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Teaching Dream of Ding Village in Wisconsin Great World Texts: A Teaching Dream of Ding Village in Wisconsin Great World Texts: A Program of the Center for the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison © 2020 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System Teaching Dream of Ding Village in Wisconsin: A Guide for Educators 2020-2021 Great World Texts Program UW-Madison Center for the Humanities Prepared by Yuzhe Li, Dept. of Asian Languages and Cultures Faculty Advisor Anatoly Detwyler, Dept. of Asian Languages and Cultures 320 University Club, 432 East Campus Mall, Madison, WI 53706 humanities.wisC.edu ii Teaching Dream of Ding Village in Wisconsin Great World Texts: A Program of the Center for the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison © 2020 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System CONTENTS Teaching Dream of Ding Village in Wisconsin ......................................................................... 1 Preface ................................................................................................................................... 3 1. GLOBAL PANDEMICS: CHINA AND THE WORLD ................................................................... 5 2. IN THE WORLD/CHINA: YAN LIANKE AND HIS WORK .......................................................... 17 3. DEVELOPMENTALISM AND CHINA’S ROARING 1990s ......................................................... 31 4. MEDICINE, AFTERLIFE, AND KINSHIP .................................................................................. 48 5. LIFE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE: UTOPIA OR DYSTOPIA? ............................................................ 69 6. WIND, WATER, TREES, SOIL: THE CHANGING NATURE OF HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS IN MODERN CHINA .............................................................................................. 86 7. DREAMS AND GHOSTS: EXPLORING NARRATIVE DEVICES ................................................ 103 8. PREPARING TO MEET THE WRITER ................................................................................... 122 Teaching Dream of Ding Village in Wisconsin iii Great World Texts: A Program of the Center for the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison © 2020 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System Teaching Dream of Ding Village in Wisconsin Reading Across Time and Place Dream of Ding Village is a work oF FiCtion. While its soCioCultural and GeopolitiCal Contexts are inteGral to its impact, and to our CritiCal reFleCtions on the text, it is also important to remember that this is a work oF literature. While literature Can help us teach Culture, history, politiCs and so on, no one text Can bear the burden oF representinG an entire nation, Culture, or people. As you teach this text, please keep in mind and emphasize where you Can the Cultural speCiFiCities that make it unique. DoinG so in a Clear and expliCit way will also help you and your students appreCiate the text’s ability to speak across time and space. Certain seCtions oF the teachinG Guide, suCh as Units 1, 3, and 4, will be espeCially helpFul in this Context. How to Use This Guide The material in this Guide is intended to provide a variety oF options For teaching Yan Lianke’s Dream of Ding Village and its many Contexts. We believe that the historiCal and Cultural backGround is neCessary For understandinG this work and the questions it provokes, but we enCourage you to teach the text thematiCally as well, tyinG it into other disCiplinary issues and reGular Features oF your Core CurriCulum wherever possible. Readings The reCommended readinGs in the Guide are intended For teachers, but some are also acCessible to students. These readinGs provide Further baCkGround inFormation For instruCtors as well as a variety oF materials that miGht aid instruCtors in CreatinG handouts and supplementinG Class discussion. Points for Discussion, Assignments, and Activities The recommended points For disCussion, assiGnments and activities provided in this Guide are desiGned to be tailored to the way you teach the text in your own Course, as well as your partiCular time Constraints, interests, and Goals. The individual units miGht be tauGht over one or several days, or over the Course oF a Few weeks. You Can mix and match ideas From the various seCtions to Create your own syllabus. Each unit is orGanized acCordinG to themes that inClude points For leCture and disCussion, suGGestions For Close readinG, speCiFiC quotes From the text or other readinGs, as well as in-Class activities and assiGnments that miGht be used to Further discussion Close Reading Strategies The Guide assumes that you will have read the entire text, but all units also oFFer suGGestions For speCiFiC passages within the text that would beneFit From CareFul and attentive readinG, analysis 1 Teaching Dream of Ding Village in Wisconsin Great World Texts: A Program of the Center for the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison © 2020 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System and disCussion. DurinG disCussion and For assiGnments, students should be enCouraged to support their interpretations with evidenCe From the text. Close readinG lends itselF well to both larGe-Group work and small-group discussions, and is an exCellent way For students to develop their CritiCal thinkinG skills as they make ConneCtions, use evidenCe to support their views, and disCuss the impact oF various literary teChniques. For Close readinG to work suCCessFully, it’s important that the teacher always remind the students to point to the passage, line, or oCCurrenCe that supports their position when they’re sharinG their ideas. Close readinG teaches students the diFFerenCe between “opinion” or “personal reaction” and “analysis.” It also helps teach students to assess the text on its own merits, and to avoid essentializinG the Cultural Components oF the text or stereotypinG based on Generalizations. Teaching Toward the Student Conference SChools partiCipatinG in the 2019-2020 proGram will brinG students to the University oF Wisconsin-Madison on Monday, April 19, 2021 to present their work to their peers and meet the author Yan Lianke in person. At the time oF the Completion oF this Guide, we are planninG to move the ConFerenCe to a virtual Format, due to the COVID-19 pandemiC. Unit 7 in this Guide is expliCitly devoted to preparinG students For this visit and For the student conference. Prepare them For a suCCessFul ConFerenCe by enCouraginG them to ChallenGe themselves with projeCts that provide CritiCal interpretations oF the text in unique and Complex ways. There is no limit to the type oF projeCt they miGht prepare. Past projeCts have included essays, paintinG, sCulpture, weavinG, photoGraphy, Film and other multimedia, dramatiC performanCes, sonG, danCe, and more. The only requirement is that the students’ projeCts must present a CritiCal analysis oF the text. Students will be required to write a short summary oF their projeCts, whiCh will be submitted to Aaron Fai approximately three weeks beFore the student ConFerenCe. Each sChool will seleCt one student, or Group oF students, whose work is exemplary, to present to the entire ConFerence. It’s reCommended that the students themselves seleCt (by votinG) the “best” projeCt For this presentation, whiCh will be about 3 minutes in lenGth. It is our expeCtation that these presentations will be polished, rehearsed and timed, and that they will provide an opportunity For your sChool to Feel pride and investment in its partiCipation in the proGram. All other students are expeCted to present their work in poster sessions durinG the ConFerenCe, and will have the opportunity to stand next to their projeCts and answer questions about them From other students and ConFerenCe partiCipants. Every student who attends the conference should present her/his work at the ConFerenCe. Teaching Dream of Ding Village in Wisconsin 2 Great World Texts: A Program of the Center for the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison © 2020 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System Preface SeleCted For the Great World Texts proGram beFore January, when the outbreak oF Covid-19 took oFF First in China then in Europe, the United States, and the rest oF the world, Dream of Ding Village Comes at a major historiCal Crossroad. The novel’s perspeCtive on a Far-reachinG health Crisis, proFiteerinG and Government Corruption, and trauma and hope in times oF an epidemiC Certainly resonates with the events oF 2020. The Current Crisis is Further Compounded by risinG GeopolitiCal tensions between the United States and China, makinG it all the more important to read Yan’s work as a reminder oF the shared humanity between the Common people oF these two Countries. Overall, the novel presents us with an invaluable opportunity For reFleCtion and Comparison. At the same time, its timeliness poses a neCessary ChallenGe: to avoid hearinG it as only an eCho oF the present, but to instead Grapple with the partiCularity oF its historiCal experienCe. The novel asks us to bear witness. The AIDS village Crisis in Central China’s Grain belt reGion oF Henan beGan in the early 1990s, when the provinCial Government beGan promotinG a new industry: Farmers Could supplement their limited inComes by donatinG blood plasma at the ColleCtion stations that beGan to pop up across the Countryside. OnCe it took hold, HIV spread widely thanks to the reuse oF needles and the blood CentriFuGes used to separate plasma From the blood. by the mid-90s, the inCidenCe and deadliness oF the outbreak was Clear to some Government oFFiCials, but publiC awareness
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