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Masters of Contemporary Chinese Cinema This introductory film course showcases master directors and major films from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Students will learn to appreciate Chinese cinema both for its content and techniques, while familiarizing themselves with social and political changes under which these films were produced in Greater China. We will examine cinematic accomplishments by master directors and analyze how they recreate for the audience different Chinese societies on the screen. This course is taught in English. No prior knowledge of Chinese is required.
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This course will examine postwar Japanese popular culture using the theories and methods of cultural studies, media studies and gender studies. We will explore some of the primary sites of postwar popular culture across media, as well as emphasizing the theoretical distinctions between those media. Rather than chronological order, the course will be grouped into sections by media, including novels, film, television, manga, and anime. As we discuss issues specific to each of these media and across genres, however, our discussion will be framed by some key questions: What was the role of popular culture in defining a national identity to the postwar? What was the role of foreign influences, most importantly, American pop culture? How have popular culture texts spoken to and defined specific audiences (for instance, teenagers, women, non-Japanese)? Knowledge of Japanese is not required.
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Students with advanced Chinese language proficiency are eligible to sign up for an additional single credit of work in the target language as part of the Languages Across the Curriculum (LAC) initiative of the College of Arts and Letters. Choosing this option means that students will do some additional reading in the Chinese language materials, and meet once a week with faculty tutor from the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, who will guide the discussion and direct the written work. The LAC section in association with this course will be graded on a pass/fail basis and will be credited on the student's transcript. Up to three LAC discussion sections can be applied toward a major, secondary major or minor in Chinese. This course is for: Heroism and Eroticism in Traditional Chinese Fiction In this course we will read works in Chinese fiction from the late imperial periods. We will discuss the aesthetic features of such works and their cultural underpinnings, especially the infusion of Confucian Taoist, and Buddhist meanings. Particularly, we will focus on heroism and eroticism as two major themes in Chinese fiction and their specific expressions in each work. We will consider the transition from heroism to eroticism as a shift of narrative paradigm, which coincided with a general trend of "domestication" in traditional Chinese fiction. Through the readings and discussions, the students are expected to become familiar with pre-modern Chinese narrative tradition and acquainted with some aspects of Chinese culture. All the readings are in English translation.
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Students with advanced Chinese language proficiency may sign up for an additional single credit of work as part of the Languages Across the Curriculum (LAC) initiative of the College of Arts and Letters. This one unit course is an addendum to Prof. Lin's course on "Multi-Cultural China." Students choosing this option will meet once a week with Prof. Lin and discuss the authentic Chinese texts chosen to improve the students' reading and speaking skills. The LAC course will be graded on a pass/fail basis and will be credited on the student's transcript. Up to three LAC discussion sections can be applied toward a major, secondary major or minor in Chinese.
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3.00 Credits
In this course we will read works in Chinese fiction from the late imperial periods. We will discuss the aesthetic features of such works and their cultural underpinnings, especially the infusion of Confucian, Taoist, and Buddhist meanings. Particularly, we will focus on heroism and eroticism as two major themes in Chinese fiction and their specific expressions in each work. We will consider the transition from heroism to eroticism as a shift of narrative paradigm, which coincided with a general trend of "domestication" in traditional Chinese fiction. Through the readings and discussions, the students are expected to become familiar with pre-modern Chinese narrative tradition and acquainted with some aspects of Chinese culture. All the readings are in English translation, and no prior knowledge of China or the Chinese language is required.
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In this course we will read English translations of works in twentieth century Chinese literature, especially short stories and plays written from the May 4th Movement in 1919 to the beginning of the Reform in the early eighties. We will discuss the literary expressions of China's weal and woe in modern times and of the Chinese people's frustrations and aspirations when their country was experiencing unprecedented social changes. No prior knowledge of the Chinese language or Chinese culture is required for taking the course.
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Masters of Contemporary Chinese Cinema This introductory film course showcases master directors and major films from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Students will learn to appreciate Chinese cinema both for its content and techniques, while familiarizing themselves with social and political changes under which these films were produced in Greater China. We will examine cinematic accomplishments by master directors and analyze how they recreate for the audience different Chinese societies on the screen. This course is taught in English. No prior knowledge of Chinese is required.
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Since the first decade of the 20th-century, China has undergone tremendous changes, which are most evident in the life of city dwellers. In this class, we will read short stories and analyze films about urbanites and their desires, anguish, and aspirations. We will examine, for instance, why Shanghai was portrayed as the nadir of vice in the 1930s. Or how the underprivileged youths struggle in present-day Beijing. We will read about how the men and women of Taipei and Hong Kong grapple with their changing social, political, economic, and spiritual realities. To complete our understanding of the city in the mind of the Chinese, we will also explore writings by overseas Chinese on foreign cities such as New York and Paris. We will try to answer questions such as how different cities are portrayed and what these diverse perceptions represent. How have these perceptions changed over time? Is the city always exciting, threatening, or benign, and how do people in these various places cope with modern life in the city? Is there no more distinction among cities, now that we are all living in a global village?
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Chinese society is often characterized as highly conformative and lacking in individuality. Is this true? What kind of behaviors then would be considered antisocial, and what are their moral, social, and political consequences? In this course, we will read fictional works depicting behaviors and attitudes that are considered by society in general as antisocial, anticonventional, and sometimes anti-Party. We will investigate the contexts of these behaviors and their political implications. For instance, are these behaviors justified? Are different standards applied to women? What are the temporal and spatial factors in people's conception of an antisocial behavior? To what extent are these behaviors culturally determined? No prior knowledge of the Chinese languages or China is required.
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Dreams have long been objects of fascination for people in all cultures, including the Chinese. Focusing on the eighteenth-century Chinese master work Dream of the Red Chamber, this course examines the literary functions of dreams in the Chinese context. Dreams will be discussed as a catalyst in the process of fiction making, serving as a master trope for the "complementary oppositions" between truth and falsehood, between history and literature, between reality and fictionality, and between the sublunary and the supernatural. The goal of the course is to familiarize students with a novel that is generally considered the pinnacle of Chinese fictional literature and with some of the cultural convictions that underscore Chinese literary dreams. The primary text of the course is the 5-volume English translation of Dream of the Red Chamber. Supplementary readings include scholarship on the novel and modern theories on dream and the unconscious. Prior knowledge in Chinese language and culture not required.
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