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International and Comparative Studies 161F/G Fiction and Modern Chinese Society

Designed to enhance the understanding of modern Chinese society, this course will consider works by major Chinese authors from the Republican and contemporary periods. Emphasis will be on the writers' ideas of political involvement, social change, revolution, and the functions of literature. Events that have shaped modern Chinese history and society, and the writers' responses to them, will also be examined. Taught in English.

Antirequisites: The former Modern Eastern Civilizations161F/G.
3 hours, half course.


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