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Modern Chinese Popular Culture I (204-0-20)

Instructors

Corey Byrnes
847/467-3314
1880 Campus Drive, Kresge Hall, Office 4-548
Office Hours: Varies quarter to quarter, please check with instructor.

Meeting Info

University Hall 121: Tues, Thurs 12:30PM - 1:50PM

Overview of class

AY 24-25 Introduction to Modern Chinese Popular Culture, Part I covers the history of modern Chinese popular cultural production between the mid-19th century and 1949. The course is designed around the introduction and adaptation of four media technologies: photography, film, mass print culture, and sound recording.

Learning Objectives

To learn how to use methods of close reading, viewing, and listening effectively to discuss a range of different media technologies and cultural forms

To acquire a formal and theoretical vocabulary for discussing and writing about popular culture and new media, including photography, film, mass print culture, and sound recording

To develop the rhetorical, analytical, and argumentative skills necessary to convey interpretations effectively in writing

To understand the broader historical and cultural contexts that shaped modern Chinese popular cultural production

To learn to evaluate critically scholarly sources of knowledge about modern Chinese popular cultural production

Teaching Method

lecture and discussion

Evaluation Method

Four short essays
Two quizzes

Class Materials (Required)

Materials will be available through Canvas

Class Attributes

Literature and Arts Foundational Discipline
Literature & Fine Arts Distro Area