Universität Wien

150047 SE Interpretationsseminar: Baogao Wenxue: Reading reportage literature as political history (2014S)

15.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 15 - Ostasienwissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work

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Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 04.03. 13:45 - 15:15 Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
  • Tuesday 11.03. 13:45 - 15:15 Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
  • Tuesday 18.03. 13:45 - 15:15 Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
  • Tuesday 25.03. 13:45 - 15:15 Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
  • Tuesday 01.04. 13:45 - 15:15 Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
  • Tuesday 08.04. 13:45 - 15:15 Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
  • Tuesday 29.04. 13:45 - 15:15 Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
  • Tuesday 06.05. 13:45 - 15:15 Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
  • Tuesday 13.05. 13:45 - 15:15 Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
  • Tuesday 20.05. 13:45 - 15:15 Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
  • Tuesday 27.05. 13:45 - 15:15 Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
  • Tuesday 03.06. 13:45 - 15:15 Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
  • Tuesday 17.06. 13:45 - 15:15 Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
  • Tuesday 24.06. 13:45 - 15:15 Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Chinese reportage has been defined as "a new genre of narrative that cuts across the conventional borders between fiction and journalism, fiction and history, and fiction and politics", a "deliberately literary nonfiction text that narrates or describes a current event, person, or social phenomenon" or, in other words, a "fast and timely representation, with adequate artistic processing, of real people and real events that are drawn directly from and regarded as typical of the real life". While on the one hand it was seen as a "mouthpiece for official Party policy" before 1979, it became a "form to circumvent the strictures of journalism in the post-Mao Zedong era". The seminar focuses on reportage from the 1980s when this genre was highly popular as part of the intellectual discourse in the first decade of reform an opening.

Assessment and permitted materials

Preparing text interpretation at home;
Participating in discussion in class;
Presentation on topic of seminar paper;
Writing seminar paper;

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

The seminar aims at introducing students to the interdisciplinarity of reportage literature, not only in terms of its form and content, but also with regard to its potential as source material in an interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary research design.

Examination topics

Reading and interpretation of well-known examples of reportage like 'The Tangshan Earthquake', 'People or Monsters' or 'River Elegy';
Presentations on theory, historical background, authors, selected titles.

Reading list

Primary and secondary literature to be named on Moodle and made available in print (Handapparat) or/and electronic form at the beginning of the semester.

Association in the course directory

GG/LK/PR 423

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