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Academic Year 2002/2003
Aspects of Early Modern Chinese Literature
ALIT 203 FA
The advent if modern China offers us a great occasion to study the fundamental changes brought by the modernized West to bear on a profoundly Oriental society such as China. This course focuses on one best venue to
observe
such societal metamorphosis: through literary genres-novels, diaries, drama, and journalism-that shed much light on how the individual and society interacted amidst their struggle to absorb and reinvent ethnic and
identity,
social values, and cultural dynamics as China survived foreign aggressions, civil wars, and political upheavals. One main focus is on the effort of the individual to grapple with social and familial crises, traumas, and
flux as a witness to China's distinct ways of entering the age of modernization and industrialization.
MAJOR READINGS
MODERN CHINESE STORIES AND NOVELLAS 1919-1949 (Joseph Lau, C.T. Hsia, Leo Lee, eds.) SCHOOLMASTER NI HUAN-CHIH, Yeh Sheng-tao THE CHINESE EARTH: STORIES BY SHEN TSENG-WEN (Ching Ti & Robert Payne, trans,) I MYSELF
AM A WOMAN: SELECTED WRITINGS OF
DING LING (Tani Barlow, ed.) THE NEW REALISM: WRITINGS FROM CHINA AFTER THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION (Lee Yee, ed.) HOMECOMING? AND OTHER STORIES BY HAN SHAOGONG (Martha Cheung, trans.) THE PAST AND THE PUNISHMENT BY YU
HUA (Andrew Jones, trans.) RAISE
THE RED LANTERN: THREE NOVELLAS BY SU TONG (Michael Duke, trans.)
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Regular short quizzes on reading assignments, one short (4-6 page) book report, a mid-term, a term paper and a final.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
This is a Chinese lit-in-English-translation course; knowledge of Chinese is not required. Although it is a lecture course, some class time will be devoted to discussion with the instructor and students both
participating.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture/Discussion
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA AL&L
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
NONE
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Last Updated on MAR-18-2003
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