Course Code and Course Title
[CHES5104] Selected Themes on Chinese Literature II
Time and Venue
Wed 10:30 - 13:15
WLS_LG204
Instructor
Dr. Audrey Heijns
Course Description
Since the early days, the translation, dissemination and promotion of literature from China have resulted in the creation of diverse images of China in the West. In this course, we will read selected English translations of Chinese literature and relevant academic studies about the literary texts. Topics will focus on classical and modern texts, individual translators and various genres. Each of these topics will be approached from aspects of translation by way of analysing existing translations and conducting comparisons between different versions of the same text, as well as exploring the historical context and the background of the translators, and the promotion, distribution and reception of Chinese literature in the West. Within this context, relevant theories such as cultural translation, foreignization, domestication, Otherness, as well as concepts of Orientalism, world literature and gender performativity will be introduced and applied.
Course Outline
Chinese Literature in Translation
Chinese Poetry and the Discourse of Chineseness
Translating the Chinese Classics
Diversity in the Liaozhai Zhiyi
Chinese Culture translated by Lin Yutang
Martial Arts by Jin Yong *Guest Speaker: Ms. Gigi Chang
Modern Chinese Literature in English Translation
Yu Hua and Cultural Images of China
Women in Chinese Literature
Global Storyteller: Mo Yan
Uncompromising Localism: Taiwan *Guest Speaker: Prof. Darryl Sterk
New Localism: Hong Kong