Advanced Modern Chinese: Literary Perspectives and Social Change

Harvard FAS

Continuation of CHNSE 140a. This course is designed to bring students with ACTFL Advanced-Mid level Chinese language proficiency to Advanced-High proficiency. It aims to further develop students’ ability to use Chinese to analyze complex social issues and express nuanced ideas. The course uses a wide range of literary genres—including prose, short stories, drama, poetry, and multimedia texts—as points of entry into the study of social change in China. Through these diverse perspectives,…