ASIAN 6603 - Modern Chinese Literature Field Survey

Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

N. Admussen.

This is a survey of English-language literary criticism about literature in Chinese, including drama and film, from the late Qing to the present. Students read in a roundtable format, bringing diverse monographs into one conversation about the shape and content of Chinese literary studies in Western languages. The course is designed to prepare graduate students for potential field exams in Chinese literature, modern China, or one of their many subfields. (LL)