Session 11: Premodern prose narratives—China: Story of the Stone, vol 1

Topics for this session

❖ Chinese premodern texts: Story of the Stone • Dream of the Red Chamber (Shitouji 石頭記 • Honglou Meng 紅樓夢) by the once-wealthy scholar Cao Xueqin (曹雪芹, 1715?–63), second of two sessions
❖ Review of the three premodern works and comments on the upcoming midterm

Thoughts*

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✓ Since this session includes a brief review (more like an organic consideration of all three texts at once), please reminder yourself of the names of important characters and basic plot lines, in order to be able to contribute to the discussion if called upon.

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