Course Code and Course Title
Understanding China through Texts I
Time and Venue
Monday
12:30pm - 1:15pm
Thursday
8:30am - 10:15am
ELB_205
CKB_122
Instructor
Dr. Chi Chiu Lam
Course Description
This course is designed to help Chinese studies majors enhance their Chinese language, texual research competencies, and understanding of China. The selected texts for this course vary according to the instructor’s research expertise and students’ research interests. 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.
Course Outline
Week 1 Course Overview
Week 2 May Fourth Literature: Lu Xun
Week 3 May Fourth Literature: Shen Congwen
Week 4 Writing Workshop 1
Week 5 Post-1949 China: Liu Xinwu, Shi Tiesheng
Week 6 Post-1979 China:Yu Hua
Week 7 Post-1979 China: Su Tong
Week 8 Post-1979 China: Can Xue
Week 9 Writing Workshop 2: Literary Criticism
Week 10 Post-1979 China: Han Song
Week 11 Final Project Presentation I
Week 12 Final Project Presentation II