CAPS 2233

Introduction to China: Beyond China

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025.

"China" and "Chinese" are no longer adequate terms for the study of Sinitic-language communities and cultures that evince politically tenuous and linguistically polyphonic relations with the People's Republic of China. This course introduces students to transnational literatures, film, and popular culture from formerly marginalized Chinese voices, and to the field of Sinophone Studies as a critical, interdisciplinary alternative. Students will study fiction and films from Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, the United States, and the PRC, along with critical works explaining the ways that diaspora, colonialism, comparative empires, and ethnic or minority studies have informed the rise of global Chinese studies beyond "China" as a homogenous, static entity.

When Offered Fall.

Distribution Category (ALC-AS) (CA-AG, LA-AG)

Comments This crosslisted class is one of several topical courses in the Department of Asian Studies that serve as introductory courses to important aspects or themes of Chinese civilization (CAPS 2230, CAPS 2231, CAPS 2232, CAPS 2233). The course assumes little or no background in the study of China. Students may take more than one of these different courses for credit.

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