Dai Jinhua (professor, Peking University; adjunct professor, The Ohio State University) Professor Dai Jinhua teaches at the Research Institute for Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at Peking University and is an adjunct professor of Chinese Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State University. Professor Dai teaches Chinese film, women's literature, and popular culture. She has published prolifically on film, film theory, women's literature, and popular culture. Co-written with Meng Yue, Emerging from the Horizon of History (Fuchu lishi dibiao) (Henan renmin, 1989) was a pathbreaking work in feminist analysis of modern Chinese literature. Breaking Out of the Mirrored City: Woman, Film, and Literature (Jincheng tuwei: Nuxing, dianying, wenxue) collects film criticism. More recently, Dai has published Invisible Writings: Cultural Studies in 1990s China (Yinxing shuxie: 90 niandai Zhongguo wenhua yanjiu). A collection of her writings in English, Cinema and Desire:Marxist Feminist and Cultural Politics in the Work of Dai Jinhua, is forthcoming from Verso in 2001.

Introduction

In her capacity as adjunct professor, Dai Jinhua regularly teaches summer seminars at The Ohio State University. In the past, she has taught seminars on Chinese film and women's literature. This year's seminar topic is PRC popular culture of the 1980s and 1990s. Seminars are open to faculty and graduate students from any university (see registration options below). As lectures, discussion, and readings are done in Chinese, Chinese proficiency of participants must be very high. The class meets Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 2:30-5:30 for four weeks. In addition to 36 hours of lecturing and class discussion (all in Chinese), Professor Dai will be available to consult with participants on their research topics. OSU's substantial China faculty will be attending the seminar, offering opportunities for informal discussion groups and collaboration. Professor Dai is a dynamic teacher and her past seminars have been very successful and highly profitable for all who attended.

Course Description

This course will examine the origin and development of Chinese popular culture in the 1980s and 1990s. It will investigate the film and television industries, book markets and best-sellers, advertising, popular music, avant-garde art, cultural debates, literary and mass media and their relationships, and discuss the disintegration and re-grouping of Chinese classes, the re-writing of class, gender, race and nation/state, and emergence of a new mainstream ideology. For a detail course description and syllabus in Chinese, click syllabus.

Requirements

All students, both domestic and international, must show proof of highest degree earned (at least a B.A.). A copy of a transcript or diploma will suffice. Students must have excellent skills in Chinese, as the course is taught entirely in Chinese. Generally, a minimum of four years of classroom Chinese is necessary. Writing assignments may be done in English or Chinese.

Registration

The seminar may be taken in one of two ways:

I. CREDIT OPTION

Students wishing to take the course for academic credit must fill out the OSU graduate nondegree application for admission form and send it, along with other required documentation and registration fee ($40), to

Dai Jinhua Seminar
East Asian Languages and Literatures
Cunz Hall, 204
The Ohio State University
1841 Millikin Rd.
Columbus, OH 43210

The course must be taken for a total of 5 credits. Students pay current OSU tuition rates, which can be found on the OSU website. Out of state tuition for a 5-credit course will run to $2740, an admittedly expensive option. Those of you who would like some sort of recognition for having taken the seminar but cannot afford the high tuition, should take the course NON CREDIT (see below), and we will confer on you some sort of official certificate.

2. NON CREDIT OPTION

Students, faculty, and professionals may elect to take the courses non-credit. To register, send the following information to Debbie Knickely (knicely. 2@osu.edu): Name, Social Security #, Permanent Address, Institutional Affiliation, Position, Email address. Send non-refundable deposit of $100 (made payable to the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures) to

Dai Jinhua Seminar
East Asian Languages and Literatures
Cunz Hall, 204
The Ohio State University
1841 Millikin Rd.
Columbus, OH 43210

Non Credit program fees for the seminar are as follows:

Students:

$500

Faculty/Professionals:

$700

Housing

Contact for housing and meal information, see the Summer Programs East Asian Concentration (SPEAC) website, or contact Li Yi (li.47@osu.edu), SPEAC program coordinator. The SPEAC program offers dormitory housing. Those of you wishing more comfortable housing should ask Li Yi about alternatives.

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