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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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CHAGATAY 120A
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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 B. 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 150A
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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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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: Dream of the Red Chamber (Hongloumeng)
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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 228*
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Introduction to Neo-Confucianism
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Bol
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EALC
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Area; Upper-level course
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Introduces major Neo-Confucian texts for close reading and analysis. Selections from the writings and records of spoken instruction by Zhou Dunyi, Zhang Zai, Cheng Yi, Cheng Hao, Zhu Xi, Liu Jiuyuan, and others.
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CHNSHIS 270A*
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Research Methods in Late Imperial Chinese History I: Seminar
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Elliott
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EALC
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Area; Upper-level course
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Training in the use of a wide array of sources, methods, and reference tools for research in the history of late imperial China, focusing upon the reading and analysis of different types of Qing-era documents, official and unofficial. Students will write a research paper using documents provided in class. Reading knowledge of modern and literary Chinese required. Open to qualified undergraduates with permission of instructor. Recommended: Chinese 106b or equivalent in foundation literary Chinese.
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CHNSLIT 140
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The Greatest Chinese Novel
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Li, Wai-yee
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EALC
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Area; 100-level EALC
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The Story of the Stone (also known as The Dream of the Red Chamber) by Cao Xueqin (1715?-1763) is widely recognized as the masterpiece of Chinese fiction. It is also a portal to Chinese civilization. Encyclopedic in scope, this book both sums up Chinese culture and asks of it difficult questions. Its cult status also accounts for modern popular screen and television adaptations. Through a close examination of this text in conjunction with supplementary readings and visual materials, the seminar will explore a series of topics on Chinese culture, including foundational myths, philosophical and religious systems, the status of fiction, conceptions of art and the artist, ideas about love, desire and sexuality, gender roles, garden aesthetics, family and clan structure, and definitions of socio-political order.
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CHNSLIT 248*
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Modern Chinese Literature: Theory and Practice: Seminar
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Wang
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EALC
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Area; upper-level course
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Survey of the concepts, institutions, canons, debates, experiments, and actions that gave rise to, and continually redefined, modern Chinese literature. Equal attention given to theories drawn from Chinese and Western traditions.
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CHNSLIT 285*
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The Literary Life of Things in China
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Kelly
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EALC
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Area; upper-level course
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This seminar investigates literary strategies for depicting and animating things in premodern China. We will trace the development of the principal genres for talking about objects, from yongwu poetry and riddle tales, to inscriptions, colophons, and manuals of taste. How, we will ask, have authors probed and reimagined human attachments to things. How have practices of collecting and connoisseurship transformed Chinese literary culture? How have objects been used to think about what it means to be human in the Chinese literary tradition.
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CHNSLIT 289*
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From Late Tang Poetry and Poetics into the Song Dynasty
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Owen
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EALC
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Area; upper-level course
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The seminar will first engage the canonical poets of the mid-ninth century, and then venture into less studied authors and issues from the last decades of the Tang to the beginning of the eleventh century.
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EABS 256R*
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Chinese Buddhist Texts - Readings in Medieval Buddho-Daoist Documents: Seminar
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Robson
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EALC
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Area; upper-level course
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This seminar focuses on the careful textual study and translation of a variety of Chinese Buddho-Daoist texts through the medieval period.
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EAFM 151
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Documenting China on Film
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Li, Jie
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EALC
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Area; 100-level EALC
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What defines a film as “documentary”? How do documentary films inform, persuade, provoke, or move us? Of whom, by whom, and for whom are documentaries made? Can documentary also be “propaganda” or “art”? What rhetorical devices and aesthetic strategies do documentaries use to construct visions of reality and proclaim them as authentic, credible and authoritative? What might documentary films—as opposed to written text—teach us about modern Chinese history and contemporary society? Above all, how would you go about making a documentary film, in China or elsewhere? In this course, we will examine documentary films made in or about China from the early 20th century to the present day, through the lenses of both Chinese and foreign filmmakers.
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EAFM 202*
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Rip and Tear--The Body as Moving and Moved Image in Japanese Film: Seminar
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Zahlten
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EALC
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Area; upper-level course
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This course traces the role of the body as a discursive anchor in moving image culture in Japan. The focus will lie on the period after WW II, although the mapping of historical contexts will entail investigations into earlier histories as well.
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EASTD 143A
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Digital Tools and Methods in East Asian Humanities: No-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 with no prior background in digital literacy. It will introduce digital tools and methods used for the acquisition, transformation, analysis, and presentation of data. Coding is not required. Students completing the course will be able to integrate and apply the tools and methods into their research. Hands-on practices will be the major core of this course. Although students will expose to a wide range of tools, we use Konstanz Information Miner (KNIME), an open access analytics platform, as the axle of the course. Students will learn concepts and build workflows in different aspects of digital scholarship. Ability to read Chinese, Japanese, or Korean documents is required.
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EASTD 199
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China and the African Continent
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Koss
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EALC
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Area; 100-level EALC
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As Africa faces daunting challenges, the “Beijing model” invites intriguing alternative visions to the poorly performing designs by traditional foreign actors in the region. Moving from Chinese farm households in Mozambique to state-owned copper mines in Zambia, military bases in East Africa and the United Nations headquarters, this seminar critically assesses the potential for China’s presence to transform Sub-Saharan Africa. After identifying the intellectual stakes (week 1), and discussing anecdotal glimpses from the grassroot-levels (week 2), the class deals with traditional development assistance, along with Maoist attempts to revolutionize the “world countryside” – resulting in legacies such as a China-trained guerilla fighter serving as the President of Zimbabwe. We then discuss the current footprint of Beijing, including its influence on elite politics, Chinese public and private business interests, and the diversity of the one million Chinese migrants to Africa.
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EASTD 211*
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Historical Theory and Methods
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Kuriyama
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EALC
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Area; upper-level course
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Theories and methods for research in East Asian history. Covers approaches to social, cultural, intellectual, and political history, analyzing significant works in each field and applications to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean materials.
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ECON 2921*
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Early Stage Research and Discussions on the Economy in China
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Yang
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ECON
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Area
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No Description Available
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EMR 157
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Techno-Orientalism: Asia, Technology, Futurity
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No Instructor Info
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EMR
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Area
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Contemporary understandings of Asia often cast it as a site of global futurity which elies on ambivalent understandings of Asians as both technologically adept and machines’ themselves. This association of Asians with technology and futurity has been called techno-Orientalism, and this course serves as an introduction to discourses that observe and critique this phenomenon. We will consider techno-Orientalism’s correspondences and departures from earlier Orientalism and look at its development from early ‘Yellow Peril’ narratives to the Cyberpunk era, to its contemporary formulations. We will consider how techno-Orientalism functions within both the US national context and within global relations.
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FYSEMR 62Z
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Buddhist Enlightenment: Visions, Words, and Practice
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Abe
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FRSEM
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Area
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How do you get enlightened? Is the Buddha a god or human? How many Buddhas are there in the world? How many celebrated enlightened women do we find in Buddhism? How do you know if someone is enlightened? And why does Enlightenment matter? These are basic questions that even most recondite books of Buddhism often fail to answer. This seminar looks at famous visual images of Buddhist enlightenment—not only iconographies of Buddhist divinities, but also architecture, gardens, ritual instruments, and maps of the world—and using them as our gateways, studies narratives, parables, metaphors, and theories that explain what enlightenment is, how to attain enlightenment, and how to retain it in one’s everyday life. The seminar encourages students to apply their understanding of Buddhist enlightenment as a way to better appreciate their own religious traditions and/or spiritual identities for the sake of enriching their inner selves as well as their social interactions.
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FYSEMR 73E
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Ancient East Asia: Contested Archaeologies of China, Korea and Japan in the Media
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Flad
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FRSEM
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Area
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How is our understanding of the past, and of scientific discovery in general, determined or framed by the concerns of the present? How does popular media cover scientific research about the past? How do ingrained social biases affect this media coverage? This seminar considers these questions through a focus on Ancient East Asia. In the process, we learn about the origins of the people, cultures, and civilizations of this region, but our primary focus is not historic details, but instead examining how the varied and complicated histories and relationships among people and societies in the modern Nation-States of China, Korea, Japan and other nearby countries are understood through archaeological practice in the present.
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GENED 1017
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Americans as Occupiers and Nation-Builders
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Gordon, Manela
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GENED
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Area; 100-level EALC
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How have US military occupations abroad, such as in the Philippines, Japan, and most recently Afghanistan and Iraq, shaped both the United States and the world? The United States has launched numerous projects of military occupation and nation-building in foreign lands since the late 19th century. These have been contradictory enterprises, carrying ideals of freedom and self-determination "offered" by force or by fiat. This course will assess the meanings and legacies of these projects by examining the ideas, strategies, policies, and outcomes of occupations ranging from the Philippines early on, to Japan, Germany, Korea, and Vietnam to, most recently, Afghanistan and Iraq. The course focuses on American activities and ideas but also examines the responses of the occupied.
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GENED 1136
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Power and Civilization: China
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Bol, Kirby
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GENED
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Area; 100-level EALC; historical survey
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In China today we see a new country built on the bedrock of an ancient civilization. China’s re-emergence as a global economic power and political model has deep roots. From Rome to the Romanovs, from Byzantium to the Ottomans, on to the global empires of the West, all the great multiethnic empires of the world have come and gone, while a unitary, multi-national, Chinese empire has endured. The ancient Chinese ideal of a single, unified civilized world has had consequences. It was, and still is, a grand vision: all peoples unified under a single ruler and an integrated social order that finds a place for every person in security and harmony. It created the first centralized bureaucratic state; it institutionalized meritocracy; its economy became the world’s greatest market; its philosophies provided models of humane governance; its inventions spread across the globe. And yet in practice it has also been a story of conflict and control, of warring states and competing peoples. We will discuss how the choices China has made in the past bear on the challenges it faces today, when a modern “China model,” with ancient roots, competes with the United States for global leadership.
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GENED 1145
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Global Japanese Cinema
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Zahlten
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GENED
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Area; 100-level EALC
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Global Japanese Cinema introduces some of the masterworks from the rich history of Japanese cinema as a way of exploring the global language of film. Participants will learn how to analyze moving images and the ways they influence us – a basic media literacy that we all need for life in a media- saturated society. Additionally we will learn how culture, in this case moving images, flows across the globe and transforms its meaning in site-specific ways. We will see how Japanese cinema’s use of slow motion entered the American gangster film, or how samurai films helped create the Italian “Spaghetti Westerns”, and many other examples.
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GENED 1169
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What Is the Good China Story?
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Li, Wai-yee, Wang
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GENED
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Area; 100-level EALC
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The course takes as its point of departure President Xi Jinping’s call in 2013 to “tell the good China story,” and in 2020 to “tell the good China story of combating coronavirus.” What is the good China story? Is this the story China should tell about itself to the world? Is this about cultural self-perception, understanding the world, cross-cultural communication, or simple propaganda? More importantly, how can we tell China stories from perspectives outside of China?What seems beyond dispute is the power of stories to bring China to the world and the world to China. In exploring the “fictional turn” of contemporary Chinese cultural politics as it relates to the world, we will also trace its genealogy to earlier historical moments. Stories matter in China, not only in our times but also throughout history.Narrative fiction is one of the most effective ways to engage with the Chinese past and the Chinese present. Instead of presenting China as a monolithic civilization, this course uses stories to understand “the world of China” and “China in the world” from ideological, ethnic, cultural, and geo-political perspectives. The course highlights the variety and vitality of stories from both modern and pre-modern periods. In genres ranging from religious allegory to science fiction, from moral fable to fantastic romance, from philosophical anecdote to political satire, Chinese stories have enlightened, intrigued, puzzled, and scandalized readers, reflecting and constructing ever-changing worldviews.
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GOV 1754
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Science, Technology, and National Security: Japan in Global Perspective
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Brummer
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GOV
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Area
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Why are some countries more advanced than others in science and technology (S&T)? How does this success or failure relate to economic growth and military might? And how does growth and security affect S&T outcomes? This course will explore the triple helix relationship between technology, economy, and security with a focus on Japan in a comparative context. We will examine the past and present to inform our understanding of the future through a range of case studies, including on AI, nuclear, cyber, space, and biotechnology.
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GOV 1783
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Central Asia in Global Politics
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Kassenova
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GOV
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Area; historical survey
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The course is designed as an in-depth study of the place of Central Asia in Eurasian and global politics, and the policies of key external actors, such as Russia, the United States, China, the European Union, Turkey, Iran, Japan, South Korea and India, toward the region. Students are familiarized with the ways Central Asia has been contextualized both in scholarly sources and media. We will dwell on the changing geopolitical dynamics of the region and analyze how developments there are intertwined with bigger contexts and stories, ranging from nuclear non-proliferation and democracy promotion to authoritarian consolidation and infrastructure development. We will define similarities and differences in the foreign policies of Central Asian states and discuss the future prospects of the region.
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GOV 1982
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Chinese Foreign Policy, 1949-2017
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Johnston
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GOV
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Area
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Introduction to the descriptive history of China's international relations with special focus on different theoretical explanations for changes in foreign policy behavior (e.g. polarity, history, ideology, leadership, bureaucracy, among others).
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HAA 281K*
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Embodied Architecture: Art in Stupa-Towers
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Wang
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HAA
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Area
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The Chinese stupa-tower is a distinct architectural medium. It stages and choreographs disparate images either through its external or internal decorative programs or the deposits interred inside. More importantly, it is keyed to the conceptual core of a biological extinction and imaginary postmortem scenography. The course follows the development from early memorial towers in Buddhist caves to stupa-towers in the Forbidden City.
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HAA 288P*
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Medieval Japanese Ink Painting
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Lippit
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HAA
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Area
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This seminar examines the history of medieval Japanese ink painting from the thirteenth through sixteenth century. Subjects to be addressed include the emergence of a Zen figural pantheon, Zen master portraiture (chinsō), poem-picture scrolls, landscape styles and inscriptions, the Ashikaga shogunal collection of Chinese painting, the relationship between architecture and painting, modal painting, the status of the monk-painter, and the emergence of the Kano school. Participants are required to have knowledge of either Chinese or Japanese.
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HAA 81
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Art of Monsoon Asia: Interconnected Histories
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No Instructor Info
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HAA
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Area
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Monsoon Asia refers to the area of the globe where climates are determined or profoundly affected by the monsoon, from the Himalayas, to the islands of Indian Ocean, all the way to the Japanese archipelago. Focusing on the impact of monsoons in South and Southeast Asia, the course explores the common patterns and traits of the art of Monsoon Asia. How was the monsoon and its impact conceptualized in art? The main learning goal of the course is to understand how artistic means were harnessed to conceptualize, cope with, and tame environmental challenges posed by monsoons and long-distance travels, often facilitated by the monsoon winds, in pre-modern times. From water management to water symbolism, from impressive temples that mark auspicious arrivals to itinerant objects like ivories and amulets that moved with travelers across Monsoon Asia, we will look at diverse sites and objects that date between the fifth through the sixteenth centuries and attempt to connect the dots between ports and uncover hidden narratives of long-distance travels and travails of dealing with environmental challenges in pre-modern times. The course challenges the diffusionist model of influence in understanding trans-regional interactions and introduces ways to discuss interconnected histories using digital tools. The course will introduce basic tools of digital art history and students will be asked to contribute to a course exhibition site with annotated maps and research pages as part of their final projects.
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HIS 4454*
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The Project and the Territory: Japan Story
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Mostafavi
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ARCH
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Area
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What is the future of urbanization? What role can design play in shaping that future? What will happen to the conflicting tensions between urban and rural? How might technology transform our experience of the physical and social worlds? This seminar will use the concept of the project, as idea and implementation, to consider contemporary urbanization both reflectively and prospectively. Using an analysis of the development of Japanese cities and regions, and their encounters with disruption and continuity, WWII, Olympics, bubble economy, Kobe earthquake, etc. we aim to question and reimagine the future relations between the physical and social worlds. The hybrid and multi-representational method of the seminar will include discussions of architecture, urban design, technology, theory and practice, infrastructure and nature, institutions and memory, as well as the ecologies of literary and visual culture. Though the focus of the seminar will be on Japan, ideas and examples will be considered in the light of parallel developments in other parts of the world. The course will include lectures, guest speakers from near and far, and class discussions based on readings, films, photography, and other visual materials. Access to these materials will be provided online for students to consult at their own pace. Over the course of the semester, students will be tasked with investigating an issue of their choice, culminating in a speculative project.
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HIS 4486*
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Displaced Becomings --The Many Faces of Modern Architecture in Sinophone Asia
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Tseng
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ARCH
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Area
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Modern architecture was much more than “the International Style” as proclaimed by the vanguard in 1932. Modern architecture sprung up all over the world, in all political systems, in all geographical regions, in all kinds of conditions specific to each case. In many cases, through the drift and shift of transformation, adaptation, and intervention, modern architecture gained its momentum going forward and expanded its groundings both professionally, theoretically, and socially. After all, modernity also indicates battling the preexistent colonialism, imperialism, neocolonialism, as well as institutionalized chauvinism of all kinds. As such is the case of modern architecture in Sinophone Asia, which include Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong/Macau, Singapore and some part of Nusantara, the Southeast Asian archipelago. The cases, topics, and areas which the course covers. The course provides an exploratory study of the histories, theories, ideologies in which the discipline practiced as well as currently practices over time and across cultures and geographies under the umbrella of modern architecture. The idea is to call for a [re]discovery of multiplicity and diverseness of modern architecture. The emphasis is on plural reading and understanding of modern architecture through multiple cultural and critical lenses. The lecture discusses significant projects, prominent figures, noteworthy historical moments, and momentous social and political events. The lecture also examines the architectural movements and the other-isms as well as offers a glimpse of the recent Grands Projects and the work of the emergent generation. The course is structured around faculty presentations, guest lectures, and collective discussions. The students will be tasked with completing two assignments. The first being a case study assignment, the second a short end-of-the-semester paper on a topic related to the course. There are no prerequisites.
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HIST 1033
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Japan’s Samurai Revolution
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Howell
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EALC
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Area; 100-level EALC; historical survey
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In 1603, Tokugawa Ieyasu became shogun, thus initiating more than two and a half centuries of rule by Japan’s hereditary warrior class, the samurai. These warriors oversaw an extended era of peace rarely paralleled in human history. Everything changed on July 8, 1853, Commodore Mathew C. Perry steamed into Edo Bay with four heavily armed US Navy warships. There, Perry issued an ultimatum: open the country to trade or face unstoppable bombardment. Thus began Japan’s modern engagement with the outside world, a new chapter in the broader encounter between “East” and “West.” Through primary sources, discussion, and lecture, this course examines Japan’s rapid development from samurai-led feudalism into the world’s first non-Western imperial power.
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HIST 1939
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Economic History of Modern China
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Ghosh
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HIST
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Area
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This conference course offers a close examination of the economic history of modern China set against the background of major debates in the field of world economic history and within the field of modern Chinese history. The approximate time frame covered is from the late eighteenth century to the present. Prior coursework in Chinese history (in particular on modern China) is recommended but not necessary.
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HIST 2651*
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Japanese History: Seminar
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Gordon
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HIST
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Area; upper-level EALC
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Students write research papers on topics of their own choosing drawing on sources in Japanese, and other languages as appropriate.
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HIST-LIT 90CM
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Asian American Cultural Studies
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Huang
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HIST-LIT
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Area
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In the wake of the 2021 Atlanta spa shootings and the pervasive anti-Asian racism precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a nation-wide reckoning of sorts on the embeddedness of Asian Americans within the multicultural fabric of America’s national imaginary. While these hate crimes thrust Asian Americans relentlessly into the spotlight of American public consciousness, they’re also part and parcel of a turbulent and often tragic lineage of Asian American history that has shaped and been shaped by the racialized politics of the U.S. writ large. Taking the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act as its starting point, this course contends with the vicissitudes of Asian American history from the late nineteenth century to the present, to recognize how contemporary sentiments by and about Asian Americans are inextricably intertwined with the past — in terms of what has been remembered as well as what has been forgotten. We will put a wide range of primary texts, including fiction, poetry, film, television, and visual art, in conversation with notable works of Asian American scholarship. As we move from past to present, we will encounter some of the major flashpoints in Asian American history, including World War II Japanese American internment, the Vietnam War, the 1992 Los Angeles uprising, and 9/11. We will also engage with more seemingly mundane moments and expressions in the ongoing formation of Asian American culture, to better capture the protean realities of Asian American identities and experiences in 2023. In doing so, this course grapples with what it means for Asian America to have been characterized and circumscribed by a multitude of cultural discourses — legal, geopolitical, and textual — throughout dominant as well as subversive narratives of U.S. history.
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HIST-LIT 90GI
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Transpacific Empires
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Kim, Wang
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HIST-LIT
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Area
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The term “transpacific” denotes the interrelation between East Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas as geographies and geopolitical territories shaped by power struggles. In this course, we will examine historical and cultural artifacts that attest to past and ongoing imperial arrangements from the twentieth century to the present. How have U.S., Japanese, and other empires structured the exchanges, intimacies, transformations, and tensions linking diverse peoples across Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas? What are the social, cultural, political, and economic reverberations of colonial invasions, hot wars, cold war, migrations, and racial formations? And how does the transpacific enrich our study of both Asia and Asian America? Drawing on films, novels, poetry, photography, government documents, speeches, and more, this course will track the relationship between the personal and political and ask what kind of subjects emerge from competing imperial modernities. Possible texts include Yokomitsu Riichi’s Shanghai (1931), Eileen Chang’s Rice Sprout Song (1955), Carlos Bulosan’s The Cry and the Dedication, opera by John Adams, poetry by Craig Santos Perez, Don Mee Choi, and Ocean Vuong, and the films Godzilla (1954), Arrival (2016), and Lingua Franca (2019).
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HISTSCI 1833
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Engineering East Asia: Technology, Society, and the State
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Seow
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HISTSCI
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Area
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Who creates and controls technology within society? How have technological developments shaped and, in turn, been shaped by social change? Do technological artifacts have particular politics? In this course, we will explore these and other questions concerning the intertwined relationship of technology, society, and the state within the context of East Asia’s long twentieth century. From the era of steam power to the present, East Asia has undergone epochal social and technological transformations. China’s recent bold forays into artificial intelligence are but among the latest in broader trends, beginning with Japanese, South Korean, and Taiwanese successes with consumer electronics manufacturing over preceding decades, that have marked the region as the site from which we may very well see the emergence of our technological future. In examining the history of technology in modern East Asia, we will gain a deeper understanding of the region and its technological revolutions and, more generally, of the workings of technology in the industrial modern age.
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JAPAN 210A
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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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Development of skills in reading and translating academic genres of Japanese, with special attention to Japanese scholarship on Chinese and Korean studies. Introduction to old kana usage and classical forms commonly used in scholarly writing.
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JAPNLIT 170
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Traditional Japanese Literature: From Mythology to (Early) Modernity
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Atherton
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EALC
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Area; historical survey; 100-level EALC
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Poetry written by gods, incestuous aristocratic romances, exorcist theater, samurai fantasy novels, fart literature: traditional Japanese literature has something for everyone, and invites us to rethink our assumptions about what literature is and how creativity works. From the most ancient myths up to the 19th century arrival of Western style modernity, we will explore together the relationships between high art and pulp fiction, the stage and the page, words and illustrations, manuscript and print, language and the sacred. We will probe the literary imagination of beauty, nature, desire, and heroism, and ask what Japanese literature can tell us about what it is to be human.
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JAPNLIT 281*
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Medieval 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 offers a comprehensive introduction to the literature of Japan’s medieval centuries (broadly conceived as the 12th through 16th centuries), together with an overview of critical approaches to its study. We will explore the relationship between literary production and politics, visual culture, scholasticism, geography and human movement, religion and ritual, and conceptions of class and gender, as well as the materiality and circulation of texts and, ultimately, the question of “medievality” itself. Our primary readings will be taken from high and low genres of poetry, drama, and prose (including narrative fiction, essays, miscellanies, and works of poetic and dramatic theory). Previous study of Japanese or East Asian literature is NOT required (though certainly welcome), and readings will be provided in English for those who do not read modern or classical Japanese. Curious students of other literary traditions are particularly welcome.
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KORHIST 119
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Governing Bodies in Twentieth-Century Korea
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Howell
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EALC
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Area; 100-level EALC; historical survey
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The seminar will explore how the bodies of families, women, and children constituted a critical locus of modern government in (South) Korea from colonial to postcolonial and neo-liberal eras.
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KORHIST 260*
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Readings in Modern Korean History I
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Eckert
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EALC
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Area; upper-level EALC
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Explores the history of the field through an examination of major scholarship. Designed primarily for graduate students preparing for the general examination.
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LING 171
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Structure of Chinese
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Huang
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LING
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Area
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Introduction to the syntactic structure of Mandarin Chinese: the basic structure of clauses and nominal constituents; words, compounds, and phrases; word order and variations; selected special topics (passives, resultatives, ba-construction, topic and relativized structures, questions, anaphora, pro drop); syntactic structure and semantic interpretation.
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MUSIC 230R*
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Topics in Music Theory: Music and the Transpacific
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Momii
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Music
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Area
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Music and the Transpacific. This seminar explores the musical ramifications of transpacific encounters, with a focus on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Weekly reading, listening, and writing exercises will examine the assumptions and implications behind racial, cultural, and temporal categorizations of terms such as “Western,” “Asian,” “Pacific,” “Asian American,” and “Afro-Asian.” Topics of discussion include Orientalism, exoticism, area studies and ethnic studies, colonialism, U.S. and Japanese imperialisms, performance, diaspora, and transnationalism. Drawing on the work of musical artists across classical, popular, traditional, and experimental genres, the course will explore connections between music and cultural politics (including but not limited to race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, disability, and nationality). Enrollment is open to all graduate and upper-level undergraduate students; please email the instructor if you have any questions. Ability to read Western staff notation is not required for this course.
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PHIL 109
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Early Chinese Ethics
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Robertson
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PHIL
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Area
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Early (Pre-Qin era) China was a hotbed of philosophical activity: scholars developed careful and fascinating ethical views in the context of serious philosophical debates between major schools of thought. This course focuses on some of these ethical debates between Confucian, Mohist, Daoist, and Legalist philosophers in early China. We’ll read both classical texts such as the Analects of Confucius, Mengzi, Xunzi, Mozi, and Zhuangzi and important contemporary scholarship on these texts. Several moral questions will be of particular importance: What is the relationship between etiquette and morality? What are the most important virtues to acquire? Should we think of morality and moral development as something natural or artificial? Are we justified in caring more about some people (our closest friends and family) than others? We will have a special focus on three important interpretive themes for the course: (1) How can understanding the particular contours of the debates each scholar is engaged in help us understand their overall views? (2) How does each philosopher’s view of human psychology and epistemology constrain, guide, and support their moral theorizing? (3) How can an understanding of early Chinese ethical thought, theory, and debate help enrich contemporary discussions in ethics and moral philosophy? No previous experience or coursework in Chinese philosophy is required for this course.
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SAS 140
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An Introduction to the Cultural History of the Tibetan Region
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van der Kuijp
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SAS
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Area; 100-level EALC; Historical Survey
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Introduces the student to a magnificent, ancient culture that is still alive and well today. We will discuss its history, political history, and its literary history in great detail, primarily from the 9th to 17th centuries.
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SOC-STD 98LF
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Globalization and the Nation State
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Prevelakis
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SOC-STD
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Area; Historical Survey
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Despite globalization, the nation is still a major actor in today's world. This course tries to understand why this is so by examining the role that nationalism plays in peoples’ identities and the effects of globalization on nations and nation-states. It includes theoretical texts, but also case studies from the recent pandemic, the rise of populism and authoritarianism, the challenges of supranational entities such as the European Union, and the urgency of global issues such as climate change, inequality, and migration. Examples from the United States, Europe, Latin America, China, and the Middle East. This is a junior tutorial.
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WOMGEN 1208
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Gender and Sexuality in Korean Pop Culture
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Choi
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WGS
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Area
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What can the songs of BTS and Blackpink, the TV-show “Squid Game,” and the films Parasite and Kim Chi-yŏng: Born 1982 teach us about gender roles in contemporary Korea? What roles do writers, musicians, and filmmakers play in shaping our thinking about sex and gender? How do competing ideas about sex shape the current system of cinematic, television, and popular music genres? These questions will be explored through case studies of Korean popular media, while the course will simultaneously provide a broad introduction to the field of women, gender, and sexuality studies.
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