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Chinese Language & Literature

CHI 356 Special Topics in Chinese Linguistics
1 Term; 3 Credits
This elective course aims to introduce important topics, trends, and approaches in the
field of Chinese linguistics. It includes modern linguistics works, samples of Chinese language
studies, and analytic tools for Chinese corpus as the key learning areas to achieve the course
goals. It helps students apply linguistics theories and methods to studying Chinese language
and increases their awareness of critical thinking in learning. The course will equip students
with digital skills for analysing Chinese language and develop students’ ability for planning and
conducting small-scale research projects independently in the future.

CHI 358 Dream of the Red Mansions
1 Term; 3 Credits
The course introduces and promotes students’ understanding and appreciation of the
prestigious ancient Chinese fiction, Dream of the Red Mansions ( 紅樓夢 ). Students will be
guided to analyse the original work in-depth and increase their knowledge about this work
through relevant video materials and class discussions. Students will also have the opportunity
to learn the research history of the fiction and the development of Hongxue (i.e. Redology, the
academic study of Dream of the Red Mansions).

CHI 365 Chinese Periodicals and the Study of Modern and Contemporary Literature
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course is organized by selected topics and periodical study cases to demonstrate
the relationship between periodical study and literary history study. It is divided into three
sections. The first part explains theories that are often used in the periodicals study. The
second part focuses on the important periodicals published from late-Qing to the 1930s. The
third part covers important topics in the periodical study of mainland China, Hong Kong, and
Taiwan literature from the 1950s to the 1980s.

CHI 366 Appreciation of Modern and Contemporary Chinese Drama
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course intends to strengthen students’ understanding of modern and contemporary
Chinese drama development in the twentieth century. Representative playwrights in Mainland
China in the pre-1949 period, and contemporary playwrights from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and
Singapore in the post-1949 period, will be discussed regarding their historical backgrounds.
Students will learn to appreciate drama from different subgenres and explore the inter-
relationship between the play, the theatre, and the performance.

CHI 368 Contemporary Chinese Fiction
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course is an intensive study of Chinese fiction since 1949 and emphasizes equally
the need to understand the development of Chinese Literary Trends in the Twentieth Century.

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