China Humanities: The Individual in Chinese Culture

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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

None.

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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