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EAST 207 - Knight, Outlaw, Assassin: An Alternative Gateway to Chinese Culture


Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, CD

It is often said that the state, family, and intellectual class lay the foundation for Chinese culture. This course will ‘look awry’ at this quintessential Chinese value system through three figures who live on the margins of society: the stateless outlaw, the homeless knight-errant, and the martial assassin. Their struggle against orthodoxy enables us to consider how political legitimacy, moral norms, patriarchal structure, and elite status can be at once challenged and reproduced in the social periphery. Core texts include representative works from each time period, ranging from historical biographies in early China to contemporary Cantonese rap music.

Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: K. He


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