2003 “Teaching East Asian Literature in the High School” Workshop Reading List for Chinese Sections

 

 

Traditional Chinese Literature

                               

Recommended:

 

·         Chapters 3,5, 6 and 7 in Rhoads Murphey, East Asia: A New History- Purchased Book

 

Required:

               

·         Excerpts from Confucius’ The Analects.   In Debary, William Theodore, et al.  Sources of Chinese Tradition.   New York: Columbia University Press, 1960. p. 24-30.  ISBN: 0231109393 [R]

 

·         Excerpts from Chuang Tzu   In Watson, Burton, trans.  Chuang-tzu:  Basic Writings New York: Columbia University Press, 1964. p.40-47, 58-59. ASIN: 0231086067 [R]

 

·         SIMA Qian, “Letter in Reply to Ren An  In Owen, Stephen.  Anthology of Chinese Literature:  Beginnings to 1911.  New York:  Norton, 1996. p. 136-142. ISBN:  0393038238 [R]

 

·         TAO Ch’ien, “The Peach Blossom Spring” and “Drinking Wine  In Mair, Victor.  The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature.  New York:  Columbia University Press, 1994. ISBN: 0231074298 [R]

 

·         “No. 3 Green Beyond Green” from Nineteen Ancient Poems.  In Wai-lim Yip, ed. & trans.  Chinese Poetry: An Anthology of Major Modes and Genres.  Duke UP, 1997.  p. 68-75.  [R]

 

·         LI Po, “Bring the Wine,” and “Y’ Chien Y’an” In The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry: From Early Times to the Thirteenth Century.  New York:  Columbia University Press, 1984.  [R]

 

·         WANG Wei, “Bamboo Grove,” “Deer Enclosure, ” and “Bird-Singing Stream”  In Wai-lim Yip, ed. & trans.  Chinese Poetry: An Anthology of Major Modes and Genres.  Duke UP, 1997. 224-229 [R]

 

·         MENG Haoran, “Springtime Sleep” and “Stayover at Chien-The River”  In Wai-lim Yip, ed. & trans.  Chinese Poetry: An Anthology of Major Modes and Genres.  Duke UP, 1997. p. 230-231 [R]

 

·         DU Fu, “Spring Scene,” In Owen, Stephen.  Anthology of Chinese Literature:  Beginnings to 1911 New York:  Norton, 1996. p. 420 [R]

 

·         Zhang Ji, "Night-Mooring at Maple Bridge” In Wailim Yip, ed. &trans. Chinese Poetry: An Anthology of Major Modes and Genres.  Duke UP, 1997. p. 241 [R]

 

·         Liu Zongyuan, "River Snow" in Wailim Yip, ed. & trans.  Chinese Poetry: An Anthology of Major Modes and Genres.  Duke UP, 1997. p. 234 [R]

 

·         LI Yü, Tune: “Beauty Yü”  In Wai-lim Yip, ed. & trans.  Chinese Poetry: An Anthology of Major Modes and Genres.  Duke UP, 1997. p. 312-313 [R]

 

·         MA Zhiyuan, Tunes: “Sky-Pure Sand” In Wai-lim Yip, ed. & trans.  Chinese Poetry: An Anthology of Major Modes and Genres.  Duke UP, 1997. p. 340 [R]

 

·         YUAN Chen (Yuan Zhen), “The Story of Ts’iu Ying-ying”  In Birch, Cyril.  Anthology of Chinese Literature, Vol. I.  New York, Grove Press, 1965. p. 290-299. [R]

 

·         PO Hsing-chien (Bo Xingjian), “The Story of Miss Li”  In Birch, Cyril.  Anthology of Chinese Literature, Vol. I.  New York, Grove Press, 1965.  p. 300-313. [R]

 

·         FENG Menglong, “The Pearl-Sewn Shirt”  In Birch, Cyril, trans.  Stories from a Ming Collection.  Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1959. p.39-96. [R]

 


Modern Chinese Literature

                                               

Recommended:

 

·         Chapters 8, 14, 17 and 19  in Rhoads Murphey, East Asia: A New History-Purchased book

 

Required:

               

·         LU Xun, “Preface to A Call to Arms,” “A Madman’s Diary” [Columbia Anthology- purchased book]

 

·         LU Xun,  “Medicine” In Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang, trans. The Complete Stories of Lu Xun.  Bloomington, IN:  Indiana University Press, 1981. p. 19-27. [R]

 

·         YU Dafu, “Sinking”  [Columbia Anthology-purchased]

 

·         Ding Ling, "Shanghai, Pring 1930, Part I": from I Myself Am a Woman:
Selected Writings of Ding Ling.  Ed.  Barlow, Tani E., with Gary J. Bjorge.  Boston: Beacon Press, 1989.  112-39.

 

·         Xu Zhimo, “Second Farewell to Cambridge” [Columbia Anthology-purchased]

 

·         Wen Yiduo “Dead Water” [Columbia Anthology-purchased]

 

·         Dai Wangshu, "Rainy Alley" [Columbia Anthology-purchased]

 

·         SHEN Congwen, “Xiaoxiao” [Columbia Anthology-purchased]

 

·         ZHANG Ailing, “Sealed Off”  [Columbia Anthology-purchased]

 

·         LU Xinhua, “The Wounded”  In Dernberger, Robert F., et al.  The Chinese:  Adapting the Past, Building the Future. Ann Arbor, MI:  Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1986. p. 591-604. [R]

 

·         BEI Dao, “Perfect,” “February,” “Showing Up,” “Untitled,” and “Landscape over Zero” In McDougall, Bonnie S., ed.  Waves:  Stories by Bei Dao.  New York:  New Directions, 1990. p. 11, 19, 25, 69, 73 [R]

 

·         HAN Shaogong, “Homecoming?” In Kwok-Kan Tam, et al. ed.,  A Place of One’sOwn: Stories of Self in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. [R]

 

·         SU Tong, Raise the Red Lantern  In Raise the Red Lantern: Three Novellas, translated by Michael S. Duke New York: William Morrow and Co., 1993. p. 11-99. [R]