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1 HUMA 2480: Daily Life in Imperial China Lecture hours: Mon 15:00-16:50, Room 2407 (Lift 17-18) Tutorial: Mon 17:00-17:50, Room 2407 (Lift 17-18) Medium of instruction: English [C] [Some required and further readings are in Chinese] Instructor: Dr. CHEN, Fong-fong Office hours: By appointment Room 3332 Teaching Assistant: TAN, Nan I. Course Description How can we understand and analyze the daily life of people in the imperial past? This course explores everyday life and social roles in the Ming and Qing periods. By looking at images of figures, things and daily scenes, it examines the urban and cultural life of men and women from the imperial court, the gentry class, the merchant class and the lower class. Topics to be covered will include perspectives from literati painters, calligraphers, anonymous artisans, connoisseurs, collectors and clients. It intends to develop students ability to understand the narratives of daily life in the imperial past. Emphasis will be placed on the discussion of images of everyday life in relation to their cultural meanings within specific socio-historical contexts. II. Intended Learning Outcomes On completion of this course, students should be able to 1. Demonstrate familiarity with the narrative of pre-modern Chinese daily life through visual images 2. Demonstrate basic analytical capacity and independent thinking of humanistic subject 3. Develop communication and presentation skills in both oral and written essays 4. Develop ability of team work III. Course Requirements Participation includes lectures and tutorials. Students must read the required readings before the relevant lecture and are encouraged to discuss the required readings during the lecture and tutorial. Students are required to take 2 quizzes, to participate in group presentations, and to submit an individual written assignment. Attendance and Participation (10%): Students are required to participate in lectures, tutorials, and a museum visit. Attendance at the museum visit, which will be held on Saturday, October 22, is required. Arrangements will be announced in due course. Quizzes (40%): There will be two quizzes in this course, each counting as 20% of your grade. They will include multiple choice questions, short answer questions, and one essay question.

2 Group Presentation (25%): Students will work in teams for tutorial class discussions. A list of tutorial groups will be confirmed on Week 3, September 19. Students should bring hard copies of the week s readings to class for the purposes of discussion. * Museum Visit Discussion (5%): Students are required to report and discuss their museum visit experience in groups on Tuesday, October 24. Every group will submit a summary of their discussions (less than 500 words). * Assigned Reading Presentation (15%): Students will form groups to give presentations in the tutorial class on Weeks 5, 9, 11, 12. Every group is required to introduce and discuss one particular assigned reading, followed by Q&A. Students are encouraged to work in groups from the beginning of the course. * Bonus points (5%) will be given to those actively contribute to the discussions. Individual Written Assignment (25%): Students are required to explore a focus topic regarding daily life in the imperial past that may or may not be covered in the course. Students will submit a double-spaced, 12-point font, 5- to 8-page research paper with footnotes and a bibliography of at least five academic sources. Students are encouraged to use visual evidence to illustrate their points. Reference images and bibliography do not count toward the 5-8 pages. Students should give thought to the specific socio-cultural contexts of the images/objects/texts of daily life they choose as examples. Alternatively, students may submit an exhibition proposal. Please upload your work to the course Canvas site no later than December 8, 2016 (Thursday). Late submission will not be marked. For HUMA guidelines on reference citation in research papers, please refer to the following link: Academic honesty: IV. Grading 2 Quizzes 40 Quiz 1 (Sept. 26): MC and short questions Quiz 2 (Nov. 7): One essay question Group Presentation 25 Museum Visit Discussion (Oct. 24) Assigned Reading Presentation Class Participation 10 Individual Written Assignment 25 Total 100 V. Class Schedule and Topics Week Date Topic Date Topic/ Tutorial 1 Sept. 5 Introducing Daily Life: Word, Image and Object 2 Sept. 12 Visualizing Urban Life I 3 Sept. 19 Visualizing Urban Life II 4 Sept. 26 Images of Women s Life in Inner Chambers and Gardens I Sept. 26 Quiz 1 2

3 5 Oct. 3 Images of Women s Life in Inner Chambers and Gardens II 6 Oct. 10 Chung Yeung Festival Holiday (No Class) 7 Oct. 17 No Lecture and tutorial class ** Oct. 22 (Sat.) Oct. 3 Tutorial 1 Museum Visit: The Art Museum, Chinese University of Hong Kong Double Beauty III: Qing Dynasty Couplets from the Lechangzai Xuan Collection ( ) 8 Oct. 24 Text and Calligraphy in Everyday Life I Oct. 24 Tutorial 2 9 Oct. 31 Text and Calligraphy in Everyday Life II Oct. 31 Tutorial 3 10 Nov. 7 Women s Clothes and Everyday Shoes Nov. 7 Quiz 2 11 Nov. 14 Painters Livelihood Nov. 14 Tutorial 4 12 Nov. 21 The Pleasures of Leisure Nov. 21 Tutorial 5 13 Nov. 28 Concluding Lecture: The Art Market VI. Weekly Readings Week Sept. 5 Introduction: Word, Image and Object 1 Required readings: Ebrey, Patricia Buckley. "Introduction to a Symposium on the Visual Dimensions of Chinese Culture." Asia Major New Series 3 12, part 1 (1999): 1-7. Ebrey, Patricia Buckley. "The Limits of Autocracy: The Ming Dynasty." In The Cambridge Illustrated History of China, by Patricia Buckley Ebrey, New York: Cambridge University Press, Ebrey, Patricia Buckley. "Manchus and Imperialism: The Qing Dynasty." In The Cambridge Illustrated History of China, by Patricia Buckley Ebrey, New York: Cambridge University Press, Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. In Ways of Seeing, by John Berger, Chap. 1. New York: Penguin Books, Week Sept. 12 Visualizing Urban Life I 2 Required readings: Cahill, James. "The Artists' Repertories." In Pictures for Use and Pleasure: Vernacular Painting in High Qing China, by James Cahill, Berkeley: University of California Press, Vinograd, Richard Ellis. Measuring Everyday Life. In Chinese Art & Culture, by Vinograd Ellis Richard and Robert L. Thorp, New York: Abrams, Cahill, James. Recognizing Vernacular Painting. In Pictures for Use and Pleasure: Vernacular Painting in High Qing China, by James Cahill, Berkeley: University of California Press, Week Sept. 19 Visualizing Urban Life II 3 Required readings: Murray, Julia. What is Chinese Narrative Illustration?' The Art Bulletin 80, no. 4 (December 1998): Tsao, Hsingyuan. Unraveling the Mystery of the Handscroll Qingming shanghe tu. Journal of SungYuan Studies 33 (2003):

4 Hansen, Valerie. The Beijing Qingming Scroll and its Significance for the Study of Chinese History. Journal of Song-Yuan Studies 26 (1996): Murray, Julia. Water Under a Bridge: Further Thoughts on the Qingming Scroll." Journal of SungYuan Studies 27 (1997): Week Sept. 26 Images of Women s Life in Inner Chambers and Gardens I 4 Required readings: Cahill, James. "Beautiful Women and the Courtesan Culture." In Pictures for Use and Pleasure: Vernacular Painting in High Qing China, by James Cahill, Berkeley: University of California Press, Quiz 1 MC and short questions Week Oct. 3 Images of Women s Life in Inner Chambers and Gardens II 5 Required readings: White, Julia. "Educated and Probably Dangerous Women in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- Century Chinese Painting." In Beauty Revealed: Images of Women in Qing Dynasty Painting, by James Cahill, Sarah Handler and Julia White, Ko, Dorothy. "Pursuing Talent and Virtue: Education and Women's Culture in 17th and 18th Century China." Late Imperial China 13, no. 1 (June 1992): Wei, Yong (fl ). "Delight in Adornment (Yuerong bian)." Xu, Zhen (fl ). "Manual of Beautiful Women ("Meiren pu")." Cahill James. "Paintings done for women in Ming-Qing China." Nan Nü 8, no. 1 (2006): Images and catalogue entries in Beauty Revealed: Images of Women in Qing Dynasty Chinese Painting, by James Cahill, Sarah Handler and Julia White. Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Tutorial (1) Assigned reading: Laing, Ellen Johnston. "Erotic Themes and Romantic Heroines Depicted by Ch'iu Ying." Archives of Asian Art 49 (1996): Week 6 Oct. 10 Chung Yeung Festival (No Class) Week Oct. 17 No Lecture and tutorial class 7 ** Oct. 22 Saturday Museum Visit The Art Museum, Chinese University of Hong Kong Double Beauty III: Qing Dynasty Couplets from the Lechangzai Xuan Collection ( ) Week Oct. 24 Text and Calligraphy in Everyday Life (1) 8 Required readings: Clunas, Craig. "The Word on the Streets: Cultures of Text." In Empire of Great Brightness: Visual and Material Cultures of Ming China, , by Craig Clunas, London: Reaktion Books Ltd., Clunas, Craig. "Wen: The Arts of Peace." In Ming: 50 Years that Changed China, Seattle: University of Washington Press, Tutorial (2) Museum visit discussion Double Beauty III: Qing Dynasty Couplets from the Lechangzai Xuan 4

5 Collection Week Oct. 31 Text and Calligraphy in Everyday Life (2) 9 Required readings: Bai, Qianshen. Calligraphy for Negotiating Everyday Life: The Case of Fu Shan ( ). Asia Major New Seris 3 12, no. 1 (1999): Bai, Qianshen. Yugu weitu yu Juanjuan fawu: Guanyu Zhonguo shufazhong jingdianxing wenti de sikao (Reflections on the issue of canonicity in Chinese calligraphy), expanded edition. Beijing: Rongbaozhai chubanshe, Tutorial (3) Assigned reading: Shi, Shou-ch'ien. "Calligraphy as Gift: Wen Cheng-ming's ( ) Calligraphy and the Formation of Soochow Literati Culture." In Character and Context in Chinese Calligraphy, edited by Cary Y. Liu, Dora C.Y. Ching and Judith G. Smith, Princeton: Art Museum, Princeton University, Week Nov. 7 Women s Clothes and Everyday Shoes 10 Required readings: Finnane, Antonia. "Fashions in Late Imperial China." In Changing Clothes in China: Fashion, History, Nation, by Antonia Finnane, New York: Columbia University Press, Cahill, James. "The Three Zhangs, Yangzhou Beauties, and the Manchu Court." Orientations 27, no. 9 (Oct. 1996): Futher readings: National Palace Museum. Catalogue of the Exhibition of Ch'ing Dynasty Costume Accessories. Taipei: National Palace Museum, Vollmer, John E, Elinor Pearlstein, and Christa C. Mayer Thurman. Clothed to Rule the Universe: Ming and Qing Dynasty Textiles at the Art Institute of China. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago in association with University of Washington Press, Ko, Dorothy. "Bodies of Work." In Every Step A Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet, by Dorothy Ko, Berkeley; Toronto, Ont: University of California Press.: Bata Shoe Museum Foundation, Ko, Dorothy. "Origins." In Every Step A Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet, by Dorothy Ko, Berkeley; Toronto, Ont: University of California Press.: Bata Shoe Museum Foundation, Quiz 2 One essay question Week Nov. 14 Painters Livelihood 11 Required readings: Cahill, James. "The Painter's Livelihood." In The Painter's Practice: How Artists Lived and Worked in Traditional China, by James Cahill, New York: Columbia University Press, Laing, Ellen Johnston. "Women Painters in Traditional China." In Flowering in the Shadows: Women in the History of Chinese and Japanese Painting, edited by Marsha Weidner, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, Watt, James, and et al. The Chinese Scholar's Studio: Artistic Life in the Late Ming Period: An Exhibition from the Shanghai Museum. Edited by Chu-tsing Li and James Watt. New York: The Asia Society Galleries in association with Thames and Hudson,

6 Li Shi. Ming Qing guige huihua yanjiu. Beijing: Forbidden City Press, Laing, Ellen Johnston. "Wives, Daughters, and Lovers: Three Ming Dynasty Women Painters." In Views from Jade Terrace: Chinese Women Artists, , by Marsha Weidner and et al., Indianapolis, Ind.: Indianapolis Museum of Art; New York: Rizzoli,1988. Tutorial (4) Assigned reading: Brown, Claudia. "Accomplished Women." In Great Qing: Painting in China, , by Claudia Brown, Seatle; London: University of Washington Press, Week Nov. 21 The Pleasures of Leisure 12 Required readings: Clunas, Craig. "Pleasure, Play and Excess." In Empire of Great Brightness: Visual and Material Cultures of Ming China, , by Clunas Craig, London: Reaktion Books Ltd, Brook, Timothy. "The Artful Life of the Late-Ming Recluse: Li Rihua and his Generation." In The Artful Recluse: Painting, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth- Century China, Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Munich: Delmonico Books/Prestel, Shen, Fu. "The Pleasures of Leisure." In Six Records of a Floating Life, by Fu Shen, translated by Leonard Pratt and Su-hui Chiang. London: Penguin Books, Li, Yu. Xianqing ouji (Leisure Notes). Hangzhou: Zhejiang guji chubanshe; zhejiang sheng xinhua shudian faxing, Tutorial (5) Assigned reading: Cheng, Weikun. "In Search of Leisure: Women's Festivities in Late Imperial Beijing." Chinese Historical Review 14, no. 1 (2007): Week Nov. 28 Concluding Lecture : The Art Market 13 Required readings: Liang, Ellen Johnston. "Suzhou Pian and other Dubious Paintings in the Received Oeuvre of Qiu Ying." Artibus Asiae 59 (2000): Clunas, Craig. "The Art Market in 17th Century China: the Evidence of the Li Rihua Diary." History of Art and History of Ideas 1 (2003): Clunas, Craig. "Commodity and Context: The Work of Wen Zhengming in the Late Ming Art Market." In The History of Painting in East Asia: Essays on Scholarly Method, edited by Naomi Noble Richard and Donald E. Brix, Taipei: Rock Publication International,

Spring 2016 (as of ; subject to further revision until the first lecture on February 1)

Spring 2016 (as of ; subject to further revision until the first lecture on February 1) HUMA2400 Approaches to Humanities in China Studies: Research Methods and the Humanities of Love, Hatred, Life and Death Monday 16:30-18:20, Room 2464 Friday 12:00-12:50, Room 2464 I. Instructors History: