Chinese 568 - Modern Chinese Lit & Culture

This course offers an advanced survey of Chinese literature since the late 19th century. It covers various genres including short stories, novellas, novel, essays, and play from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and overseas Chinese community. We will examine various literary trends and movements, such as revolutionary, romantic, modernist, feminist, avant-garde, nativist, popular, rewriting classics. Major themes include the relationship between modern Chinese literature and the world, tradition and modernity, aesthetics and politics, gender issues, writing and geopolitics, production, censorship, and circulation of literature.

CHINESE 526 and 527