CN5002 The Cultural Creation of China the nation-state: From Qing decline to 21st-century spectacular power

Academic year

2023 to 2024 Semester 1

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

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SCQF level

SCQF level 11

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Planned timetable

To be arranged

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Module coordinator

Prof G B Lee

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Module Staff

Prof Gregory Lee

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Module description

This module examines the creation and frequent re-invention of China-the-nation-state through language, literature and culture in its widest sense, and focuses on the imbrication of politics and culture from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Texts studied will be drawn from poetry, fiction, film, television, and popular music.

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Re-assessment

Coursework = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1.5 hr seminar (x 10 weeks)

Scheduled learning hours

15

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

280

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.

Intended learning outcomes

  • By the end of the module, students will have a deepened sense of the practices and processes that have contributed to making the Chinese nation-state imaginary
  • Students will have acquired an acquaintance with poetry, fiction, film, television, and popular music of the modern and contemporary periods
  • Students will have a grasp of the political and ideological history of the period studied
  • Students will have acquired the fundamental knowledge necessary for writing a dissertation on a topic of modern Chinese cultural studies
  • Students will be able to discuss a twentieth- or twenty-first-century text/author in a sophisticated manner