Chinese Civilization (Literature) 3600-7-SI4-CCHL1
This course is designed for the students of Sinology, which are interested, how they how Chinese intellectuals and artist are searching for identity , how they experienced trauma, transformation and how they are mapping aesthetic modernity and tradition, how they are building new mythological patterns and reproducing symbolic culture and how they rewrite own history in last 50 years
Main topics :
1. Amnesia and memory .
2. Culture Nationalism and cultural strategies . Cultural Politics in PRC: comparing 3 last decades.
3. Searching for Taiwanese Cultural identity in area of:
1) Media 2) Film 3) Literature
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Topics in the contextual section: Contemporary literature in Taiwan |
Type of course
Prerequisites (description)
Course coordinators
Mode
General: Self-reading Classroom | Term 2023Z: Classroom |
Learning outcomes
has in-depth and detailed knowledge (including terminology, theory and methodology
has extended knowledge of particular problems pertaining to the cultures of the China and Taiwan (within the scope of culture and literature or language or culture and religion issues) in a comparative perspective
knows and understands methods of advanced analysis and interpretation of various products of culture in China and Taiwan which are relevant for selected traditions, theories and research schools within the scope of studies on literature, language, culture and religion
can read, analyze and interpret advanced literary texts and other works of culture (film, press, social writing) of China and Taiwan and appropriately place them in their cultural context
can compare and thoroughly analyze interrelations between selected literary texts and other works of culture (film, press, social writing) of China and Taiwan , and the issues of tradition and modernity
can carry out a critical analysis and interpretation of different products of culture of China and Taiwan appropriate to a selected tradition, theory and research schools within the scope of studies on literature, language, culture and religion employing unique attitude of Oriental studies
can select and translate into Polish most valuable literary works/writings of China
Assessment criteria
Attendance essential. The final grade will be based on:
classroom participation (required preparation to the lecture),and preparation and presentation of a paper (powerpoint)
Practical placement
No
Bibliography
1. Xuong Zhang , Postsocialism and Cultural Politics , Duke Univ. Press, 2008
2. Calinescu, Mate, Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-Garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism , Duke Uniersity Press, Durham 1987
3. Yingjin Zhang , Cinema , Space , and Polylocality and Globalising China , Univ. of Hawaii Press 2010
4. Hockx, Michel, (ed) The Literary Field in Twentieth-Century China, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu 1999
5. Sheldon H.L, Chinese modernity and global biopolitics, iUniversity of Hawaii Press 2007
6. Zhang Xudong, Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reform: Cultural Fever, Avant-garde Fiction and the New Chinese Cinema, Duke University Press, Durkham and London 1997
7. Zhang Xudong. Postsocialism and Cultural Politics, Duke Univ. Press 2008
8. Zhongguo wenxue da cidian . [Wielki słownik literatury chińskiej.], Tianjin renmin chubanshe, Tianjin 1991
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13. Węzły duszy. Chrestomatia współczesnych opowiadań chińskich , ( Wyd.. Kasarełło L.), Wyd. Dialog , Warszawa 2005
14. Han Shaogong, Slownik Maqiao , Swiat Książki , 2009
15. Mo Yan, Kraina wódki , Wyd. W.A.B.,Warszawa 2006
16. Alai, Czerwone maki, Zysk i S-ka, Poznań 2005
17. Mo Yan , Obfite piersi, pełne biodra, Wyd. W.A.B.,Warszawa 2007
18. Mo Yan , Bum, W.A.B, 2013
19. McCormick, Barrett L. “Recent Trends in Mainland China's Media: Political Implications of Commercialization.” Issues & Studies 38, no.4/39, no.1 (December 2002/March 2003): 175-215.
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21. Andrews, Julia F. and Gao, Minglu , ‘The Avant-Garde’s Challenge to Official Art’. In Debora S.Davis (ed.), Urban Spaces in Contemporary China: The Potential for Autonomy and Community in Post-Mao China.: Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1995, 221–78.
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23. Gao, Minglu (1986). “Bawu meishu yundong”, Meishujia tongxun nr.5, 15–23. Gao, Minglu (ed.) (1991).
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25. Lü Peng, Yi Dan, Zhongguo xiandai,: Hunan meishu chubanshe, Changsha 1992.
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Lee Wei chi , Taiwan Cultural Reconstruction , identity politics and collective Action since 2000 , “Issues and studies “,2005 Tu Weiming,Cultural Identity and the Politics ofRecognition in Contemporary Taiwan* “The China Quarterly” No. 148, Special Issue: Contemporary Taiwan (Dec., 1996 Kuo-Shu Yang,Emergence and composition of the traditional-modern bicultural self of people in contemporary Taiwanese societies ,“Asian Journal of Social Psychology” (2006), 9, Religion In Modern Taiwan Edited by Philip Clart & Charles B. Jones Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley, Cultural democratisation and Taiwan cinema Tomala,:Tajwańska drama telewizyjna a tożsamość kulturowa współczesnego Tajwańczyka , praca magisterska . Wydział Orientalistyki UW, sinologia Na drugim brzegu, Antologia współczesnych opowiadań tajwańskich, pod red.naukową Lidii Kasarełło, PIW, Warszawa 2020 Michael Rudolph Return to Taiwan Aboriginal Rights Webpage This paper originally comes from: http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/staff/rudolph/mult.htm |
Notes
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The classes have the character of a conversation course. |
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