ClassInfo - Spring 2019 Asian Languages and Literature Classes

Spring 2019 | ALL 3337 Section 001: Contemporary Chinese Literature and Popular Culture (54711)

Instructor(s): Jason McGrath
Hui Liu (TA)
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: A-F only
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:: UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019

Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AM

UMTC, East Bank

Hanson Hall 1-111
Enrollment Status:: Open (59 of 75 seats filled)

Course Catalog Description:: Contemporary Chinese literature, popular culture. End of Mao era to present. Creative results of China's "opening and reform." Commercialization and globalization of culture. Literature, visual culture, popular music.
Class Notes:: Enrollment limited to majors or minors in ALL, or by instructor permission.
Class Description:: This course is an introductory survey of contemporary Chinese literature and popular culture. The primary focus will be on mainland China since the end of the Mao era, but attention will also be paid to Taiwan and Hong Kong. During this period mainland China made the transition from Maoism to the era of 'opening and reform,' leading to an explosion of creativity in the arts beginning in the 1980s and an increasingly commercialized and globalized culture since the early 1990s. The culture industry has been subjected to market forces for the first time in decades, and foreign cultural products have entered China to compete with domestic culture. Taiwan during these same periods made the transition from martial law to democracy and developed into one of the most thriving economies and cultural scenes in the region, while Hong Kong was returned from the United Kingdom to China and maintained its status as one of the world's most cosmopolitan cities. This course explores the dynamism of Chinese culture of the last quarter century through works of literature as well as film, fine art, and popular music.
Grading:: 20% Midterm Exam
35% Final Exam
20% Reports/Papers
10% Quizzes
10% Attendance
5% In-class Presentations
Class Format:: 60% Lecture
35% Discussion
5% Student Presentations
Workload:: 120 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
4 Paper(s)
1 Presentation(s)
11 Quiz(zes)
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54711/1193
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 23 March 2012

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