{"ModuleCode":"GEK1007","ModuleTitle":"Chinese Heritage: History and Literature","Department":"Chinese Studies","ModuleDescription":"The module aims to provide a general understanding of traditional China by focusing on two important aspects of its civilization: history and literature. In the first half of the semester, students will be introduced to the major political, intellectual, and social developments in the various dynasties of imperial China. In the second half of the semester, the module calls attention to the major literary genres that dominated each historical period, from the pre-Qin era through the Tang dynasty. In so doing, we offer students an overview of what formed the cornerstone of the civilization of traditional China. (This module is taught in English.)","ModuleCredit":"4","Workload":"2-1-0-2-5","Preclusion":"GEH1004","Types":["GEM"],"Lecturers":["Meulenbeld, Mark Ronnie Edgar"],"IVLE":[{"Announcements":null,"Forums":[],"Workbins":[],"Webcasts":[],"Gradebooks":[],"Polls":[],"Multimedia":[],"LessonPlan":[],"ID":"b7422790-2c20-47a0-80d8-8355ed30dafc","CourseLevel":"1","CourseCode":"GEK1007","CourseName":"CHINESE HERITAGE: HISTORY AND LITERATURE","CourseDepartment":"","CourseSemester":"Semester 1","CourseAcadYear":"2015/2016","CourseOpenDate":"/Date(1432569600000+0800)/","CourseOpenDate_js":"2015-05-26T00:00:00","CourseCloseDate":"/Date(1449331140000+0800)/","CourseCloseDate_js":"2015-12-05T23:59:00","CourseMC":"0","isActive":"Y","Permission":"S","Creator":{"UserID":null,"Name":"Tan Shu Fen","Email":null,"Title":null,"UserGuid":"8098d508-d482-4b20-9186-dc1669036db5","AccountType":null},"hasGradebookItems":false,"hasTimetableItems":true,"hasGroupsItems":false,"hasClassGroupsForSignUp":false,"hasGuestRosterItems":false,"hasClassRosterItems":false,"hasWeblinkItems":false,"hasLecturerItems":true,"hasDescriptionItems":true,"hasReadingItems":false,"hasAnnouncementItems":false,"hasProjectGroupItems":false,"hasProjectGroupsForSignUp":false,"hasConsultationItems":false,"hasConsultationSlotsForSignUp":false,"hasLessonPlanItems":false,"Badge":0,"BadgeAnnouncement":0,"WebLinks":[],"Lecturers":[{"ID":"7ca80505-4e31-453f-a1ac-0b114bf03e47","User":{"UserID":null,"Name":"Meulenbeld, Mark Ronnie Edgar","Email":null,"Title":null,"UserGuid":"6bbe7ce4-53ec-4e6c-8edc-914572ca7940","AccountType":null},"Role":"Lecturer ","Order":1,"ConsultHrs":null}],"Descriptions":[{"ID":"2e5f053b-8835-4692-be49-41f07234cfff","Title":"Prerequisites","Description":"NIL","Order":2},{"ID":"6e5f053b-8835-4692-be49-41f07234cfff","Title":"Syllabus","Description":"Week [1] ON THE CONCEPTS OF CULTURE AND HISTORY
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\r\nGreenblatt, Stephen, “Culture.” In Lentricchia & McLaughlin (eds.), Critical Terms for Literary Study, pp. 225-232.
\r\nChakrabarty, Dipesh, Provincializing Europe (2000), Intro (pp. 3-16), ch. 1 (27-46).
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\r\nWeek [2] THE CHINESE SOUL IN ANTIQUITY
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\r\nKroll, Paul (transl.), “An Early Poem of Mystical Excursion.” In Lopez (ed.), Religions of China in Practice (Princeton, 1996), pp. 156-62.
\r\nOwen, Stephen (transl.), “Calling Back the Soul.” In An Anthology of Chinese Literature (Norton, 1996), pp. 204-211.
\r\nYü Ying-shih, “‘O Soul, Come Back!’ A Study in the Changing Conceptions of the Soul and Afterlife in Pre-Buddhist China.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 47 (Dec. 1987) 2, pp. 363-395.
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\r\nWeek [3] CONFUCIANISM AND PROPER RITES
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\r\nLau, D.C. (transl.), Analects (Lunyu), pp. 63-75
\r\nCsikszentmihalyi, Mark, Chapter on “Confucianism.” In J. Neusner (ed.), Introduction to World Religions: Communities and Cultures (Abingdon Press, 2010), pp. 250-65.
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\r\nWeek [4] DAOISM AND WORDLESS KNOWLEDGE
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\r\nLau, D.C. (transl.), Dao De Jing, II-VII (p. 6-11), X- XIII (p. 14-17), XV-XX (p. 19-24), XXI-XXII (p. 26-27), XXXV (p. 40), XXXVII (p. 42), XLIX (p. 56).
\r\nKomjathy, Louis, “The Daoist Tradition in China.” In Nadeau (ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Chinese Religions (2012), pp. 171 – 196.
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\r\nWeek [5] PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION, OR SOMETHING BETTER?
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\r\nMair, Victor (transl.), Wandering on the Way [Zhuang Zi]: “The Gourd and the Tree” (p. 7-9), “Other and I” (13-14), “The Butterfly” (24), “A Cook” (26), “Sir Sacrifice” (57-59), “Joy of Fishes” (165), “Woodworker Ch’ing” (182-83).
\r\nEno, Robert, “Cook Ding’s Dao and the Limits of Philosophy.” In Kjellberg and Ivanhoe (eds.), Essays on Skepticism, Relativism, and Ethics in the Zhuangzi (1996), pp. 127-51.
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\r\nWeek [6] HISTORY OR HOLY HERITAGE?
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\r\nNienhauser, William (transl.), Records of the Grand Scribe [Selected passages from Wu Di Zhuan]
\r\nCsikszentmihalyi, Mark (transl.), Readings in Han Chinese Thought. Cambridge and Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006. Selected passages from biographies.
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\r\nWeek [7] BUDDHISM VS. CONFUCIANISM AND DAOISM
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\r\nRobert Campany (transl.), Signs from the Unseen Realm (2012), pp. 63-77.
\r\nPeter N. Gregory, “A Window on Chinese Buddhist Thought.” In Inquiry into the Origin of Humanity: An Annotated Translation of Tsung-mi’s Yüan jen lun with a Modern Commentary (Hawai’i, 1995), pp. 3-24; “Part 1, Exposing Deluded Attachments: Confucianism and Taoism,” pp. 80-104
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\r\nWeek [8] BUDDHISM AND THE BODY
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\r\nKieschnick, John, “Asceticism.” In The Eminent Monk (1997), pp. 16-66.
\r\nLaFleur, William, “Body.” In Taylor (ed.), Critical Terms for Religious Studies (1998), pp. 36-53.
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\r\nWeek [9] BUDDHISM AND LOCAL RELIGION
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\r\nIdema, Wilt (transl.), “The Precious Scroll of Incense Mountain,” Part I, pp. 45-97; Part II, pp. 99-159. In Personal Salvation and Filial Piety (2008).
\r\nMeulenbeld, Mark, “Death and Demonization of a Bodhisattva: Avalokitesvara’s Reformulation within Chinese Theology,” pp. 1-40
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\r\nWeek [10] LITERATURE AND LOCAL TRADITIONS
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\r\nOwen, Stephen (transl.), “From The Romance of the Gods (Feng-shen yan-yi): Ne-zha and His Father,” in Owen. (ed., trans.), An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911 (New York: Norton, 1996), p. 771-806.
\r\n “From the Enfeoffment of the Gods: Ne-zha and his Father”
\r\nMeulenbeld, Mark, Demonic Warfare: Daoism, Territorial Networks, and the History of a Ming Novel (2015), chapter 5.
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\r\nWeek [11] PERFORMANCES OF THE DEAD
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\r\nBirch, Cyril (transl.), The Peony Pavilion: Mudan ting. Sections: [“Infernal Judgment,” “Spirit Roaming,” “A Union in the Shades”]
\r\nJ.J.M. de Groot, The Religious System of China, Section on Funerary Practices
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\r\nWeek [12] LITERATURE AND SPIRIT POSSESSION
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\r\nRomance of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguo Yanyi), Chapter 1 and other selected passages.
\r\nCohen, Paul, History in Three Keys (1997), chapter 3, “Mass Spirit Possession,” pp. 96-118.
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