This course will select one or two historical masterpieces of high literary value such as Zuozhuan, Shiji and Hanshu. It will study historical culture from aesthetical perspectives and provide students with a better understanding of historical characters, narrative styles, aesthetical consciousness and literary expression skills as found in the historiographic canons. It will further look into the relations between traditional historiography and literature, history and traditional novels.
本科將選讀一或兩部文藝價值較高的史學著作，如《左傳》、《史記》或《漢書》等，從文學審美角度探討傳統歷史文化；提高學生理解史傳文學之歷史人物形象、敘事風格、審美意識和文學表現技巧等課題；並更進一步認識中國傳統史學和文學、歷史和中 國傳統小說之關係。