Class Schedule for ALL 3900-002: Writing Lives in China

Ugh. Drawing this up makes me really nervous!

Wednesday, September 9: Preview of the Course
poem 1 of the shijing
master five willows

Friday, September 11: concubine ban. portraying the portrait

Monday, September 14: Week 2
Sima Qian Bios: Liu Bang, Xiang Yu. Empress Lü, Lady Qi

Wednesday, September 16:
Wang Zhaojun and Cai Yan: Impersonation.

Friday, September 18:
End of the Party: The Hermit

Monday, September 21: Week 3

Wednesday, September 23:

Friday, September 25:

Monday, September 28: Week 4

Wednesday, September 30: "Why Curse of the Golden Flower Sucks"
Tang dynasty biographies: Shangguan, Empress Wang, Empress Wu, Empress Wei.

Friday, October 2:
Tang dynasty biographies: Yang Guifei (Concubine Plum, Phantom)
Monday, October 5: Week 5

Wednesday, October 7:

Friday, October 9:

Monday, October 12: Week 6


Wednesday, October 14:
Li Qingzhao (autobiography, [letter], poetry)


Friday, October 16:
Wen Tianxiang, soldier patriot.Hero.

Monday, October 19: Week 7

Wednesday, October 21:
Nuns, Guanyin Red Brush 314, Empress Xu
Friday, October 23:
Daoist Lady Lives.
Monday, October 26: Week 8
Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man
Wednesday, October 28:

Friday, October 30:

Monday, November 2: Week 9

Wednesday, November 4:

Friday, November 6:

Monday, November 9: Week 10

Wednesday, November 11:

Friday, November 13:

Monday, November 16: Week 11

Wednesday, November 18:

Friday, November 20:

Monday, November 23: Week 12

Wednesday, November 25:

THANKSGIVING BREAK

Monday, November 30: Week 13

Wednesday, December 2:

Friday, December 4:

Monday, December 7: Week 14 (Wartime Lecture)
Jumping Through Hoops: Imprints of Life by Chu Wenjuan; A Journey of Twenty-Seven Years by Lin Beili (75-139)

Wednesday, December 9:
Lost in The Crowd: A Cultural Revolution Memoir
1. Literary Couples.

Friday, December 11:

Monday, December 14: Week 15

Wednesday, December 16: