ADVANCED BUSINESS CHINESE
Advanced Business Chinese is designed to help students who have studied at least three years of Chinese (or the equivalent) to achieve greater proficiency in the oral and written use of the language and gain knowledge in depth about China’s business environment and proven strategies. Student will critically examine the successes and failures of firms within the Chinese business arena.
- MTR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Zhong Qi Shi
Info - 4 points
JAPANESE NEW WAVE AND CINEMATIC MODERNIS
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Takuya Tsunoda
Info - 4 points
GENDER,CLASS,REAL ESTATE-CHINA
GENDERCLASSREAL ESTATE-CHINA
This is a seminar for advanced undergraduates and master’s degree students, which explores the socioeconomic consequences of China’s development of a boom, urban residential real-estate market since the privatization of housing at the end of the 1990s. We will use the intersecting lenses of gender/sexuality, class and race/ethnicity to analyze the dramatic new inequalities created in arguably the largest and fastest accumulation of residential-real estate wealth in history. We will examine topics such as how skyrocketing home prices and state-led urbanization have created winners and losers based on gender, sexuality, class, race/ethnicity and location (hukou), as China strives to transform from a predominantly rural population to one that is 60 percent urban by 2020. We explore the vastly divergent effects of urban real-estate development on Chinese citizens, from the most marginaliz4d communities in remote regions of Tibet and Xinjiang to hyper-wealthy investors in Manhattan. Although this course has no formal prerequisites, it assumes some basic knowledge of Chinese history. If you have never taken a course on China before, please ask me for guidance on whether or not this class is suitable for you. The syllabus is preliminary and subject to change based on breaking news events and the needs of the class.
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Leta Hong Fincher
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 6 Info - 4 points
INTRO TO CLASSICAL CHINESE I
Prerequisites: completion of three years of modern Chinese at least, or four years of Japanese or Korean.
- MWF 10:10 a.m.-11:05 a.m.
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Instructor:
Lening Liu
CULPA: 9 Info - 3 points
BUDDHISM AND KOREAN CULTURE
Since Buddhism was introduced to Korea 1,600 years ago, the religion has had great impact on almost all aspects of the Korean society, making significant contributions to the distinct development of Korean culture. In this course, we will explore how Buddhism has influenced and interacted with various fields of Korean culture such as art, architecture, literature, philosophy, politics, religions, and popular culture. Buddhist scriptures, written in classical Chinese, with their colorful imaginations, have stimulated the development of Korean literature. Buddhist art, sculpture, and architecture have also catalyzed the Korean counterparts to bloom. The sophisticated philosophy and worldview of Buddhism, along with its diverse religious practices and rituals have added richness to the spiritual life of Korean people. Buddhism also attracted a significant number of followers, often playing important roles in politics. Throughout the course, we will not only investigate the influence of Buddhism on diverse aspects of Korean culture on their forms and at their depths, but also examine the interactions between Buddhism and other religions, as well as politics. Students will learn how Korean people have formed and reformed Korean culture through the medium of Buddhism
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Seong-Uk Kim
Info - 4 points
READINGS IN CLASSICAL CHINESE
Prerequisites: CHNS W3302 or the equivalent. Admission after placement exam. Focusing on Tang and Song prose and poetry, introduces a broad variety of genres through close readings of chosen texts as well as the specific methods, skills, and tools to approach them. Strong emphasis on the grammatical and stylistic analysis of representative works. CC GS EN CE
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Wei Shang
CULPA: 4
Wikipedia
h-index: 96
Info
- 3 points
FIFTH YEAR KOREAN
Please see department for details.
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Joowon Suh
Info - 4 points
FIFTH YEAR CHINESE I
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- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lening Liu
CULPA: 9 Info -
Instructor:
Tao Peng
Info - 4 points
Medieval Travel Writing
This course studies travel writing across the medieval world. Focusing on major types of medieval travelers—such as court ladies, pilgrims, envoys, warriors, merchants, knights, and beggars—and their documented travel experience, this course explores different modes of writing mobility and its constraints, addressing issues of knowledge production, boundaries of self, religiosity, (pre-)modernity, and colonialism. The questions we ask include: how did medieval writers fashion “self” and “others” in their travel accounts? How were gender dynamics articulated and negotiated when female travelers confronted society constraints on their mobility? How was violence instrumentalized to render the “mobile” into the “immobile”? Was there value in “stillness”? And broadly, how did the movement of body challenge the established cultural and epistemological norms? We engage with primary materials as diverse as diaries, poetry, official reports, travel accounts, historiography, and novels, and geographically span Japan, China, Byzantium, and Western Europe. By examining literary texts on shared themes across different cultural traditions, this course also encourages students to think deeply the value of juxtaposition and to reflect deeply on the implications and possibilities of the “global Middle Ages.”
20TH CENTURY TIBETAN HISTORY
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Gray W Tuttle
CULPA: 3
Info
- 4 points
Faith and Empire: Art and Politics in Ti
ART & POLI TIBET BUDDHISM
Tibetan Buddhism offered a divine means of power and legitimacy to rule in Inner Asia and China. This class will explore the intersection of politics, religion and art in Tibetan Buddhism. Images were one of the primary means of political propagation, integral to magical tantric rites, and embodiments of power.
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Karl P Debreczeny
Info - 4 points
SOC OF CHOSON KOREA 1392-1910
Major cultural, political, social, economic and literary issues in the history of this 500-year long period. Reading and discussion of primary texts (in translation) and major scholarly works. All readings will be in English.
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jungwon Kim
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
HISTORY OF MODERN CHINA I
China’s transformation under its last imperial rulers, with special emphasis on economic, legal, political, and cultural change.
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sau-Yi Fong
Info - 3 points
WOMEN & GENDER IN KOREAN HIST
WOMEN AND GENDER IN KOREAN HIS
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jungwon Kim
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
Japan 1968: student protest movements in
Japan also had a 1968. Students occupied university campuses across the country - in the most dramatic cases storming lecture-halls, building barricades and wielding bamboo spears in clashes with the police, counter?protestors and each other. These protests coincided with a wave of other campus occupations around the world, including in the US, France, Germany, Czechoslovakia, and China. In Japan they marked the culmination of a decade of protest against a range of issues including (but not limited to) the Vietnam War, colonialism, nuclear weapons, pollution, inflation, consumerism, capitalism, corruption, labour abuses, police brutality, authoritarianism, censorship, patriarchy, conformity and boredom. This course explores why students protested and what methods they used. It asks what effect the protests had in terms of goals achieved, unintended consequences, and longer-lasting social and cultural legacies. How did protestors’ motivations change over time, and how did Japanese state and society accommodate, repress or subvert the movements? How did the protests and subsequent crackdown transform universities as spaces for learning, research and socialization? What alliances did students seek to forge with peers, activists, guerillas and governments overseas? Was there such a thing as a global 1968, and if so was Japan a part of it? And in what ways did their protests resemble or differ from other student protests around the world, then and now?
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Paul Kreitman
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
FIFTH YEAR JAPANESE I
Prerequisites: Students must meet with the instructor prior to taking the course. This course is intended to help students increase their ability level in the four core language skills (reading, writing, listening, and speaking) from advanced to super-advanced. It serves as a bridge between mastering the overall Japanese language and using it for analysis, research, and literary criticism. This is a mandatory course for Ph.D students in Japanese Studies.
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Miharu Nittono
CULPA: 10
Info
- 4 points
RACE AND EMPIRE IN THE ASIA PACIFIC
RACE & EMPIRE IN ASIA PAC
This seminar explores the historical entanglement of race and imperial warfare in the Asia Pacific, focusing on China, Japan, and the U.S. We will begin by considering how the colonial discourse of civilization arrived on the shores of East Asia and shaped the self-perception of its peoples in an evolutionary unfolding of the international order. Our goal is to understand the changing conceptions of race and racism in the Asia Pacific from the 19th century through the postwar era. Readings include primary and secondary texts relating to international legal instruments such as extraterritorial rights, formal and informal colonial education, scientific racism such as the dissemination of racialized medical texts, racial anxiety, decolonization, revolutions and the possibilities of global transformation. For example, we will revisit the rise of Pan-Asianism, the problem of the color line, Japan's demand for equality at the Versailles Treaty negotiations, the May Fourth Movement, China's centuries-long anti-imperialist struggles, and the contradictions of white supremacy and Afro-Asian revolts. The seminar will conclude by reflecting on the post-WWII rearticulation of "self-determination"--the non-Wilsonian moment--to the idea of human rights as well as the world historical significance of Afro-Asian insurgences against white colonial domination in the 1940s-70s.
M.A. THESIS RESEARCH
Provides students the opportunity to present work in progress or final drafts to other students and relevant faculty to receive guidance and feedback.
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Instructor:
Allison E Bernard
CULPA: 1 Info - 2 points
ADV KOREAN IN MIXED SCRIPT
This course is designed to provide both M.A. and Ph.D. students in Korean studies with the necessary skills for reading and understanding Korean mixed script and to provide them with reading materials focusing on period from the late-19th century to the mid-20th century. Readings from this period feature a strong mixture of Chinese and Korean characters, so a wide choice of materials is available which represents all subject areas. This course will be part of the graduate program in Korean studies.
- F 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Hyunkyu Yi
CULPA: 8
Info
- 4 points
PRE-MODERN CHINESE FICTION
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Wei Shang
CULPA: 4
Wikipedia
h-index: 96
Info
- 4 points
CLASSICAL CHINESE POETRY
This graduate seminar aims to introduce students to poetry and poetics in the eighth century, the High Tang. We will trace the changes and transformations of poetic language and social functions of
shi
and
fu
poetry, in conjunction with the expansion of the literary scene from the court/capital to the community of serving officials, who traveled throughout the empire, wrote about their “provincial” experiences, and formed literary connections with one another through poetry. We will examine major poets, including Zhang Jiuling, Meng Haoran, Wang Wei, Li Bai, and Du Fu, and think about what happens to their poetry and their imagination of the empire when the court/capital started to lose its status as the center of cultural production and the arbiter of tastes. Students will also learn methods, sources, and bibliographic traditions as part of the study of medieval literature. We will explore questions such as: What can eight-century anthologies tell us about contemporary literary tastes? How were literary collections of eighth-century poets preserved, transmitted and reconstituted in later periods? How might the “High Tang” look different when we take into consideration of changes in values and bibliographic interventions of later periods?
Prerequisite: students should have at least two years of experience learning literary Chinese.
Graduate Seminar in Japanese Cinema and
Grad Seminar Japanese Cin
In this course, we will examine a series of key writings on cinema and visual culture in Japan from the 1910s to the late 1960s. Major topics will include:
1. Cinema and its technology/technics (sound, color, and film form)
2. Cinema and its intersection with politics and aesthetics (Marxism and the Proletarian Film Movement, cinematic realism, colonialism, Third Worldism, and Japanese New Wave)
3. The articulations of cinema in broader intellectual, technological, socio-cultural, and institutional discourse (film education, documentary, and
bunka eiga
)
In an attempt to explore the transitional position of cinema and media culture in Japanese cultural history, the course also critically approaches contact points between cinema, theatre (especially
shingeki
), literature, photography, and television. All mandatory readings each week will be primary sources in Japanese, and additional scholarly and/or theoretical writings in English will also be assigned or provided for reference.
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Takuya Tsunoda
Info - 4 points
Korean Cultural Studies Seminar
This course inaugurates a new seminar series that moves across the pre- and post-1945 divide to address cultural forms that navigate intersections among gender, sexuality, mind, body, self, race, empire, technology, militarism (among other concerns). Working across disciplines, the present seminar will focus on the institutionalization of care as central to the idea of the modern and the empirical project of modernization. We begin with an overview on science and technology followed by an engagement with clinical psychiatry, women’s health, and literary representations that connect incarceration to broader rehabilitative praxis. Building off of the discussion of the colonial medical complex, the seminar will conclude with a consideration of the relations between the colonial modern and postcolonial developmentalism.
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Theodore Hughes
CULPA: 6
Info
- 4 points
Seminar on the Economic History of Late
Economic Hist Bronze Age
In this graduate seminar course, students will be asked to study original sources including inscriptions, texts, and archaeological data in order to discuss a series of issues in late Bronze-Age economy.
TPC-MIDDLE PERIOD-CHINESE HIST
TOPICS IN MID-PER CHINA: YUAN
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Robert P Hymes
CULPA: 8 Info - 4 points
CHINESE MEDIA CULTURES
What is media and mediation? How do aesthetics, techniques and technologies of media shape perception, experience, and politics in our societies? And how have various forms of media and mediation been conceptualized and practiced in the Chinese-language environment? This graduate seminar examines critical issues in historical and contemporary Chinese media cultures, and guides students in a broad survey of primary texts, theoretical readings, and research methods that place Chinese media cultures in historical, comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives. We discuss a variety of media forms, including paintings and graphic arts, photography and cinema, soundscapes and the built environment, and television and digital media. The class covers a time span from mid-19 th century to the present, and makes use of the rich holdings at the Starr East Asian Library for historical research and media archaeology.
Open to MA and PhD students. Advanced undergraduates need to have instructor's approval.
Language prerequisites: intermediate or advanced Chinese; rare exceptions upon instructor’s approval.
SEMINAR: RESEARCH IN MODERN CHINESE HIST
RESEARCH IN MOD CHINESE H
The aim of this seminar is to allow students the opportunity to conceive of a topic, organize and execute its research, and draft an 8000-13,000 word manuscript suitable for publication in a scholarly journal. MA students must have the permission of the instructor to enroll.
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Eugenia Lean
CULPA: 17 Info - 4 points