Winter 2019 Chinese Courses

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Chinese 001. Elementary Chinese (5 units)

Section Instructor Day/Time Room CRN
  001   I-chia Lee   MTWRF 9:00-9:50A   209 Wellman Hall   27514
  002   Yutian Tan   MTWRF 10:00-10:50A   209 Wellman Hall   27515

Course Description: Developing elementary level skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing in Mandarin Chinese in everyday communication settings. Fundamentals of pronunciation, grammar, and Chinese characters will be introduced. The course is for students who have had no or very limited prior exposure to the Chinese language.

Prerequisite: No background in Chinese or Language Placement Exam (see placement exam details) or consent of instructor.

GE credit (New): Arts & Humanities, Oral Literacy and World Cultures.

Format: Lecture/Discussion - 5 hours.

Textbooks:

  • Y. Liu, et al, Integrated Chinese: Level 1, Part 1 Simplified Character Textbook [4th Edition]  (Cheng & Tsui, 2016)
  • Y. Liu, et al, Integrated Chinese: Level 1, Part 1 Simplified Character Workbook [4th Edition]  (Cheng & Tsui, 2016)
  • Y. Liu, et al, Integrated Chinese: Level 1, Part 1 Traditional & Simplified Character Workbook [4th Edition]  (Cheng & Tsui, 2016)

Chinese 002. Elementary Chinese (5 units)

Section Instructor Day/Time Room CRN
  001   Yu Li   MTWRF 11:00-11:50A   209 Wellman Hall   27516
  002   Yu Li   MTWRF 12:10-1:00P   209 Wellman Hall   27517
  003   Jiao Li   MTWRF 2:10-3:00P   209 Wellman Hall   27518
  004   Jiao Li   MTWRF 3:10-4:00P   209 Wellman Hall   27519

Course Description: A continuation of Chinese 001. Further developing elementary level skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing in Mandarin Chinese in more everyday communication settings. Building upon Chinese 001, continue to introduce basic vocabulary and characters as well as core grammar, and further train pronunciation. The Chinese 1, 2, 3 course series are for students who have had no or very limited prior exposure to the Chinese language.

Prerequisite: Chinese 001 or Language Placement Exam (see placement exam details) or consent of instructor.

GE credit (New): Arts & Humanities, Oral Literacy and World Cultures.

Format: Lecture/Discussion - 5 hours.

Textbooks:

  • Yuehua Liu, Integrated Chinese: Simplified Character Textbook, Level 1, Part 1  (Cheng & Tsui, 2008)
  • Yuehua Liu, et al, Integrated Chinese: Level 1, Part 1 (Simplified Character) Workbook  (Cheng & Tsui, 2008)
  • Yuehua Liu, et al, Integrated Chinese: Level 1, Part 1 (Traditional & Simplified Character) Workbook  (Cheng & Tsui, 2008)
  • Yuehua Liu and Daozhong Yao, Integrated Chinese: Simplified Character Textbook, Level 1, Part 2  (Cheng & Tsui, 2008)
  • Tao-Chung Yao, Integrated Chinese: Level 1, Part 2 (Simplified Character) Workbook  (Cheng & Tsui, 2008)
  • Tao-Chung Yao, Integrated Chinese: Level 1, Part 2 (Traditional & Simplified Character) Workbook  (Cheng & Tsui, 2008)
  • Chinese Breeze Readers  (choose titles as directed by class instructor)

Chinese 002BL. Accelerated Written Chinese (5 units)
I-Chia Lee

MTWRF 8:00-8:50A
105 Wellman Hall
CRN 27520

Course Description: A continuation of Chinese 001BL. Further trainings on all the communicative skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing with emphases on standard Mandarin pronunciation, Chinese characters, and discourse level conversations in more communication settings. The Chinese 001BL, 002BL, 003BL course series are designed for students who already have elementary level ability to understand or speak Mandarin Chinese.

Prerequisite: Chinese 001BL or Language Placement Exam (see placement exam details).

GE credit (New): Arts & Humanities, Oral Literacy and World Cultures.

Format: Lecture - 5 hours.

Textbooks:

  • Duanduan Li, et al, A Primer for Advanced Beginners of Chinese, Simplified Characters: Volume 1  (Columbia University Press, 2004)
  • Duanduan Li, A Primer for Advanced Beginners of Chinese, Simplified Characters: Volume 2  (Columbia University Press, 2004)
  • Chinese Breeze Readers  (choose titles as directed by class instructor)

Chinese 003. Elementary Chinese (5 units)
Haiqing Yin

MTWRF 11:00-11:50A
1120 Hart Hall
CRN 27521

Course Description: A continuation of Chinese 002 and the last course in the elementary sequence. Further developing elementary level skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing in Mandarin Chinese in more everyday communication settings. Building upon Chinese 002, continue to introduce basic vocabulary and characters as well as core grammar, and further train pronunciation. The Chinese 1, 2, 3 course series are for students who have had no or very limited prior exposure to the Chinese language.

Prerequisite: Chinese 002 or Language Placement Exam (see placement exam details) or consent of instructor.

GE credit (New): Arts & Humanities, Oral Literacy and World Cultures.

Format: Lecture/Discussion - 5 hours.

Textbooks:

  • Yuehua Liu and Daozhong Yao, Integrated Chinese: Simplified Character Textbook, Level 1, Part 2  (Cheng & Tsui, 2008)
  • Tao-Chung Yao, Integrated Chinese: Level 1, Part 2 (Simplified Character) Workbook  (Cheng & Tsui, 2008)
  • Tao-Chung Yao, Integrated Chinese: Level 1, Part 2 (Traditional & Simplified Character) Workbook  (Cheng & Tsui, 2008)
  • Chinese Breeze Readers  (choose titles as directed by class instructor)

[OPTIONAL]

  • Yuehua Liu, Integrated Chinese: Simplified Character Textbook, Level 1, Part 1  (Cheng & Tsui, 2008)

Chinese 004.  Intermediate Chinese (5 units)
Jiao Li

MTWRF 12:10-1:00P
1120 Hart Hall
CRN 27522

Course Description: Training of intermediate-level communication skills in spoken and written Mandarin, based on language skills developed in Chinese 003.

Prerequisite: Chinese 003 or Language Placement Exam (see placement exam details) or consent of instructor.

GE credit (New): Arts & Humanities, Oral Literacy and World Cultures.

Format: Lecture/Discussion - 5 hours.

Textbooks:

  • Yuehua Liu, et al, Integrated Chinese: Simplified and Traditional Character Textbook, Level 2, Part 1  (Cheng & Tsui, 2009)
  • Yuehua Liu, et al, Integrated Chinese: Simplified and Traditional Character Workbook, Level 2, Part 1  (Cheng & Tsui, 2009)
  • Chinese Breeze Readers  (choose titles as directed by class instructors)

Chinese 005.  Intermediate Chinese (5 units)

Section Instructor Day/Time Room CRN
  001   Ling-yu Lu   MTWRF 1:10-2:00P   141 Olson Hall   27523
  002   Ling-yu Lu   MTWRF 2:10-3:00P   207 Olson Hall   27524

Course Description: Intermediate-level training in spoken and written Chinese in cultural contexts, based on language skills developed in Chinese 004.

Prerequisite: Chinese 004 or Language Placement Exam (see placement exam details).

GE credit (New): Arts & Humanities, Oral Literacy and World Cultures.

Format: Lecture/Discussion - 5 hours.

Textbooks:

  • Yuehua Liu, et al, Integrated Chinese: Simplified and Traditional Character Textbook, Level 2, Part 1  (Cheng & Tsui, 2009)
  • Yuehua Liu, et al, Integrated Chinese: Simplified and Traditional Character Workbook, Level 2, Part 1  (Cheng & Tsui, 2009)
  • Yuehua Liu, et al, Integrated Chinese: Simplified and Traditional Character Textbook, Level 2, Part 2  (Cheng & Tsui, 2010)
  • Yuehua Liu, et al, Integrated Chinese: Simplified and Traditional Character Workbook, Level 2, Part 2  (Cheng & Tsui, 2010)
  • Yuehua Liu and Chengzhi Chu, Green Phoenix  (Peking University Press, 2008)
  • Chinese Breeze Readers  (choose titles as directed by class instructors)

Chinese 050. Introduction to the Literature of China and Japan (4 units)     In English     [Cross-listed with Japanese 050]
David Gundry

MW 6:10-8:00P
1150 Hart Hall
CRN 54708

Course Description: This course focuses on prose fiction written in Japan and China from the 1000’s through the 1900’s, with an emphasis on stories in which a romantic or erotic element predominates. Pre-modern Japan and China produced a number of fictional masterpieces of daunting length, and we will read portions of two of these along with several shorter works that will be read in their entirety. First, after reading a selection of Chinese and Japanese texts that in various ways paved the way for it, we will examine key early chapters of the vast Japanese novel of courtly love The Tale of Genji (circa 1000). We will subsequently read a Noh play based on one of the chapters in Genji we will have read, before moving on to examine a series of stories by Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693) set in both samurai and commoner milieus. We will then be treated to the blend of supernatural interludes and opulently detailed descriptions of life among the elite of Qing-period China in The Story of the Stone (aka The Dream of the Red Chamber, mid 1700's), an extremely long novel that is often compared to Genji. At the end of the term we will move into the twentieth century with “Love in a Fallen City,” a story by the Chinese/Chinese-American writer Eileen Chang (1920-1995), and Masks (1958), a short novel by Japanese author Enchi Fumiko (1905-1986) that contains references to both Genji and the Noh theater and that, much like Genji, Stone and the fiction of Ihara Saikaku, presents us with a disturbing blend of erotic and familial intrigue.

Prerequisite: None.

GE credit (New): Arts & Humanities and World Cultures.

Format: Lecture/Discussion - 4 hours.

Textbooks:

  • Ihara Saikaku, Five Women Who Loved Love: Amorous Tales from 17th-Century Japan, translated by Wm. Theodore de Bary  (Tuttle Publishing, 2016)
  • Cao Xueqin, The Story of the Stone, Volume 1, translated by David Hawkes  (Penguin Classics, 1974)
  • Enchi Fumiko, Masks, translated by Julet Winters Carpenter  (Vintage Books, 1993)
  • MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers [7th Edition]  (Modern Language Association of America, 2009)
  • A Course Reader

Chinese 100B. Confucian Traditions (4 units)    In English    [Honors Section]
Mark Halperin

MW 10:00-11:50A
This is an Honors Course and its CRN is available through the Honors Program

Course Description: Key aspects of the Confucian tradition in dynastic China. Major themes addressed include ritual, classical studies, and Confucian influences on the Chinese family and state.

Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in Honors Program.

GE credit (New): Arts & Humanities and World Cultures.

Format: Lecture/Discussion - 4 hours.

Textbooks:

  • TBA

Chinese 103. Modern Chinese Drama (4 units)     In English
Xiaomei Chen

TR 12:10-1:30P
212 Wellman Hall
CRN 27549

Course Description: English language survey of modern Chinese drama in the twentieth century and its major playwrights, in the context of Chinese history and the interaction of Chinese culture with other cultures. Two exams and one term paper. English language only for lecture, discussion, reading, exam and term paper. No prior knowledge of Chinese language and culture required.

Prerequisite: None.

GE credit (New): Arts & Humanities, Visual Literacy and World Cultures.

Format: Lecture - 3 hours; Term Paper or Discussion - 1 hour.

Textbook:

  • The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama [Abridged Edition], edited by Xiaomei Chen  (Columbia University Press, 2014)

Chinese 112. Modern Chinese Readings/Discussion (4 units)

 Section  Instructor  Day/Time  Location  CRN
  001

  Binbin Yang

  MTWR 9:00-9:50A

  1120 Hart Hall

  27551
  002

  Binbin Yang

  MTWR 10:00-10:50A

  1120 Hart Hall

  27552

Course Description: Building on Chinese 006/003BL, further developing the four communication skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and preparing students to function more effectively and communicate more accurately in Modern Standard Mandarin-speaking environments. Students read both dialogues and articles pertaining to a variety of issues in contemporary China and discuss the ethical, moral, aesthetic, social, and cultural concerns of the Chinese that relate to these issues.

Prerequisite: Chinese 006 or Language Placement Exam (see placement exam details) or consent of instructor.

GE credit (New): Arts & Humanities, Oral Literacy and World Cultures.

Format: Lecture - 3 hours; Discussion - 1 hour.

Textbooks:

  • TBA

Chinese 115. Introduction to Classical Chinese (4 units)
Mark Halperin

MW 2:10-4:00P
1128 Bainer Hall

CRN 27553

Course Description: Classical Chinese will be introduced through brief descriptions of syntax followed by readings in original sources. Sources will range from pre-Han philosophical texts to Tang anecdotal literature. Historical and cultural issues will be discussed as they arise.

Prerequisite: Chinese 112 or equivalent language proficiency (see placement exam details); consent of instructor (mhalperin@ucdavis.edu).

GE credit (New): Arts & Humanities and World Cultures.

Format: Lecture - 3 hours; Discussion - 1 hour.

Textbooks:

  • TBA

Chinese 120. Advanced Chinese (4 units)
Yutian Tan

MW 12:10-2:00P
25 Wellman Hall

CRN 27554

Course Description: Evaluation of readings from various genres (literature, newspapers, TV and movies, etc.) develop advanced reading, writing, aural comprehension, and formal/professional speech skills in Mandarin Chinese. Chinese society/cultural studies, especially those sociocultural issues reflected in the language used in learning materials.

Prerequisite: Chinese 113 or Language Placement Exam (see placement exam details) or consent of instructor.

GE credit (New): Arts & Humanities, Oral Literacy and World Cultures.

Format: Lecture - 3 hours; Discussion - 1 hour.

Textbook:

  • TBA

Chinese 133. Readings in Modern Chinese Prose and Drama (4 units)
Xiaomei Chen

TR 8:00-9:50A
1128 Bainer Hall
CRN 27555


Course Description: Literary works and scholarly essays on selected topics of Chinese prose and drama, development of a deep understanding of Chinese culture and society through sophisticated reading materials of these two important genres of the modern period. Conducted in Chinese. May be repeated for credit up to two units when topic differs.

Prerequisite: Chinese 111 or equivalent language proficiency.

GE credit (New): Arts & Humanities and World Cultures.

Format: Lecture - 4 hours.

Textbooks:

  • TBA

Chinese 150. Fifth Year Chinese (4 units)
Chengzhi Chu

TR 2:10-4:00P
141 Olson Hall
CRN 27556


Course Description: This fifth-year Chinese course focuses on developing sophisticated Chinese speaking and writing skills as well as deep understanding of modern and contemporary Chinese culture and society. Through studying Chinese texts as well as films on selected topics of Chinese language, literature, culture, and society, students will develop critical thinking and understanding of social and cultural issues of modern China as related to the course materials. Major class activities include reading, discussion, composition, and presentations. All classes are conducted in Chinese. The focus of this quarter will be on the topic of the “humanistic spirit” (人文精神) in twentieth and twenty-first century Chinese literature and film.

May be repeated for credit up to three times when topic differs.

Prerequisite: Chinese 120 or Language Placement Exam (see placement exam details) or consent of instructor (czchu@ucdavis.edu).

GE credit (New): Arts & Humanities, Oral Literacy, World Cultures, and Writing Experience.

Format: Lecture/Discussion - 4 hours.

Textbooks:

  • A Course Reader