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CHI 101 Beginning Chinese I

Li-Hua Ying

M T W Th .

1:20 -2:20 pm

OLINLC 120

FLLC

For students with little or no previous knowledge of Chinese. An introduction to modern (Mandarin) Chinese through an intensive drill of its oral and written forms. Emphasis on speaking and basic grammar as well as the formation of the characters. Audio and video materials will be incorporated into the curriculum to expose the class to Chinese daily life and culture. Daily active participation, frequent use of the language lab and one hour per week tutorial with the Chinese tutor are expected. The course is followed by an intensive course (eight hours per week) in the spring semester and a summer intensive program (eight weeks) in Qingdao, China. Divisible.

98168

CHI 201 Intermediate Chinese I

Haifeng Qi

M . W . .

3:00 -4:20 pm

OLINLC 120

FLLC

This course is for students who have taken one year of basic Chinese, and who want to expand reading and speaking capacity and to enrich cultural experiences. We will use audio and video materials, emphasize communicative activities and language games, and stress the learning of both receptive and productive skills. In addition to the central language textbook, other texts will be selected from newspapers, journals, and fictional works. Conducted in Chinese.

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CHI 230 Modern Chinese Fiction

Li-Hua Ying

. T . Th .

2:30 -3:50 pm

OLINLC 206

ELIT

Cross-listed: Asian Studies This course is a general introduction to modern Chinese fiction from the 1910s to the present. China in the 20^th century witnessed a history of unprecedented upheavals and radical transformations and its literature in this period was often a battleground for political, cultural, and aesthetic debates. We will read English translations of representative works by major writers from three periods (1918-1949; 1949-1976; since 1976) such as Lu Xun, Ding Ling, Ba Jin, Shen Congwen, Lao She, Mao Dun, and Chang Eileen from the May Fourth Movement and the intellectual radicalization of the first half of the 20^th century, and Mo Yan, Yu Hua, Can Xue, and Han Shaogong out of the Cultural Revolution and the liberalization of the post-Mao era. In addition, we will study works by authors from Taiwan and Hong Kong such as Pai Hsien-yung, Wang Wen-hsing, Li Ang, Li Yung-p’ing, Chu T’ien-wen, Xi Xi, and Shi Shu-ching. We will consider issues of language and genre, nationalism and literary tradition, colonialism, women’s emancipation movement, the influence of Western literary modes such as realism and modernism on the inception of literary modernity in China, and the current state of critical approaches to the study of modern Chinese literature. Conducted in English.

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CHI 311 Chinese Theater I

Haifeng Qi

. T . Th .

4:00 -5:20 pm

OLINLC 120

FLLC

The traditional Chinese drama is a highly synthetic art, embodying different kinds of performance, such as dance, song, music, acting, recitation and acrobatics, an example of which is the Peking Opera. At the beginning of the 20^th-century, playwrights expanded the aesthetic range of Chinese theater by building a new form named the “spoken play,” which bears strong influence from Western dramatic literature. We will study the various genres of the operatic drama and familiarize ourselves with the conventions and techniques of these highly developed forms of performing arts. As this is a language course, emphasis will be placed on the spoken play, and on developing oral and written proficiencies through reading, performing, and discussions. This is part one of a two-semester sequence course intended for students who have had three or more years of training in modern Chinese.