UC Davis Chinese Program

The department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, part of the College of Letters and Science, offers both a major and minor program in Chinese. Courses include language (Mandarin and Classical Chinese), film, and literature. Anyone interested in enrolling in a CHN course must first take a placement exam. More details can be found at the department website.

Language Courses

Lower Division

CHN 1, 2, 3 - First year language courses CHN 4, 5, 6 - Second year language courses CHN 10 - Modern Chinese Literature (In English) CHN 11 - Great Books of China (in English) CHN 50 - Introduction to the Literature of China and Japan

Upper Division

CHN 100A - Chinese Intellectual Traditions: Daoist Traditions CHN 101 - Chinese Film CHN 102 - Chinese American Literature CHN 103 - Modern Chinese Drama CHN 104 - Modern Chinese Fiction CHN 105 - Western Influences on Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature (in English) CHN 106 - Chinese Poetry (in English) CHN 107 - Traditional Chinese Fiction (in English) CHN 108 - Poetry of China and Japan (in English) CHN 109 - Topics in Chinese Literature (in English) CHN 110 - Great Writers of China: Texts and Context (in English) CHN 111, 112, 113 - Third year language courses CHN 114 - Introduction to Classical Chinese I CHN 115 - Introduction to Classical Chinese II CHN 116 - Introduction to Classical Chinese III CHN 120 - Advanced Chinese CHN 130 - Readings in Traditional Chinese Fiction CHN 131 - Readings in Traditional Chinese Poetry CHN 132 - Readings in Modern Chinese Poetry CHN 133 - Readings in Modern Chinese Prose and Drama CHN 150 - Fifth-Year Chinese CHN 160 - The Chinese Language

Faculty

• Xiaomei Chen
• Chengzhi Chu
• Mark Halperin
• Yuming He
• Michelle Yeh
• I-chia Lee
• Jiao Li
• Ling-Yu Lu
• Shan Xiang
• Binbin Yang
• Jie Yuan

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