Sample Study & Essay Questions

	Wong Kar-wai's Happy Together uses language barrier, ill-fated miscommmunication, and visual images (including passports) to signify the formation and crossing of borders. How are borders (between past and present, between different persons, and between cultures) set up and represented in the film?
	What metaphors, elements, and episodes in Lu Xun's "The True Story of Ah Q" symbolize the unfavorable "tradition" and the all-too-promising "modernity"? Are there tensions between traditional values and ways of life and the "modern" world that is emerging at the horizon?
	Lu Xun intended this story to be a satire. A joke would only be funny when placed in the right context. What makes Ah Q so comical?

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