Chinese 310 Traditional Chinese Literature Survey
Response Questions for Meeting Two.   Fall, 2003                                                           Name:

I.     To the question: “Why do people read literature?” many of you put the key words “education” and “entertainment.” According to the Great Preface to Odes, literature is hardly for fun and not just about knowledge. What function does literature play in a society from the Confucian point of view?



 




 

II.    Do you understand the following terms? Please elaborate on it in two or three sentences.

Filiality:



Remonstrance:






III.    We have read several poems together during our second meeting from an anthology called Book of Odes. Please interpret on three of them, which, I hope, have given you some entertainment, stimulus or at least you felt some accessibility.  

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