Session

Fall 2021

 Term

Y

Format

SEMR

Instructor

Calendar Description / Prerequisite / Co-Requisite

This blended course combines both online teaching and face-to-face instruction to study Chinese-Canadian literature from as early as the 1890 to contemporary times written by descendants of early Chinese immigrants as well as new Chinese immigrants. It focuses mainly on fiction but including also poetry, prose essays, and drama both in English and Chinese. While examining these works' artistic qualities, it provides an This blended course combines both online teaching and face-to-face instruction to study Chinese-Canadian literature from as early as the 1890 to contemporary times written by descendants of early Chinese immigrants as well as new Chinese immigrants. It focuses mainly on fiction but including also poetry, prose essays, and drama both in English and Chinese. While examining these works' artistic qualities, it provides an overview of Chinese Canadian history and explores diasporic topics of social and cultural identity, the interaction between traditional roots and the new environment, and between cultural assimilation and resistance, and between Chinese immigrants and other ethnic communities, as reflected in these works.

Course Start Up

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