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Single discipline educational activity
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Languages and Literature of China and South East Asia
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Contents 164/5000
"Public opinion" (yulun 舆论), between information, criticism and entertainment: journalism, baolu 暴露 and baogao wenxue 报告文学 from the late Qing era to the era of reforms.
Recommended Bibliography Hung, Chang-tai, “Newspapers.” In War and Popular Culture, University of Hawai’i Press, Honolulu, 1994, pp. 151-187.
Richard King, " ‘Wounds’ and ‘Exposure’": Chinese Literature after the Gang of Four, Pacific Affairs, Vol. 54, No. 1 (Spring, 1981), pp. 82-99.
Lee, Leo Ou-fan, Nathan, Andrew, “Beginnings of Mass Culture: Journalism and Fiction in Late Ching and Beyond”, in Johnson, David, Nathan, Andrew and Rawski Evelyn, edd., Popular Culture in Late Imperial China, University of California Press, Berkeley/Los Angeles/ London, 1987: 360-395.
Link, Perry, People or monsters? : And other stories and reportage from China after Mao / Liu Binyan, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983
Liu Kang and Tang Xiaobing, Politics, Ideology, and Literary Discourse in Modern China, Duke University Press, 1993, pp. 211-243
Liu P. L., “The Press”, in Communications and National Integration in Communist China, 1972, pp. 130-146
Analysis and translation of Liu Binyan and Wang Meng's literary texts
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
The exam consists of an oral interview on the topics covered during the course. It could be divided of two parts: the first consists of 4-5 questions aimed at verifying the acquisition of theoretical notions given during the course (Chinese literary history and the relevant socio-political context); the second consists in reading, translating and commenting on some of the texts presented during the course. The final evaluation, expressed expressed on a scale of 18 (the minimum mark to pass the exam) to 30 cum laude, will be obtained from the average of the marks obtained in the two respective parts. It will be considered sufficient if the student will be able to express a basic knowledge of the topics covered and the texts presented during the course; instead it will be maximum if the student proves to know in depth the topics and texts and to know how to deal with them and elaborate critically.