ASIAN 6670 - [Nature Imagined and Experienced: Ancient Chinese Travel Literature]

Fall. Not offered 2017-2018. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

Permission of instructor required. Co-meets with ASIAN 3370/CAPS 3370.

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)