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Course
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Instructor
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Department
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May also fulfill:
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AFVS 177
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Traditions of Avant-Garde Cinema
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Guest
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AFVS
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Area
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This course studies traditions and legacies of avant-garde cinema from the 1920s through the present day. Special emphasis is placed on experimental film movements that emerged in the US, Europe, Latin America, South Korea and Japan; among them Surrealist cinema, avant-garde feminist filmmaking, structuralist/materialist cinema, and the found-footage, diary, essay and landscape film. Filmmakers will regularly visit to present and discuss their work and active study will be made of unique collections (both films and papers) housed at the Harvard Film Archive. Attendance of weekly screenings is a course requirement.
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ANTHRO 2855*
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Deep China: The Moral Life of the Person: What Anthropology and Psychiatry Tell Us About China today
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Kleinman
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ANTHRO
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Area
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What do accounts of depression, suicide, substance abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, SARS, HIV/AIDS, starvation and the personal and family trauma of political violence teach us about China and the Chinese over the last few decades?
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CHAGHATAY 120B
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Intermediate Chaghatay
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Eziz
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EALC
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Area or Language; 100-level EALC
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A continuation of Chaghatay 120a. This course aims to develop learners’ reading, transliterating, transcribing, and analyzing skills. Mainly focuses on reading the primary sources materials. These firsthand manuscript passages include selections from different time periods (fourteenth to early twentieth century), different places (both Eastern & Western Turkestan), and different genres (religious, historical, literature, legal, healing and medical etc.).
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CHNSE 106B
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Introduction to Literary Chinese
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Sena
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EALC
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Area or Language; 100-level EALC
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Introduction to pre-Qin philosophical texts.
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CHNSE 150B
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Readings and Discussions in Academic and Professional Chinese
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Cai
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EALC
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Area or Language; 100-level EALC
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Continuation of Chinese 150a. The course seeks to consolidate and hone students’ advanced Chinese ability through in-depth examination of Chinese society and culture.
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CHNSE 166R
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Chinese in the Humanities: Masterpieces of Modern Chinese Literature
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Liu
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EALC
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Area or Language; 100-level EALC
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Advanced language practice through the reading and analysis of authentic academic texts in humanities disciplines (e.g., art, literature, cinematic studies). May be offered independently in Chinese, or linked with an English-language content course. Specific content varies by year.
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CHNSHIS 229R*
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Ming Intellectual History
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Bol
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EALC
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Area; upper-level EALC
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Examines various intellectual texts and movements during the Ming dynasty. Prerequisite: Knowledge of literary Chinese
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CHNSLIT 134
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Strange Tales: The Supernatural in Chinese Literature
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Kelly
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EALC
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Area; 100-level EALC
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This course introduces students to traditional Chinese literature by focusing on “tales of the strange.” We will examine how ghosts, demons, fox spirits, and other liminal creatures haunt the literary imagination, stretching the possibilities of storytelling. Students will gain familiarity with masterpieces of Chinese literature and their intriguing afterlives in performance, film, and popular culture. Our discussions will consider how literary accounts of ghosts and the supernatural grapple with issues of gender and sexuality, the cultural meanings of death, the boundaries of human community, and the experience of historical trauma. We will focus on developing skills in close reading, while critically engaging theories of the “strange.” No background in Chinese is required.
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CHNSLIT 207*
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Between History and Literature
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Li, Wai-yee
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EALC
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Area; upper-level EALC
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This course will explore what it means to read historical texts as literature and to take a historical view of literary texts. What role should historical understanding and historical imagination play in literary criticism? How is “historical knowledge” understood? What is the role of imagination in the writing of history? How do allegorical and philological interpretations function in the reading of historical and literary texts? What does it mean to read fictional texts as responses to historical events? We will consider these questions from three perspectives: the genealogies (and rewriting) of figures and stories, the role of genres and contexts in shaping reception, and the relationship between history and fiction.
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CHNSLIT 235*
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Theater and Theatricality in Early Modern China
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Kelly
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EALC
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Area; upper-level EALC
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This seminar charts the development of Chinese dramatic literature from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. We will focus on the close reading of major works in the zaju, xiwen, and chuanqi forms, examining how the theater shaped new practices of writing and reading. The seminar will follow two central themes: 1) the shifting relationship between the figures of the playwright and the actor; 2) the interplay between the spaces of the page and stage. Engaging with recent scholarship, we will reflect on how modes of theatrical performance and spectatorship transformed broader understandings of self and society. Our discussions will seek new frameworks for approaching the place of the theater in Chinese literary history. Reading ability in Literary Chinese is required.
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CHNSLIT 245R*
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Topics in Sinophone Studies - Modern Chinese Fiction on the Periphery
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Wang
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EALC
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Area; upper-level EALC
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Survey of modern Chinese fiction and narratology from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the Chinese Diaspora: polemics of the canon, dialogues between national and regional imaginaries, and literary cultures in the Sinophone world.
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COMPLIT 264
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Thinking and Writing Transculturally
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Thornber
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COMPLIT/EALC
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Area
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This course explores approaches to literature and transculturation in the context of new understandings of human and textual border creation and crossings. Topics include the ethics of dividing cultural products along ethnic, linguistic, and national lines on the one hand and classifying phenomena as global on the other, and the possibilities and ramifications of cross-cultural study. We also examine the relationship between creative production/literary scholarship and ethnic studies, empire and (post)colonialism, identity, travel/migration/exile/diaspora, labor, war, trauma, multilingualism, translingualism, literary reconfiguration (adaptation, intertextuality), and world literature. Course readings are drawn from Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
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EAFM 111
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East Asian Media Studies
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Zahlten
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EALC
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Area; 100-level EALC
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This course explores the explosion of media in East Asia and the resulting forms of media production, circulation and consumption that transform everyday life, economy and politics. From pop culture phenomena such as K-Pop, fan fiction and internet platforms such as Sina Weibo, 2channel or DC Inside, from mobile phone culture to video games and social networks used in political protests, complex media forms and practices are developing with lightning speed across the region and exerting global influence. The starting point of the course are questions such as: What effects does this intense new media environment have in East Asia? How are ways of thinking and behaving adjusting to completely new forms of media? What are the consequences for the future of East Asia? How do media influence us in ways that go beyond the films, music, games, news or other forms that they supply us with?
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EAFM 220*
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Topics in Chinese Film and Media Studies: Seminar
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Li, Jie
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EALC
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Area; upper-level EALC
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This graduate seminar surveys the current field of Chinese cinema studies with a focus on film culture and historiography from the end of the 19th century to the start of the 21st century. We will be asking three questions preoccupying film and media studies--What is cinema? When is cinema? Where is cinema?--in Chinese and Sinophone contexts. Beyond the interpretation of film texts, we will also examine film production and exhibition, stars and audiences, genres and movements, technologies and infrastructures, propaganda and censorship, industries and markets, experiences and memories, transnational and transmedial connections. Situating films within broader media ecologies, we will discuss some of the most innovative scholarship published in recent years as well as delve into untapped primary sources to explore future research projects that can make new contributions to this emerging field. The organization of the syllabus is roughly chronological, while many weekly themes will resonate throughout the semester.
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EASTD 140
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Major Religious Texts of East Asia
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Abe
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EALC
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Area; 100-level EALC
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This course aims at enabling students to read and analyze in depth major religious texts of East Asia, representing diverse traditions and genres. The course encourages students to take up their reading of texts not only as ways to acquire knowledge on Asian religious traditions, but as practice, labor, and play in which their ordinary way of understanding/experiencing the world and themselves will be challenged, reaffirmed, and renewed.
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EASTD 143B
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Digital Tools and Methods in East Asian Humanities: Coding Approach
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Tang
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EALC
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Area; 100-level EALC
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This course is designed for students in East Asian Humanities who are interested in adopting digital methods in their research with basic Python coding. It will introduce fundamental programming concepts, SQL and relational databases, popular Python libraries in data cleaning, text analysis, and supervised and unsupervised machine learning. Students completing the course will be able to integrate and apply the Python libraries taught in class into their research and to explore the rapidly growing newcomers without hurdles. Ability to read Chinese, Japanese, or Korean documents is required.
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EASTD 153
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Buddhism, Japanese Arts and Culture
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Abe
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EALC
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Area; 100-level EALC; historical survey
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This course is designed to enable students to analyze a wide range of Japanese cultural creations - including the traditional Noh theater, classical and modern Japanese paintings, and contemporary anime – by illustrating the influence of Buddhism both in their forms and at their depths. The first part of the course is a study of major Buddhist philosophy and its impact on Japanese literature. The second part observes Buddhist ritual practices and their significance for Japanese performing arts. The last part traces the development of Japanese Buddhist art, and considers the influence of Buddhism on diverse contemporary popular Japanese art media.
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EASTD 170
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Medicine and the Self in China and in the West
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Kuriyama
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EALC
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Area; 100-level EALC; historical survey
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Comparative historical exploration of the striking differences and unexpected similarities between traditional conceptions of the body in East Asian and European medicine; the evolution of beliefs within medical traditions; the relationship between traditional medicine and contemporary experience.
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EASTD 196
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Political Geography of China
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Koss
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EALC
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Area; 100-level EALC; junior tutorial
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Putting Chinese politics on the map, this course asks how the government deals with the enormous challenges of ruling over a vast terrain with a diverse population, encompassing super-rich urban metropolises as well as poor rural peripheries. We begin with statecraft traditions from the late imperial era; and end with China's place on the future global maps of the 21st century. Topics include: macro-regions; priority zones of governance; Special Economic Zones; the Chinese equivalent of “blue states and red states;” rising inequality; ethnic minorities and borderlands; economic development models; urbanization and city planning; collective action in digital space; domestic and international migration; environmental politics; and the geo-politics of the “One Belt One Road” initiative. We will set aside class time for a hands-on introduction to producing and interpreting maps of China.
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EASTD 271*
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Language, Script, and Power in East Asia
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Park
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EALC
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Area; upper-level EALC
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How do we speak, write, and think and feel about the languages we know and use? This seminar introduces students to ideas about language, language structure, and language use—ideologies about language and script—that have shaped society, culture, and literature within the East Asian context (China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam). Readings—all in English—are drawn from multiple disciplines and fields to provide students with opportunities to examine comparatively a wide-ranging topics. Topics to explore include the rise of written vernaculars in the Sinographic Cosmopolis of pre-twentieth-century East Asia, linguistic modernity, nationalization of language and literature, script reform, colonial governance and racialization, empire building, decolonization, linguistic hybridity, translation, and questions of rupture vs. continuity when discussing premodernity vs. modernity in East Asia.
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EASTD 97ab
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Introduction to the Study of East Asia: Issues and Methods
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Kuriyama
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EALC
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Sophomore Tutorial
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This interdisciplinary and team-taught course provides an introduction to several of the approaches and methods through which the societies and cultures of East Asia can be studied at Harvard, including history, philosophy, literary studies, political science, film studies, anthropology and gender studies. We consider both commonalities and differences across the region, and explore how larger processes of imperialism, modernization, and globalization have shaped contemporary East Asian societies and their future trajectories. Required of sophomore concentrators and secondary field candidates. Open to freshmen.
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EASTD 98K
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Economic Governance in East Asia
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Koss
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EALC
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Area; Junior Tutorial
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East Asia has given rise to models of development with distinct visions for the relationship between the state and the market. Hallmarks of the designs are powerful ministries, gigantic conglomerates, state-supervised labor unions, and spectacular corruption. Students will develop a deeper comprehension of phenomena such as national champions, tycoons in the digital economy, Communist party control, international expansion, and slogans such as “Made in China 2025.” Throughout the course, we will occasionally go back in time to historical foundations of economic governance. This junior tutorial provides individualized support in the research process toward a final paper.
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FYSEMR 33R
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The Chinese Language, Present and Past
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Huang
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FRSEM
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Area
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This seminar offers an opportunity to learn about the Chinese language, by observing and analyzing its linguistic structure, history, cultural tradition and social relevance. Designed for students with some experience of the Chinese language.
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FYSEMR 71D
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Zen and the Art of Living: Making the Ordinary Extraordinary
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Robson
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FRSEM
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Area
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This seminar explores the rich history, philosophy and practices of Zen Buddhism as it developed in China, Korea, and Japan.
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GENED 1068
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The United States and China
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Kirby
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GENED
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Area; historical survey
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The United States and China are global economic and military powers. They have a rich history of commerce, friendship, alliance, and antagonism. Both countries have been shaped and re-shaped by the nature of their mutual relations. Their relationship is in crisis, the outcome of which will do much to define the world of the 21st century. This University-wide course invites undergraduates and graduate students to examine together the present and future of U.S.-China relations in the light of their past.
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GENED 1083
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Permanent Impermanence: Why Buddhists Build Monuments
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Kim, Wang
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GENED
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Area; historical survey
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Why do Buddhists build monuments despite the core teaching of ephemerality, and what can we learn from this paradox about our own conception of time and space? This Gen Ed course takes a multicultural and reflective engagement with Buddhist sites scattered throughout time and space. Pertinent topics such as cosmology, pilgrimage, materiality, relics, meditation, and world-making will be explored. Through these Buddhist monuments in South and Southeast Asia, the Himalayas, Central Asia, China, Korea, and Japan, students will learn about the rich, diverse world of Buddhist practice and experience.
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GENED 1100
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[COURSE CANCELED] The Two Koreas in the Modern World
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Eckert
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GENED
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Area; historical survey; junior tutorial
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Why is it that the Two Koreas (North and South Korea), sharing the same small peninsula, have followed such radically divergent paths in the modern world? How and why did there come to be two competing and adversarial states on the Korean peninsula in our contemporary world, one a prosperous capitalist democracy of global reach, and the other an impoverished dictatorship, bordering on theocracy and almost totally estranged from the international community—both claiming exclusive rights to speak for the Korean people and the Korean “nation” as a whole?
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GENED 1119
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Law, Politics, and Trade Policy: Lessons from East Asia
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Davis
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GENED
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Area; historical survey
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How do states balance the challenges and opportunities of international markets? Importing ideas and resources while exporting manufactured goods underlies the East Asian growth miracle but also builds conflict with other governments. This course examines the transformative role of trade policy for Japan, Korea, and China. From the “unequal treaties” of the nineteenth century to the World Trade Organization today, trade law binds the interactions between East Asia and the world. Japan grew from an isolated samurai nation to a leading economic power but now confronts stagnating growth. Korea relied on business conglomerates for rapid industrialization and embraced liberalization to steer its way out of financial crisis. China turned to the WTO to anchor domestic economic reforms but now faces U.S. resistance to its export dominance. East Asia offers models of the success and problems that accompany globalization.
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GOV 2285*
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Political Science and China
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Perry
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GOV
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Area
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This graduate seminar gives students control over the secondary literature on Chinese politics, with special attention to competing theoretical and methodological approaches.
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GOV 94IA
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Sino-US Relations in an Era of Rising Chinese Power
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Johnston
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GOV
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Area
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Focuses on the theoretically informed explanations for changing levels of conflict and cooperation in US-China relations. Examines the role of history, ideology, power, economics, and ethnicity/identity. Main assignment is an original research paper that tests alternative explanations for some puzzle in US-China relations.
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GOV 94YW
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Comparative Political Development
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Wang
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GOV
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Area
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This course examines the historical development of different political institutions in the world. Why did modern nation states and representative governments emerge in Europe? What was the path of political development in other parts of Eurasia, such as China and the Middle East? How did different political institutions influence economic development in the long term? We explore these big questions drawing materials from political science, history, sociology, anthropology, and economic history. A major course objective is to understand how the roots of political development in different countries connect with their politics and economies today.
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HAA 18P
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Introduction to Japanese Woodblock Prints
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Lippit
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HAA
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Area
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This course provides an introduction to Japanese art and cultural history through a survey of the Japanese woodblock print from its emergence in the mid-17th century to the modern era. Technical developments, major genres, and master designers are explored within the context of Japan's pictorial traditions and evolving urban culture. Topics for consideration include aesthetic discourse, censorship, erotica, Japonisme, the construction of social identity, print culture, and the representation of war.
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HIST 1602
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Modern China: 1894-Present
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Ghosh
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HIST
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Area; historical survey
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This lecture course will provide a survey of some of the major issues in the history of post-imperial China (1912- ). Beginning with the decline of the Qing and the dramatic collapse of China’s imperial system in 1911, the course shall examine how China has sought to redefine itself anew over the past one-hundred years. The revolutionary years of 1911, 1949, and 1978 will serve as our three fulcra, as we investigate how China has tussled with a variety of ‘isms’ (such as republicanism, militarism, nationalism, socialism, and state capitalism) in its pursuit of an appropriate system of governance and social organization. In so doing, we shall also explore the social, economic, cultural, and scientific changes wrought by these varied attempts at state-building.
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HIST 89J
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The United States and China: Opium War to the Present
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Manela
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HIST
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Area
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This research seminar will focus on the history of Sino-American relations and interactions since the Opium War (1840s). It will examine major episodes such as the Boxer intervention, the first and second world wars, the Korea and Vietnam wars, the Mao-Nixon rapprochement, and the post-Mao transformations, and explore central themes such as immigration, trade, culture, diplomacy, and security.
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JAPAN 210B*
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Reading Scholarly Japanese for Students of Chinese and Korean
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Jacobsen
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EALC
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Area or Language; upper-level EALC
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Continuation of Japanese 210a.
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JAPNHIST 270*
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Early Modern Japanese History: Proseminar
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Howell
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EALC
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Area; upper-level EALC
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This seminar surveys the recent English-language literature on the history of early modern Japan, roughly from the late sixteenth century to around 1875.
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JAPNLIT 162
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Girl Culture, Media, and Japan
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Yoda
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EALC
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Area; 100-level EALC; junior tutorial
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In contemporary Japan, girls and girl culture are considered to be among the most significant sources of popular cultural trends. For instance, the girly aesthetics of “cute” (kawaii) has animated broad areas of Japanese culture since the 1980s and has become a global cultural idiom through the dissemination of Japanese entertainment medias and fashion products abroad. The course will explore a number of key questions about Japanese (and global) girl culture. How did the conceptualization of girlhood, girl culture, girl bodies, and girl affect transform in Japan from the early twentieth century to the present? How did various medias and media consumption help shape these trends? What can the exploration of “girls’ question” tell us, not only about Japanese socio-cultural history, but also about the general conditions of youth, gender, and media culture in the world today (e.g., the sea of pink at Women’s March, 2016)? We will begin the semester by unpacking key terms such as “girl,” “girlhood,” and “girl culture” in relations to the modern and contemporary notions of gender, maturity, and majority. The course materials include fiction, fashion magazines, teen films, manga, and animation. No prior knowledge of Japanese language or history is expected.
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JAPNLIT 260*
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Early Modern Japanese Literature and Culture
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Atherton
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EALC
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Area; upper-level EALC
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This course explores the literature of the Edo period, a time that saw the emergence of a dynamic market for popular literature, the rise of new dramatic forms such as kabuki and puppet theater, the heyday of comic linked verse and satirical poetry, striking innovations in travel writing and the essay, and radically new approaches to the literature of Japan’s past. Surveying a diverse range of prose, poetry, and drama, we will explore such relationships as those between text and image, stage and page, orality and literacy, print and manuscript, high and low, literature and politics, and Japan and the continent.
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JAPNLIT 270*
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Topics in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Fiction: Seminar
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Yoda
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EALC
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Area; upper-level EALC
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A seminar course on the history, theory, and practice of modern to contemporary Japanese fiction. The course will be organized around a specific theme, time period, a cluster of writers, critics, or genres.
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KORHIST 230R*
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Readings in Premodern Korean History
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Kim, Sun Joo
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EALC
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Area; upper-level EALC
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Examines the social, political, economic, and intellectual history of premodern Korea. Designed primarily for graduate students preparing for the general examination.
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KORLIT 134
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Korean Literature in Translation
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Park
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EALC
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Area; 100-level EALC;
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This lecture course introduces undergraduate students to major works, writers, themes, and styles of Korean literature while exploring literature-inspired questions using Korean literature. All readings are in English. No knowledge of the Korean language is required. Knowledge of Korean culture and history is not required but is encouraged. Graduate students may take this course for credit after consultation with the instructor.
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MUSIC 194RS
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Special Topics: Proseminar: Music in Japan from Ghibli to Gagaku
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Hynes-Tawa
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MUSIC
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Area
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Like Japanese culture in general, Japan’s music has been stereotyped both as simultaneously very old/traditional and very modern/Western, a dichotomy that fails to take into account the many rich layers of history that have combined to create the landscape we see today. This course will walk through several different genres and periods in the history of Japanese music, exploring its relations with its East Asian neighbors as well as Western cultures. By engaging both with music and with readings (in English), students will practice writing about music from a variety of approaches. No knowledge of music theory or the Japanese language required, though students that do have/are developing these skills are encouraged to apply them.
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PHIL 159S
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Skepticism
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Rinard
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PHIL
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Area
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This course will primarily focus on attempts to develop a workable skeptical philosophy. Much effort has been, and continues to be, expended in trying to defeat, or argue against, or undermine, skepticism. Here we will look at what happens if we take seriously the possibility that skepticism is actually true. How can we build a philosophy, and a life, that acknowledges the truth of skepticism? We will look at a number of different attempts to do this from a wide range of times. We will pay particular attention to the Ancient Greek Pyrrhonians and the Ancient Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi, reading both the original texts and later commentaries on them.
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RELIGION 116
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The Conduct of Life in Western and Eastern Philosophy
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Unger, Puett
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HDS
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Area; 100-level EALC
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A study of approaches in the philosophical traditions of the West and the East to the conduct of life. Philosophical ethics has often been understood as meta-ethics: the development of a method of moral inquiry or justification. Here we focus instead on what philosophy has to tell us about the first-order question: How should we live our lives?This year a major concern will be the study and contrast of two such orientations to existence. One is the philosophical tradition focused on ideas of self-reliance, self-construction, and nonconformity (exemplified by Emerson and Nietzsche). The other is a way of thinking (notably represented by Confucius) that puts its hope in a dynamic of mutual responsibility, shaped by role and ritual and informed by imaginative empathy.
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RELIGION 1599
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Asian American Religion
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Eck
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HDS
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Area
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How "Asian" is America today? This seminar explores the Asian dimensions of American history, immigration, religion, and culture as immigrants have come from India, China, Southeast Asia, Korea, and Japan. When and why did they come to the U.S.? What forms of religious and cultural life did they bring to the U.S. in the 19th and 20th centuries? What opportunities and obstacles did they find here? How do Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs, Buddhists of many lineages, as well as Asian Christian communities contribute to the religious landscape of American cities and towns today? How has Asia reshaped the collective identity of the United States from the first encounters of Thoreau and Emerson with texts and ideas of the "Orient" to the saturation of modern America with the holistic cultures of yoga, tai chi, and mind-body medicine? Offered jointly with Divinity as HDS 3490; permission of instructor required.
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SOCIOL 1141
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Contemporary Chinese Society
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Lei
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SOCIOL
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Area
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This course will equip you with the basic literacy required to comprehend contemporary Chinese society, which is an increasingly essential skill for informed citizens in our present global context. No prior knowledge or language proficiency is necessary to enroll in this class. We will delve into the profound transformations that have occurred during the post-1978 reform period, including China's shift to a market economy, the emergence of the digital economy, the implementation of population policy by the government, urbanization, rising inequality, and contentious politics. The course will analyze how these changes have influenced social relations and how they have been experienced and understood by individuals. From a sociological perspective, this course will address topics related to the state, development, market, population, migration, urbanization, inequality, gender, labor and work, civil society, the public sphere, and social movements. Although the course is listed in the sociology catalog, readings and topics covered in the course are situated at the intersection of sociology, political science, law, anthropology, and history.
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SOCIOL 1181
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Social Change in Modern Korea
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Chang
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SOCIOL
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Area; Junior Tutorial
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This course explores the incredible transformation of Korean society in the modern period. We begin with the demise of the Choson Dynasty at the end of the 19th century before covering the Japanese colonial period (1910-1945), the emergence of two Korean nation-states (1945-1948), the Korean War (1950-53), and the contemporary period (1960-present). The course is divided into two sections: in the first part of the course we will discuss Korea’s political and economic transformation, and in the second part we will cover social and cultural change. Upon completion of the course students should have a thorough grasp of the vast social changes Korea underwent in the 20th century.
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TDM 168K
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Contemporary Mixed Media Theater Production in Asia
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Kim
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TDM
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Area
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Contemporary Asian theater has emerged in recent years as a source of influence and inspiration in the global culture industry. Specifically, mixed media productions in Asia have created a provocative performance and compositional space through which to link cultural experiences of the past with the artistic vision and expression of contemporary creative practitioners. Audiences around the world are increasingly eager for pathbreaking new media productions that engage with cultural diversity and multiple traditions. Correspondingly, global production theaters have changed their models to satisfy audience demands. This course combines seminar discussion, lecture, and hands-on practical engagement to develop students’ understanding and appreciation of mixed media performing arts, especially those that incorporate and innovate upon traditional Asian aesthetics and cultural experiences. Course materials will cover traditional music and theatres, the technical development of contemporary Asian theater, diverse forms of media production in contemporary, social, and political performance arts in Asia, and their global circulation. In particular, this course will focus on contemporary mixed media theater from Korea, China, and Japan.
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WOMGEN 1216
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Women's Voices in Asian and Asian American Literature
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Choi
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WGS
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Area
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This course introduces students to the writings of both canonical and lesser-known Asian and Asian American women writers. The course especially examines the works by Chinese/ Chinese American, Japanese/ Japanese American, Korean/ Korean American women writers. Moving from the pre-modern to contemporary era, the course will explore a range of women’s voices and experiences as reflected through poetry, fiction, diaries, and epistles. Authors will include Murasaki Shikibu, Li Qingzhao, Ono no Komachi, Lady Hyegyŏng, Qui Jin, Higuchi Ichiyo, Kim Wŏn-ju, Gong Jiyoung, Yoshimoto Banana, Maxine Hong Kingston, Tamiko Beyer, and Min Jin Lee. Topics will include family, marriage, loyalty, motherhood, women’s rights, sexual violence, same- sex desire, censorship, and gender and race politics.
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