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Week 8 (Nov. 5-7): The Tiananman Movement of 1989: Cultural Criticism in a Chinese Public Sphere |
Reading:
Leo Ou-fan Lee, "The Crisis of Culture," in China Briefing: 1990
Andrew Jones, "The Politics of Popular Music in Post-Tiananmen China" in Jeffrey
Wasserstrom
and Elizabeth Perry eds. Popular Protest and Political Culture in Modern China
Benjamin Lee, "Going Public" (from Public Culture)
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Film:
Carma Hinton's documentary,
"The Gate of Heavenly Peace"
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Week 9 (Nov.12-14): Hong Kong: Popular Culture in an Age of Commercialization |
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Reading:
Fredric Jameson, "Postmodernism and Consumer Society" (from Hal Foster ed.,
The Anti-Aesthetic)
Ye Si, "Transcendence and the Fax Machine," (from David Wang, ed., Running Wild:
New Chinese Writers )
Leung Ping-kwan, Selections from City at the End of Time
Rey Chow, "Between Coloniers: Hong Kong's Postcolonial Self-Writing in the 1990s"
(from Diaspora)
Rey Chow, "A Souvenir of Love" (from Modern Chinese Literature)
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 Music:
Film:
Stanley Kwan's "Rouge"
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Week 10 (Nov.19-21): World Poetry and Print Culture |
Reading:
Bei Dao, The August Sleepwalker
Stephen Owen, "The Anxiety of Influence: What Is World Poetry?" (from The New
Republic )[on reserve] Selection from Pierre Bourdieu, The Field of Cultural Production
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Film:
Wong Kar-wai's "Chungking Express"
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