本課程希望透過閱讀、思考、從中提出質疑來達到思辨、表達能力的養成；由文本所呈現的各式議題，一方面由時人心態、社會文化切入討論，另一方面則試圖由今日吾人想法切入思考，從中習得珍貴經驗，學會以「同理心」來思考事物，成為一個有情感的「人」！因此本學期主要閱讀文本是（明）馮夢龍《三言》，即《警世通言》、《醒世恒言》、《喻世明言》，每本編錄小說四十篇，共一百二十篇。將從中選取作品數篇，做為本學期上課教材。
馮夢龍的作品不但反映明朝的社會文化政治等層面，亦關注到百姓的生活，或用「人性」的角度來看待紅塵中浮沉之男女，不以其行而定其罪；當然有些故事由今觀之，情節、結局稍嫌迂腐、不合理，但凡此皆是作者想法的呈現及當代思潮對文學的影響，同時亦提供吾人思考空間。更甚者，其篇章留傳至今，很多成為戲劇題材，如〈金玉奴棒打薄情郎〉、〈玉堂春落難逢夫〉、〈白娘子永鎮雷峰塔〉等；有些則是成為口語之一，如「亂點鴛鴦譜」一句出自〈喬太守亂點鴛鴦譜〉，又如「棒打薄情郎」則出於〈金玉奴棒打薄情郎〉等，皆可見馮夢龍作品的痕跡。

This course hopes to develop the ability to think and express through reading, thinking, and raising questions. On the one hand, the various issues presented in the text are discussed based on the mentality of the people of the time and social culture. On the other hand, it attempts to start thinking from the thoughts of today's people, learn valuable experience from it, learn to think about things with "empathy", and become an emotional "person"! Therefore, the main text to be read this semester is (Ming Dynasty) Feng Menglong's "Three Words", namely "Warning Words", "Everlasting Words to Awaken the World", and "Eternal Words to Awaken the World". Each book contains 40 novels, a total of 120 stories. Several works will be selected from them and used as teaching materials for this semester.
Feng Menglong's works not only reflect the social, cultural and political aspects of the Ming Dynasty, but also pay attention to the lives of ordinary people, or look at the ups and downs of men and women in the world from a "human nature" perspective, without judging them based on their actions. Of course, some stories have plots and endings that are a bit pedantic and unreasonable from today's perspective, but all of them are the presentation of the author's ideas and the influence of contemporary trends on literature, and they also provide us with space for thinking. What's more, its chapters have been handed down to this day, and many of them have become the subject of dramas, such as "The Golden Jade Slave Beats the Lover with a Stick", "It's Hard to Meet the Husband in the Spring in the Yutang", "The White Snake Forever Guards the Leifeng Pagoda", etc.; some have become oral legends. One of the phrases, such as "Randomly Pointing the Mandarin Duck Pu" comes from "Qiao Taishou Randomly Points the Mandarin Duck Pu", and "beating the unlucky lover with a stick" comes from "The Golden Jade Slave beats the unlucky lover with a stick", etc., all traces of Feng Menglong's works can be seen.

一、上課講義：教師自編。
二、參考書籍：
1、馬幼垣、劉紹銘、胡萬川編著：《中國傳統短篇小說選集》，台北：聯經，1979年。
2、馮夢龍編撰、徐文助校注、繆天華校閱:《喻世明言》，台北：三民書局，2003年。
3、馮夢龍編撰、廖吉郎校注、繆天華校閱:《醒世恒言》，台北：三民書局，2007年。
4、馮夢龍編撰、徐文助校注、繆天華校閱:《警世通言》，台北：三民書局，2008年。

1. Class handouts: compiled by the teacher.
2. Reference books:
1. Ma Youyuan, Liu Shaoming, and Hu Wanchuan edited: "Selected Chinese Traditional Short Stories", Taipei: Lianjing, 1979.
2. Compiled by Feng Menglong, edited by Xu Wenzhu, and edited by Miao Tianhua: "Yu Shi Ming Yan", Taipei: Sanmin Book Company, 2003.
3. Compiled by Feng Menglong, edited by Liao Jilang, edited by Miao Tianhua: "Awakening Words", Taipei: Sanmin Book Company, 2007.
4. Compiled by Feng Menglong, edited by Xu Wenzhu, and edited by Miao Tianhua: "Warning Words", Taipei: Sanmin Book Company, 2008.