Moral Dilemma of Chinese Intellectuals as Seen in Yu Dafu’s “Sinking”
Moral Dilemma of Chinese Intellectuals as Seen in Yu Dafu’s “Sinking”
The followings are some suggested topics for this essay, though you are free to choose your own topics. Best papers often do not follow my suggested topics and they amaze me with their striking originality: 1. Moral Dilemma of Chinese Intellectuals as Seen in Yu Dafu’s “Sinking” 2. A Study of the Narrative Vice in “Young Master Gets His Tonic” 3. A Case Study of the Ideological Patterns of the Proletarian Literature 4. Cinematography and Political Dissidence in “Yellow Earth” 5. Color Symbolism in “Yellow Earth” 6. Self-Society Confrontation (or Gender Construction) in Ding Ling’s Stories 7. The Growth of Women as seen in Chinese Literature 8. A Hero’s Growth in Fearless
9. Nationalism in Modern Chinese fiction and film 10. Ideological Conflicts as Seen in A Small Town Called Hibiscus Women’s Changing Attitudes to Love as Seen in Some Modern Chinese Stories The Recurrent Motif of Nature and Natural Elements in Chinese Stories and Films The Changing Fates of Confucianism as seen in Some Chinese Literary Works. Film is “yellow earth” and “Huo Yuanjia” and“Farewell To My Concubine” Book is Yu Ta-fu, “Sinking” (pp.123-141. in Modern Chinese Stories and Novellas) Jou Shih, “A Slave Mother” (208-219, Modern Chinese Stories and Novellas), Wu Tsu-hsiang, “Young Master Gets His Tonic” “ Chao Shu-li, “Lucky” Shen Ts’ung-wen, “Pai-tzu” “Hsiao-hsiao,” Ding Ling, “Miss Sophia’s Diary “When I Was in Hsia Village” “In the Hospital,” A Small Town Called Hibiscus
