Description: Seminar, three hours. Preparation: reading knowledge of colloquial and literary Chinese. Seminar topics alternate yearly between traditional narrative and drama, with emphasis on generic, hermeneutical, and historical approaches. Topics in narrative selected from genres from Chou through Ch'ing periods. Topics in drama selected from tsa-chü and ch'uan-ch'i. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. In Progress grading (credit to be given only on completion of course 245B).

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