| Course Title: Advanced Seminar: 'Love, Gender-Crossing, and Women's Supremacy: A Reading of The Story of the Stone' |
| Start Date: 01/23/2024 End Date: 05/07/2024 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2024 |
| Description: A seminar on the eighteenth-century Chinese masterpiece The Story of the Stone and selected literary criticism in response to this work. Discussions will focus on love, gender-crossing, and women's supremacy and the paradoxical treatments of these themes in the novel. We will explore multiple aspects of these themes, including the sociopolitical, philosophical, and literary milieus of eighteenth-century China. We will also examine this novel in its relation to Chinese literary tradition in general and the generic conventions of premodern Chinese vernacular fiction in particular. |
| Distribution(s): I - Humanities , MP - Multicultural Perspectives , SI - Speaking-Intensive , WI - Writing-Intensive , TP - Topics Course |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate     | Credits:4.00     |
| Faculty         | Phone         | Email address         |
| Ying Wang   | 413-538-2281   | yingwang@mtholyoke.edu   |
| Meeting Dates         | Method         | Meeting days         | Meeting times         | Building name         | Room     | Frequency     |
| 01/23/2024 - 05/07/2024   | Seminar   | Wednesday   | 01:30PM - 04:20PM   | CIRU - Ciruti   | 202   | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses         | ||
| Prereq: 8 credits in Asian Studies or Gender Studies. | Take previously   | Required   |
| Comments         |
| Additional Comments         |
| Course Tags         | ||
| EASIA0001   | EASIA: East Asian Studies major   | This course has been approved to count towards the East Asian Studies major.   |
| ASIAN0001   | ASIAN: Asian Studies minor   | This course has been approved to count towards the Asian Studies minor.   |
| Cross-listed Sections         |
| ASIAN-340-01 The Story of the Stone   |
| GNDST-333HH-01 The Story of the Stone   |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open     | Capacity: 18     | Enrollment: 15     | Available: 3     | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List         | Required         | Publisher Full Price         |
| To be determined. |           |           |
| Additional Book Comments         |
| This is NOT the complete book list for this class.   |