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China: From oral to written literature; from earliest times to the invention of paper II

12 Março 2025, 11:00 • Elisabetta Colla Rosado Coelho David

The Qin “burning of books”?

Cai Lun, another Han legend?
The classics: proper guide to moral development
The importance of education and the junzi
A growing corpus of classics

  • Idema, W. L., and Lloyd Haft. 1997. A Guide to Chinese Literature. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan.
  • Nylan, Michael. 2001. The Five “Confucian” Classics. New Haven: Yale University Press. 
  • Twitchett, Denis Crispin, and John King Fairbank. 2008. The Cambridge History of China. Vol. 1, the Ch’in and Han Empires, 221 B.C.-A.D. 220. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

China: From oral to written literature; from earliest times to the invention of paper I

7 Março 2025, 11:00 • Elisabetta Colla Rosado Coelho David

China: From oral to written literature; from earliest times to the invention of paper:
Oracle bones - literature?
Bronze inscriptions
Bamboo strips - sample of classic tradition
The Hundred School of Thought
  • Idema, Wilt - Haft, Lloyd, A guide to Chinese literature. Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan, Center for Chinese studies, 1997 (Part I, Part II - ch. 9 excluded, Part III only pp. 103-113).
  • Jia Jinhua. 2004. "An Interpretation of the Term fu 賦 in Early Chinese Texts: From Poetic Form to Poetic Technique and Literary Genre". Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR). 26: 55-76.
  • Kern, Martin "Ritual, Text, and the Formation of the Canon: Historical Transitions of Wen in Early China”. T'oung Pao 87, 1 (2001): 43-91. 

The Central tradition and the legacy of Chinese language and literature: the case of Korea and Japan III

28 Fevereiro 2025, 11:00 • Elisabetta Colla Rosado Coelho David

Silk, bronze, wood, paper


  • Read: Idema, Wilt - Haft, Lloyd, A guide to Chinese literature. Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan, Center for Chinese studies, 1997.

The Central tradition and the legacy of Chinese language and literature: the case of Korea and Japan II

26 Fevereiro 2025, 11:00 • Elisabetta Colla Rosado Coelho David

wényán 文言/literary Chinese as lingua franca of East Asia in the “Sinographic Sphere” - Wiebke Denecke

  • Idema, Wilt - Haft, Lloyd, A guide to Chinese literature. Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan, Center for Chinese studies, 1997,Preface/Part I: Introduction, pp. ix-61
  • Kern, Martin "Ritual, Text, and the Formation of the Canon: Historical Transitions of Wen in Early China”. T'oung Pao 87, 1 (2001): 43-91. 

The Central tradition and the legacy of Chinese language and literature: the case of Korea and Japan

21 Fevereiro 2025, 11:00 • Elisabetta Colla Rosado Coelho David

Literary history into periods according to the material

About literariness, the author, the world, the reader, style, history, and value. What makes a work literature? Does fiction imitate reality? Is the reader present in the text? What constitutes style? Is the context in which a work is written important to its apprehension? Are literary values universal?
China - Literature and creation.

  • Idema, Wilt - Haft, Lloyd, A guide to Chinese literature. Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan, Center for Chinese studies, 1997,Preface/Part I: Introduction, pp. ix-61
  • Kern, Martin "Ritual, Text, and the Formation of the Canon: Historical Transitions of Wen in Early China”. T'oung Pao 87, 1 (2001): 43-91.