Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 199. Empresses and Consorts: Selections from Chen Shou’s Records of the Three States with Pei Songzhi’s commentary. Robert Joe Cutter and William Gordon Crowell, trans. (e-book can be accessed through the Colby Library: ) Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2007. The 2 books above are available at the bookstore. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 2012. Battles, Betrayals and Brotherhood: Early Chinese Plays on the Three Kingdoms. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999. Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel by Luo Guanzhong. Improve ability to construct a clear, coherent, and compelling written discussion of research and analysis based on primary texts in translation and related secondary scholarship.Hone analytical skills through close readings of literary texts, and works of visual art and popular culture.Learn to constructively share insights on literary works, visual art, and interactions between these two forms of creative expression.Reflect critically on the capacity of literature and visual art to reflect and shape values within Chinese and other Asian societies and our own.Become familiar with the defining characteristics and formal requirements of the major genres within traditional Chinese literature including philosophical and historical prose, poetry, drama and fiction, as we read works related to the Three Kingdoms Story Cycle.Acquire an understanding of Chinese history, culture, and society, as well as how Chinese culture has been received throughout Asia, through an exploration of the development of the Three Kingdoms Story Cycle in Chinese and other Asian literatures from around the third century BCE to the present.Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei in Peking Opera We will also be able to explore how values related to masculinity, such as leadership and heroism, and concepts connected to the human condition such as what constitutes a meaningful life, and fate versus human will, change over time and space. By tracing the migration of the Three Kingdoms story cycle over time and space students will acquire an understanding of the continuing legacy of traditional Chinese culture up until the present, and will become familiar with the defining characteristics and formal requirements of the major genres within Chinese literature. Throughout the course readings will be supplemented by examination of visual depictions of Three Kingdoms characters and events in a variety of different media. After reading the novel, we will go back in time and explore the various iterations of the story which played a part in the development of the story cycle we will also examine where and how characters and events from the story cycle appeared in literature and popular culture after the novel was published. We will begin by reading an abridged version of the most completely realized and best known account of the Three Kingdoms story cycle, the Ming novel Sanguo Yanyi translated by Moss Roberts as Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel.
This was a time of pitched battles and political intrigue which inspired thrilling stories that were told and retold during the following centuries, in China and throughout Asia. Aspiring to re-unite the empire under their rule.
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