# Classes Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 13 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by Date AscendingDate DescendingAlphabetical A-ZAlphabetical Z-A sort list grid\_view ## 13 results ### Spring, 2022 [### Topics in Tang Literature: Mid-Tang and Late Tang ](/class/topics-tang-literature-mid-tang-and-late-tang) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2022 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/98552) This seminar focuses on poetic and narrative texts from the late eighth and ninth century—the Mid Tang and Late Tang—and explores a series of important issues and changing values in literary, cultural, and intellectual history at this watershed time in the Chinese tradition. ### Spring, 2021 [### Topics in Tang Literature ](/class/topics-tang-literature) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2021 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/83033) This semester’s focus is Tang dynasty’s tales, balancing canonical tales with less well-known ones. Central themes include 1) the relationship between humans and things; 2) sexuality and romance—especially romance with the alien kinds; violence; metamorphosis; 3)... ### Fall, 2020 [### Chinese Literature 201a. History of Chinese Literature through the 13th Century ](/class/chinese-literature-201a-history-chinese-literature-through-13th-century) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2020 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/74299) This course offers an in-depth scholarly background in the history of Chinese literature and literary culture, examines issues particular to each period in classical literature and of the current state of the field, and engages critical reflection on the question of... [### Chinese Literature 229r. Topics in Early Medieval Literature ](/class/chinese-literature-229r-topics-early-medieval-literature) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2020 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/74837) This semester’s focus is the poetry of the Southern Dynasties, Sui, and Early Tang. Tentative Meeting Times: Friday 9:00–12:00 or 12:45pm–3:45pm ### Spring, 2019 [### Tang Poetry of the Eighth Century ](/class/tang-poetry-eighth-century) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2019 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/46992) This semester’s focus is the eighth-century poetry, the centerpiece of the poetry of the Tang dynasty (618–907 CE), long considered the crème of classical Chinese literature. ### Spring, 2018 [### Tang Dynasty Tales ](/class/tang-dynasty-tales) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2018 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/35719) This semester’s focus is Tang dynasty’s tales, balancing canonical tales with less well-known ones. Central themes include: 1) the relationship between humans and things; 2) sexuality and romance—especially with the alien kinds; violence; metamorphosis; 3) representations of... ### Spring, 2017 [### Autobiographical Writings in Early and Early Medieval China ](/class/autobiographical-writings-early-and-early-medieval-china) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2017 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/25094) This semester we focus on a survey of early and early medieval Chinese autobiography in a variety of genres, and discuss the definition, history, and theories of self-writing. ### Fall, 2017 [### Introduction to Classical Chinese Literature ](/class/introduction-classical-chinese-literature) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2017 ### Spring, 2016 [### Topics in Early Medieval Literature ](/class/topics-early-medieval-literature) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2016 This semester the topic is a review of the canonical poets of the Six Dynasties from Tao Yuanming to Yu Xin. Class Materials: Major Poets of the Six Dynasties WK 1/January 29 Introduction WK 2-3/February 5, 12 陶淵明 [use 曾集本陶集 ] Keywords: autobiography; self-representation... ### Fall, 2016 [### The Splendors of the Medieval Court ](/class/splendors-medieval-court) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2016 This course explores medieval Chinese court culture from the fifth through early eighth century (the late Northern and Southern dynasties through the early Tang). This was a period when the court occupied a central position in the cultural life of society and played a role... ### Spring, 2014 [### Trauma, Diaspora and Nostalgia in the Sixth Century ](/class/trauma-diaspora-and-nostalgia-sixth-century) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2014 In this class we will read poetry and prose from the second half of the sixth century, with a focus on poetry and prose by members of the southern diaspora after the traumatic event of the Hou Jing Rebellion, but we will also examine the “western diaspora”—the Northern Qi... ### Spring, 2013 [### East Asian Studies 129. The Worlds of the Three Kingdoms ](/class/east-asian-studies-129-worlds-three-kingdoms) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2013 The period of the “Three Kingdoms” at the turn of the third century was a dangerous and violent time; it is also one of the historical periods that have most inspired the Chinese cultural imagination. For more than a millennium, numerous works, from written to visual, have... - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")