Materials are available in English. Additional hours with the instructor may be arranged for students taking the course for Chinese credit. Cross-listed as Literature 320. Before it launches into the period of reblossoming of creativity since the end of the culture revolution, the course begins with a brief look into the workings of propaganda literature that dominated the Chinese literary scene from the '50s through most of the '70s. It then proceeds to examine how, in the ensuing decades, fiction once again becomes a dynamic space where profound soul-searching takes place alongside modernist and postmodern experimentation.
Materials are available in English.
Additional hours with the instructor may be arranged for students taking the course for Chinese credit. Cross-listed as Literature 316. Not offered 1997-98. Full course for one semester. This course investigates how human experience and attitude toward life are evaluated and presented through poetic means by examining recurring motifs and their expressive modes in classical Chinese poetry.