L0602 - CHINESE LITERATURE I

courses
ID:
L0602
Duration (hours):
48
CFU:
8
SSD:
LINGUE E LETTERATURE DELLA CINA E DELL'ASIA SUD-ORIENTALE
Located in:
PESCARA
Url:
FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES/CORSO GENERICO Year: 1
Year:
2025
Course Catalogue:
https://unich.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...

Overview

Date/time interval

Primo Semestre (01/10/2025 - 15/01/2026)

Syllabus

Course Objectives


At the end of the course, students will be able to:
-recognize and describe the main periods and phenomena of modern and contemporary Chinese literature;
-situate authors and works within their respective historical, cultural, and social contexts;
-critically analyze texts of different types (essays, short stories, poems) using appropriate terminology.

Course Prerequisites


None.

Teaching Methods


Frontal and interactive lectures, with the active participation of students. Reading and analysis of literary passages in class.

Assessment Methods


Oral exam.

Texts


Literature Textbooks:
Idema W, Haft L., Letteratura cinese, Venezia: Cafoscarina,2000,capp XXIV-XXVIII.
Pesaro N., Pirazzoli M., La narrativa cinese del Novecento, Roma:Carrocci, 2019 (capitoli scelti che saranno comunicati a lezione).
Zuccheri S., Pedone V., Letteratura cinese contemporanea, Milano: Hoepli,2015 (capitoli scelti che saranno comunicati a lezione).
History Textbooks (one of the following to be chosen):
Roberts J.A.G, Storia della Cina, Roma:Newton Compton,2009 (parte seconda: La Cina Moderna).
Samarani G. La Cina contemporanea. Dalla fine dell’Impero a oggi.Torino:Einaudi:2017 (fino a p.398).
Compulsory reading: Lu Xun, Diario di un pazzo (any edition available).
Two readings of your choice:
Ba Jin, Famiglia, Roma: Atmosphere Libri, 2018.
Gao Xingjian, La montagna dell’anima, Milano: Rizzoli, 2002.
Lao She, Città di gatti, Milano: Mondadori, 2024.
Lao She, Il ragazzo del risciò, Milano: Mondadori, 2024.
Lu Xun, Fuga sulla luna e altre leggende, Milano: Luni Editrice, 2024.
Lu Xun, La vera storia di Ah Q, Roma: Newton Compton, 2016.
Mo Yan, Il paese dell’alcol, Torino: Einaudi, 2016.
Mo Yan, Il supplizio del legno di sandalo, Torino: Einaudi, 2007.
Mo Yan, Le rane, Torino: Einaudi, 2013.
Mo Yan, Sorgo rosso, Torino: Einaudi, 2014.
Shen Congwen, Il vecchio e il nuovo, Roma: Nutrimenti, 2004.
Shen Congwen, La città di confine, Viterbo: Stampa Alternativa, 2008.
Su Tong, La casa dell’oppio, Milano: Orientalia, 2019.
Su Tong, Mogli e concubine, Milano: Feltrinelli, 1996.
Su Tong, Racconti fantastici, Roma: Elliot, 2017.
Yu Hua, Cronache di un venditore di sangue, Milano: Feltrinelli, 2018.
Yu Hua, La Cina in dieci parole, Milano: Feltrinelli, 2012.
Yu Hua, Vivere!, Milano: Feltrinelli, 2012.
Zhang Ailing, La storia del giogo d’oro, Milano: Mondadori, 2006.
Zhang Ailing, Lussuria, Milano: BUR Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, 2007.
Further materials:
Selected chapters from:
Mair V. The Columbia History of Chinese Literature,NewYork: Columbia University Press, 2001.
Pozzana C. La poesia pensante,Macerata:Quodlibet,2010.
Van Crevel M., Klein L.,Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money, Leiden:Brill, 2008.
Readings, essays and any supplementary material will be provided by the istructor.




Contents


The course aimsat exploring the major literary phenomena and Chinese authors from the late Qing period, at the end of the nineteenth century, to the present day, examining literary production in relation to the historical, political, cultural, and social contexts that have shaped it. Particular attention will be given to the transition towards modern literature, the vibrant literary scene of the 1920s and 1930s, the revolutionary literature of the Maoist period, and the literary expressions of contemporary China from the 1980s onward. The course will cover all the main genres — fiction, poetry, and drama — analyzing their formal and thematic evolution in relation to the transformations of Chinese society.

Course Language


Italian.

More information


The program for non-attending students is the same as for attending students.
However, non-attending students are required to contact the instructor to receive the materials distributed during class (critical essays, readings, etc.).

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