Topic: Writing Women

"Writing women" is intended in a double sense here: women writing in
twentieth-century  China and women writing about women.  The focus of this
course is on female experience as articulated by writing women (rather than
men) and the changes of such articulation over the century.  We will examine
writing women of various ideological persuasions and psychological
dispositions, but central to our examination are the issues of gender
politics and female sexuality.  The geographic representation of these
writing women includes China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

No knowledge of Chinese is required for the class.

Requirements:
10%    attendance & active participation
10%    1 team project (writing and presentation)
10%    mid-term exam
20%    4 journals (1 single-space page each)
30%    1 term paper (10 double-space pages)
20%    final exam

TEXTBOOKS
Chang, Eileen.  Rouge of the North.  Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1999.
Chu Tien-wen.  Notes of a Desolate Man.  New York: Columbia University
Press, 1999.
Ding Ling.  I Myself Am a Woman: Selected Writings of Ding Ling. Boston:
Beacon, 1989.
Dooling, Amy, and Kristina Torgeson, eds.  Writing Women in Modern China: An
Anthology of Literature by Chinese Women from the Early Twentieth-Century.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
Hong Ying.  Summer of Betrayal.  New York: Grove, 1997.
A Course Packet of other required readings.