Subject Area: Chinese Studies
This course examines important literary works from the modern and contemporary periods. It covers different genres such as short stories, prose and poetry as well as literary criticism for a rough period of the last century in China. Authors which we will examine in class span across both geography and time. They include Lu Xun (1881-1936), arguably the father of modern Chinese literature to Gao Xingjian (b. 1940), the first Chinese to win the Nobel Prize in literature, to Taiwanese writers such as Bai Xianyong and Chen Yingzhen, among others.
