Text and Screen: Chinese Fiction and Film CHIN 460 (3)

To further advance learners’ language skills through studying fictions by well-known authors like Yu Hua, Liu, Cixin, Ye Gelin, and their adapted media works. By analyzing the idioms, sentence structures, plot, characters themes and literary devices, learners can enhance their linguistic knowledge of the literary texts and deepen their understanding of the historical, social and cultural issues represented in the works. Prerequisite: CHIN 330, CHIN 390 or equivalent.