Oxford University B.A. Chinese [Basic reference list]

Reading list: Oxford University B.A. Chinese [Basic reference list] [Please refer to the handbook for the full context]

Arthur Waley, The Opium Wars Through Chinese Eyes, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1958 (Repr. Routledge, 2004).
Paul Cohen, History in Three Keys: the Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.
Vera Schwarcz , A Time for Telling the Truth: Conversations with Zhang Shenfu New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
Timothy Brook, Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Elites in Wartime China Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard University Press, 2005.
Edward Friedman, Paul Pickowicz and Mark Seldon, Chinese Village, Socialist State. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.
Zhang Jie, Leaden Wings, London, Virago, 1987.

R.S. Dawson, A new introduction to Classical Chinese, Oxford 1984
R.L. Chard, ed., Selected texts in Classical Chinese

Literary texts
Lu Xun: “Kong Yiji” (Kong Yiji)
Zhang Henshui: selections from Ping-Hu tongche (The Beiping-Shanghai
Express)

Gender, class, and modernity: Literary texts
Ling Shuhua: “Xiuzhen” (Embroidered Pillows)
Xiao Hong: “Shou” (Hands)
Films
Wu Yonggang, Shennü (The Goddess)
Shen Xiling, Chuanjia nü (Boatman’s Daughter)
Cai Chusheng, Xin nüxing (New Woman)
Nation and homeland: Literary texts
Wen Yiduo: “Sishui” (Dead Water)
Ba Jin: “Gou” (Dog)
Xiao Hong: “Shimian zhi ye” (A Sleepless Night)
Shen Congwen: “Zhangfu” (The Husband)
Representing the city: Literary texts
Lao She: selections from Luotuo Xiangzi (Camel Xiangzi)
Mu Shiying: “Shanghai de hubuwu” (Shanghai Foxtrot)
Films
Yuan Muzhi: Malu tianshi (Street Angel)
Yuan Muzhi: Taoli jie (Plunder of Peach and Plum)
Literature and film in wartime Literary texts
Ding Ling: “Wo zai Xiacun de shihou” (When I was in Xia Village)
Zhang Ailing: “Fengsuo” (Blockade)
Films
Sun Yu, Da lu (The Big Road)
Fei Mu, Xiaocheng zhi chun (Spring in a Small Town)

Mao Zedong’s Xin minzhuzhuyi lun (“On New Democracy”)
Fei Xiaotong’s classic of Chinese sociology Xiangtu Zhongguo (“From the Soil”)
Television series 河殇 Heshang (“River Elegy”) transcript

Set texts
Sun Zhongshan [Sun Yatsen], “Di yi jiang—minzuzhuyi”. In San Minzhuyi. pp. 589–595.
Mao Zedong, Xin minzhuzhuyi lun, pp.633–638.
Deng Xiaoping, “Dang he Guojia lingdao zhidu de gaige”. In Deng Xiaoping Xuanji, Volume II. Beijing: Renmin chubanshe, 1983, pp. 320–343.
Fei Xiaotong, “Jiazu”. In Xiangtu Zhongguo. Shanghai: Guancha she, 1948, pp. 38–44.
Fei Xiaotong, “Nan-nü you bie”. In Xiangtu Zhongguo. Shanghai: Guancha she, 1948, pp. 45–50.
Fei Xiaotong, “Xiangtu bense and Chaxu geju”. Xiangtu Zhongguo. Shanghai: Guancha she, 1948, pp. 1–7 and 22–29.
Su Xiaokang and Wang Luxiang, Heshang. Beijing: Xiandai chubanshe, 1988.
The following sections only:
–Su Xiaokang, Huhuan quan minzu fanxing yishi, pp. 1–6.
–Diyi ji: Xun meng, only pp. 7–11.
–Diliu ji: Weilanse, pp. 95–111.
Fujiansheng Dangwei Zuzhibu Ketizu, “Dangyuan Ganbu Shouru Chaju Kuoda Dui
Dangde Sixiang Zuofeng Jianshe De Yingxiang”. In Zhongguo Diaocha Baogao, Li