Hello! I am William, a senior Chinese major from Columbus, Ohio.  My focus for my IS is women’s portrayal in film and literature from around mid 20th century until now.  The main focus being on women writers and how they perceive what was happening during the cultural revolution and the rise of the communist government. This was mainly inspired by my love for Chinese films and the 1935 film New Woman.

I decided to take this class in order to gain a new perspective of history that wasn’t European and was outside of Asia.  Having taken Spanish through middle and high school and the first semester of my freshman year, I’ve always been interested in the history of the Spanish speaking world.  I am particularly interested in the relations between the various cultures in Latin America as well as their interactions with their colonizers.