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Chinese Language & Literature

Chinese will be consolidated.

CHI 251-2 Applied Putonghua (for Undergraduates)
2 Terms; 2 Credits
This course, based on Elementary Putonghua, is designed for students to strengthen the
training in five areas: reading, writing, listening, speaking, and vocabulary translation from
Chinese to Pinyin and vice versa. Students can be acquainted with the linguistic knowledge
and grammatical principles and further extend their vocabulary. This course provides pertinent
training for speaking Putonghua and enhances students’ capabilities of reading, communica-
tion and vocabulary translation from Cantonese to standard Chinese and vice versa,
promoting their competitiveness.

CHI 253 Chinese Ci ( 詞 )
1 Term; 3 Credits
The course aims to give students a scrutiny of the origin, various schools and structures
of Ci while representative works of the major authors from Tang to Song dynasties will be
selected for reading and analysed with respect to their backgrounds, styles, thread of
thoughts, artistic conceptions and emotions.

CHI 254 Chinese Classical Novel
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course provides students with a general understanding of the development of Chi-
nese classical novels from pre-Qin to Qing dynasties. Students are required to read a wide
range of representative well-known Chinese classical novels, with reference to their styles,
characteristics, literary skills and their places in the development of Chinese fictions. Special
attention will be given to critical appreciation of Chinese classical novels.

CHI 265 Modern and Contemporary Chinese Fiction
1 Term; 3 Credits
The course focuses on fictions written during the New-vernacular period from 1917-1949 in
which the origin, evolution of old and new fictions and representative works from renowned
authors of the period will be studied. After the course, students will have a general under-
standing of modern fictions and their appreciation of fictions enhanced. The course is
designed for students to study several influential contemporary fictions as well. Students will
apply modern literary theories to study and analyse the related works and in turn enhance
their abilities of analysis and appreciation.

CHI 266 Modern and Contemporary Chinese Prose
1 Term; 3 Credits
The course is divided into 2 parts: 1) a scrutiny of the development of prose in various
stages and the representative works of renowned writers of the period; 2) training on creative

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