Transnational China: Writing and Screening Chinese Immigration
CEAS 233
Spring 2021 not offered
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Migration is a crucial issue for centuries, and people move around the world involuntarily or voluntarily due to political force, economy, technology, and globalization. Chinese immigration to the world has its long history, and the dispersion of Chinese populations has contributed to the formation of Chinese-speaking sites globally and brought about the construction of Sinophone culture in various geographical locales.
This course will introduce the discourse of the Sinophone, a linguistic-oriented term that defines cultural productions with Sinitic languages in Chinese-speaking sites around the world and its relation to Chinese immigration, transnationalism, and heterogeneity. The critical questions we will explore in this course include (1) What is the relationship between the Sinophone (roughly, Chinese language users) and China, Chineseness, Chinese diaspora, and overseas Chinese studies? (2) What is China in the lens of Chinese immigrants? (3) How do cultural producers represent Chinese immigrants' lived experiences? We will read novels/novellas and watch films from writers and filmmakers who have experienced diverse migratory trajectories to get a picture of how they represent Chinese immigrants' identity formation and negotiation with local societies, as well as their roots of origin/homeland. Through reading scholarship on Sinophone and primary texts, students will understand the relationship between physical migration and cultural production and become acquainted with various forms of place-based cultural productions in three Sinophone spheres, including the United States, Taiwan, and Malaysia. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA CEAS |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (CEAS-MN)(CEAS)(CEAS-Lit&Cult) |
Major Readings:
Shu-mei Shih, Chien-hsin Tsai, and Brian Bernards (eds). SINOPHONE STUDIES: A CRITICAL READER
Yan Geling, THE LOST DAUGHTER OF HAPPINESS
Nieh Hualing, MULBERRY AND PEACH
Zhu Tianxin, THE OLD CAPITAL
Bai Xianyong, TAIPEI PEOPLE
Wang Chen-h'o, ROSE, ROSE, I LOVE YOU
Huang Chunming, TASTE OF APPLES
Li Yongping, RETRIBUTION
Zhang Guixing, MY SOUTH SEAS SLEEPING BEAUTY
Ang Lee, The Wedding Banquet
Yu-Chieh Cheng, My Little Honey Moon
Namewee, Nasi Zemak 2.0
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Examinations and Assignments:
Attendance and active participation, short papers x 3, oral presentation, and final paper |
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