Chinese literature before 100 A.D.: the Chuci

6 Março 2026, 11:00 • Elisabetta Colla Rosado Coelho David

• The Chuci - compendium of ancient Chinese poetic songs from the southern Kingdom of Chu
• Lisao Qu Yuan

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

Sima, Qian, William H. Nienhauser, and Tsai Fa Cheng. 1994. The grand scribe's records. Volume I, Volume I. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Sukhu, Gopal. 2012. The shaman and the heresiarch: a new interpretation of the Li sao. Albany: State University of New York Press, pp. 1-38

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Chinese literature before 100 A.D.:the Shijing

4 Março 2026, 11:00 • Elisabetta Colla Rosado Coelho David

[*Reading - Canon of Yao - Shujing]

• How to read the Chinese poetry: Shijing (Maoshi)
• “On the Mountain Is the Thorn-Elm” 
• “The Grove at Zhu”
• “The Peach Tree Tender”

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

Nylan, Michael. 2014. The Five “Confucian” Classics. [New Haven]: Yale University Press

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Chinese literature before 100 A.D.: the Historical Prose and the Philosophers

27 Fevereiro 2026, 11:00 • Elisabetta Colla Rosado Coelho David

• Music
• The hundred schools of thought 
• Education and the Central Tradition

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

Center for Chinese studies, 1997 (Part I, Part II - ch. 9 excluded, Part III only pp. 103-113).

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. 

Cheng, Anne. 2014. Histoire de la pensée chinoise. Paris: Éditions du Seuil. https://archive.org/details/histoiredelapens0000anne 

Nylan, Michael. 2014. The Five “Confucian” Classics. [New Haven]: Yale University Press.

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

25 Fevereiro 2026, 11:00 • Elisabetta Colla Rosado Coelho David

• Ritual Text Canon (wen and jing)
• The Origins of Chinese Writing
• Silk, bronze/stone, wood, paper 
• Print
• East Asian Sinographic Sphere 

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

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. 

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The Central tradition and the legacy of Chinese language and literature

20 Fevereiro 2026, 11:00 • Elisabetta Colla Rosado Coelho David

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

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