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How have Chinese artists imagined alternative worlds, the afterlife, immortal realms, paradise and hell? This course studies literary, visual and cultural materials from the earliest times to modern Chinese film, and will explore the aesthetic values, as well as the social and cultural contexts behind these representations. Topics include the depictions of ancestral portraits, paradise and hell in the Buddhist cosmology, fictive landscapes, garden designs, imperial architecture, and their antithesis in the construction of everyday life.
COURSE FORMAT: Seminar
Level: UGRD Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: HA AL&L Grading Mode: Graded
Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.
Last Updated on MAR-30-2006
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