Sumários

FU, literary critics and Tao Qian

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

  • Yuefu the imperial music bureau and Fu (the descriptive poetic form blending prose and verse).
  • Wenxuan - one of the earliest and most influential anthologies of Chinese literature (a selection - xuan - of exemplary works across different genres).
  • Wenxin Diaolong - literary criticism and Liu Xie. The relationship between emotion, language, and artistic form in literature.
  • Tao Qian and the rejection of official life (reading: “Record of the Peach Blossom Spring”).

Jia, Jinhua. 2004. "An Interpretation of the Term fu ? in Early Chinese Texts: From Poetic Form to Poetic Technique and Literary Genre".Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR). 26: 55-76. 

Knechtges, David R. (2015). "Wen xuan", in Cynthia L. Chennault, et al., eds. Early Medieval Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide (Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley), 381-388. 

Knechtges, David R., ed. 2021. Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature Online: A Research Guide. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill.

Victor H Mair-The Shorter Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature 2000, pp. 364-366

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

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

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.

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.