Chinese Lit

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Confucian classics

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1. Shu Ching: Book of History
2. Shi Ching: Book of Odes
3. I Ching: Book of Changes
4. Li Chi: Book of Rites
5. Ch'u Ch'iu: Spring and Autum Annals

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Four Books

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1. Analects of Confucius: sayings of Confucius
2. Great Learning: moral philosophy for rulers
3. Doctrine of the Mean: human mind
4. Book of Mencius: commentary on righteous ruler qualities

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Shih poems, early Han

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irregular poetry, usually criticisms on government

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Shih poems, later Han

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-5 characters w/ caesura after 2nd or 7 with caesura after 5th
-even lines have end rhyme

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Fu Poetry

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-long descriptions w/ varying line length and interludes in prose
-early Han more politics
-later Han shallow and less realistic
-often in Q and A form

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Yueh Fu

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-literally Bureau that collected folk songs
-came to mean songs themselves
1st irregular style, then regulated
-subjects border duty or farming
-ex. I watered my horse at the long wall caves

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Epistolary Form

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-Poetry and Lit form using letters
-prefered style in many Chinese poems

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Poem: I Watered my Horse at the Long Wall Caves

Give: Author, Style, and Subject

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Author: Ch'en Li

Style: Han Dynasty Fu, more specifically Yueh Fu

Subject: 1st Half=man's discontent about cold, uncertainty, and monotony.
2nd half=dialogue/letters between man and wife. Man doubts he will return and asks her to find a new husband. She responds lovingly with loyalty. He tells her sons have no future, so to only give resources to daughters. She responds steadfast in loyalty, but near breaking point.

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Roman-Fleuves

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Novels that chronical a family or social group

Ex. The Good Earth and its 2 sequels