A course of four hours per week consisting of two lectures, one language class and one tutorial. Students are strongly advised to spend at least one hour each week in the language laboratory or to work on the cassette tapes which are available on loan. Cassette players may also be had on loan.
East Asian Studies it will be seen from the introduction to Chinese courses that this course is only a part (about two-thirds) of the former second year course in Chinese which it replaces. Students would, therefore, be well advised to enrol also for the half course Chinese 2A (156-211). This is particu- larly important, since that course also offers an Introduction to classical Chinese and a survey of Chinese literature in addition to the study of two further modern texts.
One of the two lectures in Chinese 2 Is on the prescribed texts, which were written in the first half of this century; the other is on translation from Chinese and on Chinese grammar and/or poetry. The language class deals with translation into Chinese, the tutorial comprises con- versation and other oral exercises such as dictation.
Before being allowed to proceed to Chinese 2, students must have obtained a pass in Chinese 1 (or exemption from it) and in East Asian Studies 1 or the first half of it. Under certain circumstances, permission may be granted by the chairman of the department to proceed to Chinese 2 and East Asian Studies simultaneously. Students may also offer History 2J or 3.1 or an approved part of Politics 2 or 3 (166-005) instead of East Asian Studies 1. Students who are exempt from Chinese 1 must satisfy the chairman of the department that they have a satisfactory command of Standard Chinese.
Whilst the study of Chinese in the first year is based on texts specially written for foreign students, the texts studied in Chinese 2 were written for Chinese readers. The transition from 'textbook Chinese' is not easy, and the department offers a special vacation course in December and February to bridge the gap.
BOOKS
(a) Prescribed texts:
•Selected stories and essays from the works of Pa Chin and Hu Shih.
(Copies of these texts may be obtained from the department.) (b) Prescribed dictionaries:
Hornby A S & Wu H C The Advanced Learner's Dictionary, Oxford University Press Hong kong
or
•Tsung-he Ying-hua Hua-ying Ta Tz'u-tien, any ed
•Liang Shih-ch'iи A New Practical Chinese-English Dictionary, The Far East Book Co Taipei
or
•Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage, The Chinese University of Hong kong, Hong kong 1972
or
Mathews R H Chinese-English Dictionary, any ed (c) Recommended for reference:
Shih Nai-an (Buck Pearl tr) All Men are Brothers, Grove Press NY Ts'ао Hsüeh-ch'in (Wang Chi-chef tr) Dream of the Red Chamber,
Twayne Publications NY or
Ts'ao Hsйeh-ch'in (Hawkes D t) The Record of the Stone, Penguin 1974
Luo Kuan-chung (Brewitt-Taylor C H tr) Romance of the Three King- doms, Tuttle Rutland 1959
Liu T'ieh-yйn (Shadlck H tr) The Travels of Lao Ts'an, Cornell UP 1952 111
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WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS
One translation from Chinese and one translation into Chinese will be set each week. Two short essays in Chinese on a topic of the student's choice will be required, one in second term and one in third term.
Each essay should be approximately 750 characters in length.
A test will be set in the first week of second and third terms. One of the objects of the tests is to prepare students for the annual examination and to show them where they stand in relation to the previous term's work. Corrected test papers will be returned to the students after the test. Written assignments and periodic short oral tests will be taken Into consideration in the examination.
EXAMINATION
One 3-hour paper on translation from and into Chinese (unseen), and on questions on the prescribed texts. An oral examination. The results of the weekly assignments, the two essays and the two term tests will be taken into consideration.
156-211 CHINESE 2A (half subject)
A course of two lectures per week throughout the year.
In one of the lectures students will study two essays or stories from the works of Ping Hsin and Lu Hsйn, the other will offer an introduction to Chinese literature in first term and an introduction to classical Chinese in the remainder of the year.
BOOKS
(a) Prescribed texts:
• Selected stories and essays from the works of Ping Hsin and Lu Hsйn (copies of these texts may be obtained from the department).
Liu Y C Fifty Chinese Stories, Lund Humphries Lend
Shih Nai-an (Buck Pearl tr) All Men are Brothers, Grove Press NY Ts'ao HsQeh-ch'ln (Wang Chi-chef tr) Dream of the Red Chamber,
Twayne Publications NY or
Ts'ao Hsйeh-ch'in (Hawkes D tr) The Record of the Stone, Penguin 1974
•Liu Wu-chi Introduction to Chinese Literature, Indiana UP 1966 (b) Prescribed dictionaries:
As for Chinese 2 (156-201) (c) Recommended for reference:
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CT The Classical Chinese Novel, Columbia UP 1968Lo Kuan-Chung Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Brewitt-Taylor C H tr), Tuttle Rutland 1959
Liu T'ieh-Yйn The Travels of Lao Ts'an (Shadick H tr), Cornell UP 1952
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS
There will be a test in the first week of second and third term. The results will be taken into account in the examination.
EXAMINATION
One 2- or 3-hour paper on the prescribed texts and on classical Chinese together with a question on а general topic in Chinese literature.
East Asian Studies