CHIN 330 Topics in Fiction and Film
A survey of representative works of short fiction and film by 20th century and contemporary Chinese writers and film makers. Topic and content of the course will vary from year to year according to three areas of focus: mainland China, Taiwan/Hong Kong, and transnational Chinese. Students will read and view original works and practice oral and written summaries, commentaries, discussion, and analyses in Chinese. Students will also read essays on literature and film in Chinese, with some readings in English. This course may be taken three times.
Female Who Writes and Who is Written
This course will examine the relationship between culture and society in China by focusing on the images of women represented in modern and contemporary cultural production, including literary and cinematic texts. By investigating the images of women in both literature and cinema from the twentieth century onward, this course will explore the development and transformation of the status of women in different sociohistorical periods of China, and discuss the ways in which cinema and literature feature women to address issues of gender, family, society, national identity, cultural memory, and so forth. In addition to representative literary texts, students will develop skills to interpret and analyze audiovisual media by watching the film adaptations of the assigned literary texts, and discuss how literary texts and cinematic media have both been used to construct and shape the cultural scene in Chinese society. Core Requirement Met: Regional Focus
Prerequisite
CHIN 301 (or above) or permission of instructor