1.  Pick one modern story and one huaben story and compare their different formal features.
2. Compare Xiao Jun’s “Goats” and Lu Xun’s “New Year’s Sacrifice” and discuss the relationship between the intellectual characters and their social others depicted in the stories.
3. Focus on Shi Zhecun’s “Devil’s Road” and explain the relationship between the psychological and the supernatural in the story.

1. Pick one modern story and one huaben story and compare their different formal features.
2. Compare Xiao Jun’s “Goats” and Lu Xun’s “New Year’s Sacrifice” and discuss the relationship between the intellectual characters and their social others depicted in the stories.
3. Focus on Shi Zhecun’s “Devil’s Road” and explain the relationship between the psychological and the supernatural in the story.