Grade+12,+Unit+3

== =UNIT 3: WORLD LITERATURE: ASIA= = = =ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How does Asian literature both honor and challenge cultural traditions?= = = =LITERARY TEXTS--= =DRAMA:= =CHINA--= = = =INDIA--= = = =NOVELS:= =CHINA--= = = =INDIA--= = = =JAPAN--= = = =TURKEY--= = = =CREATIVE NONFICTION:= =IRAN--= = = =POETRY:= =CHINA--= = = =INDIA--= = = =SANSKRIT--= = = =SHORT STORIES:= =CHINA--= = = =JAPAN--= = = =VIETNAM--= = = =INFORMATIONAL TEXTS--= =AUTOBIOGRAPHIES:= = = =NONFICTION:= = = =ART, MUSIC AND MEDIA--= =ART:= =CHINA--= = = =JAPAN--= = = =SOUTH ASIAN AND HIMALAYAN--= = = =MEDIA:= = = =ADDITIONAL RESOURCES--= = = = FUNDAMENTALS-- = =WRITING:= = = =GRAMMAR AND USAGE:= = = =MECHANICS:= = = =TERMINOLOGY:= = =
 * =//Thunderstorm// by Cao Yu=
 * = //The Post Office// by Rabindranath Tagore (EA) =
 * =//Family// by Pa Jin=
 * =//In Custody// by Anita Desai=
 * =//Midnight’s Children// by Salman Rushdie=
 * = //Nectar in a Sieve// by Kamala Markandaya =
 * =//The God of Small Things// by Arundhati Roy=
 * =//After Dark// by Haruki Murakami=
 * =//Norwegian Wood// by Haruki Murakami=
 * =//The Sound of Waves// by Yukio Mishima=
 * = //My Name is Red// by Orhan Pamuk =
 * =//Perseoplis// by Marjane Satrapi=
 * =“A Song of Ch'ang-kan” by Li Bai or Li Po (E)=
 * =“On a Gate-tower at Yuzhou” by Chen Zi’ang=
 * =“Substance, Shadow, and Spirit” by T’ao Ch’ien=
 * =//The Jade Mountain: A Chinese Anthology, Being Three Hundred Poems of the T’ang Dynasty 618-906// by Kiang Hang-Hu and Witter Bynner, trans. (selections)=
 * = "Song VII: My song has put off her adornments..." by Rabindranath Tagore (E) =
 * =//The Golden Craft// by Rabindranath Tagore (EA)=
 * = //Ramayana// (attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki) =
 * = //Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio// (short story collection) translated by Herbert A. Giles (Pu Songling, ed.) =
 * =//Under The Red Flag// by Ha Jin (selections)=
 * = //Rashomon and Other Stories// (short story collection) by Ryunosuke Akutagawa =
 * =//The General Retires and Other Stories// by Nguyen Huy Thiep=
 * =//Six Records of a Floating Life// by Shen Fu (China)=
 * =//Historical Dictionary of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater// by J. Scott Miller=
 * =“Li Bai, A Hero among Poets, in the Visual, Dramatic, and Literary Arts of China” by Kathlyn Maurean Liscomb=
 * = //The Analects of Confucius// (selections) =
 * =//The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature// (Joshua Mostow, ed.)=
 * =//The I Ching// by transmitted by Fei Zhi=
 * =//The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain// by Nicholas B. Dirks=
 * = //The Tao of Pooh// by Benjamin Hoff =
 * =//The Te of Piglet// by Benjamin Hoff=
 * =//The Tao Te Ching// by Lao Tzu (selections)=
 * = //Trading Places: the East India company and Asia, 1600-1834// by Anthony Farrington =
 * =Hanfu Clothing (pre-seventeenth century)=
 * =//Ma Lin//, wall scroll (1246)=
 * =Moon-shaped flask with birds (1723-1725)=
 * =Moon-shaped flask with birds (1723-1725)=
 * =Ando Hiroshige, //One Hundred Views of Edo// (1856)=
 * =Arita, Porcelain plate with design of dragon (1690s-1730s)=
 * =Kimono with carp, water lilies, and morning glories (1876)=
 * =Box with lid (Indian, late sixteenth century)=
 * =//Four Mandala Vajravali Thangka// (Tibetan, ca. 1430)=
 * =//Scenes from the Life of Buddha// (Pakistan or Afghanistan, ca. late second to early third century)=
 * =Akira Kurosawa, dir., //Rashomon// (1950) (in Japanese with Spanish sub-titles)=
 * =Zhang Yimou, dir., //Curse of the Golden Flower// (2006)=
 * =//Chinese Poems of the Tang and Sung Dynasties: Read by Lo Kung-Yuan in Northern Chinese, Peking Dialect// (Folkways Records, 1963)=
 * =Documentaries as found on //DiscoveryEducation//.com, //A&E//, and //History Channel//=
 * ="Being in the Noh: An Introduction to Two Japanese Noh Plays" (National Endowment for the Humanities)=
 * ="Lessons of the Indian Epics: The Ramayana" (National Endowment for the Humanities)=
 * =Informative/explanatory essay discussing the ways in which the author’s work reflects or questions one of his or her country’s cultural traditions.=
 * =Compare and contrast the Midnight’s Children and Nectar in a Sieve.=
 * =Essay explaining how Benjamin Hoff’s allegories reveal Asian teachings.=
 * =Absurd=
 * =Allegory=
 * =Confucianism=
 * =Figurative language=
 * =Filial piety=
 * =First-person perspective=
 * =Foreshadowing=
 * =Internal monologue=
 * =Irony=
 * =Metaphor=
 * =Paradox=
 * =Perfect rhyme=
 * =Perspective=
 * =Poetic translation=
 * =Simile=
 * =Stream of consciousness=
 * =Symbol=
 * =Taoism=
 * =Theme=
 * =Third-person omniscience=
 * =Tone (Chinese)=

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