Contemporary Chinese Literature
Fall 2011, Monday 6:00 - 8:30 PM

Steven Schroeder


TEXTS:

Wang Anyi. The Song of Everlasting Sorrow. Columbia University Press, 2008. 9780231143431.
Mo Yan. Change. Seagull Books, 2010. 9781906497484.


9/19: Introduction. Please read "Neither Type Nor Category," a play by Yang Qian [follow this link to download a pdf]

Some additional resources:

9/26: Please read Wang Anyi, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow, Part I, pp.1-137.
10/3: Please read Wang Anyi, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow, Part II, pp.139-287.
10/10: Please read Wang Anyi, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow, Part III, pp.289-429.

Some additional resources:

10/17: No class this week. (Makeup class on 28 November)

10/24: Please read Mo Yan, Change

10/31: Short stories by Mo Yan ("The Cure"), Xi Xi ("A Woman Like Me"), Can Xue ("Hut On the Mountain"), and Li Rui ("Electing a Thief") (available in class after the quarter begins)
11/7: Selections from Gao Xingjian (available in class after the quarter begins): "The Other Shore" (drama) and "The Accident" (short story)

11/14: A selection of contemporary Chinese poetry (available in class after the quarter begins).

some additional resources:

11/21: I will be out of town this week, but Jennifer Kwong will meet with you to discuss her memoir, Mulberry Child.
11/28: We will meet this week to make up the 17 October class.

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