Cultural Chinas: 20th Century Chinese Literature and Film

Cultural Chinas: 20th Century Chinese Literature and Film

Format
On Campus
Course Number
EALC 5335 640
Course Code
EALC5335640
Course Key
85579
Day(s)
Thursday
Time
5:15pm-8:15pm
Instructor
Primary Program
Course Description
This course serves as a thematic introduction to modern Chinese literature and cinema in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and other transnational Chinese communities in the twentieth century. By discussing a wide range of key literary and filmic texts, this class looks into major issues and discourses in China's century of modernization: enlightenment and revolution, politics and aesthetics, sentimental education and nationalism, historical trauma and violence, gender and sexuality, social hygiene and body politics, diaspora and displacement, youth sub-culture and urban imagination.