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CHINLIT 125: Beginning Classical Chinese, First Quarter (CHINLIT 205)

Goal is reading knowledge of classical Chinese. Students with no background in classical Chinese who are taking 127 to satisfy Chinese major requirements must begin with 125. Basic grammar and commonly used vocabulary. Prerequisite: CHINLANG 23 or equivalent. 125: Aut, 126: Win, 127: Spr
Terms: Aut | Units: 2-5
Instructors: ; Sun, C. (PI)

CHINLIT 126: Beginning Classical Chinese, Second Quarter (CHINLIT 206)

Goal is reading knowledge of classical Chinese. Students with no background in classical Chinese who are taking 127/207 to satisfy Chinese major requirements must begin with 125/205. Basic grammar and commonly used vocabulary. Prerequisite: CHINLANG 125/205 or equivalent.
Terms: Win | Units: 2-5
Instructors: ; Sun, C. (PI)

CHINLIT 127: Beginning Classical Chinese, Third Quarter (CHINLIT 207)

Goal is reading knowledge of classical Chinese. Students with no background in classical Chinese who are taking 127/207 to satisfy Chinese major requirements must begin with 125/205. Basic grammar and commonly used vocabulary. Prerequisite: CHINLANG 126/206 or equivalent.
Terms: Spr | Units: 2-5
Instructors: ; Zhou, Y. (PI)

CHINLIT 189A: Honors Research

Senior honors students enroll for 5 units in Winter while writing the honors thesis, and may enroll in 189B for 2 units in Spring while revising the thesis. Prerequisite: DLCL 189.
| Units: 5

CHINLIT 189B: Honors Research

Open to juniors with consent of adviser while drafting honors proposal. Open to senior honors students while revising honors thesis. Prerequisites for seniors: 189A, DLCL 189.
Terms: Spr | Units: 2

CHINLIT 191: The Structure of Modern Chinese (CHINLIT 291)

Focus is on on syntax and semantics. Prerequisite: CHINLANG 3 or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut | Units: 2-4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors: ; Sun, C. (PI)

CHINLIT 200: Directed Reading in Chinese

Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum | Units: 1-12 | Repeatable for credit
Instructors: ; Dien, A. (PI); Sun, C. (PI); Wang, B. (PI); Wang, J. (PI); Zhou, Y. (PI)

CHINLIT 205: Beginning Classical Chinese, First Quarter (CHINLIT 125)

Goal is reading knowledge of classical Chinese. Students with no background in classical Chinese who are taking 127 to satisfy Chinese major requirements must begin with 125. Basic grammar and commonly used vocabulary. Prerequisite: CHINLANG 23 or equivalent. 125: Aut, 126: Win, 127: Spr
Terms: Aut | Units: 2-5
Instructors: ; Sun, C. (PI)

CHINLIT 206: Beginning Classical Chinese, Second Quarter (CHINLIT 126)

Goal is reading knowledge of classical Chinese. Students with no background in classical Chinese who are taking 127/207 to satisfy Chinese major requirements must begin with 125/205. Basic grammar and commonly used vocabulary. Prerequisite: CHINLANG 125/205 or equivalent.
Terms: Win | Units: 2-5
Instructors: ; Sun, C. (PI)

CHINLIT 207: Beginning Classical Chinese, Third Quarter (CHINLIT 127)

Goal is reading knowledge of classical Chinese. Students with no background in classical Chinese who are taking 127/207 to satisfy Chinese major requirements must begin with 125/205. Basic grammar and commonly used vocabulary. Prerequisite: CHINLANG 126/206 or equivalent.
Terms: Spr | Units: 2-5
Instructors: ; Zhou, Y. (PI)

CHINLIT 223: Advanced Classical Chinese: Literary Essays

Readings and grammatical analyses of literary essays thoughout imperial China. Prerequisite: CHINLIT 127/207 or equivalent.
Terms: Spr | Units: 2-5
Instructors: ; Wang, J. (PI)

CHINLIT 251: China and the World: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Literature (COMPLIT 242A)

How 20th-century Chinese thinkers and writers envisioned themselves as citizens of the world and critiqued traditional culture. How intellectuals infused new life into traditional thought and sensibility and made contributions to global culture. The matrix of aesthetics, ethics, and literature. Texts from the Western aesthetic and cosmopolitan tradition.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4-5
Instructors: ; Wang, B. (PI)

CHINLIT 265: Major Figures in Classical Chinese Shi Poetry

Focus is on a major poet and relationships to previous and later poetry. Poetic form, including meter and rhyme schemes. Historical context. This year's poet is Tao Yuanming. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: 201, 207.
Terms: Win | Units: 2-4 | Repeatable 3 times (up to 12 units total)
Instructors: ; Sargent, S. (PI)

CHINLIT 271: Traditional Chinese Fiction: Short Stories

Early times to Qing. Prerequisite: 127/207 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Win | Units: 2-4
Instructors: ; Wang, J. (PI)

CHINLIT 272: Traditional Chinese Fiction: Novels

Major novels of late imperial China. Prerequisite: 127/207 or consent of instructor.
Last offered: Winter 2007 | Units: 2-4

CHINLIT 273: Chinese Drama

Yuan, Ming, and Qing periods emphasizing literary not theatrical qualities. Prerequisite: 127/207 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr | Units: 2-5
Instructors: ; Wang, J. (PI)

CHINLIT 291: The Structure of Modern Chinese (CHINLIT 191)

Focus is on on syntax and semantics. Prerequisite: CHINLANG 3 or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut | Units: 2-4
Instructors: ; Sun, C. (PI)

CHINLIT 299: Master's Thesis or Translation

A total of 5 units taken in one or more quarters.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum | Units: 1-5 | Repeatable for credit
Instructors: ; Lee, H. (PI); Sun, C. (PI); Wang, B. (PI); Wang, J. (PI); Zhou, Y. (PI)

CHINLIT 399: Dissertation Research

(Staff)
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum | Units: 1-12 | Repeatable for credit
Instructors: ; Lewis, M. (PI); Sun, C. (PI); Wang, B. (PI); Wang, J. (PI); Zhou, Y. (PI)

CHINLIT 221: Advanced Classical Chinese: Philosophical Texts

Prerequisite: 207 or equivalent.
| Units: 3-5

CHINLIT 222: Advanced Classical Chinese: Historical Narration

Prerequisite: 127/207 or equivalent.
| Units: 2-5

CHINLIT 232: Chinese Biographies of Women

Generic and historical analysis of the two-millennia long biographical tradition inaugurated by Liu Xiang, ca. 79-8 B.C.E. Chinese women's history, intellectual history, historiography, and literary studies. Prerequisite: 127/207 or consent of instructor.
| Units: 4

CHINLIT 263: Lyric (Shih) I

Han through Sui dynasties.
| Units: 2-4

CHINLIT 266: Chinese Tz'u Poetry (Song Lyrics)

Highlights from the Northern and Southern Sung periods. Patterns of generic development correlated to social changes in historical context. Prerequisite: classical Chinese.
| Units: 4

CHINLIT 274: Modern Chinese Literature: Short Stories

From the May Fourth movement to the 40s. Themes include enlightenment, democracy, women's liberation, revolution, war, urban culture, and love. Prerequisite: advanced Chinese.
| Units: 4

CHINLIT 289: The Poetics and Politics of Affect in Modern China

The role of affect in modern Chinese aesthetics and politics. Cultural and social theories of affect (love, hate, fear, grief, ressentiment, rage, sympathy, sincerity, shame, and nostalgia); affective discourses across agenres and media including fiction, poetry, film, journalism, and television; and mass social movements such as protest, uprising, and revolution. Advanced undergraduates requires consent of instructor. Recommended: reading knowledge of Chinese.
| Units: 3-5

CHINLIT 292: The History of Chinese

Emphasis is on syntactic and semantic changes in the last 2,000 years and grammaticalization. Students use a computer corpus to do research on the history of Chinese. Prerequisite: 126 or consent of instructor.
| Units: 4

CHINLIT 371: Seminar in Chinese Literary Criticism

Chinese critical texts in relation to Western literary theories. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: 127/207 or consent of instructor.
| Units: 2-5 | Repeatable for credit
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