All questions on the quiz will be from Sources of the Chinese Tradition unless otherwise noted.
Remember that I will only select lines that can, when quoted independently, speak to the book’s broader themes or arguments. You don’t have to memorize passages.
The Classic of Documents – The Shao Announcement, pp. 35-37
The Classic of Odes – Airs from the States, p. 39-40 (*including poems we looked at in class) The Analects The Mencius The Xunzi (specifically focus on pp. 161-164; 179-183) The Mozi The Daodejing The Zhuangzi, pp. 96-103 The Book of Lord Shang, pp. 193-198 The Han Feizi, pp. 199-206 The Classic of Changes, pp. 318-325 Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor, pp. 275-278 The Records of the Grand Historian, pp. 370-371