and imagination in urban gardens of Song and Yuan." Pp. 40-64 in Gardens and Imagination: Cultural History and Agency. Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2008. Reserves: SB470.7 D86 2006, 1 copy

* 凊明上河圖 Qing ming shang he tu [A riverside scene at Qingming festival]. YANG Dongsheng, ed. Beijing: Zhongguo Shu Dian, 2009.

* Heng, Chye Kiang. Cities of Aristocrats and Bureaucrats: The Development of Medieval Chinese Cities. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1999. Reserves: HT169.C6 H46 1999, 5 copies

* Gu gong bo wu yuan (China). Zhongguo li dai hui hua: Gu Gong Bo Wu Yuan cang hua ji. Beijing : Ren min mei shu chu ban she, 1978-1991. Reserves: ND1042 .C538 1991 v 1, 2, 3

Week 10: Print Culture

Monday (11 April) lecturer: Dawley

Image archive: Book illustrations, printing technology, etc. (http://academic.reed.edu/chinese/chin-hum/materials/)

Chia, Lucille. "The physical appearance of Jianyang woodblock imprints." Pp. 24-62, 327-339 in Printing for Profit: The Commercial Publishers of Jianyang, Fujian (11th – 17th Centuries). Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2002. E-Reserves & Reserves: Z244.6 C6 C438 2002, 2 copies

Cherniack, Susan. "Book culture and textual transmission in Sung China." Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 54, i (1994): 5-125. JSTOR

Wu, K.T. "Illustrations in Sung printing." The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 28, iii (July 1971):173-195. E-Reserves

Poon, M.S. "The printer's colophon in Sung China, 960-1279." The Library Quarterly 43, i (1973):39-52. E-Reserves

* Zhongguo gu dai yin shua shi tu ce [An illustrated history of printing in ancient China]. Luo Shubao, ed. Beijing : Wen wu chu ban she, 1998. Reserves: Oversize Z186.C5 Z466 1998, 1 copy

* Visible Traces: Rare Books and Special Collections from the National Library of China. Philip K. Hu, ed. New York: Queens Borough Public Library; Beijing: National Library of China, 2000. Reserves: Z1029 .P45 2000, 2 copies

* 大觀 : 宋版圖書特展 Da guan : Song ban tu shu te zhan [Grand view: Special exhibition of Sung Dynasty rare books]. Taipei: National Palace Museum, [2006] Reserves: Z1029 G73 2006, 2 copies

* McDermott, Joseph. A Social History of the Chinese Book. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006. Reserves: Z1003.5 C45 M334 2006, 3 copies

Week 11: Zhu Xi, Education and the Examination System

Monday (18 April) lecturer: Rhew

Kuhn, Dieter. "Education and examination." Pp. 120-137 in The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. Text

Bol, Peter. "Introduction," and "The transformation of the shih." Pp. 1-75 (with notes) in 'This Culture of Ours’: Intellectual Transitions in T’ang and Sung China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992. Reserves: DS747.42 B64 1992, 6 copies

CHU Hsi [ZHU Xi]. Learning to Be a Sage: Selections from the Conversations of Master Chu, Arranged Topically. Daniel K. Gardner, trans. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. Text

* "Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucian program." Pp. 720-731 in Vol 1 of Sources of Chinese Tradition. New and revised edition. T. deBary & I. Bloom, comp. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Reserves: DS721 D37 1999, v. 1, 6 copies

* Bol, Peter. "Conclusion: A historical perspective on the new culture of Tao-hsüeh." Pp. 327-342 (with notes: pp. 447-448) in 'This Culture of Ours': Intellectual Transitions in T’ang and Sung China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992. (Reserves: DS747.42 B64 1992, 6 copies)

* "Neo-Confucianism: The philosophy of human nature and the way of the sage." Pp. Pp. 667-719 in Vol 1 of Sources of Chinese Tradition. New and revised edition. T. deBary & I. Bloom, comp. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Reserves: DS721 D37 1999, v. 1, 6 copies

* Gardner, Daniel K. Chu Hsi and the Ta-hsueh: Neo-Confucian Reflection on the Confucian Canon. Cambridge: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1986. Reserves: PL2472.Z7 G37 1986, 5 copies

* Ching, Julia. The Religious Thought of Chu Hsi. New York : Oxford University Press, 2000. Reserves: B128.C54 C465 2000, 1 copy

* "A crafty demon concocts a dream," "The Wanchun entertainer's tale," and "Zhu Xi's Proposals for schools and Official Recruitment." Mark Halperin, trans. Mss. (http://academic.reed.edu/chinese/chin-hum/materials/)

Week 12: Narratives and Storytelling

Monday (25 April) lecturer: Jiang

Kuhn, Dieter. "Life cycle rituals." Pp. 138-159 in The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard Univerity Press, 2009. Text

YUAN Zhen. "Ying-ying's story." Pp. 540-549 in An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911. Stephen Owen, ed. & trans. New York: Norton, 1996. Text

"Yingying zhuan: YUAN Zhen, "Biography of Yingying." Pp. 173-201 in Ways with Words: Writing about Reading Texts from Early China. Pauline Yu, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Reserves: Z1003.5.C45 W39 2000, 7 copies

TUNG Chieh-yüan [DONG Jieyuan]. Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance (Tung hsi-hsiang chu-kung-tiao): A Chinese Chantefable. Li-li Ch'en, trans. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994, c1976. Text

* Idema, W. L. and Stephen H. West. Chinese theater, 1100-1450: A Source Book. Wiesbaden : Steiner, 1982. Reserves: PN2871 .I3 1982, 1 copy

Week 13: Diffused Religions

Monday (2 May) lecturer: Brashier

Kleeman, Terry F. A God's Own Tale: The Book of Transformations of Wenchang, the Divine Lord of Zitong. New York: State University of New York Press, 1994. Pp. 28-66, 85-292. Text

* "Transformation text on Mahamaudgalyayana rescuing his mother from the underworld, with pictures, one scroll, with preface." Pp. 1093-1127 in The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature. Victor Mair, ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. Reserves: PL2658.E1 C65 1994, 5 copies

* Taoism and the Arts of China. Stephen Little, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Reserves: N8199.T3 L58 2000, 5 copies

Semester banquet during reading week (time and location TBA)