ASIAN 3370 - Nature and Ecology in Ancient Chinese Travel Writing

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

Fall. 3 credits. Student option grading.

Prerequisite: knowledge of Chinese language, history and culture is helpful but not necessary. 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 include poetry, prose, and philosophical works, all in English translation.

(LL)