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Fantastic photo of the pond at the Garden of Flowing Fragrance. Thank you for sharing. I hope others will post photos here or on Facebook. Please be sure to "like" us on Facebook and to take a look at the photo we posted there of our group shot in front of the garden gate.

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I've attached an article Prof. Campbell published. It's a translation of what Qi Biaojia had to say about his "allegory mountain."

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Two documents from Duncan Campbell. The first are his notes for his talk and the second is a list of recommended readings.

If you'd like to send Duncan a note of thanks:
[email protected]
or
Duncan Campbell
June and Simon K.C. Li Director of the Center for East Asian
Garden Studies and Curator of the Chinese Garden
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino CA 91108

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Hi Scott,
I'm sure all the guides were terrific. Babe still volunteers every Friday, down from 2-3 days a week when he was younger.

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Mayra, Fantastic work. Please also track down the Beijing version of Williams's "Happy."

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A short paperback: Miyazaki, China's Examination Hell (translated by Schirokauer). I used to assign it as textbook and there plenty of used copies available.

The great resource on examinations is Ben Elman's encyclopedic studies, available in many libraries (he was one of my professors and had us translate Ming and Qing era exams):

encyclopedia entry on the system http://www.princeton.edu/~elman/documents/Civil%20Service%20Examinations.pdf

encyclopedia entry on the 8 legged exam: http://www.princeton.edu/~elman/documents/Eight-Legged%20Essay.pdf

a book Elman and Woodside produced: http://www.princeton.edu/~elman/documents/Elman%20and%20Woodside%20ed.,Education%20and%20society%20in%20late%20imperial%20China%201600-1900.pdf

Benjamin A. Elman, Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China
Harvard University Press, 2013.

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Hu Shi is truly a literary giant and a link between China/Taiwan and the US. There's plenty about him on the net.

A long time ago, in a 2nd year Chinese language class, we were asked to read "Mr. More or Less" by Hu Shi. Here's a page that includes the Chinese, the pinyin transliteration, and an English translation of the story. Check it out: http://www.readchinese.net/chabuduoxiansheng

Hu Shi was a principal advocate of using the vernacular, arguing that a living people needed a living language. "Why I write poems in the vernacular?":
http://chinasince1644.cheng-tsui.com/sites/default/files/upload/8-4.pdf

Here's a selection from Columbia on literary reform:
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/cup/hushi_literary_reform.pdf

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Because Brian Bernards will be talking about Republican China's literature, I'll just add some recommended readings. These are not required for my Wednesday morning session, but you may find them useful.

Lu Xun -- "Call to Arms" (his explanation why he left medicine to become a writer) and "Diary of a Madman" (his first published story).

Ba Jin 巴金 (1904-2005) -- Excerpts from Family, the first novel in a triology. Ba Jin grew up in southwestern China. He became an anarchist and studied in France. Homesick and bored, he began to write. He returned to China and began publishing his writings. Family came out in serialized form in 1931. A film version was released in 1956 and it has recently been turned into a television miniseries. The excerpts below come from Cheng & Tsui, publisher of the best known translation.

Ding Ling -- "Diary of Miss Sophie" (path-breaking work by a young female writer about an urban woman wrestling with romantic desire and to establish herself)

Shen Congwen -- "Xiaoxiao" (a story set in rural Hunan where a family adopts in a 16 year old girl to marry their 6 year old son)

Xiao Hong -- "Spring in a Small Town" (set in Northeast China)

"Xiaoxiao" was turned into a film, "The Girl from Hunan" and the 1948 film version of "Spring in a Small Town" by director Fei Mu is considered the greatest Chinese film ever made. It was remade in 2002. The author was the subject of a bio pic in 2012, "Falling Flowers."
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University of Oregon's Wendy Larson wrote the attached encyclopedia entry on Eileen Cheng.

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The attached reading guide is from: http://assets.nybooks.com/media/doc/2009/06/29/love_in_a_fallen_city-rgg.pdf It opens:

"Love in a Fallen City is the first collection of stories in English by Eileen Chang, one of modern China’s most admired and beloved writers. Chang’s stories are about men and women, especially women, who have no choice but to navigate the treacherous passage from the world of traditional China to the freedoms, ambitions, and dangers of modern life."

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Required:
Chen Jo-hsi (Chen Ruoxi 陳若曦) was born in Taiwan in 1938. She and her husband came to the US for graduate school and were inspired by the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (launched by Mao in 1966) to go to China and take part. They lived there from 1966 to 1973. They subsequently went to Hong Kong, Canada, and the United States. "The Big Fish" was published in English in 1978. "The Big Fish" takes place at the time of Richard Nixon's visit to China in February 1972.

Yu Hua's formal schooling ended with high school. He worked as a dentist for several years before beginning to write in 1983. This extract from his novel To Live is from about 1959, after Mao and others initiated the Great Leap Forward. Collectives were turned into communes. For many reasons, including bad policies and management, harvests plummeted and famine took many lives. Fugui is the father, telling the story. Jiazhen is the mother. They have a daughter, Fengxia, and a son, Youqing. As some of you know, this novel was turned into a powerful film. The film differs in many ways, however, from the book and this selection is largely absent from the film.

Recommended:
Mao Dun, 1932 original publication of "Lin Family Shop," English publication in Chinese Literature, journal edited by Mao Dun, in 1954. Translation by Sidney Shapiro. The film based on the story was released in 1959. It was directed by Shui Hua based on a screenplay by Xia Yan. Youtube version of the film (w/o subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSpI28C0RNU . A version with English subtitles is available from a Chinese site: http://www.56.com/w28/play_album-aid-1002424_vid-NDEzODQzNDE.html .

Ding Ling's novel The Sun Shines over the Sangan River was written just prior to the establishment of the People's Republic, but it was widely disseminated after 1949. It won the Stalin Literature Prize second place in 1951. Below is a selection from the novel. Ding Ling had long been a Communist Party member, but she'd run into trouble earlier in the 1940s and was in the party's wilderness after being labelled a rightist in 1957. She was rehabilitated in 1978.

Interview with Yu Hua in Education about Asia (2003) and review by John Winship, also in Education about Asia. EAA is a great resource and I heartily encourage you to consider subscribing (full disclosure: I'm on the editorial board).

YouTube has a full version of To Live (活着 in high definition and with English subtitles):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB7HYhUpDz8

Jiang Rong published Wolf Totem in 2004. He spent part of the Cultural Revolution on the grasslands of Inner Mongolia and raised a wolf cub. He subsequently worked at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Chapter one of the novel is attached.

Mo Yan received the Nobel Prize in literature in 2012. He's the author of numerous works, including Red Sorghum and, most recently, Frog. I've attached a NY Times collection of short excerpts from his novels. An excerpt of Red Sorghum is available at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Red-Sorghum-A-Novel-China/dp/0140168540

Feng Jicai 冯骥才(b. 1942), published The Three-Inch Golden Lotus in 1985. He was a basketball player and painter. More recently he has been a proponent of folk art and historical preservation, especially in his native Tianjin. The first chapter of the book is attached. Set at the turn of the 19th/20th century, Feng explores the phenomenon of foot-binding. He has served as an official in various writer's associations.
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Ezra Pound is famous as a poet and infamous for his support for fascism. What is much less known is his strong and enduring interest in China.

Here's an academic study of Pound and China: https://www.press.umich.edu/11942/ezra_pound_and_china

Pound drew on the work of others to produce his versions of Chinese poetry.

Here is a discussion of his efforts: https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/5772/Stone_is_alive_in_my_hand.pdf?sequence=1

This includes a comparison of Pound's version of a poem with that of Herbert Giles, an early Western scholar of China.

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Emily - thanks for posting this wonderful evidence of you and your pals resourcefulness. I'm glad you folks explored a bit and I hope everyone finds a way to go back to China and Taiwan and taking advantage of mass transit.

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Here's a photo from Shenyang that I like. Zhongshan Square, Mao statue, and the dancing masses. Below are links to relevant resources on the location.

Google Maps location:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Zhong+Shan+Guang+Chang,+TaiYuan+Jie+ShangQuan,+Heping+Qu,+Shenyang+Shi,+Liaoning+Sheng,+China,+110000/@41.7967619,123.4096978,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x5e2f87f574b9d061:0xf11fb1d1ff7241da

Long Live the Victory of Mao Zedong Thought, Wikipedia page on the giant sculpture at the center of the square:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Live_the_Victory_of_Mao_Zedong_Thought

A 1989 NY Times article about Shenyang:
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/06/world/shenyang-journal-a-city-that-undoes-mao-under-his-steady-gaze.html
(The reporter, Nick Kristof, is now a columnist for the Times and is featured in our Assignment:China segment on the 1989 Tiananmen square demonstrations and repression.)

A 2011 article about Shenyang becoming more environmentally friendly (the author is a friend of mine who now writes for BusinessWeek, the McKinsey fellow she interviews is a USC grad and institute supporter):
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/shenyang_a_once-polluted_china_city_is_turning_from_gray_to_green/2454/

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Great job by everyone finding connections. Here is one more links for the Jilin culture week that Luis found. I paid some attention to this because our own USC Pacific Asia Museum hosted the group last September. Catherine and I both attended the lunar new year festival they were part of at the museum.

http://english.jl.gov.cn/News/GeneralNews/201409/t20140912_1747782.html

We also noted a Jilin county government's web satisfaction survey at the end of an issue of Talking Points:
http://china.usc.edu/talking-points-december-24-2010-january-5-2011

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