Contemporary Chinese Literature

1. Basic Course Information

Course Code：203002
Course Name: Contemporary Chinese Literature
Course Type: Discipline Basic Course 
Periods：32 
Credits：2
Target Students: for undergraduates majoring in International Chinese Education 
Assessment: Examination
Preparatory Course: Modern Chinese Literature

2. Brief Course Introduction

   Contemporary Chinese Literature course is one of the indispensable Discipline Basic Course in college for those whose major is Chinese Language and Literature. Famous writers and their works and literary thoughts in the development of modern Chinese literature will be introduced and explored, so that students will learn the creating conditions and history of modern Chinese literature. This course will improve their ability of thinking, learning and evaluating modern Chinese literary works, which will help to forming and strengthen students’ social and culture outcomes in the culture space of modern Chinese literary. This course aims at illustrating the fundamental shape of literature in an intense relationship between politics and aesthetics, describing the structure and generation of literature in Culture Revolution at the contemporary Chinese political and cultural field, revealing the deep change of literary thoughts after the Reform and Opening-up Policy; presenting a complicated framework of literature creation and diversification after 90s; portraying elucidation of the theme of modern Chinese literature in the social and cultural sphere.