introducing classical chinese: a thematic...
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Introducing Classical
Chinese: A Thematic
Approach
Corey Byrnes
BLC Presentation
May 3, 2013
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Old Goals
� Linguistic Fundamentals
(grammar, syntax, lexicon)
� Philological methodology
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Hidden Assumptions?
� Adequate literary-historical
preparation
� Desire for future ‘training’ as
motivation
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Sinologists
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New Material
Literary Context Historical Context
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Finding New Goals…
� Integrating philology, literary history
and critical reading practices
� Teaching the language through the
literature and the literature
through the language
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I. Language: Myth and Science
II. Rectifying Names: Text as Medium of Truth and
Genre of Higher Reasoning
III. Writing as Calling: Sima Qian and the
biography of Qu Yuan
IV. Belles-Lettres: Theory and Praxis
V. Writing as Vehicle for the Ineffable: Zhuangzi
and Laozi
Unit Breakdown
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奚中作車蒼頡作書后稷作稼皋陶作刑
昆吾作陶夏鮌作城此六人者所作當矣
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Next Steps
� Textbook?
� Edited Volume?