CHIN-462 Contemporary Chinese Women Writers

Professor Zhang

This course explores the role of women writers in contemporary Chinese culture, focusing in particular on issues of sexuality, marriage, self-consciousness, and women's response and challenge to Western feminism. Topics of discussions are, for example, women's experimental writing, the boundary between fiction and autobiography, ideological tension between a personal agenda and the possibility of effective public discourse, and the plurality of women's experiences and social images. Readings include authors from mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Conducted in Chinese. Students are expected to use dictionaries; no vocabulary lists are provided. (This course does not fulfill the humanities and writing General Education requirements.)

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: 4 years of Chinese

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• 2004-2005 Fall and Spring
• 2005-2006 Fall and Spring
• 2006-2007 Fall and Spring
• 2007-2008 Fall and Spring
• 2008-2009 Fall and Spring
• 2009-2010 Fall and Spring
• 2010-2011 Fall and Spring
• 2012-2013 Fall and Spring
• 2013-2014 Fall and Spring

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