Know Your Class
Course Overview
This course offers an introduction to traditional Chinese literature from its beginnings in the first
millennium B.C. through the end of the imperial era in the early twentieth century. All readings
consist of primary texts in English translation. The pieces have been selected for their beauty and
diversity, for how they represent, complicate, question, or transcend canonical values. Within a
largely chronological framework, we will trace genealogies and transformations of motifs and themes
that cut across centuries, individual authors, and genres. In class, we will focus on the close reading
and analysis of the assigned texts, which will be discussed in their specific cultural and historical contexts.
Getting Started
The Course Guide
This course guide is created to provide research resources for projects and papers of CHN272: Literature in Early and Imperial China. The Guide includes different formatted library resources that are related to this class and most likely related to the research projects and papers the students will be working on. You can also find the resources you need from the library's website: Emory University Library
The Library staff have created this simple guide to help you learn more about the library and the services we have to offer.
To get started, find your question below and follow the links to learn more!
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Librarians are available to help you in-person or via telephone and e-mail. For immidiate help, simply stop by the Service Desk on the second floor, ask the library staff on duty there. If you'd like to set up an appointment to work with me on the resources you need for your research project or paper, please email me with your research topic and questions, we can then meet to work on them.
Here is my email address: gwang@emory.edu. You can also fill in the Schedule A Research Consultation form and set up your appointment that way as well.
