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Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
 
 
School:  Chinese & Indonesian Studies (School of Languages and Linguistics)
 
 
Course Outline: http://legacy.handbook.unsw.edu.au
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 8
 
 
EFTSL: 0.167 (more info)
 
 
Contact Hours per Week: 2
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Chinese autobiography covers a literary genre that is new in China. Includes comprehensive theoretical analysis of issues of voice, narratology, mimetics, and Chinese neologisms in the early twentieth century.

Assumed Knowledge: Third-year proficiency in Chinese.

Learning Outcomes

Students who have completed this course should:
  • Gain a deeper command of autobiographical genres in general and Chinese autobiographical traditions in particular
  • Gain a sophisticated understanding of Chinese literature in the 1st-person from the last century
  • Gain experience in preparing and writing an upper-level humanities-based research essay
  • Be able to make complex comparisons between and among modern Chinese literary genres.

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