Dear all,       two major changes made with the syllabus, which is basically to facilitate your reading---and let there be more focus.       1.  Week 9 * Nov 26 th  Invisible City: Dream, Desire & Memory II—Case Study of Tsai Mingliang’s films     We ONLY WATCH   Goodbye Dragon Inn , 2003      Reading-wise   Andrea Bachner. “Cinema as Heterochronos: Temporal Folds in the Work of Tsai Ming-liang”,  Modern Chinese Literature and Culture  Vol. 19, No. 1 (SPRING, 2007), pp. 60-90   CHANGED INTO   “Leaving the cinema: metacinematic cruising  in Tsai Ming-liang’s  Goodbye, Dragon Inn” , Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media , Jump Cut , No. 50, spring 2008     2. Week 10 * Dec 3 rd  Haunting Cities: the Uncanny and the Ghostly    NO NEED TO READ reference reading     Esther M Cheung, “On Spectral Mutations: The Ghostly City in The Secret, Rouge and Little Cheung”,  Hong Kong Culture: Word and Image , ed. Kam Louie, 2010...