Literature In Taiwan And Hong Kong

AY2014/2015 Semester 2

A survey of literary works by Taiwanese and Hong Kong writers from the 1950s to the present. Writers to be studied include Bai Xianyong, Wang Wenxing, Zhang Dachun, Huang Chunming, Zhu Tianwen, Xi Xi, Liu Yichang, etc. Topics discussed are modernism and localization, urban and global experience, influence of Taiwanese and Hong Kong literature on Singapore and Malaysian writers, etc.