Week 1 (1/23) Introduction

Week 2 (1/16) Putting Women into History: Approaches

Part 1: Continuities and Broad Cultural Orientations

Week 3 (1/23) Gender in Chinese Culture: Yin-Yang, gods and ghosts, masculine and feminine

Week 4 (1/30) Confucian Paradigms and the Patrilineal Family System

Week 5 (4/27) No class

Part II: Women in Historical Change: Three Moments

Week 6 (2/13) The Song Dynasty

Week 7 (2/20) The Early Qing

Part III. Sources for the Study of Women's Lives: Fiction

Week 8 (2/27) Women and Gender in the Dream of the Red Chamber, I

Week 9 (3/6) Dream of the Red Chamber, II