Chinese Civilization (Literature)

obligatory courses

Conversation classes, with annual changes in topics, on contemporary literature and culture in China and Taiwan.

Classroom
Self-reading

The course aims to provide the students with an overview and analyze of contemporary literature and culture in PRC and Taiwan

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

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

9. Barmé Geremie R., In the Red. Columbia University Press, New York 2000

10. Kasarełło L., Totemy życia. Chińska literatura poszukiwania korzeni, Dialog ,Warszawa 2000

11. Kasarełło L.. Chińska kultura symboliczna, Dialog, Warszawa 2011

12. Gang Yue, The Mouth that Begs: Hunger, Cannibalism, and the Politics of Eating in Modern China. Duke University Press, Durham – London 1999

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.

20. Yuezhi Zhao, “From commercialization to conglomeration: the transformation of the Chinese press within the orbit of the party state.” Journal of Communication, 2000, vol. 50, nr. 2, 3-26.

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.

22. Pawłowski J, Przeszłość w ideologii KPCh, 2013

23. Gao, Minglu (1986). “Bawu meishu yundong”, Meishujia tongxun nr.5, 15–23. Gao, Minglu (ed.) (1991).

24. Zhongguo dangdai meishushi 1985–1986 ,Shanghai: Shanghai renmin chubanshe.

25. Lü Peng, Yi Dan, Zhongguo xiandai,: Hunan meishu chubanshe, Changsha 1992.

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

Attendance essential. The final grade will be based on:

classroom participation (required preparation to the lecture),and preparation and presentation of a paper (powerpoint)

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