Chinese Language and Literature

Selected Readings in Ancient Chinese Literature

Release Date: 2017-09-22

1. Basic Course Information

Course Code:200452  200462  200472  200482
Course Name:Selected Readings in Ancient Chinese Literature (Ⅰ,Ⅱ, Ⅲ, Ⅳ)
Course Type:Specialized Course
Periods:32 (32 periods per term, 128 periods in total)
Credits:2 (2 credits per term, 8 credits in total)
Target Students: for undergraduates majoring in Chinese Language and Literature
Assessment:Inspection
Preparatory Course:Ancient Chinese

2. Brief Course Introduction

     Selected Readings in Ancient Chinese Literature is one of the discipline basic courses for Chinese Language and Literature majors. Its function is to, by four semesters of learning, selectively explain to students the writers and works in the four stages of Pre-Qin and Han Dynasty, the Wei, Jin, North and South Dynasties, the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and the Ming and Qing Dynasties. With selected reading and analyzing the writers and works from Pre-Qin to Qing Dynasties (before the Opium War), this course will make students understand the representative writers and works and the cultural schools generated during different periods in the course of ancient Chinese literature. This course develops students’ abilities to independently analyze thoughts and contents, artistic features, aesthetic values and literary function of these writers and their works, enhances their abilities in appreciating excellent Chinese literary works, and improves their professional quality.