| DATE | CLASS ACTIVITIES | READING ASSIGNMENTS |
| The Republic Revolution and | the May Fourth Movement | |
| 8/22 | Self-introduction; course introduction; Introduction; e.g. Racism in America by Robinson | Read Guo Songtao as diplomat of the Qing Empire; Read Yu Dafu, Sinking (1921) and A Madman’s Diary by Lu Xun; questions for reading responses; |
| 8 /27 | Discuss A Madman’s Diary by Lu Xun and Sinking by Yu Dafu; Wang Hui, The Idea of “Asia”; Zhou Zuoren: Humane Literature; Chen Duxiu: On Literary Revolution | Read The true Story of Ah Q; Call to Arms; and Wise Man; take quiz on A Madman’s Diary; Quiz on Sinking; questions for reading responses; |
| 8/29 | Discuss The true Story of Ah Q; Fukuzawa Yukichi Datsu-A Ron; excerpt from translingual Practice by Lydia Liu, pp.51-76; | Read Lao She’s Black Li and White Li; and take quiz on The true Story of Ah Q; questions for reading responses; |
| 9/3 | Discuss Lao She’s Black Li and White Li; Asia as an European idea; Leo Lee analysis; The Unequal Treaties in the 19th Century; Clips from A Tale of Two Cities; | Read Girl from Hunan (a.k.a. Xiaoxiao) by Shen Congwen and read The Soul-Slaying Spear by Lao She; Quiz Lao She’s Black Li and White Li, (1934); questions for reading responses; |
| 9/5 | Discuss Xiaoxiao and Lao She: The Soul-Slaying Spear; Shen Congwen: Universal or Restricted; | Read Family by Ba Jin and view film; questions for reading responses; |
| 9/10 | Discuss Family by Ba Jin; radicalism On Destruction of the Family by anarchist Han Yi, On Ancestor Revolution by Li Shi-zeng; | Read the novella by Mao Dun The Family Shop of Mr. Lin; take quiz on Family and the writings by Han Yi and Li Shi-zeng; questions for reading responses; |
| 9/12 | Discuss The Family Shop of Mr. Lin; Mao Dun on Marxism; History of Imperialism and Colonialism; | view silent film New Women (1931), dir. by Cai Chusheng with subtitles; read Regret for the Past by Lu Xun; Quiz The Family Shop of Mr. Lin; questions for reading responses; |
| 9/17 | Discuss film The New Woman discuss clips 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10; discuss Regret for the Past by Lu Xun; | Read When I Was in Hsia-Village, by Ding Ling (1911-1942); and novella A Kiss by Shi Tuo; take quiz on New Woman; questions for reading responses; |
| The Communist Revolution | and People’s Democracy | |
| 9/19 | Discuss When I Was in Hsia-Village by Ding Ling and novella novella A Kiss by Shi Tuo and Huter’s analysis; | Take quiz on Ding Ling’s When I Was in Xia Village and quiz on Regret for the Past; take quiz on A Kiss; view film Red Brigade of Women, make sure to set subtitles to English; questions for reading responses; |
| 9/24 | Discuss Red Detachment of Women; and Henry Sumner Maine: Ancient Law; communist humanism; Marx and Engles: Manifesto of the Communist Party; clips of English Civil War , Diggers and Levelers; | Quiz and discuss the film Red Brigade of Women; view film White Haired Girl and a clip of Ballet; questions for reading responses; |
| 9/26 | Discuss film White Haired Girl and a clip of Ballet; Hannah Arendt: On Revolution; and Bertrand Russell: Problem of China; Rule by Law; | Screening film Lei Feng (1963) in class room; Youtube visuals on Norman Bethume: Agnes Smedley, Israel Epstein, Sydney Ritternberg (The Revolution); questions for reading responses; |
| 10/1 | Discuss film Lei Feng; clip of What’s Love Got to do with communism? Alain Badiou on Victor Hugo; and his Les Miserables; |
View film Breaking with Old Ideas, dir. Li Wenhua; questions for reading responses; |
| 10/3 | Discuss Li Wenhua’s film and Mao on international communists: Keynes economics; | Read The Execution of Mayor Yin by Chen Ruoxi; watch Youtube visuals In Search of Lin Zhao’s Soul, Yu Luoke, Zhang Zhixin and her tragedy; questions for reading responses; |
| Maoism Discredited | and China Transformed | |
| 10/15 | Discuss the story; Rene Girard: Sacrificial Violence; Yi Xiaocuo: Blood Lineage in Afterlives of Chinese Communism (pp.17-22); Barbara Mittler: The Culture of Cultural Revolution; |
Read novel by Gu Hua A Small Town Called Hibiscus and view film; questions for reading responses; |
| 10/17 | Discuss Hibiscus Town and film; Wang Qiushe in Hegel’s vision of history; | read Novella by Zhang Xianliang: Old Man Xing and His Dog; read Lu Xinhua: The Scar; (pp.108-122); and quiz on A Small Town Called Hibiscus; questions for reading responses; |
| 10/22 | Discuss the two novellas; clip The Concealment Law; Terry Pinkard: Does History Make Sense? Foucault and Sartre on Maoism; | view Blue Kite, dir. Tian Zhuangzhuang; read National Trauma Global Allegory: Construction of Collective Memory in Blue Kite by Zhang Xudong; questions for reading responses; |
| 10/24 | Discuss the film; Guo Jian: Resisting Modernity in Contemporary China; | view film Coming Home, dir. Zhang Yimou (2015); read Ba Jin and Wen Jieruo: Remembering Xiao Shan and Living Hell; questions for reading responses; |
| 10/29 | Discuss Coming Home; Mark Selden: Karl Marx, Mao Zedong and the Dialectic of Socialism; | View film Farewell My Concubine, dir. Chen Kaige; read Carl Jung: The Undiscovered Self; questions for reading responses; |
| 10/31 | Discuss film titled Farewell My Concubine; Discuss clips 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6; | read novel by Yu Hua and view online film To Live by Zhang Yimou; and quiz on Farewell My Concubine; questions for reading responses; |
| 11/5 | Discuss clips 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5; article by Wang; Horkheimer and Adorno: Dialectics of Enlightenment; | read novellas by Zhang Jie: Love Must Not Be Forgotten and The Corner Forsaken by Love by Zhang Xian: take quiz on To Live；questions for reading responses; |
| 11/7 | Discuss the two novellas; Frank Dikotter: Mao’s Great Famine; Hayek; The Road to Serfdom; | view film Happy Times, dir. Zhang Yimou; read Yi Zhongtian: Sacred Right of private property; questions for reading responses; |
| The Post-Colonial Hong Kong | and Taiwan Trans-nationalized | |
| 11/12 | Discuss Lucien Goldmann: The Problems of a Sociology of the Novel: view clips of Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights; | View film A World without Thieves, dir. Feng Xiaogang; views of Hayek and Keynes; questions for reading responses; |
| 11/14 | Discuss Feng Xiaogang’s film; clip What’s Love Got to do with communism? | View film Lost in Beijing; read Carl Jung: Modern Man in Search of a Soul; questions for reading responses; |
| 11/19 | Discuss Li Yu’s film Lost in Beijing; and Michael Sandel: What Money Can’t Buy; Clip of Karl Marx was Right; | View film and review Chinese Box, directed by Wayne Wang; read “Diaspora, Citizenship, Nationality: Hong Kong and 1997” by Sheldon Lu; questions for reading responses; |
| 11/21 | Discuss film Chinese Box; clips 1, 2, 3, and 4; Chinese Exclusion Act; read Kipling White man’s burden; historical Hong Kong; | View film Comrades, Almost A Love Story; and Happy Together; quiz on Chinese Box; questions for reading responses; |
| 11/26 | Discuss film Comrades, Almost A Love Story; Georg Lukazc: The Theory of the Novel; and Karl Marx was Right; | View Eat Drink Man Woman and View film Wedding Banquet by Ang Lee; questions for reading responses; |
| 12/3 | Discuss the films by Yang Lee; | questions for reading responses; |
| 12/5 | 10-minute personal presentations during the final hours; |
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