Bachelor of Arts (BA) - The University of Hong Kong

108CHIN2254.Christianity and Chinese culture (3 credits)(This course is also offered to non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadening purposes.)This course deals with the history of Christianity in China.Assessment: 100% coursework.CHIN2255.Chinese intellectual history (Part I) (6 credits)(This course is also offered to non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadening purposes.)This course deals with the main intellectual trends in China from the Qin-Han to the Sui-Tang period.Assessment: 100% coursework.CHIN2256.Chinese intellectual history (Part II) (6 credits)(This course is also offered to non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadening purposes.)This course deals with the main intellectual trends in China from the Song period to the Qing period.Assessment: 100% coursework.CHIN2257.The development of Confucianism in late imperial China (3 credits)(This course is also offered to non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadening purposes.)This course deals with the development of Confucianism in China from late fourteenth century to earlytwentieth century.Assessment: 100% coursework.CHIN2258.The mentality of literati in Ming-Qing transition (3 credits)(This course is also offered to non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadening purposes.)This course examines the milieu of the cataclysmic change of Heaven's Mandate inmid-seventeenth-century China and literati's feelings and responses to the change.Assessment: 100% coursework.CHIN2259.Historical writing and historiography in traditional China (6 credits)(This course is also offered to non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadening purposes.)This course explores some important issues of historical writing and historiography in traditional Chinawith reference to the development of historical writing, the organization of historiography institutes,and the influence of emperors on historiography.Assessment: 100% coursework.CHIN2260.Readings in Chinese Buddhist texts (6 credits)(This course is also offered to non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadening purposes)The ability to read Buddhist texts is important for students in many fields: religion, philosophy, arthistory, literature, and so forth. The Chinese Buddhist canon, consisting of texts from the Eastern Hanthrough the Qing dynasties, is very large in scope and full of a rich variety of scriptures, commentaries,rituals, and other types of materials. To read these valuable sources for the study of Chinese culturalhistory, however, one cannot rely simply on experience in reading Classical Chinese. One must alsoreceive additional training in the special features of Buddhist Chinese. This course will emphasizeclose reading of different kinds of texts utilizing rigorous philological principles. Among the requiredreadings are the following: