An interdisciplinary, multimedia approach to the representation of gender relations in Chinese literature over time. Critical engagement of such topics as the complex relationships between women's issues and national discourse, between identity and performance, between the construction of female subjectivity and male fantasy, between gender and genre. Students will be encouraged to conduct cross- genre and cross-cultural comparisons. All readings in English.

An interdisciplinary, multimedia approach to the representation of gender relations in Chinese literature over time. Critical engagement of such topics as the complex relationships between women's issues and national discourse, between identity and performance, between the construction of female subjectivity and male fantasy, between gender and genre. Students will be encouraged to conduct cross- genre and cross-cultural comparisons. All readings in English.