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Nov 12, 2024
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College Bulletin 2014-2015 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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CHIN 110. Beijing and Shanghai: Tale of Two Cities
This seminar focuses on the culture and urban history of China’s two major cities: Beijing-the capital of both imperial and post-1949 China-and Shanghai-one of the earliest treaty ports open to the West and the center of today’s Chinese economy. Through comparative analyses of urban planning, fiction about, and film of the two cities, we will examine the significance of these two distinct yet connected urban cultures in modern and contemporary China. The students are encouraged to develop a research project comparing the two cities, using either Chinese or English-language sources. This course is open to all students above the first year who have finished previous coursework in Chinese literature, film, art, urban studies or history, or have permission of the instructor. The required course readings and all discussions will be in English.
Eligible for ASIA credit.
2 credits.
Not offered 2014-2015.
http://www.swarthmore.edu/chinese
Modern Languages and Literatures: Chinese
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