Tuesday, August 4, 2009

The organizing principle of my course...

Writing Lives in China: An Outline of 42 Lectures

This does not look like it should have been a lot of work, and I suppose in truth it was not, but I am finding it particularly difficult to generate my lectures. So distressing! At least now I think I finally understand how I want to organize the course: by types of people involved.

Unit I China Before the Ming: Exemplary Lives
Unit II The Ming and the Qing Dynasties: The First High Tide of Life Writing
Unit III The Twentieth Century: New Women, New Men, and a New Nation

















Unit I China Before the Ming: Exemplary Lives

Lectures 1-3: Kings

Lectures 4-7: Confucians

Lectures 8-10: Recluses [Sub-topic to begin: Immortals and Eccentrics]

Lecture 11: The Daoist Confessional

Lectures 12-15: Exemplary Women (3 Good, 1 Depraved)

Unit II The Ming and the Qing Dynasties: The First High Tide of Life Writing

Lectures 16-18: Monks and Nuns

Lectures 18-20: Men of the Ming, I (Wu Yubi, Hu Zhi, Li Zhi, Xu Wei)

Lectures 21-23: Men of the Ming, II (Return to Dragon Mountain)

Lectures 24-25: The Courtesan

Lectures 26: Peasant Women

Lecture 27-29: The Lady


Unit III The Twentieth Century: New Women, New Men, and a New Nation

Lectures 30-31: The Revolutionary (Liang Qichao, Qiu Jin)

Lectures 32-35: The Students (Yu Dafu, Hu Shi, Lu Xun; Shen Congwen, Lao She; Bai Wei, Su Xuelin)

Lectures 36-40: Yang Jiang, A Modern Voice

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