Tuesday and Thursday, 9:30 ~ 10:50,  Kauke 243

The course studies the values of a culture defined by its rejection of the values that made the pre-modern China comprehensible. The focus is on the crisis of Chinese consciousness during the May Fourth Movement (1919), the Communist Land Revolution (1948-53), the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) and the post-socialist Era of Reform (1979-). The national efforts to save China from itself are elaborated in memoirs, biographies and works of fiction and film. These records of social transformation also render problematic the narratives of individual freedom and social democracy. As such, they complicate the Enlightenment ideas of modernity and a world history. [AH], [GE], [SJ].

欢迎选学中文250: “文化革命的文化”。课程以近代历史中的几场深刻的革命为背影，介绍其发生的政治原因。教材大部分为大家所熟悉的文学和影视作品，也包括人物传记回忆录，国学家及黑格尔、马克思、毛泽东著作的章节段落。课程深化大家对“民主”、“自由”、“平等”等政治概念的理解。通过对文史哲三方面材料的精读和泛读，我们将对辛亥革命/五四新文化运动，共产党领导的土地革命，毛泽东发动的文化大革命，以及邓小平的改革开放有新的看法，与美国同学一起重新思考社会进步，历史和世界文明。