Chapter 1 / An Overview of China / China, Demography of China, Geography of China, History of China, East Asia, History of the People’s Republic of China, Beijing, Population of China, List of Ethnic Groups in China, Chinese Language, Chinese dictionary, Chinese Script, Seal Script, Chinese Calligraphy, Oracle bone, Oracle Bone Script, Written Chinese, Traditional Chinese characters, Simplified Chinese characters, Varieties of Chinese, Administrative divisions of China, List of Chinese administrative divisions by population density, List of administrative divisions of Greater China by Human Development Index, List of Chinese administrative divisions by area, List of Chinese administrative divisions by illiteracy rate, List of Chinese administrative divisions by tax revenues, List of Chinese administrative divisions by population, List of Chinese administrative divisions by highest point, List of Chinese administrative divisions by life expectancy, List of Chinese administrative divisions by natural growth rate, List of Chinese administrative divisions by gender ratio, List of Chinese administrative divisions by disposable income per capita, Water supply and sanitation in China. Chinese historiography. Education in China, Religion in China, Silk Road, Landed gentry in China, Chinese nobility, Society and culture of the Han dynasty, Four occupations, Chinese cultural sphere, East Asian cultural sphere, Sinosphere, Adoption of Chinese literary culture, Literary Chinese, written vernacular Chinese, modern spoken form of Chinese, Traditional Chinese law, Five punishments, Neolithic, Neolithic Cultures of China, Bronze Age, Bronze Age Cultures of China
Chapter 2 / Traditional Chinese Philosophy / Chinese philosophy, Shen, Yin, Yang, bagua (eight trigrams), Huangdi Neijing, Shanghan Lun, Shennog Bencaojing, Compendium of Materia Medica, the Dao, Spring and Autumn, Warring States, Hundred Schools of Thought, Yi Jing (I Ching), Confucianism, Legalism, Daoism, Agriculturalism, Mohism, Chinese Naturalism, Logicians, Shang Dynasty, Zhou, Mandate of Heaven, Shangdi, Laozi, Zhuang Zhou, Daodejing, Zhuangzu, Confucius, Huang-Lao, Mozi, Hanfeizi, Guanzi, Qin Shi Huang, Han Dynasty, Six Dynasties, Xuanxue, Buddhism, Tang Dynasty, Zen Buddhism, Huineng, Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch, Song Dynasty, Neo-Confucianism, Zhang Zai, Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi, Zhu Xi, Ming Dynasty, Wang Yangming, Li Zhi, Qing Dynasty, Han learning, Six Arts, Gu Yanwu, Huang Zongxi, Dai Zhen, Duan Yucai (philology), Yan Yuan, Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao, Sun Yat-sen, Wang Guowei (historian, philologist), Luo Zhenyu (philologist), Chinese folk religion, Chinese tradition of salvation sects, White Lotus, Maitreya teachings, Luo teaching, Church of the Heaven and Earth, Chinese religions of fasting, Xiantiandao, Sanyi teaching, Zaili teaching, Shengdao, Guiyidao, Yiguandao, Haizidao, Miledadao, Yaochidao, Wanguodaodehui, Jiugongdao, Tiande, De teaching, Zhenkong teaching/Zhenkongdao, Confucian Way of the Gods, Tiandi Church, Qigong, Falungong, Changsheng teaching/Changshengdao, Tianxian miaodao, Xuanyuan teaching
Chapter 3 / Traditional Chinese Literature / Chinese literature, Shijing (Classic of Poetry), Yi jing (I Ching), Rites of Zhou, Classic of Rites, Hundred Schools of Thought, Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Confucianism, Daoism, Mohism, Legalism, Five Classics, Four Books (Analects of Confucius, Mencius, the Doctrine of the Mean, the Great Learning), Classic of History (Book of Documents (Shang Shu)), Guodian Chu Slips,Bamboo Annals, Spring and Autumn Annals,Zhan Guo Ce, Mozi, Hanfeizi, Daodejing, the Zhuangzi, Chu Ci, Qu Yuan, Song Yu, the Classic of the Perfect Emptiness (Liezi), Huainanzi, Art of War, Sun Tzu, Wujing Zongyao, Huolongjing, Zuo Zhuan, Zuo Qiuming, Sima Tan, Sima Qian, Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Yizhou Shu, Music Bureau poetry (yuefu), 19 Old Poems (Han Dynasty), Fang Yan, Shuowen Jiezi, Er Ya, Kangxi Dictionary, Ban Gu, Ban Zhao, Zizhitongjian, Sima Guang, Twenty-four Histories, Yiwen Leiju, Ouyang Xun, Linghu Defen, Chen Shuda, Tang Dynasty. Four Great Books of Song (Extensive Records of the Taiping Era, Imperial Readings of the Taiping Era, Finest Blossoms in the Garden of Literature, Prime Tortoise of the Record Bureau), Li Fang, Cefu Yuangui, Ming Dynasty, Yongle Encyclopedia, Gujin Tushu Jicheng, Shen Kuo, Dream Pool Essays, Wang Zhen, Nongshu, Song Yingxing, Tiangong Kaiwu. Wei Dynasty, Three Kingdoms, Ruan Ji, Xie Lingyun, Tao Qian (Tao Yuanming), Xiao Family, Southern Liang Dynasty, Tang Dynasty, Dunhuang manuscripts, Wang Wei, jueju, Libai, gutishi, jintishi, Du Fu, Chen Zi’ang, Wang Zhihuan, Meng Haoran, Bai Juyi, Li He, Du Mu, Wen Tingyun, Li Shangyin, Han Yu, Song Dynasty, Ouyang Xiu, Su Shi, Wang Anshi, ci form, Fan Chengda, Yuan Dynasty, qu, sanqu, Guan Hanqing, Ma Zhiyuan, Gao Ming, Zaju, Chinese Opera, Ming Dynasty, Xu Xiake, The Travel Diaries Xu Xiake, Travel Literature, Feng Menglong, Ling Mengchu, Tang Xianzu, kunqu, Mudan Ting (The Peony Pavilion), Four Great Classical Novels(Shi Nai’an, Water Margin, Luo Guanzhong, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Wu Cheng’en, Journey to the West, Cao Xueqin, Dream of the Red Chamber), Wu Jingzi, The Scholars, vernacular Chinese,Pu Songling, Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Ji Yun, Siku quanshu (Complete Library in Four Branches), Kong Shangren, The Peach Blossom Fan, kunqu, Shi Yukun, The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants, Vernacular Chinese, Classical Chinese, pre-modern Chinese literature, Zhiguai xiaoshuo, Knight-errant, Chinese mythology, Chinese mythology in popular culture
Chapter 4 / Traditional Chinese Education / History of education in China, Four Books, Five Classics, Twenty=four histories, Imperial examination, Imperial examination in Chinese mythology, Civil service examination,Academies (Shuyuan)
Chapter 5 / Traditional Science and Technology / History of Science and Technology in China, Chinese Astronomy, Agriculture in China, the Four Great Inventions, Book of Silk Great Divergence
Chapter 6 / Traditional Chinese Medicine / Herbal medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chinese philosophy, Yin, Yang, bagua (eight trigrams), Five Phases, Three Treasures, Jing, Qi, Shen, Yijing, Eight trigrams (bagua), Hexagram (I Ching), the Dao, Daodejing, Solar Terms, Celestial Stem (Heavenly Stems), Earthly Branches, Huangdi Neijing, zang-fu organs, pulse diagnosis, Five Phases, Qi, Dantian, Daoist meditation, Qigong, Neidan, external alchemy, (Zhang Zhongjing), Shanghan Lun, Shennong Bencaojing, Sun Simiao, Li Shizhen, Compendium of Materia Medica, Acupuncture, Acupuncture point, Meridian (Chinese Medicine), Acupuncture in Medicine, Acupuncture & Electro-Therapeutics Research, Moxibustion, Acupressure, Chinese ophthalmology, Chinese herbs, tuina, Chinese dietary therapy, Traditional medicine, Traditional Mongolian Medicine, Traditional Tibetan Medicine, Ayurveda, Prophetic medicine, Unani medicine, Medicine in the medieval Islamic world.
Chapter 7 / Chinese Festivals and Customs / Traditional Chinese holidays, Chinese folklore, Chinese folk art, Chinese folk religion, Chinese salvationist religions, Hanfu, Chinese folk culture village
Chapter 8 / Traditional Chinese Art / Chinese art, Chinese painting, Three perfections, List of Chinese painters, Chinese art by medium and technique, Music of China, Chinese musicology, Chinese musical notation, Chinese musicology, List of Chinese musical instruments, woodblock printing, Chinese embroidery
Chapter 9 / Traditional Chinese Architecture / Chinese architecture, Feng shui, Chinese garden, Classical gardens of Suzhou, Shan shui, Fields and Gardens poetry
Chapter 10 / Chinese Food / Chinese cuisine, Chinese regional cuisine, List of Chinese dishes, Chinese cuisine training institute, Chinese chef, Tea, Chinese tea culture, Wine in China, Chinese alcoholic beverages, Chinese food therapy
Chapter 11 / World Heritage Sites in China / List of World Heritage Sites in China
Appendix 1 / The Timeline of the History of China / Timeline of Chinese history, list of rulers in China, dynasties in Chinese history, years in China, timeline of Chinese music, Timeline of Chinese astronomy, Timeline of Chinese mythology, Eight Immortals
Appendix 2 / Heavenly Stems, Earthly Branches and Sexagenary Cycle / Celestial stem/Heavenly Stems, Earthly Branches, cycle of sixty days
Appendix 3 / Administrative Division of China / Administrative divisions of China
Appendix 4 / List of World Heritage Sites in China / List of World Heritage Sites in China
References / Sinology, epigraphy, philology, List of sinologists, Outline of sinology, History of China
At the beginning of each class (after taking attendance) I will review each chapter and then discuss the Wikipedia articles related to each chapter. It may be impossible to cover each article. However articles may be clustered according to subject and then assigned to a student to read and to introduce in an oral presentation to the class.
I will ask students in both classes to select articles from among the above listed Wikipedia entries. Once an article is assigned to a student, no one else will be able to choose the same article(s). After each student has been assigned an article/articles, he/she will be required to do research based on the subject of the article and give a an oral report in class, along with a written report which will be handed in for grading. I will ask two students to give short presentations each class on the subjects which they have been assigned and which are listed to the right of each chapter in the table above. In addition, I will ask students of various nationalities to report on Chinese studies and Chinese scholars who are from their countries and who write in their native language: they can read the articles on and related to Sinology to get information on Chinese studies in their respective countries/languages.
As we discussed, we can arrange one or two field trips (as available time and course scheduling may permit) to relevant cultural venues such as museums, historical sites, etc. As you suggested, this may be an optional activity for which a student may receive extra credit.
I want to get every student involved in this class and develop their continuing interest in Chinese culture by giving them knowledge which will motivate them to engage in ongoing self-study and research related to Chinese culture after they finish the course.