Tentative Schedule

Date	Class Activities	Reading & Viewing Assignments
	The Republic Revolution and	the May Fourth Movement
1/15	Introduction to translation theories and translingualism; read Guo Songtao, official of Qing Empire;	Read A Madman’s Diary and Kong Yiji by Lu Xun;
1/20	Discuss novellas A Madman’s Diary and Kong Yiji against the backdrop of Orientalism；excerpt of Chinese Exclusion Act； Wang Hui, The Idea of “Asia”; Zhou Zuoren: Humane Literature; Chen Duxiu: On Literary Revolution	Read Chapters by Arthur Smith in Chinese Characteristics: Face and Conservatism; and The True Story of Ah Q; by Lu Xun;
1/22	Discuss chapters of TheTrue Story of Ah Q; go over Fukuzawa Yukichi Datsu-A Ron; excerpt from Translingual Practice by Lydia Liu, pp.51-76; and Zhang Xuedong ; Will to Allegory;	Read Lao She’s Black Li and White Li; by Lao She and take quiz on The true Story of Ah Q, and quiz on A Madman’s Diary;
1/27	Discuss novella Black Li and White Li; Leo Lee analysis; go over Unequal Treaties in the 19th Century; Clips from A Tale of Two Cities;	View City of Life and Death, dir. Lu Chuan, take Quiz Lao She’s  Black Li and White Li, (1934);
1/29	Discuss City of Life and Death; History of Imperialism and Colonialism;	view film Family based on the novel by Ba Jin;
2/3	Discuss film adaptation of Family by Ba Jin; anarchist revolution on the family, and ancestry worship;	Read A Kiss by Shi Tuo and its analysis by Ted Huters (analysis);
2/5	Discuss novella A Kiss by Shi Tuo; British Selfhoon constructed through depictions of China;	View silent film New Women (1931), dir. Cai Chusheng with subtitles; and read Regret for the Past by Lu Xun;
2/10	Discuss film The New Woman dir. Cai Chusheng and Regret for the Past by Lu Xun; discuss clips 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10; and Lessons for Women by a traditional woman and Confucian history (45-116 A.D.)	Read When I Was in Hsia-Village, by Ding Ling (1911-1942); take quiz on New Woman; View film White Haired Girl and the ballet；
	The Communist Revolution	and People’s Democracy
2/12	Discuss When I Was in Hsia-Village by Ding Ling; discuss film White Haired Girl and the ballet；Zou Rong’s Revolutionary Army;	view film Red Brigade of Women; take quiz on Ding Ling’s When I Was in Xia Village, quiz on Regret for the Past; and quiz on A Kiss;
2/17	Discuss film Red Detachment; go over Henry Sumner Maine: Ancient Law; Marx and Engles: Manifesto of the Communist Party; clips of English Civil War , Diggers and Levelers;	Read Beloved China by Fang Zhimin; take Quiz on film Red Brigade of Women;
2/19	Discuss prison diaries Beloved China; communist humanism; Hannah Arendt: On Revolution; and Bertrand Russell: Problem of China; Rule by Law;	Screening film Lei Feng (1963) in class room; internationalists Norman Bethume: Agnes Smedley, Israel Epstein, Sydney Ritternberg (The Revolution);
2/24	Discuss film Lei Feng; clip of What’s Love Got to do with communism? Alain Badiou on Victor Hugo and Les Miserables;	View film Hibiscus Town, dir. Xie Jin; Hayek on economic liberalism；
2/26	Discuss film Hibiscus Town; Wang Qiushe in Hegel’s vision of history; Mao‘s socialist utopia & dystopia; Keynes economics;	Read The Execution of Mayor Yin by Chen Ruoxi;
	Maoism Discredited	and China Transformed
3/3	Discuss The Execution of Mayor Yin; Rene Girard: Sacrificial Violence; Yi Xiaocuo: Blood Lineage in Afterlives of Chinese Communism (pp.17-22); Barbara Mittler: The Culture of Cultural Revolution;	Read The Scar (pp.108-122) by Lu Xinhua; and quiz on A Small Town Called Hibiscus;
3/5	Discuss novella The Scar; the clip concealment law；Confucian teachings; and Antigone (441 B.C.);	Read novella by Zhang Xianliang: Old Man Xing and His Dog;
3/10	Discuss Old Man Xing and His Dog; go over China and the Human by David Eng;	View Blue Kite, dir. Tian Zhuangzhuang; read National Trauma Global Allegory: Construction of Collective Memory in Blue Kite by Zhang Xudong;
3/12	Discuss Blue Kite; go over Resisting Modernity in Contemporary China by Guo Jian and Does History Make Sense by Terry Pinkard:	View film Coming Home, dir. Zhang Yimou (2015);
3/30	Discuss film Coming Home; go over Remembering Xiao Shan by Ba Jin and Living Hell by Wen Jieruo;	Read novella Love Must Not Be Forgotten by Zhang Jie;
10/31	Discuss Love Must Not Be Forgotten;	Read novella The Corner Forsaken by Love by Zhang Jie;
4/2	Discuss The Corner Forsaken by Love; go over The Road to Serfdom by Hayek;	View film To Live by Zhang Yimou; read article by Wang;
4/7	Discuss clips1, 2, 3, 4, and 5; go over Norman O. Brown on the psychoanalytical meanings of history, excerpts of Dialectics of Enlightenment by Horkheimer and Adorno;	View film Lost in Beijing dir. Li Yu；(Lost in Beijin); and take quiz on To Live；
	The Post-Colonial Hong Kong	and Taiwan Trans-nationalized
4/9	Discuss film clips 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,  6; Lost in Beijing; go over Carl Jung: The Undiscovered Self; Michael Sandel: What Money Can’t Buy; Clip of Karl Marx was Right;	View Happy Times, dir. Zhang Yimou; read Yi Zhongtian: Sacred Right of private property;
4/14	Discuss film Happy Times; with clips of Chaplin’s City Lights; go over The Problems of a Sociology of the Novel by Lucien Goldmann:	View A World without Thieves, dir. Feng Xiaogang;
4/16	Discuss film A World without Thieves; watch clip What’s Love Got to do with communism? go over debates of Hayek and Keynes;	View film by Wayne Wang Chinese Box; read Carl Jung: Modern Man in Search of a Soul;
4/21	Discuss film Chinese Box; clips1, 2, 3, and 4; go over read Kipling White man’s burden; historical Hong Kong; “Diaspora, Citizenship, Nationality: Hong Kong and 1997” by Sheldon Lu;	View film Comrades, Almost A Love Story; dir. Peter Chan; take quiz on Chinese Box;
4/23	Discuss film of Comrades, Almost A Love Story; go over The Theory of the Novel by Georg Lukazc:	View Eat Drink Man Woman dir. Ang Lee;
4/28	Discuss clips 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 of Eat Drink Man Woman by Ang Lee;	View film Wedding Banquet dir. Ang Lee; read “Breaking the Soy Sauce Jar: Diaspora and Displacement” by Dariotis and Fung;
4/30	Discuss clips 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 of Wedding Banquet by Ang Lee;