ATS3012 · Chinese studies advanced 6: Contemporary literature and popular culture

Overview

Through an investigation into the key intellectual issues of a multi-disciplinary nature in post-Mao China, this unit will introduce you to a range of literary writings and popular culture works by a younger and unorthodox generation of Chinese writers and cultural workers who challenge traditional Chinese literary and cultural norms through their exploration of fundamental issues of humanism. Through various research projects you will explore a range of different representations of Chinese culture and society.

Areas of study: Chinese studies

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Within semester assessment: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Explain the social, political and cultural development that has characterised post-Mao China, Chinese society, its people and its culture (through examination of the historical contexts of a number of literary and popular culture works published in China after the 1980s);
2. Critically analyse the changes that post-Mao reform has brought to intellectual trends in general and to literature and culture in particular through critical analysis of a range of literary and popular culture works by a young generation of Chinese writers and cultural workers;
3. Write and speak effectively in standard modern Chinese on a range of intellectual and literary issues and cultural phenomena;
4. Utilise fundamental analytical and critical skills required for academic research in Chinese Studies.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.