Contemporary Chinese Literature
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| 9/19: Introduction. Please read "Neither Type Nor Category," a play by Yang Qian [follow this link to download a pdf]
Some additional resources:
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| 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.
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| 10/17: No class this week. (Makeup class on 28 November) | |
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10/24: Please read Mo Yan, Change |
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| 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)
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| 11/14: A selection of contemporary Chinese poetry (available in class after the quarter begins).
some additional resources:
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| 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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