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1. How is the Chinese language different from other languages?
2. What are the characteristics of Chinese poetry? What is the relationship between Chinese poems and social situation?
3. How does the May Fourth Movement influence China’s culture?
4. What are two favorite traditional entertainments in China? Why are they so popular?
5.How does the development of technology influence people’s life in China?
6. How does literature reflect China’s society?
Cui Jian, Chinese rock star
Yi wu so you,
Nothing to my name 1986
I have asked you endlessly, When will you go with me? But you always laugh at me with, Nothing to my name I want to give you my dreams, And give you my freedom. But you always laugh at me with, Nothing to my name. Ohhh….When will you go with me?
The earth beneath my feet is moving. The river beside me is flowing. But you always laugh at me with, Nothing to my name. Why do you always laugh at me so? Why don’t I give up? Why do you see me as, Forever having nothing to my name? Ohhh….Just go with me now!
Listen - I’ve waited so long, So I’ll make my final request. I want to grab you by the hands, And take you with me. Now your hands are trembling,
Now your tears are falling. Perhaps you are saying,
You love me with nothing to my name Ohhh….Just go with me now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYwsPt854Xo
Literature and Popular Culture
Language
Confucius, Daoism, Yin-Yang
Poetry: Li Bai, Du Fu
Novels: Journey to the West, Outlaws of the Marsh, Dream of the Red Chamber
Drama: Beijing Opera, acrobatics
May Fourth: Lu Xun, Lao She
Mao: Talk at Yenan Forum on Literature and Art, Socialist realism
Films: Chen Kaige , Zhang Yimou, Ang Lee
Language
Oracle bone
中国
日
月
明
人
男
女
Language
Oracle bone
中国
日
月
明
人
男
女
Languages
Chinese 汉语
Zao shang hao. 早上好
Good morning
Xiawu hao 下午好
Good afternoon
Ni hao ma? 你好吗
How are you?
Hen hao. 很好
Very well
Zaijian 再见
Good bye
http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/mandarin.php
Tibetan
Nga-to delek སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good morning
kayrang kusu debo yimbay? ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
How are you?
nga debo yin ང་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན།
I am fine
Kaliy pay ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་།
Goodbye said by person leaving
Kaliy shu ག་ལེར་བཞུགས་།
Goodbye （said by person staying）
Li Bai 701-762
Drinking Alone by Moonlight 月下獨酌
花間一壺酒。
A pot of wine, under the flowering trees;
獨酌無相親。 I drink alone, for no friend is near.
舉杯邀明月。
Raising my cup I beckon the bright moon,
對影成三人。 For her, with my shadow, will make three people.
Du Fu 712-770
Reply to a Friend's Advice
Leaving the Audience by the quiet corridors, Stately and beautiful, we pass through the Palace gates, Turning in different directions: you go to the West With the Ministers of State. I, otherwise.
Journey to the West
Outlaws of the Marsh
Beijing opera
Acrobats
Lu Xun 1881-1936
Lao She 1899-1966
Yenan Forum on Literature and Art Mao 1942
All our literature and art are for the masses of the people, and in the first place for the workers, peasants and soldiers; they are created for the workers, peasants and soldiers and are for their use.
In the world today all culture, all literature and art belong to definite classes and are geared to definite political lines. There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause; they are, as Lenin said, cogs and wheels in the whole revolutionary machine.
Film
Chen Kaige
Yellow Earth1984
Farewell My Concubine 1993
Zhang Yimou
Raise the Red Lantern1991
To Live 1994
Olympics 2008
Ang Lee 2000
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Brokeback Mountain 2005
Mo Yan ( Guan Moye)
2012 Nobel Prize Literature
Red Sorghum Clan
Garlic Ballads
Republic of Wine
Big Breasts & Wide Hips
Life and Death are Wearing me out
