Chinese Studies - Comparative Literature

About this course

Chinese studies and comparative literature together offer a genuinely unusual intellectual combination. Chinese studies gives you access to one of the world's oldest and most complex civilisations, engaging with the breadth and depth of Chinese linguistic and cultural practices across classical and modern periods. At St Andrews, the programme goes beyond traditional models of language and literature to include visual and popular cultures, giving you a rich and contemporary engagement with how Chinese societies produce and consume meaning. Comparative literature then extends this by asking you to read across cultural and national frontiers, examining how literary traditions relate to one another and what is distinctive about particular cultures when seen in a broader comparative frame. This four-year full-time MA (Hons) at the University of St Andrews includes a year abroad, which is ess

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