Reporting from China. Ding Village | Wenlou Village Comparison Fiction vs. Reality We will be doing independent reading of a 2016 article written in a Chinese Magazine. It will serve our purpose to compare the story line in Dream of Ding Village to that of a real village that fell victim to the plasma economy.
Use this link for our comparison. The Village that AIDS Tore Apart
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Course DescriptionGreat World Text is an advanced English and Social Studies course sponsored by the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Humanities. Dream of Ding Village is a work of fiction. While its sociocultural and geopolitical contexts are integral to its impact, it is 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. Dream of Ding Village is the story of the 1990s public health crisis in China, when rural villages selling their blood led to an AIDS outbreak.
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