UNSW Handbook Course - Classical Chinese Literature

Classical Chinese Literature - CHIN2221


	Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
	School: Dept Chinese & Indon Studies
	Contact: Wang,Ping
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: CHIN3007 or equivalent
	Session Offered: See Class Timetable
	Fee Band: 1 (more info)

Description

The ability to read classical Chinese or wenyan is essential for a thorough understanding of Chinese language, history and culture because, after all, the main corpus of literature on these topics is written in classical Chinese. Presents an overview of China's literary tradition focussing, in particular, on literary techniques used in a variety of text types such as poetry, essays, fiction and drama.

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