ATS3012 Chinese studies advanced 6: Contemporary literature and popular culture

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   Explain the social, political and cultural development that has characterised post-Mao China, Chinese society, its people and its culture (through examination of the historical contexts of a number of literary and popular culture works published in China after the 1980s);

2. 2

   Critically analyse the changes that post-Mao reform has brought to intellectual trends in general and to literature and culture in particular through critical analysis of a range of literary and popular culture works by a young generation of Chinese writers and cultural workers;

3. 3

   Write and speak effectively in standard modern Chinese on a range of intellectual and literary issues and cultural phenomena;

4. 4

   Utilise fundamental analytical and critical skills required for academic research in Chinese Studies.