Chinese 597Q - ST-Ming-Qing Novel II
Spring
2019
01
3.00
Suet-Ying Chiu
TU TH 10:00AM 11:15AM
UMass Amherst
12264
Herter Hall room 208
chiu@llc.umass.edu
This course focuses on traditional Chinese novels written in the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-1911). We will engage in close readings of masterworks of vernacular novels, ranging in genre from romance narratives to martial adventures, while paying attention to the origins and development of Chinese fiction.