Studies in Chinese Literature & Culture: Chinese Folk Performance Arts and Pop Culture

Course Number: 82-440

This repeatable course explores target cultures through a thematic or conceptual focus. Students critically analyze authentic documents through, for example, historical, biographical, filmic, artistic, literary, musical, and theoretical perspectives, while improving and expanding their language skills.

Fall 2022: This course will begin by showcasing some Chinese folk performance art traditions including hand puppet, shadow puppet, and string puppet performances, and regional opera performances, and investigating their relationships with Chinese folk beliefs and temple festivals. Next we will investigate more modern pop culture artifacts such as pop songs and films. Through these investigations students will explore the culture of both traditional and modern performing arts, their relationship with Chinese local culture and societies, and their national and global impact. Class activities will include showcases of media and printed materials, lectures and discussion, as well as presentation of multimedia examples of these representative performing arts and pop culture. 

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Units: 9
Prerequisite(s): 82332