ASIAN 3303 - Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Chinese Literature

(crosslisted) CAPS 3303
(GB) (ALC-AS, LA-AS)

Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

N. Admussen.

This course reads classic authors from China’s early twentieth century and then uses them to understand the most contemporary Chinese literature. We will engage with contemporary conversations about authoritarianism, gender, and the rural/urban divide by thinking through foundational debates over nation, revolution, and modernity. Most importantly, we will see how expression in art informs and sometimes exceeds the life of ideas. All works in this course will be available in English; all primary texts will also be available in simplified Chinese. (LL)