CHINESE CULTURE AND LITERATURE 1

knowledge and understandig: general overview of the historical, philosophical and artistic basic themes and issues of Chinese civilization for understanding the events and critical debate on the classical Chinese literature, from its origins to the thirteenth century.

applying knowledge and understanding: Students will be able to understand and relate main historical events in the cultural and literary fields.

making judgement: students will be able to obtain critical skills with the chinese reality, in different context of everyday life and professional life.

communication skills: students will be able to express their ideas, projects and results obtained in a complex and articulated way.

learning skills: students will be able to interact with different professional and cultural contexts. They know how to interpret, understand and use independently their expressive capabilities.

frontal lessons

The course will focus on the learning of the necessary theoretical and practical means to understand the evolution of Chinese literature, from the beginnings to Song dynasty. The students are required to study the historical, philosophical and artistic contexts and the critical analysis of most representative literary works. The active participation in class will be strongly encouraged. In addition to the reference manuals, the teacher will submit additional materials during the semester

The main topics to be studied are:

- The first forms of writing

- The oracular inscriptions

- The oldest literary works: Shujing, Shijing, Yijing

-The historical literature: from the Chunqiu to the Shiji and Hanshu

- Analysis of the structure of dynastic stories starting from Shiji

-The philosophical literature: from the Spring and Autumn to the Tang era

- Reading and commenting on passages from the Daodejing, from the Dialogues of Confucius and from the works of Mencius and Zhuangzi

-The poetry of the North and the poetry of the South

-The Han literature

-The Shi, Fu and Yuefu

-The literature between the Han and the Tang

- The Chuanqi

-The Ci

-The Shi from the Tang era

-The most important Tang poets

-Literature from the Song era

1. Cheng A., Storia del pensiero cinese, Einaudi, Torino, 2000. (fino al cap. XIX incluso)
2. Bertuccioli G. La Letteratura Cinese L’asino d'oro, Roma, 2013 (fino al cap. V incluso) oppure Idema W. e Haft L., Letteratura cinese, Cafoscarina, Venezia, 2000 (fino al cap. XVII incluso);
3. Meccarelli M., Antica Cina. Archeologia sulla via del Tao, Archeo Monografie, Settembre 2014.
4. Two readings chosen from the following groups (A-F).

​A) Andreini A., a cura di, Laozi. Daodejing. Il canone della Via e della Virtù, Einaudi, Torino, 2018;

Cadonna A. a cura di, Liezi. La scrittura reale del vuoto abissale e della potenza suprema, Torino, Einaudi, 2008;

Crisma A. a cura di, Neiye, il Tao dell’armonia interiore, Garzanti, Milano, 2015;​​​​

Paolillo M., Il Daoismo. Storia, dottrina e pratiche, Carocci, Roma 2014;

Sabbadini S.A. a cura di, Chuang-tzu : (Zhuang-zi), Urra, Milano, 2012;

B) Lippiello T., a cura di, Confucio. Dialoghi, Einaudi, Torino, 2003;

Lippiello T., a cura di, La costante pratica del giusto mezzo. Zhongyong, Marsilio, Venezia, 2010;

Scarpari M. Il confucianesimo. I fondamenti e i testi. Einaudi, Torino, 2010;

Scarpari M., Mencio e l'arte di governo, Marsilio, Venezia, 2013;

C) Andreini A. e Biondi M., a cura di, Sun Tzu. L’arte della Guerra, Einaudi, Torino, 2011;

D) Duyvendak J.J.L. (a cura di), Il Libro del Signore di Shang, Milano, Adelphi, 1989;

Kado G. a cura di, Han Feizi, Einaudi, Torino, 2016.

E) Baccini Giulia, a cura di, I sette savi del bosco di bambù. Personalità eccentriche nella Cina medievale, Testo cinese a fronte, Marsilio, 2016​

Bisetto B. (a cura di), Il laccio scarlatto, Marsilio, Venezia, 2010;

Lu Ji, L'arte della scrittura, Guanda, Parma, 2002​

Ban Zhao Precetti per le donne e altri trattati cinesi di comportamento femminile Einaudi, Torino, 2011

Pirazzoli M., Intenti poetici. Poesia, poeti e generi poetici della Cina classica dalle origini alla dinastia Tang, Ananke, Torino, 2016;

Stirpe L., Come una piena a primavera che scorre verso oriente, il canzoniere di Li Yu (937-978), Libreria Editrice Orientalia, Roma, 2015;

F) Zacchetti S., Fazang, Trattato sul leone d'oro, Esedra, Padova, 2000

Zacchetti S. (a cura di), Storie delle sei perfezioni. Racconti scelti dal Liu du ji jing, Marsilio, Venezia, 2013;

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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.