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| | Being Young in China |
 | | Readings include narrative works by such major writers as Lu Xun, Lao She, Ba Jin, Yu Dafu, Mao Dun, Ding Ling, Zhang Ailing, Wang Meng, Zhang Jie, Liu Heng and Xi Xi, as well as modern poetry by Bei Dao, Gu Cheng and Yang Lian. |
 | | The pain, frustration, loneliness, fear and hope of the fictional heroes shall be understood in terms of generational conflict, initiations, and rites of passage. |
 | | Yu Dafu's Sinking (1921) and "No Solace from Lethe: History, Memory, and Cultural Identity in 20th-Century China" by Vera Schwarcz, and "Text, Intertext and the Representation of Writing Self in Lu Xun, Yu Dafu and Wang Meng" by Yi-tsi Feuerwerker |
| www.wooster.edu /chinese/chinese_youth.html (835 words) |
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