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	Week 1 - Film in the 1930s: Urban Shanghai
1	Von Kowallis, JE, Malu tianshi (Street Angel) (1935) -- Summary. pp. 1-6.	1-6
2	Xiao, Zhiwei, 1998, "Chinese Cinema", in Encyclopedia of Chinese Film, ed., Zhang, Yingjin and Zhiwei Xiao et al. (London & New York: Routledge) pp. 3-30.	7-35
	Week 2 - Film in the 1940s: The End of the Civil War
3	Von Kowallis, JE, Wuya yu maque (Crows and Sparrows) (1949) -- Summary. pp. 1-4.	36-39
4	Von Kowallis, JE, 1999, Review Article for Encyclopedia of Chinese Film, in Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia vol. 31. pp. 104-110.	40-45
	Week 3 - Film in the 1950s: Representing Lu Xun
5	Von Kowallis, JE, Zhufu (lit. Benediction; usu. trans. "The New Year Sacrifice") (1956) -- Summary. pp. 1-4.	46-49
6	Lu Xun, 1980, Zhufu (The New Year Sacrifice) in Selected Works of Lu Xun, trans. Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang, vol. 1 (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press) pp. 168-188.	50-61
	Week 4 - Film in the 1960s: Reassessing the Revolution
7	Von Kowallis, JE, Zaochun eryue (Early Spring in the Second [Lunar] Month; usu. trans. "February") (1963) -- Summary. pp. 1-3.	62-64
	Week 5 - Film in the 1960s: Resituating Chinese Cinema
8	Von Kowallis, JE, Wutaijiemei (Stage Sisters) (1965) -- Summary. pp. 1-2.	65-66
9	Marchetti, Gina, 1990, "Wutai Jiemei" (Two Stage Sisters) in International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers vol. 1 (2nd edition, Chicago & London: St James Press) pp. 989-990.	67-68
	Week 6 - Films from the Cultural Revolution Period and its Aftermath
10	Von Kowallis, JE, Qing gong yuan (injustice in the Qing Palace) (1962) - Summary. p. 1.	69
11	Von Kowallis, JE, Dongfang hong (The East is Red) (1965) - Summary. p. 1.	70
12	Von Kowallis, JE, Baimao nu (The White Haired Girl) (1972) - Summary. p. 1.	71
13	Von Kowallis, JE, Jue Lie (Breaking with Old ideas) (1975) - Summary. pp. 1-2.	72-73
14	Von Kowallis, JE, Muma ren (The Herdsman) (1982) - Summary. pp. 1-2.	74-75
	Week 7 - Film in the 1980s: Reassessing the Cultural Revolution
15	Von Kowallis, JE, Furong zhen (lit. Hibiscus Town; also trans. as: A Small Town Called Hibiscus) (1986) - Summary. pp. 1-2.	76-77
	Week 8 - Chinese Film Enters the World Stage
16	Von Kowallis, JE, Huang tu di (Yellow Earth) (1984) - Summary. pp. 1-3	78-80
17	Barme, Geremie & John Minford, ed., 1989, "Yellow Earth: an Unweicome Guest" in Seeds of Fire: Chinese Voices of Conscience (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books) pp. 251-269.	81-93
	Week 9 - Chinese Science Fiction
18	Von Kowallis, JE, Cuowei (Displacement; also trans. as Dislocation) (1987) - Summary. pp. 1-3.	94-96
	Week 10 - The Roots Movement
19	Von Kowallis, JE, Hong gaoliang (Red Sorghum) (1987) - Summary. pp. 1-2.	97-98
20	Von Kowallis, JE, Ju Dou (1989) - Summary. pp. 1-2.	99-100
	Week 11 - Gender, Revolution and 1989
21	Von Kowallis, JE, Da hong denglong gaogao gua (Raise the Red Lantern) - Summary. pp. 1-3.	101-103
22	Lu Xun, 1980, Nahan zixu (Preface to Call to Arms) in Selected Works of Lu Xun, trans. Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang, vol. 1 (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press) pp. 33-38.	104-108
23	Chow, Rey, 1995, "The Force of Surfaces: Defiance in Zhang Yimou's Films" in Primitive Passions, ed., BELTON, John (New York: Columbia University Press) pp. 142-172.	109-125
24	Berry, Chris, "Writing as a Foreigner" UTS Review vol. 2, no.2 (Nov, 1996) pp. 181-190.	126-132
	Week 12 - Taiwan and the Diaspora
25	Von Kowallis, JE, An lian tao hua yuan (Secret Love: The Peach Blossom Land) (1993) - Summary. p. 1.	133
26	Von Kowallis, JE, 1996, "The Diaspora in Postmodem Taiwan and Hong Kong Film Framing Stan Lai's The Peach Blossom Land with Allen Fong's Ah Ying" in Transnational Chinese Cinema, ed., Lu, Hsiao-peng Sheldon (Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press) pp. 169-186.	134-153
	Week 13 - Whither China?
27	Von Kowallis, JE, Huo zhe (To Live) (1994) - Summary. pp. 1-2.	154-155
28	Chow, Rey, 1998, "We Endure, Therefore We Are: Survival, Governance, and Zhang Yimou's To Live" in Ethics After Idealism (Bloomington & Indianapolis: lndiana University Press) pp. 115-132.	156-167
29	Zhang, Yingjin, 1993, "Screening China: Recent Studies of Chinese Cinema in English" Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars vol. 29, no. 3 (Jul-Sep) pp. 59-66.	168-176
	Additional Sources
30	Zhang, Yingjin, and Jean J. Su, 1998, "Bibliography" in Encyclopedia of Chinese Film, ed., Zhang, Yingjin and Zhiwei Xiao et al. (London & New York: Routledge) pp. 397-411.	177-184
31	Su, Jean J., 1998, "Select Internet Web Sites on Chinese Cinema" in Encyclopedia of Chinese Film, ed., Zhang, Yingjin and Zhiwei Xiao et al. (London & New York: Routledge) p. 412	185
32	Timetable of Modern Chinese History	186-192

 

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