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This course is designed to help Chinese studies majors enhance their Chinese language, textual research competencies, and understanding of China. A selected series of texts (especially Hong Kong Literature) for this course are used to trigger students’ research interests and learn close-reading ability. There will be workshops helping students identify major journals and archives in Chinese language, pick relevant research texts for close reading, explore fiction writing, develop essay writing and present on the topic based on the selected reading. The class will be conducted in Mandarin to accommodate students’ language proficiency.

By the end of the term, students should have:

– improved reading and writing skills in Chinese.
– learned to use major Chinese-language databases, read Chinese-language journals, and synthesize knowledge and opinions from Chinese-language scholarship.
– grasped research skills in China-related topics and improve their ability to articulate their views in Chinese through oral and written presentations.
-basic understanding of the Greater China.

Week 1(Jan 8) Course Overview  

課程簡介及導論

Week 2(Jan 15) Migration: Bai Xianyang, Zhong Lihe

流離：白先勇、鍾理和

Week 3(Jan 22) Identity Anxiety: Liu Yichang, Cao Juren

身份焦慮 ：劉以鬯、曹聚仁

Week 4(Jan 29) Writing Workshop 1   

寫作工作坊1

Essay 1 Due this week

Week 5(Feb 5) Martial Arts and Ethics: Jin Yong

武俠與倫理：金庸

Week 6         Lunar New Year, No class

Week 7(Feb 19) City Life and Female Sensibility: Xi Xi

都市生活與女性感性：西西

Week 8(Feb 26) Nostalgia: Shu Xiangcheng

城巿鄉愁：舒巷城

Week 9        Reading Week, No class

Week 10(Mar 11) Popular Literature: Ni Kuang, Yi Shu

通俗文學：倪匡、亦舒

Week 11(Mar 18)  Writing Workshop 2   

寫作工作坊2

Essay 2 Due this week

Week 12(Mar 25) Experimentation and Imagination: Han Lizhu

實驗與想像：韓麗珠

Week 13(Apr 8) Final Project Presentation

期末報告

Week 14(Apr 15) Final Project Presentation II

期末報告 II