Undergraduate Seminar
HIS 350L-X97 (Unique # NNNNN) & ANS NNN (Unique #NNNNN)
Wed. 3:00-6:00 p.m.
PAR 204
Prof. Roger Hart
Office: Garrison 405
Office hours:TBA
Office phone: 475-7258
Email: rhart@mail.utexas.edu
This course will examine the earliest extant Chinese texts in their cultural context. Readings will include selections from divinatory texts, early histories, poetry, mathematical, astronomical, and medical treatises, and early philosophical texts, including Daoism, Confucianism, Mohism, and Legalism. This course is a substantial writing component course.
Class attendance is mandatory.
This is a "substantial writing component" course. Students may choose one of the following two options:
(1) Before class write a brief summary of the readings, to be handed in at the beginning of class. Notes on each of the readings should usually be two short paragraphs -- one summarizing the central argument and one offering critical analysis -- for a total of 2 to 3 pages per week. Students should complete notes for two of three readings per week, and for ten of the fifteen weeks. These will be graded and will serve as the basis for class discussions. For more specific instructions, see "Reading Notes: Suggested Approaches." Grading: reading assignments 80%, class participation 20%.
(2) Complete a final paper of 20 pages (25 pages for graduate students). Students should consult me as early as possible on possible topics. An outline and bibliography are due by the eighth week; a first draft must be turned in by the twelfth week; and the final draft is due on the final day of class. For more specific instructions, see "Writing Term Papers." Grading: final paper 80%, class participation 20%.
All readings will be available through electronic reserves:http://reserves.lib.utexas.edu (this electronic reserves page is password-protected; please email me if you need the password). Also, please bookmark this syllabus -- I may make adjustments in the readings as the semester progresses.
These readings will include selections from the following primary texts:
Shang oracle bones
Zhou inscriptions
Classic of Changes (Shaughnessy, Lynn for Wang Bi)
Classic of Documents (in Legge, Chinese Classics)
Classic of Poetry (Karlgren)
Classic of Rites, including Mean, Music, Great Learning (Legge)
Spring and Autumn Annals, Zuo, Guliang, and Lü Commentaries (in Legge, Chinese
Classics?)
Analects (Legge, Brooks)
Mencius
Laozi, Classic of the Way and Power (Hendricks?)
Zhuangzi (Graham, Watson)
Mozi (?)
Xunzi (Knobloch, Dubs)
Legalists: Guanzi (Rickett), Book of Lord Shang (trans. Duyvendak), Han Feizi, Li Si's memorials
Sunzi's Art of War
Huang-Lao ms.
Nine Chapters of the Mathematical Arts
Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor
Record of the Grand Historian
Inner Alchemy (Bao puzi), trans. Ware
Keightley, Sources.
Shaugnessy, Sources of Zhou, selections.
Shaughnessy, Edward L. New Sources of Early Chinese History: An Introduction to the Reading of Inscriptions and Manuscripts. Berkeley: The Society for the Study of Early China and The Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 1997.
Classic of Changes ( Yi jing ), trans. I Ching: The Classic of Changes, trans. Edward Shaughnessy (New York: Ballantine Books, 1997).
The Elemental Changes: The Ancient Companion to the I Ching: The T'ai Hsuan China, trans. Michael Nylan (Albany: SUNY Press, 1995).
Classic of Poetry (Shi jing, middle -5c to the late -4c), ed. and trans. B. Karlgren (Stockholm: Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, 1950), selections.
Classic of Documents (Shang shu 尚書, middle -4c). Trans. Shu ching. The book of documents [i.e.] the Shu king. A word-for-word translation of all authentic chapters, by Bernhard Karlgren. Göteborg, Elanders Boktryckeri Aktiebolag, 1950.
Creel, H., Studies in Early Chinese Culture . Baltimore: Waverly Press, 1937. pp. 55-89.
Karlgren, Bernhard, "The Book of Documents," BMFEA 22 (1950) 1-81.
Nylan, Michael, The Shifting Center: The Original "Great Plan" and Later Readings . Sankt Augustin: Institute Monumenta Serica, 19.
Records of Rites (Li ji , c. 400? BCE to 100? CE), selections, including Record of Music (Yue ji ), Mean (Da xue ) and Great Learning (Zhong yong ): Legge, James, The Texts of Confucianism. Li Ki . Oxford, 1885.
Analects (Lun yu , c. 500? to 250? BCE), attributed to Confucius (Kongzi , 551-479 BCE), selections. Trans. in Brooks, E. Bruce and A. Takeo Brooks, trans., The Original Analects: Sayings of Confucius and His Successors . N.Y. Columbia University Press, 1998.
Van Norden, ed. Confucius and the Analects: New Essays
-350 to 250 Classic of the Way and Power: Hendricks
Mark Csikszentmihalyi and Philip J. Ivanhoe, eds., Essays on Religious and Philosophical Aspects of the Laozi (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1999).
Livia Kohn and Michael LaFargue, eds., Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1998)
-350 to 50 Zhuangzi
Warring States: Nine Chapters of the Mathematical Arts
50 bc to 100 AD Zhou Bi, trans. Cullen
-1c Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor
-345 to c-272 Sunzi Art of War
Zuo Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals (). Trans. Legge, James, The Ch'un Ts'eu, with Tso Chuen . London: Trubner, 1872. The Chinese Classics , Vol. V.
Lü Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals (-239 and later, Lü shi Chun Qiu ), attributed to Lü Buwei (d. 235 B.C.). Trans. The annals of Lü Buwei (d. 235 B.C.)/ , a complete translation and study by John Knoblock and Jeffrey Riegel Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2000
Karlgren, Bernhard, On the Authenticity and Nature of the Tso Chuan . Goteborg: Elanders Boktryckeri Aktiebolag, 1926.
Kennedy, George, "Interpretation of the Ch'un Ch'iu." JAOS 62 (1942) 40-48
Queen, Sarah, From Chronicle to Canon: The Hermeneutics of the Spring and Autumn Annals, According to Tung Chung-shu . Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Xunzi, 340-245 B.C.. Xunzi. English. Xunzi : a translation and study of the complete works / , John Knoblock. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c1988-c1994. 3 v.
Paul Rakita Goldin, Rituals of the way: the philosophy of Xunzi (Chicago, Ill. : Open Court, 1999).
-4c to Han: Guanzi and Han Feizi
Rickett, Allyn W., The Kuan-tzu, A Repository of Early Chinese Thought . Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1965.
---, Guanzi: Political, Economic, and Philosophical Essays from Early China . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.
-4c to -2c Mozi
Mencius (Mengzi ??, c. 300? to 250? BCE), attributed to Mencius (385?-312? BCE), selections.
Philip J. Ivanhoe and Bryan W. Van Norden, eds., Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy (New York: Seven Bridges Press, 2001): new translations of some of the central works by major early Chinese philosophers-Kongzi (Confucius), Mozi, Mengzi (Mencius), Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, and Han Feizi.
de Bary, Sources.
Wing Tsit-Chan.
Benjamin Elman, "9. Bibliography of Classics and Chinese Literature in Translation with Recent Related Histories for Exercise" http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/elman/ClassBib/09class.htm
Brian Van Norden, "Philosophy 110-01 Early Chinese Philosophy" http://faculty.vassar.edu/brvannor/Phil110/