Please read "The Great Maudgalyayana Rescues His Mother From Hell," in Traditional Chinese Stories, pp. 441-455 (CP)

For background information on the story, please read Stephen E. Teiser, "An Episodic History of the Ghost Festival in Medieval China." In The Ghost Festival in Medieval China. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1988, pp. 44-53 (CP)

Explore the Internet Link: Silk Road Encounters (in particular Geography and Beliefs)

Video: "The Silk Road, Part 3: The Art Gallery in the Desert" (in class)

Week 1
Th 1/19	Introduction
Week 2
M 1/23	Transformation Texts (bianwen)
	Please read "The Great Maudgalyayana Rescues His Mother From Hell," in Traditional Chinese Stories, pp. 441-455 (CP) For background information on the story, please read Stephen E. Teiser, "An Episodic History of the Ghost Festival in Medieval China." In The Ghost Festival in Medieval China. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1988, pp. 44-53 (CP) Explore the Internet Link: Silk Road Encounters (in particular Geography and Beliefs) Video: "The Silk Road, Part 3: The Art Gallery in the Desert" (in class)
Th 1/26	cont.
	Discussion of "The Great Maudgalyayana Rescues His Mother From Hell" For philosophical background, please read Patricia Ebrey, ed., Chinese Civilization. A Sourcebook, pp. 17-26 ("Confucian Teachings"), pp. 64-68 ("The Classic of Filial Piety"), pp. 97-104 ("Buddhist Doctrines and Practices"). (all in CP)
Week 3
M 1/30	cont.
	Please read "Wu Tzu-hsu," in Victor H. Mair, Tun-huang Popular Narratives, pp. 123-165 (CP) [For students who have taken 241: there is a section on Wu Zi-xu in Stephen Owen's An Anthology of Chinese Literature, pp. 87-101.]
Th 2/2	cont.
	Discussion of "Wu Tzu-hsu"
Week 4
M 2/6	Medley (zhugong diao)
	Please read chapters 1 and 2 of Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance, pp. 1-72 To familiarize yourself with Tang culture, please go to the Asia For Educators web site, choose View by file type and then select the topic "Tang Poetry." Paper 1 due
Th 2/9	cont.
	Please read chapters 3, 4, and 5 of Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance, pp. 73-157
	To familiarize with yourself with the culture of Song and Yuan China, please go to the Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization, choose Painting and then select "Painting as a Social Record."
Week 5
M 2/13	cont.
	Please read chapters 6, 7and 8 of Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance, pp. 158-236
	For background information on Chinese education and the civil service examination system, please read Miyazaki Ichisada, "Preparing for the Examinations," pp. 13-17 (CP)
Th 2/16	Early Vernacular Short Story (huaben)
	Please read "Eternal Prisoner under the Thunder Peak Pagoda" (CP)
	Video: excerpts from Hou Hsiao-hsien, The Puppetmaster (in class)
Week 6
M 2/20	cont.
	Discussion of "Eternal Prisoner under the Thunder Peak Pagoda"
	For background information on Chinese mythology, please read excerpts from Yuan Ke, Dragons and Dynasties. An Introduction to Chinese Mythology, pp. 1-13 (CP)
Th 2/23	Full-length Vernacular Fiction (changpian xiaoshuo)
	*Three Kingdoms* (San guo yanyi)
	Please read Chapters 1, 20, and 21 of Luo Guanzhong, Three Kingdoms. A Historical Novel, pp. 3-14, 59-76
Week 7
M 2/27	cont.
	Please read Chapters 25, 27, 37, and 38 of Luo Guanzhong, Three Kingdoms. A Historical Novel, pp. 77-93, 129-153
	Paper 2 due
Th 3/2	cont.
	Please read Chapters Chapters 43-50 of Luo Guanzhong, Three Kingdoms. A Historical Novel, pp. 205-280
Week 8
M 3/6	Review for Midterm
Th 3/9	Mid-Term
Week 9
3/11-3/19	Spring Recess
Week 10
M 3/20	*Outlaws of the Marsh* (Shui hu zhuan)
	Please read chapters 1-5 of Shi Nai'an and Luo Guanzhong, Outlaws of the Marsh, pp. 1-81. (Sagacious Lu and Lin Chong)
Th 3/23	cont.
	Please read chapters 9-13 in Shi Nai'an and Luo Guanzhong, Outlaws of the Marsh, pp. 140-245. (Song Jiang and Wu Song)
	For an early version of the lore regarding Song Jiang and the Mount Liangshan lair, see William O. Hennessy, trans, Proclaiming Harmony, pp. 3-14, 42-58 (CP)
Week 11
M 3/27	cont.
	Please read chapters 14-16 in Shi Nai'an and Luo Guanzhong, Outlaws of the Marsh, pp. 246-295, 452-458. (Song Jiang and Li Kui)

Th 3/30	cont.
	Please read chapters 23-26 in Shi Nai'an and Luo Guanzhong, Outlaws of the Marsh, pp.403-458. (Chao Gai and Song Jiang)
Week 12
M 4/3	*The Plum in the Golden Vase* (Jin Ping Mei)
	Please read chapters 1, 9, and 10 of The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P’ing Mei. Volume One: The Gathering, pp. 12-42, 170-204.
	Paper 3 due
Th 4/6	cont.
	Please read chapters 11 and 12 of The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P’ing Mei. Volume One: The Gathering, pp. 205-252 For background information on Ming dynasty notions of proper behavior, please read Patricia Ebrey, ed., Chinese Civilization. A Sourcebook, pp. 238-244 ("Family Instructions") (CP)
	Homework Assignment #3
Week 13
M 4/10	cont.
	Please read chapters 13, 14, 15, and 16 of The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P’ing Mei. Volume One: The Gathering, pp. 253-336.
Th 4/13	cont.
	Please read chapters 19 and 20 of The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P’ing Mei. Volume One: The Gathering, pp. 376-427.
	For background information on the layout and symbolic significance of the Chinese house, please read Ho Puay-peng, "The Seventeenth Century House - The Dialectics of the Living Environment," and Wang Qijun, "The Main Hall - Nucleus of the Chinese House" (both in CP)
Week 14
M 4/17	Ming Dynasty Drama (Ming chuanqi)
	Tang Xianzu (T'ang Hsien-tsu), The Peony Pavilion (Mudan ting)
	Please read Scenes 7-10 of Tang Xianzu, The Peony Pavilion (CP, pp. 132-147))
Th 4/20	cont.
	Please read Scenes 12, 14, and 20 of Tang Xianzu, The Peony Pavilion (CP, pp. 148-161)
Week 15
M 4/24	Cao Xueqin. The Story of the Stone (Shitou ji)
	Please read Chapters 1-5 of Cao Xueqin, The Story of the Stone. Vol. 1: The Golden Days, pp. 47-148. For background information on Chinese stone lore, please read Stephen Little, "Introduction," in The Spirit Stones of China, pp. 16-18 (CP)
	Paper 4 due
Th 4/27	cont.
	Please read Chapters 6-9 and 23 of Cao Xueqin, The Story of the Stone. Vol. 1: The Golden Days, pp. 149-216, 452-467.
Week 16	cont.
M 5/1	Please read the following chapters and excerpts from chapters of Cao Xueqin, The Story of the Stone. Volume 2: The Crab Flower Club: Chapter 27 (p. 23-40), excerpts from Chapters 28 (p. 41-45, 64-67), 29 (p. 83-92), 32 (p. 131-135), 33 (p. 141-154), 34 (162-166), 41 (311-322), 45 (395-405), and 53 (555-582) Conclusion

Final Exam:	Wednesday May 10, 2006, 12 noon - 3 p.m.