CHI 236 FICTION & FILM MODERN CHINA

Major works of fiction and film in 20th-century China, in the context of the shifting cultural, social, and political developments from the May Fourth movement to the present. In addition to considering the differences between visual and verbal modes of narrative representation, topics will include China's quest for modernity, the discourse of the "new woman," and the relationship between revolution and aesthetic practice. Knowledge of Chinese not required.