Chinese Literature (CHINLIT)

Advanced Undergraduate and Graduate

CHINLIT 125/205, 126/206, 127/207. Beginning Classical Chinese—(Graduate students register for 205,206,207.) Goal is reading knowledge of classical Chinese. Students with no background in classical Chinese and are taking 127 to satisfy Chinese major re-quirements must begin with 125. Basic grammar and commonly used vocabulary.
Prerequisite: CHINLANG 23 or equivalent.
2-5 units, 125/205: Aut, 126/206: Win (Sun, C), 127/207: Spr (Zhou, Y)

CHINLIT 161/261A. Passion in Late Imperial Literature—(Graduate students register for 261A.) The treatment of romantic passion and related emotions in late imperial fiction and theater. Focus is on secondary literature.
GER:DB-Hum
4 units, not given this year (Lewis, M)

CHINLIT 162/262. Tang Narrative—(Graduate students register for 262.) Major examples in translation of bian wen and chuan qi.
3-5 units, Spr (Lewis, M)

CHINLIT 191/291. The Structure of Modern Chinese—(Graduate students register for 291.) Focus is on on syntax and semantics.
Prerequisite: CHINLANG 3 or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
GER:DB-SocSci
4 units, not given this year (Sun, C)

CHINLIT 192/292. The History of Chinese—(Graduate students register for 292.) 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: 206 or consent of instructor.
GER:DB-SocSci
4 units, not given this year (Sun, C)

CHINLIT 199. Individual Reading in Chinese—Asian Language majors only.
Prerequisite: CHINLANG 103 or consent of instructor. Units by arrangement.
1-4 units, Aut, Win, Spr, Sum (Staff) GRADUATE CHINLIT 200. Directed Reading in Chinese—(Staff) 1-12 units, Aut, Win, Spr, Sum (Staff)

Graduate

CHINLIT 200. Directed Reading in Chinese
1-12 units, Aut, Win, Spr, Sum (Staff)

CHINLIT 201. Proseminar: Bibliographic and Research Methods in Chinese Studies—Bibliographic and research methods in Chinese studies.
Prerequisite: 127/207 or equivalent.
5 units, not given this year

CHINLIT 221. Advanced Classical Chinese: Philosophical Texts—
Prerequisite: 207 or equivalent.
3-5 units, not given this year (Lewis, M)

CHINLIT 222. Advanced Classical Chinese: Historical Narration—
Prerequisite: 127/207 or equivalent.
2-5 units, not given this year (Wang, J)

CHINLIT 223. Advanced Classical Chinese: Literary Essays—Readings and grammatical analyses of literary essays thoughout im-perial China.
Prerequisite: CHINLIT 127/207 or equivalent.
2-5 units, Spr (Wang, J)

CHINLIT 232. Chinese Biographies of Women—Generic and historical analysis of the two-millennia long biographical tradition in-augurated 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.
4 units, Spr (Zhou, Y)

CHINLIT 251. China and the World: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Literature—How 20th-century Chinese thinkers and writers envisioned themselves as citizens of the world. How they strove to build an autonomous nation and new culture by reconsidering traditional ethical life and aesthetic expressions. Aesthetics, ethics, and politics as being of one piece, manifest in writing and literature, in traditional Chinese thought. How writers infused new life into traditional thought and sensibility and made contributions to the global forum of modern culture.
Prerequisites: undergraduate courses in history, philosophy, and literature.
5 units, Aut (Wang, B)

CHINLIT 263. Lyric (Shih) I—Han through Sui dynasties.
2-4 units, not given this year

CHINLIT 264. Lyric (Shih) II—Tang poetry, focusing on major figures and forms. 2-4 units, not given this year

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.
4 units, not given this year

CHINLIT 271. Traditional Chinese Fiction: Short Stories—Early times to Qing.
Prerequisite: 127/207 or consent of instructor.
2-4 units, not given this year (Wang, J)

CHINLIT 272. Traditional Chinese Fiction: Novels—Major novels of late imperial China.
Prerequisite: 127/207 or consent of instructor.
2-4 units, Win (Wang, J)

CHINLIT 273. Chinese Drama—Yuan, Ming, and Qing periods emphasizing literary not theatrical qualities.
Prerequisite: 127/207 or consent of instructor.
2-4 units, not given this year (Wang, J)

CHINLIT 288. Gender and Genre: Women Poets in Premodern China—Literary convention and cultural tradition contexts.
4 units, not given this year

CHINLIT 299. Master’s Thesis or Translation—A total of 5 units taken in one or more quarters.
1-5 units, Aut, Win, Spr, Sum (Staff)

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.
5 units, not given this year (Wang, J)

CHINLIT 373. Seminar on the Shiji—Sima Qian’s Shiji as history and literature.
Prerequisite: 127/207 or consent of instructor.
2-5 units, Spr (Wang, J)

CHINLIT 381. Early Chinese Thought—Seminar. Early and medieval Chinese thought and literature. Focus varies annually. Primary sources in classical Chinese and secondary literature. Students present research papers. May be repeated for credit.
5 units, not given this year (Lewis, M)

CHINLIT 382. Poetry of the Age of Disunion—The period between the Han and Tang dynasties.
3-5 units, Win (Lewis, M)

CHINLIT 391. Seminar in Chinese Syntax—May be repeated for credit.
4 units, not given this year

CHINLIT 392. Topics in East Asian Syntax—(Same as LINGUIST 272.) Claims and analyses in the transformational syntax literature concerning the structure of modern Chinese; comparisons include Japanese and Korean. Basic literacy in modern transformational approaches. Topics include: Chinese clausal structure, and the syntax-phonology and syntax-semantics interfaces including the notion of logical form. Readings according to student interest. May be repeated for credit.
1-4 units, not given this year (Sells, P)

CHINLIT 399. Dissertation Research
1-12 units, Aut, Win, Spr, Sum (Staff)

CHINLIT 400. Advanced Language Training—For students in the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies in Beijing or Taipei. For more information, contact the consortium office at UC Berkeley: (510) 642-3873.
1-15 units, Aut, Win, Spr (Staff)

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