98167 |
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.
98170 |
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 20th 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 20th
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.
98169 |
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 20th-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.