- Docente: Melinda Pirazzoli
- Credits: 9
- SSD: L-OR/21
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
First cycle degree programme (L) in
Asian Languages, Markets and Cultures (cod. 0980)
Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Foreign Languages and Literature (cod. 0979)
Learning outcomes
The Urban and the rural Subject
1: Introduction
2: Beijing Beijing Bycles, (Visser, Chapter 3);Wu Hung: Zhang Dali's Dialogue : Conversation with a City pp. 749-768
3:Qiu Huadong's Xin meiren (New Beauties)
4: Qiu Huadong's Xin meiren
5.Qiu Huadong's Xin meiren
6: Shanghai:Lou Ye's Suzhou river (Visser. Chapter 4)
7: Shanghai and the Du Lala phenomenon
8: Du Lala -translations
9 Du Lala-translations
10. Another Shanghai: Wang Anyi's The song of Everlasting regret -(Visser. Cap 4)
11. The Song of Everlasting Regret
12: The Song of Everlasting Regret
13.Chi Li's Fanannao rensheng (Vexing life)
14. Chi Li's Fanannao rensheng
15. Chi Li's Fanannao rensheng
16. Zhu Wen's Nanjing- Shenme shi laji shenme shi ai (What is garbage, what is love)
17. Shenme shi laji shenme shi ai
18:Shenme shi laji shenme shi ai
19: Outside the city: Blind shaft (Jia Zhangke) and Er Mo (Zhou Xiaowen)(Mc Grath chapter 4)
20: Shenmu (Sacred wood) (translations)
21: Shenmu (translations)
22. Shenmu (translations)
23. Shenmu (translations)
24. Urban nostalgia. Tao Yuanming and Dongxi's "Mimi didai" (The sacred zone)
25-Dongxi's "Mimi didai"
26. Dongxi's "Mimi didai"
27. Dongxi's "Mimi didai"
28.Dongxi's "Mimi didai"
29. Dongxi's "Mimi didai"
30. final conclusiona
Readings/Bibliography
Robin Visser, Cities surround the Countryside, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2010 (cap. 3 e 4)
Haomin Gong, Uneven Modernity, Honolulu, Hawaii University Press (cap.3)
Jason Mc Grath, Postsocialist Modernity, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2008 (cap. 3)
Marco Fumian, Chronicle of Du Lala’s Promotion, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Volume 28, Number, (Spring 2016)
Gli studenti sono tenuti a vedere i film discussi in classe
suggested readings:
Friedmann George, China's Urban Transition, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press 2005.
Lefebvre, Henri, "The Urban Illusion", in The Urban Revolution 151-164. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
Simmel, Georg, "The Metropolis and Mental Life" , The sociology of Georg Simmel, 409-424, New York, Free Zone Press
Wang Hui, Chinese New Order. Politics and Economy in Transition, Cambridge university Press, 2003
Office hours
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