Schedule
UNIT ONE Introduction: China then and now

Readings: Waley: I-VII
Bernstein Intro and Ch 1 & 2
 
video:
"Monkey"

Chinese History outline

Chinese Language

Chinese Dynastic TimeLine

UNIT TWO The Journey 

Readings: Waley Chapters VIII- XII.  
        Bernstein Chapters 3 - 4

"Supernatural Retribution and Human destiny"
    "The Journey"

Film: "A Heat Wave Called Turfan"

Main charcters of the story: Monkey,
Friar Sand, Zhu Baojie, Xuanzang
 
Tang Taisong

early Chinese religion

UNIT THREE Taoism

Readings:  Waley Chapters XIII- XVII.
    Bernstein Chapters 5-6
"Laotzi""Inner Cultivation" "Yellow Court"

Film: "Taoism"

video:  the Travelers meet the White Bone demon

  "Ginseng Fruit"

Taoism

Laotzu

Midterm Exam: MONDAY February 8, 2010

UNIT FOUR Foundations of Chinese Thought: Confucianism

Readings:  Waley Chapters XVIII - XXI
Bernstein Chapters 7 - 8

Analects "Imperial Rites" "Examinations" "Examination Hell" "Eight-legged Essay"

examination system

Film: "Confucius - a biography"
Video: Fire Boy

Confucianism

UNIT FIVE Foundations of Chinese Thought:Buddhism

Readings:Waley Chapters. XXII-XXIV      

"Guanshiyin" "Scripture in 42 Sections"

Film"Buddhism in China"

Menander's Questions

Chinese Adaptations

History of Buddhism in China

Precepts

Deadly sins

Lecture notes

Book Review due: March 1, 2010

UNIT SIX Communist Ideology

Readings:Waley Chapters XXVIII -XXX

Film: "The Mao Years"

Mao on Culture and Art

lecture notes communism

Lady Iron Fan

Final: Wedneday 3/17 10-1:00.

Hum 310 China