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Readings

Required Texts
Outlaws of the Marsh. Abridged Version. Translated by Sidney Shapiro. Quarry Bay, Hong Kong: Commercial Press, 1986.

Monkey. Translated by Arthur Waley. New York: Grove Press, 1984.

Plum in the Golden Vase. Translated by David Tod Roy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993.

Cao Xueqin. Story of the Stone. 5 Vols. Translated by David Hawkes. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1979-1987.

Wang Shifu. Story of the Western Wing. Edited and translated with an introduction by Stephen H. West and Wilt L. Idema. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

Tang Xianzu. The Peony Pavilion. Translated by Cyril Birch. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002.
Recommended Texts
Stephen Owen, ed. and trans. An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996.

Luo Guanzhong. Three Kingdoms. Translated and edited by Moss Roberts. New York: Pantheon, 1976.

Shen Fu. Six Records of a Floating Life. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983.
Additional Readings (from Course Packet)
"An Account of the Governor of the Southern Branch." Chap. 208 in The Shorter Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature. Edited by Victor H. Mair. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.

"Artisan Ts'ui and his Ghost Wife." In Traditional Chinese Stories: Themes and Variations. Edited by Y.W. Ma and Joseph S.M. Lau. Boston: Cheng & Tsui, 1986, pp. 252-263.

"The Canary Murders." Chap. 210 in The Shorter Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature. Edited by Victor H. Mair. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.

"The Cricket."

"The Female Chen Ping Saves Her Life . . ." In Li Yu. Silent Operas. Edited by Patrick Hanan. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1990.

"A Fox Dream." By Pu Songling.

"The Human Prodigy." In Traditional Chinese Stories: Themes and Variations. Edited by Y.W. Ma and Joseph S.M. Lau. Boston: Cheng & Tsui, 1986.

"Kingdom of Women." Episode, Chap. 54-55.

"The Lady Knight-Errant." In Traditional Chinese Stories: Themes and Variations. Edited by Y.W. Ma and Joseph S.M. Lau. Boston: Cheng & Tsui, 1986, pp. 77-81.

"A Male Mencius's Mother Raises her Son Properly." In Li Yu. Silent Operas. Edited by Patrick Hanan. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1990.

"Miss Yan." In Traditional Chinese Stories: Themes and Variations. Edited by Y.W. Ma and Joseph S.M. Lau. Boston: Cheng & Tsui, 1986.

"The Painted Wall." In Pu Songling. Strange Tales of Liaozhai. Hong Kong: Commercial Press, 1982.

"The Pearl Shirt Reencountered." In Traditional Chinese Stories: Themes and Variations. Edited by Y.W. Ma and Joseph S.M. Lau. Boston: Cheng & Tsui, 1986, pp. 264-292.

"The Taoist of Lao Mountain."

"An Ugly Husband Fears a Pretty Wife." In Li Yu. Silent Operas. Edited by Patrick Hanan. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1990.

Zhuangzi (Chuang-tzu) selection.
Film Clips
Chen Kaige. Farewell My Concubine. 1993.

Ang Lee. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. 2000.