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CHNS2633: Topics in Chinese Literature 1

2025 unit information

This unit examines a range of Chinese-language works of fiction, poetry, and drama before the 20th Century. Texts, read in translation, will be placed in the social and political context of their period, when literature was considered a key tool for the modernisation of Chinese society.

Unit details and rules

Managing faculty or University school:

Arts and Social Sciences

Study level Undergraduate
Academic unit Chinese Studies
Credit points 6
Prerequisites:
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12 credit points of Chinese Studies or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Asian Studies or International and Comparative Literary Studies
Corequisites:
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None
Prohibitions:
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None
Assumed knowledge:
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None

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Semester 1 2025
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
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