| Course title | Art and Intellectuals under Chinese Postsocialism |
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| Course code | DAS/UICP |
| Organizational form of instruction | Seminary |
| Level of course | Bachelor |
| Year of study | not specified |
| Semester | Winter and summer |
| Number of ECTS credits | 5 |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Status of course | Compulsory-optional |
| Form of instruction | Face-to-face |
| Work placements | This is not an internship |
| Recommended optional programme components | None |
| Course availability | The course is available to visiting students |
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| Course content |
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The course comprises 12 sessions, including an introduction, a conclusion and a wrap-up session, and 10 sessions dedicated to 5 main topics. Each topic is dedicated 2 sessions, the first consisting of a lecture and classroom workshop activities, and the second consisting of a group presentation and seminar activities and discussion of textual and visual materials. 1. Introduction to the Course: Overview of topics and key concepts; Assessment methods; Research and writing advice for the assessment. 2-3. From the Early Chinese Avant-Garde to Mao Zedong's Though on Art and Literature 4-5. Cultural Revolution Culture and Its Visual Legacy 6-7. Alienation and Experimentation in the Post-Mao Avant-Garde (1970s-1980s) 8-9. Performance Art, Postsocialist Biopolitics, and the Chinese City 10-11. The Debate between New Left and Liberals at the Turn of the Century (taught by Dr Runya Qiaoan, KAS) 12. Concluding Session: Course overview and reflections on the learning experience; Portfolio clinic.
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The course explores the emergence of the "postsocialist condition" in reform-era China (1978-2010s) through the lens of experimental art, art criticism, and intellectual debates. The course examines the transformation of Chinese socialist artistic practices and the ideas underpinning them to highlight their legacy as well as their critique in the postsocialist era. The course links the analysis of artistic practices that reveal "the "resilient and residual" (Zhang 2008: 13) of the socialist order in the postsocialist age with contemporaneous issues in the intellectual sphere, thus showing how artists, critics and other intellectuals problematized questions of socio-economic transformation, cultural identity and subjectivity. As a result, participants in this course will develop a nuanced understanding of key cultural and ideological trends in contemporary China.
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| Prerequisites |
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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Final coursework portfolio (100% of the grade). a. Individual Essay (ca. 2200 words including refs., in the style of a short academic article) on a topic chosen by the student (typically the student will discuss the topic with me before they start writing). Weighted 50 percent of the final mark; b. Group work: i.e., one group presentation/slideshow (or individual presentations if the number of students is too low; ca. 10 slides of content each) on a topic that will be assigned by the lecturer and presented in class for pre-submission formative feedback. The final submitted version of the group slideshow accounts for 40 percent of the mark. c. Participation in classroom seminars (workshops): students will participate in seminar activities in class during the sessions and will publish the result of their work (max. 200 characters per seminar/task) on the course's moodle page. Completion of this coursework accounts for 10 percent of the mark. d. Individual Self-reflection on the student's learning experience. Not graded for content, but 0.2 points are deducted from the pre-roundup final mark if it's missing. |
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| Study plans that include the course |
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| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Chinese Studies (2023) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Vietnamese Philology (2023) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Asian Studies, Specialization Indonesian Language and Culture (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Asian Studies (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Asian Studies, Specialization Vietnamese Language and Culture (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): - (2024) | Category: Philological sciences | 3 | Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Korean Studies (2023) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Korean for Business (2023) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Indonesian Studies for Tourism (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Korean Studies (2022) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Vietnamese Philology (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Asian Studies, Specialization Korean Language and Culture (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Japanese Philology (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Indonesian Studies for Tourism (2023) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Asian Studies, Specialization Chinese Language and Culture (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Korean for Business (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Chinese Studies (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Asian Studies, Specialization Japanese Language and Culture (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |