Apr 20, 2025  
2024-2025 Catalogue 
    
2024-2025 Catalogue

CHIN 31100 - Advanced Chinese I: Journey to the West

Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
(EAST)
This class will center on reading selections from The Journey to the West, one of the greatest and most popular Chinese novels. The focus of the class will be on linguistic and literary analysis, with particular attention to the central religious/philosophical issues raised by the text - concerns about the value of desire, the role of fate in our lives, the nature of temptation, searching for meaning in life, and so on. Prerequisite(s): CHIN-30100 Annually. [AH, R]