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| 0687-4477-01 | The Journey to the West: Literature and Religion in Late-Imperial China | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 4.0
Course description
The sixteenth-century novel Journey to the West is at once a literary masterpiece and a fascinating source for the study of the diverse Chinese religious traditions: Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, and the amorphous popular religion. In this seminar we will translate selected chapters of this remarkable novel (from the original Chinese) into Hebrew.