Fathers and sons in Crystal Boys

TOPIC:

1. A close literary or filmic analysis of a text or film we have read / watched in class. Bring into your analysis issues of Taiwanese history and identity.
   (BOOK: “The Old Capital” by Chu T’ien-hsin (Zhu Tianxin); Wu Ming-yi’s The Man with the Compound Eyes; Crystal Boys. MOVIE: “Wedding Banquet.” Edward Yang’s “Yi Yi”. )
2. The family and the nation in Edward Yang’s “Yi Yi”.
3. Breaking hearts: Passion, compassion and loss in Crystal Boys.( Pai Hsien-Yung)
   4. Creating communities: stories, feasts and havens in Crystal Boys.( Pai Hsien-Yung)
   5. Fathers and sons in Crystal Boys. (Pai Hsien-Yung)
4. Weddings, funerals, food and families: discuss one or more of these themes in relation to (Taiwanese and individual) identity in a film we have watched this term (for example: “Yi Yi”, or “Wedding Banquet.”)
5. Parallel worlds: Fables of life, love, loss, and death in the Age of the Anthropocene in Wu Ming-yi’s The Man with the Compound Eyes.