UNSW Course Outline
ARTS3463 City and Chinese Culture
- 2024
Published on the 21 May 2024
General Course Information
Course Code : ARTS3463
Year : 2024
Term : Term 2
Teaching Period : T2
Is a multi-term course? : No
Faculty : Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture
Academic Unit : School of Humanities and Languages
Delivery Mode : In Person
Delivery Format : Standard
Delivery Location : Kensington
Campus : Sydney
Study Level : Undergraduate
Units of Credit : 6
Useful Links
Handbook Class Timetable
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Course Details & Outcomes
Course Description
In this course, you will study the Chinese city as the cornerstone of modern Chinese culture. You
will investigate the city as the site and symbol of China’s modern transformation, exploring its
pre-modern models before probing into issues of contemporary Chinese urbanisation. You will
also examine historical, literary and visual texts that explore the contested emergence of a
modern Chinese urban culture and society, the new structure of feelings and life experiences, as
well as the transformation of popular cultural institutions such as the tea house and street life.
You will visit the city-country nexus as a politically, socially and culturally important spatial
concept in China’s modern development and examine contemporary urbanisation and its impact
on culture and society.
Relationship to Other Courses
n/a
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Course Learning Outcomes
Course Learning Outcomes
CLO1 : Critically appraise significant modern and contemporary Chinese historical, literary,
filmic and popular cultural texts.
CLO2 : Evaluate the role city plays in the development of modern Chinese culture and society.
CLO3 : Identify and analyse key issues, forms and debates of modern and contemporary
Chinese culture.
CLO4 : Apply conceptual and practical tools and skills in cultural historical studies.
Course Learning Outcomes Assessment Item
CLO1 : Critically appraise significant modern
and contemporary Chinese historical, literary,
filmic and popular cultural texts.
• Essay
• In-class Test
CLO2 : Evaluate the role city plays in the
development of modern Chinese culture
and society.
• Individual presentation in themed group
setting
• Essay
• In-class Test
CLO3 : Identify and analyse key
issues, forms and debates of modern and
contemporary Chinese culture.
• Individual presentation in themed group
setting
• Essay
• In-class Test
CLO4 : Apply conceptual and practical tools
and skills in cultural historical studies.
• Individual presentation in themed group
setting
• Essay
Learning and Teaching Technologies
Moodle - Learning Management System | Echo 360
Additional Course Information
n/a
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Assessments
Assessment Structure
Assessment Item Weight Relevant Dates
Essay 50% Start Date: Not Applicable
Due Date: 08/08/2024 11:59 PM
Individual presentation in
themed group setting
30% Start Date: Not Applicable
Due Date: Week 5 - Week 9
In-class Test 20% Start Date: Not Applicable
Due Date: Week 10: 29 July - 04 August
Assessment Details
Essay
Assessment Overview
Students write an essay (ca. 3,000 words) based on independent research.
Feedback via individual comments and rubric. This is the final assessment for attendance
purposes. 
Course Learning Outcomes
CLO1 : Critically appraise significant modern and contemporary Chinese historical, literary,
filmic and popular cultural texts.
CLO2 : Evaluate the role city plays in the development of modern Chinese culture and society. 
CLO3 : Identify and analyse key issues, forms and debates of modern and contemporary
Chinese culture. 
CLO4 : Apply conceptual and practical tools and skills in cultural historical studies.
Detailed Assessment Description
Students are to follow set guidelines and criteria for key requirements
Submission notes
n/a
Assessment information
Detailed information and guidelines will be provided on the course Moodle.
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Assignment submission Turnitin type
This assignment is submitted through Turnitin and students can see Turnitin similarity reports.
Individual presentation in themed group setting

Assessment Overview
Students present (and are marked) individually (8 to 10 minutes each depending on class size)
on a chosen topic within the framework of a themed group. The topics are based on assigned
readings. Students are organized into groups with a shared theme, their individual presentations
deal with a different aspect of the theme. 
Feedback via individual comments. 
Course Learning Outcomes
CLO2 : Evaluate the role city plays in the development of modern Chinese culture and society. 
CLO3 : Identify and analyse key issues, forms and debates of modern and contemporary
Chinese culture. 
CLO4 : Apply conceptual and practical tools and skills in cultural historical studies.
Detailed Assessment Description
This is the first stage of your study/research project that leads to the essay.
Assessment Length
10 minutes each
Submission notes
n/a
Assessment information
Deatailed information will be provided on the Moodle.
Assignment submission Turnitin type
This assignment is submitted through Turnitin and students can see Turnitin similarity reports.
In-class Test

Assessment Overview
Students complete a test (ca. 2 hours) including multiple-choice, then short- and longer-
answer questions.
Students receive a mark and can consult the lecturer for further feedback. 
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Course Learning Outcomes
CLO1 : Critically appraise significant modern and contemporary Chinese historical, literary,
filmic and popular cultural texts.
CLO2 : Evaluate the role city plays in the development of modern Chinese culture and society. 
CLO3 : Identify and analyse key issues, forms and debates of modern and contemporary
Chinese culture. 
Detailed Assessment Description
Assessing reading comprehensions of required texts and lectured contents
Assessment Length
ca. 2 hours
Submission notes
n/a
Assessment information
Detailed instruction will be provided on the Moodle in advance.
Assignment submission Turnitin type
This is not a Turnitin assignment
General Assessment Information
Detailed information for each assessment will be provided on the course Moodle page
Grading Basis
Standard
Requirements to pass course
n/a
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Course Schedule
Teaching Week/Module Activity
Type
Content
Week 1 : 27 May - 2
June
Lecture Introduction to City and Chinese Culture 城市, 现代中
国文化, 当代转型
Tutorial • 专题讨论：个人，城乡，记忆
• Discussion of individual reading and research
plans.
Week 2 : 3 June - 9 June Lecture Part One
• The city in premodern China:
• 施坚雅《中华帝国晚期的城市》
Tutorial • Discussion: the city and its place in late
Imperial China
• Readings: 施坚雅, “中华帝国的城市发展”，“中
国社会的城乡”
Week 3 : 10 June - 16
June
Lecture Part Two
• The modern Chinese city and culture: 城市文
化与现代中国想像:李欧梵《上海摩登–一种新
都市文化在中国（1930-1945）》
Tutorial • Discussion: Shanghai Modern
• Readings: Lee, Leo Oufan, ‘The Cultural
Construction of Modernity in Urban Shanghai:
Some Preliminary Explorations’, 李欧梵 《上
海摩登》节选
Week 4 : 17 June - 23
June
Lecture Part Two
• The modern Chinese city and culture
• 城市文化与现代中国想像: 北京记忆，成都茶
馆
Tutorial • Discussion 北京书写记忆，成都茶馆
• Readings: 陈平原《都市想像》节选 or TBA; 王
笛《茶馆》节选; Kirby, William C. ‘Engineering
China: Birth of the Developmental State,
1928–1937,’
Week 5 : 24 June - 30
June
Lecture Part Two
• The modern Chinese city and culture: 现代城
市, 现代江湖 --- 精英与通俗文学的城乡想像
• 1.张英进《中国现代文学与电影中的城市》
• , 城市视景中的乡土
Tutorial • Discussion: 现代民间: 精英的城乡对比,大众城
市文化
• Readings 除规定的学术文章外 （见
Moodle） 可选择: 张恨水 《平沪通车》, 穆时
英《上海狐步舞》, 张爱玲《倾城之恋》,《桂
花蒸：阿小悲秋》, 凌淑华北京小说，老舍《骆
驼祥子》, 费穆《小城之春》（电影 viewing),
鲁《祝福》等，沈从文.《边城》等, 茅盾《子
夜》
• Individual presentations
Week 6 : 1 July - 7 July Lecture No lecture
Tutorial No turotial
Week 7 : 8 July - 14 July Lecture Part Two
• The modern Chinese city and culture:现代城
市, 现代江湖 -- 精英与通俗文学的城乡想像
• 2。陈思和 -- 民间的现代转变; or TBA;
• 姜进 - 城市言情文化
Tutorial • Discussion: 现代民间/精英的城乡对比，
• 大众城市文化;
• Readings (除规定学术文章外可选择): 张恨水
《平沪通车》, 穆时英《上海狐步舞》, 张爱玲
《倾城之恋》,《桂花蒸：阿小悲秋》, 凌淑华
北京小说，老舍《骆驼祥子》, 费穆《小城之
春》（电影 viewing), 鲁迅,《祝福》等，沈从
文.《边城》等, 茅盾《子夜》
• Individual presentations
Week 8 : 15 July - 21
July
Lecture Part Three
• Contemporary Chinese urbanization and
cultural Imagination: 躁动的人和城，城乡重
组，新日常
• Readings (学术文章外的作品可选择）: '城市的
文化功能与城市文化研究.' “日常都市主义理论
发展及其对中国当代城市设计的挑战”；'A
Journey into the City Migrant Workers'
Relation with the Urban Space in Early
Jngpiao Fiction'’, 池莉《她的城》，王安忆
《男人与女人, 女人与城市》,贾樟柯王小帅等
第六代导演城市电影
Tutorial Discussion: 新的城市化，新的都市人 (在本周阅读的基
础上） Individual Presentations
Week 9 : 22 July - 28
July
Lecture Part Three
• Contemporary Chinese urbanization and
cultural Imagination: 当代文学中的当代城市:
现实与想像
• Readings (作品可选择): 'Introduction:
Imagining Chinese Cities', :'Shanghai Literary
Imaginings: A City in Transformation',' 城市意
象与当代文化身份冲突', “被切割的城市: 当代中
国科幻的城市想像“, 刘慈欣《太原之恋》, 靳咏
鸣《北京邻居》
Tutorial • Discussion: 当代城, 当代人, 当代城市文学
• Readings (作品可选择): 'Introduction:
Imagining Chinese Cities', :'Shanghai
• Literary Imaginings: A City in Transformation','
城市意象与当代文化身份冲突', '被切割的城市:
当代中国科幻的城市想像“, 刘慈欣《太原之
恋》, 靳咏鸣《北京邻居》
Week 10 : 29 July - 4
August
Lecture Q and A
Tutorial Test

Attendance Requirements
Students are required to take no less than 70% of all classes (lectures and tutorials). Unexcused
absences of more than that will result in failure. Attendances will be taken in both lectures and
tutorials. This serves learning outcomes 1,2,3,4.
Align with the course learning outcomes;
Result in a recorded artefact (an artefact for participation may include a post, or response, to
an online discussion forum, poll or quiz, when an artefact for mandatory attendance may
include a record of attendance) and have processes in place for recording the student
artefact;
Where relevant, include evidence that the attendance or participation is required to meet a
statutory or professional body requirement; and
Be comparable where the activity is delivered in different modes.
General Schedule Information
n/a
Course Resources
Prescribed Resources
All expected readings are provided on the course Moodle
Recommended Resources
Some recommended readings are also provided on the course Moodle
Websites:
For the library: http://www.library.unsw.edu.au/
For the UNSW Learning and Teaching Unit: http://www.ltu unsw.edu au
Harvard Referencing System: https://student.unsw.edu au/harvard-referencing
Additional Costs
n/a
Course Evaluation and Development
Student feedbacks are taken into consideration in course design, assessments and delivering
methods revisions.
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Staff Details

Position Name Email Location Phone Availability Equitable Learning
Services Contact
Primary
Contact
Convenor Yi Zheng Morven
Brown 253
93851730 Wednesdays 15-16 pm, or Online,
by email or by appointment
No Yes
Lecturer Yi Zheng Morven
Brown 253
93851730 Same No No
Tutor Yi Zheng Morven
Brown 253
93851730 Same No No
Yushan Zh
ao
Morven
Brown TBA
93851730 No No

Other Useful Information
Academic Information

Due to evolving advice by NSW Health, students must check for updated information regarding
online learning for all Arts, Design and Architecture courses this term (via Moodle or course
information provided).
Please see: https://www.unsw.edu.au/arts-design-architecture/student-life/resources-support/
protocols-guidelines for essential student information relating to:
UNSW and Faculty policies and procedures;
Student Support Services;
Dean’s List;
review of results;
credit transfer;
cross-institutional study and exchange;
examination information;
enrolment information;
Special Consideration in the event of illness or misadventure;
student equity and disability;
And other essential academic information.
Academic Honesty and Plagarism

Plagiarism is using the words or ideas of others and presenting them as your own. It can take
many forms, from deliberate cheating to accidentally copying from a source without
acknowledgement.
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UNSW groups plagiarism into the following categories:
Copying: Using the same or very similar words to the original text or idea without
acknowledging the source or using quotation marks. This includes copying materials, ideas
or concepts from a book, article, report or other written document, presentation, composition,
artwork, design, drawing, circuitry, computer program or software, website, internet, other
electronic resource, or another person's assignment without appropriate acknowledgement.
Inappropriate paraphrasing: Changing a few words and phrases while mostly retaining the
original information, structure and/or progression of ideas of the original without
acknowledgement. This also applies in presentations where someone paraphrases another’s
ideas or words without credit and to piecing together quotes and paraphrases into a new
whole, without appropriate referencing.
Collusion: Working with others but passing off the work as a person’s individual work.
Collusion also includes providing your work to another student for the purpose of them
plagiarising, paying another person to perform an academic task, stealing or acquiring
another person’s academic work and copying it, offering to complete another person’s work
or seeking payment for completing academic work.
Inappropriate citation: Citing sources which have not been read, without acknowledging the
"secondary" source from which knowledge of them has been obtained.
Duplication ("self-plagiarism"): Submitting your own work, in whole or in part, where it has
previously been prepared or submitted for another assessment or course at UNSW or another
university.
The UNSW Academic Skills support offers resources and individual consultations. Students are
also reminded that careful time management is an important part of study. One of the identified
causes of plagiarism is poor time management. Students should allow sufficient time for
research, drafting and proper referencing of sources in preparing all assessment items. UNSW
Library has the ELISE tool available to assist you with your study at UNSW. ELISE is designed to
introduce new students to studying at UNSW, but it can also be a great refresher during your
study.
Completing the ELISE tutorial and quiz will enable you to:
analyse topics, plan responses and organise research for academic writing and other
assessment tasks
effectively and efficiently find appropriate information sources and evaluate relevance to your
needs
use and manage information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose
better manage your time
understand your rights and responsibilities as a student at UNSW
be aware of plagiarism, copyright, UNSW Student Code of Conduct and Acceptable Use of
UNSW ICT Resources Policy
be aware of the standards of behaviour expected of everyone in the UNSW community
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locate services and information about UNSW and UNSW Library
Use of AI for assessments
As AI applications continue to develop, and technology rapidly progresses around us, we remain
committed to our values around academic integrity at UNSW. Where the use of AI tools, such as
ChatGPT, has been permitted by your course convener, they must be properly credited and your
submissions must be substantially your own work.
In cases where the use of AI has been prohibited, please respect this and be aware that where
unauthorised use is detected, penalties will apply.
Use of AI for assessments | UNSW Current Students
Submission of Assessment Tasks

Turnitin Submission
If you encounter a problem when attempting to submit your assignment through Turnitin, please
telephone External Support on 9385 3331 or email them on externalteltsupport@unsw.edu.au
Support hours are 8:00am – 10:00pm on weekdays and 9:00am – 5:00pm on weekends (365
days a year). If you are unable to submit your assignment due to a fault with Turnitin, you may
apply for an extension, but you must retain your ticket number from External Support (along with
any other relevant documents) to include as evidence to support your extension application. If
you email External Support, you will automatically receive a ticket number, but if you telephone,
you will need to specifically ask for one. Turnitin also provides updates on their system status on
Twitter.
Generally, assessment tasks must be submitted electronically via either Turnitin or a Moodle
assignment. In instances where this is not possible, alternative submission details will be stated
on your course’s Moodle site. For information on how to submit assignments online via
Moodle: https://student.unsw.edu.au/how-submit-assignment-moodle
Late Submission Penalty
UNSW has a standard late submission penalty of:
5% per calendar day,
for all assessments where a penalty applies,
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capped at five calendar days (120 hours) from the assessment deadline, after which a
student cannot submit an assessment, and
no permitted variation.
Students are expected to manage their time to meet deadlines and to request Special
Consideration as early as possible before the deadline. Support with Time Management is
available here.
School Contact Information
School of Humanities & Languages
Email: hal@unsw.edu.au
Location: School Office, Morven Brown Building, Level 2, Room 258
Opening Hours: Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm
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