ASIAN 3370 - Nature Imagined and Experienced: Ancient Chinese Travel Literature

(crosslisted) CAPS 3370
(GHB) (CA-AS)

Fall. 3 credits. Student option grading.

Co-meets with ASIAN 6670.

D. X. Warner.

This course traces the development of travel writing from the Han dynasty (206 B.C.–A.D. 221) to the Song dynasty (960–1279). Special attention is paid to the ways in which Chinese writers have ceaselessly negotiated humankind’s relationship with the natural world in their accounts of travel—both imagined and actual. Readings selected for investigation are assigned in English translation. (LL)