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China Humanities: The Individual in Chinese Culture
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- Fee-based Certificate
- 8 Sequences
- Introductive Level
Course details
Syllabus
Unit 1: Early Chinese Thinkers and Writers and their Notion of Self
Unit 2: Revealing the Individual in Chinese Poetry
Unit 3: Love and Literature: Yingying’s Story
Unit 4: Neo-Confucianism
Unit 5: Love and Illusion in the Story of the Stone
Unit 6: Chinese Art: How to Paint the Inner Voice?
Unit 7: Humanities Past and Present
Unit 8: Roundtable Discussion, on the Individual and Society
Prerequisite
Instructors
Peter K. Bol
Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Harvard University
Wai-yee Li
Professor of Chinese Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Harvard University
Stephen Owen
James Bryant Conant University Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Harvard University
Michael Puett
Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology
Harvard University
Eugene Wang
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art
Harvard University
Xiaofei Tian
Professor of Chinese Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Harvard University
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