LIT 87 - Modern China in Fiction and Film

Institution:

Hofstra University

Subject:

Literature in Translation

Description:

Semester Hours: 3 Periodically This course explores different aspects of modern Chinese culture and society as represented in Chinese narrative practices from fiction to film. Social and cultural inquiry will accompany and enter into the literary analysis of specific texts. Class discussion will cover not only literary issues, such as critical realism, modernism and post-modernism, but also social and cultural topics, such as the continuity and discontinuity of traditional values in modern China, the self-society confrontation, gender construction, shifts of economic structures, changes of ideology, the new mentality in the post-Mao era, etc. Course materials include the literary works of major modern Chinese writers from 1900 to the present and films by avant-garde filmmakers of recent decades. Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes: (Formerly Traditions of Narrative in Modern Chinese Culture; Modern Chinese Literature.)

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.hofstra.edu

Phone Number:

(516) 463-6600

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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