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Academic Year 2002/2003

Avant-Garde and Pop Culture--Two Faces of the [Post] Modern in China
ALIT 249 FA

The 1980s and 1990s witnessed the blooming of modernist cultures in China that at once ushered in cultural revamping, political thawing and social democratization and triggered off market economy, commodification and mass consumer culture. This course browses through literary, artistic and cinematic works of this era to see how tradition and modernity, high and pop cultures conflict and conflate; what cultural impacts China digested and valorized in coping with crises and changes; and how the dynamic and often disorienting process of social transformation reflects the dilemma of China's cultured elite in adapting to and co-existing with mass consumption and pop culture.

MAJOR READINGS

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture/Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA AL&L    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-18-2003

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