Chinese (CHN) |
308 Friendly, 541-346-4041
East Asian Languages & Literatures
College of Arts & Sciences
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K - Lectures, discussions, and readings in English
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Course Data
| CHN 308 Lit Modern Taiwan >1 >GP >IC |
4.00 cr. |
| Surveys the literature of Taiwan from the postwar era to the present. Discussion focuses on national identity, gender, class, modernization, and globalization. Taught in English. |
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Optional; see degree guide or catalog for degree requirements
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Prereq: WR 121Z or equivalent. |
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Academic Deadlines
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| September 24: |
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| September 30: |
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| September 30: |
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| October 1: |
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| October 1: |
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| October 2: |
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| October 2: |
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| October 8: |
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| October 8: |
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| October 15: |
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| October 15: |
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| October 22: |
Process a complete withdrawal (25% refund, W recorded) |
| October 22: |
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| November 12: |
Withdraw from this course (0% refund, W recorded) |
| November 12: |
Change grading option for this course |
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Expanded Course Description
| Taiwan, the largest island off the coast of China, has been settled by southern Chinese for four hundred years. However, since 1895, Taiwan has not belonged to the same political entity as mainland China except for the brief period between 1945 and 1949. The political separation of a century has contributed to different economic, social, and cultural realities on the two sides of the Taiwan Strait. While Taiwanese writers do draw on the classical Chinese literary heritage, they often articulate aspirations and concerns quite different from those of the writers on the mainland. This course will survey literary developments on the island of Taiwan from the Japanese colonial era to the present, during which period the central cultural question that concerns the Taiwanese people in general and writers in particular is that of identity. After having been colonized by the Japanese for fifty years, the ethnic Chinese people residing in Taiwan jubilantly returned to Chinese sovereignty in 1945, only to find themselves treated as second-class citizens. In 1949, the Nationalist party (KMT) led by Chiang Kai-shek fled the mainland and chose Taiwan as its temporary haven after being defeated by the Communists in a civil war. A new set of challenges then arose in Taiwan: how to forge a collective identity among a multi-dialectal population with disparate histories and recent experiences. While most of the population spoke southern Chinese dialects (chiefly Hokkien and Hakka), along with Chiang Kai-shek came a new infusion of mainland immigrants who could not comprehend such dialects. For several decades, Chiang was to impose martial law and a uniform Chinese identity on the residents of Taiwan through the education, propaganda, and police systems. However, with the abrogation of martial law in 1987 during Chiang's son's presidency and increasing democratization, the majority of Taiwan¿s citizens now understand their land to be a multiethnic and multicultural entity composed of diverse Chinese groups as well as aboriginal peoples of Austronesian heritage, which is de facto independent from the People's Republic of China. Writers, along with other intellectuals, have been key players in the debate over national identity in Taiwan. This course will examine their explorations of the effects of colonialism and imperialism, the rise of a Taiwanese national consciousness, and other issues, such as gender relations, class, the pains of modernization, and globalization. |
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