| Course | Title | Instructor | Description |
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| CHINESE 1C | FUNDAMENTALS MANDARIN | WU, D. | Innovative approach with emphasis on the four fundamental skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. A 3-track system offers separate sessions for heritage students, students with background in other Chinese dialects, and students with no Chinese background. Taught in Mandarin Chinese using the Pinyin system of Romanization and full form characters. Bi-weekly quizzes, oral interview, skit, group activity and final exam. Throughout the series, students will 1. learn to read and write with the Pinyin System; 2. learn about 1,000 Chinese characters and 1,500-2000 phrases; 3. make sentences with vocabulary and sentence patterns learned in classes; 4. participate in short dialogues, discussions and conversations; 5. write notes, dialogues, articles and skits. The goal of this course is to achieve basic proficiency in Mandarin Chinese in order to communicate with speakers of Chinese in daily conversation about common topics and to read short passages about simple matters from both authentic materials and pedagogically-prepared materials. Culture notes and knowledge of appropriate behaviors in a Chinese-speaking society will also be introduced. Prerequisite: Chinese 1B or equivalent. Authorization to enroll can be obtained in HIB 452 or 466. |
| CHINESE 2C | INTERMEDIATE MANDARIN | PETERSEN, Y. | The Chinese 2A-2B-2C series will use both authentic materials from a wide variety of sources within the culture and pedagogically-prepared materials to further develop students\' listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, and the ability to use the language to communicate in culturally, socially and linguistically appropriate ways. Throughout the series, advanced grammatical patterns will be gradually introduced and reviewed. By the end of the series, students are expected to: 1) develop reading comprehension from a wide selection of authentic materials; 2) handle reasonably complicated survival situations; 3) read and write paragraph length narrations and descriptions of real life events, as well as expositions and argumentations concerning real or hypothetical issues. Taught completely in Mandarin Chinese using the Pinyin system of Romanization and full form characters. Weekly quizzes and assignments, oral reports, and final exam. Classroom activities include open discussions, debates, skits, game playing, movie watching, and group projects. Prerequisite: Completion of Chinese 2B or equivalent; authorization to enroll can be obtained in HIB 452 or 466. |
| CHINESE 3C | ADVANCED MANDARIN | VARIES | The Chinese 3A-3B-3C series is a continuation of the Chinese 2 series. Emphasis is placed on advanced conversation to improve the ability to communicate in expected and unexpected situations. Readings are based on modern Chinese prose and newspapers, with focus on academic skills. Emphasis is also placed on self-expression in problem-solving tasks, defense of decisions and classroom discussions. Presentations, weekly essays, debates, quizzes and final examination are included. Prerequisite: Chinese 3B or equivalent. Authorization code can be obtained in HIB 452 or 466. |
| CHINESE 100C | CLASSICAL CHINESE | FULLER, M. | A continuation of the Chinese 100A-B sequence, this course introduces students to writings in classical literary prose and poetry. The course continues to stress careful syntactic analysis but also pays attention to aesthetic and rhetorical issues. Requires two years of a modern East Asian language or the permission of the instructor. NOTE: There is an active prerequisite check in place for this course. |
| CHINESE 101C | 4TH YEAR MANDARIN | CHI, T. | Continued emphasis on comprehension, grammar, and proficiency in reading, compostion, and conversation through intensive study and analysis of specific literary texts, Prerequisite: Chinese 3C or equivalent. |
| CHINESE 115 | MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE | MENG, Y. | A reading course designed for students with near-fluency in reading Chinese. readings may include both literary and philosophical work by important writers, but the emphasis will be on literary texts and writings that interpret those texts. Prerequisite: Chinese 101C or consent of the instructor. May be taken for credit three times as topic varies. |
| CHINESE 203 | CITY, CULTURE & URBAN IN MODERN CHINESE | MENG, Y. | This course examines the ways in which Chinese city was imagined, defined and written about from the late Qing period into the mid twentieth-century. City provides us a crucible of motifs that are crucial to our understanding of culture, history, and the world where China is relevant. We will be dealing with different types of works
i.e., theoretical and scholarly writings about the city, literature, as well as other primary sources. During the first quarter, the course will focus upon conceptual and historical inquiries such as what constituted the modern city and what was important about it in the Chinese context. In doing so we will confront with a series of issues such as industrialization and urbanization, urban society and subjectivity, space and class, modernism and modernity, women and city. During the second quarter we will extend our discussion to methodological issues related to cultural studies and historical studies. We will be reading scholarships on popular culture and urban politics, the production of space, consumer culture, urban labor, sex and city. We will learn the methodology and the use of sources from these scholarship and meanwhile, exercise on using different source materials for studying city life and urban culture.
Requirements include knowledge in Chinese language, reviews, proposal, and paper. |
| CHINESE 213B | USES OF TRADITION | HU, Y. | This course examines the reinterpretations of the Chinese cultural tradition that occurred during the first thirty years of the 20th century. We closely read selections of major thinkers of the time, including Liang Qichao, Zhang Binglin and Lu Xun; we sample works that formally or thematically concern themselves with reflections on tradition, including literary history, fiction and biography. We also keep abreast of recent scholarship on this period, including works by Chinese and western scholars, and including works by scholars of pre-modern and modern literature.
The questions we ask are: What is the post-May-Fourth image of “traditional China”? How did we get here? How do we reconstruct the available cultural resources around the turn of the century? What were the main issues of debate concerning ‘tradition’ at the time? How did selective reinterpretations of the past correspond to the historical specifics of early 20th century China and the various imaginary ‘modernities’ current at the time? What does the recent critique of the “May-Fourth project” tell us about re-organization of disciplinary knowledge in our own fields?
Requirements
During the first half of the Spring Quarter, we read selections from secondary scholarship. During the second half of the Spring Quarter, we work on individual projects that might range from close analysis of literary works to theoretical reflections of cultural debates. |
| CHINESE 299 | DISSERTATN RESEARCH | FULLER, M. | |
| CHINESE 299 | DISSERTATN RESEARCH | HU, Y. | |
| CHINESE 299 | DISSERTATN RESEARCH | HUANG, M. | |
| CHINESE 299 | DISSERTATN RESEARCH | MENG, Y. | |