History of Modern Chinese Literature

1. Basic Course Information

Course Code：121152 ，121162
Course Name：History of Modern Chinese Literature (Ⅰ, Ⅱ)
Course Type：Discipline Basic Course
Periods：32 (32 periods per term, 64 periods in total)
Credits：2 (2 credits per term, 4 credits in total)
Target Students: for undergraduates majoring in Chinese Language and Literature
Assessment：Examination
Preparatory Course：Selected Readings in Modern Chinese Literature

2. Brief Course Introduction: 

History of Modern Chinese Literature (Ⅰ, Ⅱ) is a discipline basic (compulsory) course for Chinese Language and Literature majors. This course teaches students the literary phenomena, literary argument and the history of literary evolution during the year of 1917 to 1949, helps students to understand the representative writers and works in the history of modern Chinese literature and the development of literary thoughts, societies and schools under the background of modern cultural linkage, makes them seize the basic rules, literary taste and aesthetic interest of the development of modern Chinese literature, and makes them able to apply modern literary theories to perceiving, understanding and assessing writers and works. The teaching content can be roughly divided into three major stages and modules: the 1920s’ literature which narrates the May 4th New Culture Movement and the creation and argument of the later New Literature; the 1930s’ literature which introduces plenty of proletarian revolutionary literature and the influential and mature writers and their works; the 1940s’ literature which describes the literary creation and literary phenomena in three areas including the Kuomintang-ruled area, the liberated area and the enemy-occupied area during the Resistance against Japanese Aggression.