Chinese General (CHINGEN)

These courses are open to all undergraduate and graduate students, are taught in English, and do not require a knowledge of an Asian language.

CHINGEN 51. Chinese Calligraphy—Practice in writing Chinese characters with a brush, emphasizing standardized script and the composition of the characters and improving handwriting. Limited enrollment. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisite: CHINLANG 3 or equivalent.
1-2 units, Spr (Chuang, Y)

CHINGEN 73/173. Chinese Language, Culture, and Society—(Graduate students register for 173.) Topics include the origin of Chi-nese, development of dialects, emergence of the standard, preferred formulaic expressions, the evolution of writing, and language policies in greater China.
Prerequisite: CHINLANG 1 or 1B, or equivalent.
GER:DB-SocSci
4 units, Win (Sun, C)

CHINGEN 74Q. What is Modern Chinese?—Stanford Introductory Dialogue. Preference to sophomores. Continuation of 73. Language planning, including corpus planning and status planning, in China from the late Imperial to the present. Differing standards for spoken and standard script Chinese and the arguments underlying them. Current policies and practices concerning standard Chinese, dia-lects, and minority languages in relation to political changes.
Prerequisite: 73 or equivalent.
1-2 units, Spr (Sun, C)

CHINGEN 91. Traditional East Asian Civilization: China—Required for Chinese and Japanese majors. Introduction to Chinese culture in a historical context. Topics include political and socioeconomic institutions, religion, ethics, education, and art and literature. GER:DB-Hum, EC-GlobalCom
5 units, Aut (Zhou, Y)

CHINGEN 131/231. Chinese Poetry in Translation—(Graduate students register for 231.) From the first millennium B.C. through the 12th century. Traditional verse forms representative of the classical tradition; highlights of the most distinguished poets. History, language, and culture.
Chinese language not required.
GER:DB-Hum, EC-GlobalCom
4 units, Win (DiBello, M)

CHINGEN 132/232. Chinese Fiction and Drama in Translation—(Graduate students register for 232.) From early times to the 18th century, emphasizing literary and thematic discussions of major works in English translation.
GER:DB-Hum, EC-GlobalCom
4 units, Win (Wang, J)

CHINGEN 133/233. Literature in 20th-Century China—(Graduate students register for 233.) Required for Chinese majors. The his-torical and cultural context of modern Chinese writing; critical approaches to its study. Themes include: the politics of representing gender and romance in literature; dislocations of colonial modernity; and political, cultural, and economic revolution. Sources include elite and popular fiction. In English.
GER:DB-Hum, EC-GlobalCom, WIM
4 units, Aut (Wang, B)

CHINGEN 200. Directed Readings in Asian Languages—For Chinese literature. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
1-12 units, Aut, Win, Spr, Sum (Staff)

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