CHNSE-432 Urban Fiction and Poetry in Modern Chinese

The course addresses urbanization and industrialization as part of China’s modernization efforts and discusses their side effects such as ecological problems and gender and class inequality in modern Chinese society. The course also brings our attention to the emerging academic field reflecting intellectual concern about environment and globalization since the 1990s. We will first read important literary works prior to the 1930s that represent an old China, and they serve as a counterpoint for our readings in the latter half of the class which revisit and revise “the old.” We will examine materials and historical documents after 1949 along with our reading of representative fiction and poetry by contemporary Chinese authors. 


Maximum Enrollment

Other

(Social Structural and Institutional Hierarchies.)

Credits

1

Prerequisite

At least one 200-level CHNSE course

Notes

Taught in Chinese.