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Chinese Literature 231 Tuesday: 1 to 4p.m., 2 Divinity Avenue Room 214 Wai-yee Li, office hours: Tuesday and Wednesday, 11-noon Graduate seminar: Late-Ming literature and culture The seminar will survey a range of writings from the second half of the sixteenth century till the fall of the Ming dynasty, including prose (ancient style prose and “informal essays”), drama, and fiction. We will examine various aspects of late-Ming literary-aesthetic sensibility (and question how such a category may be justified in the first place). We will analyze and reconsider common assertions about the late Ming, such as radical subjectivity, indulgence in emotions and sensuous existence, the urbanization of culture, and shifting boundaries between refinement and vulgarity. Requirement: reading knowledge of classical and pre-modern vernacular Chinese Items with asterisk will be discussed in greater detail in the seminar. However, please try to read as much as you can. Most of the writers discussed are included in the Dictionary of Ming Biography, many are also included in the Indiana Companion to Chinese Literature (both volumes are in the reference room). Please read the relevant entries to gain a better sense of the historical context. Participants in the seminar should post comments on the readings on the website by 9p.m. on the Mondays before the class meets. Readings will be uploaded on the website. 9/18: Introduction 9/25: On being genuine *WM. Theodore De Bary, “Individualism and Humanitarianism in Late Ming Thought,” in Self and Society in Ming Thought, pp. 145-247 (ACLS Humanities e-book, available online from Hollis) 李贄 (1527-1602)﹕*童心說 (translated in Sources of Chinese Tradition, vol. 1)、題孔 子像于芝佛院《明代散文選注》pp. 259-63， 藏書世紀列傳總目前論《明六十家小品文精品》，pp. 163-65 ， 答鄧石陽《焚書》，p. 4，德業儒臣後論《藏書》，pp. 626-27，三教歸儒說《續焚書》， pp. 72-73 《李贄全集》 呂坤 (1536-1618)﹕「童心最是作人一大病」條 《呻吟語》，p. 24 江盈科(1555-1605)﹕喪我 《雪濤小說》，pp. 15-16 黃宗羲 (1610-1695)﹕。顏山農、*羅汝芳《明儒學案》, pp. 703-704, 772-773 袁宗道 (1560-1600