World Literature

• Aristocrat and Peasant in Heian Japan *NEW*
• Background Information For Teaching Journey to the West
• Buddhism in the Classic Chinese Novel Journey to the West: Teaching Two Episodes
• Combing the Past: Gender, Sexuality, and Intergenerational Connections among Women in Zhang Mei's "A Record"
• Constructing Identity in Narratives of Asian America
• East Asian Attitudes Toward Court Women: The Legend of Yang Guifei
• An Exercise in Parallel Reading: Shi Poetry
• Japanese Aesthetics and The Tale of Genji
• Literary Con/Texts
• Lu Xun's "My Old Home" and Beijing Bicycle
• The Place of the Samurai in 20th Century Japan: Two Teaching Units
• Race and Ethnicity in Asian America
• The Samurai in Postwar Japan: Yukio Mishima's "Patriotism"
• Social Science Meets Literature: Using Sawako Ariyoshi’s The Twilight Years in Sociology and Psychology Courses
• Teaching Journey to the West in World Literature Courses
• The Trial of Wang Shiwei
• Women's Voices in Pre-Modern East Asian Literature

See also World Literature Syllabi

• Asian Diasporas
• Contemporary East Asian Societies
• East Asian Economies
• Film
• Gender
• Instructor Reference and Sample Assignments
• Philosophy, Thought, and Religion
• Politics and Government
• Visual Arts
• World History
• World Literature