Sex, Power, Performance: Gender in Chine
Gender/Chinese Literature
Moving beyond stereotypes of victimized Asian womanhood and the dominance of Confucian patriarchy, we draw on Chinese literary/historical texts to examine sites of agency and power. Interrogating a range of gendered identities, roles, and expressions—from classical romantic heroines (ex.Peony Pavilion’s Du Liniang) and dynamic women writers (ex.the poet Li Qingzhao) to sexy fox spirits, cross-dressed warriors (Mulan), and queer love affairs (Li Yu’s Women in Love)—we probe relationships among social roles, sexualized bodies, and the performance of gender.
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Allison E Bernard
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
Childhoods in Modern Japanese Literature
This course explores literary representations of childhood in modern Japan, expanding into how manga, anime, and film have also dealt with the topos. Through literary and visual texts that problematize spaces, memories, ideals, rights, and propagandic power of childhood, students will think through and discuss broader issues of age, gender, identity politics, generational trauma, history of social structures, and the future of human society.
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Stephen Choi
Info - 4 points
INTRO TO CLASSICAL CHINESE II
Prerequisites: CHNS W3301: Classical Chinese I; completion of three years of modern Chinese at least, or four years of Japanese or Korean. Please see department. Prerequisites: CHNS W3301: Classical Chinese I; completion of three years of modern Chinese at least, or four years of Japanese or Korean.
- MWF 11 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
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Instructor:
Lening Liu
CULPA: 9 Info - 3 points
Texts, Paintings, and Images of Korean R
Texts & Images Korean Rel
The course explores the doctrines, practices, and rituals of Korean religions through iconic texts, paintings, and images. The texts, paintings, and images that the course covers include ghost stories, doctrinal exegeses and charts, missionary letters, polemical and apologetic writings, catechism, folklores, and ritual paintings.
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Seong-Uk Kim
Info - 3 points
Border Thinking in Modern China
Border Thinking Modern Ch
Border Thinking in Modern China examines how the ethnocultural frontiers of contemporary China were formed over the long transition from multi-ethic empire to modern nation state. Drawing on Gloria Anzaldúa notion of ‘border thinking’ or 'pensamiento fronterizo', this seminar examines how the discursive and material violence of the modern border developed out of centuries imperial conquest, colonial expansion, and mutli-ethnic alliance building along China’s northwestern and southwestern borders. Over the semester students are encouraged to foster their own understanding of ‘border thinking’ as the pursue research essays that take a borderlands approach to the study of Late Imperial to Modern Chinese history.
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Riga T Shakya
Info - 4 points
READINGS IN CLASSICAL CHINESE
Prerequisites: CHNS W4007 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
- WF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Andrew Plaks
Info - 4 points
FIFTH YEAR CHINESE II
The Fifth Year Chinese course is designed for advanced learners who have a proficient command of the Chinese language in all four aspects: listening, speaking, reading, and writing, regardless of whether they have Chinese heritage. The course provides a wide variety of literary genres, ranging from short stories to aesthetic essays to academic articles, to enhance students' mastery of formal written Chinese. While the primary objectives of this course lie in reading, students also have opportunities to develop their speaking competence through a variety of in-class discussions, debates, and presentations.
- 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
TIBET IN THE WORLD: CULTURAL PRODUCTION
This course explores the intersection of cultural production with national policies and global economies in the context of Tibet. We will focus not on colonial sources (Mythos Tibet) but on a wide range of representational and expressive practices
by contemporary Tibetans
in film, literature, music, social media, art, performance, local museums, etc. -- all since the 1990s. Tibetan cultural production today is at once localized and transnational, whether it is the vision and work of artists in the People's Republic of China or the creation of Tibetans living in the diaspora. We will explore the impact of colonialism and socioeconomic marginalization on the de-centering and re-centering of ethnicity and identity in education, publishing, and the arts. How do Tibetan artists, musicians, filmmakers, writers, comedians, and other cultural producers negotiate the complexities of modernity, secularization, globalization and political agendas, vis-à-vis incentives to preserve traditions, while engaging creatively?
Each week will focus on 2 to 3 primary sources and 1 or 2 related secondary readings. Our discussions of the primary source materials (film screenings, readings, artwork, performances, etc.) will be enriched with readings in Cultural Studies, sociology, and anthropology, and by conversations with area artists.
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lauran Hartley
Info - 4 points
CHINESE DOCUMENTARY CINEMA
What defines a “documentary” film? How do documentaries inform, provoke and move us? What formal devices and aesthetic strategies do documentaries use to construct visions of reality and proclaim them as authentic, credible and authoritative? What can documentary cinema teach us about the changing Chinese society, and about cinema as a medium for social engagement? This seminar introduces students to the aesthetics, epistemology and politics of documentary cinema in China from the 1940s to the present, with an emphasis on contemporary films produced in the past two decades. We examine how documentaries contended history, registered subaltern experiences, engaged with issues of gender, ethnicity and class, and built new communities of testimony and activism to foster social change. Besides documentaries made by Chinese filmmakers, we also include a small number of films made on China by western filmmakers, including those by Joris Ivens, Michelangelo Antonioni, Frank Capra and Carma Hinton. Topics include documentary poetics and aesthetics, evidence, performance and authenticity, the porous boundaries between documentary and fiction, and documentary ethics. As cinema is, among other things, a creative practice, in this course, students will be given opportunities to respond to films analytically and creatively, through writing as well as creative visual projects.
"Exploring ""The Tale of Genji"": Themes
Exploring The Tale of Gen
This seminar offers an in-depth exploration of Murasaki Shikibu’s “The Tale of Genji” (Genji monogatari, c. 1008), one of the most significant works in the Japanese literary canon. Through a close reading and discussion of the primary text, which we will read in its entirety in English translation, the students will gain an appreciation and understanding of its central themes, socio-cultural background, narrative structuring, and various aesthetic considerations. A number of secondary materials and introduction to several works of reception will further help to contextualize its enduring influence to this day.
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ekaterina Komova
Info - 4 points
HISTORY OF MODERN CHINA II
HIST OF MODERN CHINA II
China's search for a new order in the long twentieth century with a focus on political, social and cultural change.
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Yingchuan Yang
Info - 3 points
LAW IN CHINESE HISTORY
An introduction to major issues of concern to legal historians as viewed through the lens of Chinese legal history. Issues covered include civil and criminal law, formal and informal justice, law and the family, law and the economy, the search for law beyond state-made law and legal codes, and the question of rule of law in China. Chinese codes and course case records and other primary materials in translation will be analyzed to develop a sense of the legal system in theory and in practice.
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Madeleine H Zelin
CULPA: 12 h-index: 12 Info - 4 points
CHINESE LINGUISTICS & PEDAGOGY
This course describes the morphological, syntactic and phonological structures of Chinese language within the framework of the functional grammar. The focus is placed on the “mapping” of linguistic forms and their semantic and pragmatic functions. Pedagogical suggestions on how to teach these structures are also provided.
Prerequisites: CHNS G5000x. This course is designed for graduate students who have successfully passed Course I (G5000) and who are permitted by the Department to take this course, which entails working as a teaching assistant in the Chinese language program. In addition to coordinating closely with his or her mentors and the course coordinator, the student TA has to design and teach first year drill sessions, team-teach with his or her mentors, and do other teaching-related assignments.
- MWR 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lening Liu
CULPA: 9 Info - 3 points
FIFTH YEAR JAPANESE II
Prerequisites: JPNS GR5016 or the equivalent. This course is intended to help students to develop language skills necessary for academic research. Students will read articles, watch videos, and debate issues from a wide range of fields including economics, politics, history, comparative literature, and current issues.
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Miharu Nittono
CULPA: 10
Info
- 4 points
CRIT APPRO TO E ASIAN STUDIES
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Allison E Bernard
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
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
GRAD SEM IN MOD JAPANESE LIT
Prerequisites: JPNS W4017-W4018 and the instructors permission. Selected works in modern Japanese fiction and criticism.
- W 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tomi Suzuki
CULPA: 5 Info - 4 points
SEM-SOURCES IN CHINESE HISTORY
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Robert P Hymes
CULPA: 8 Info - 3 points
Crossroads in Middle-Period China: Topic
Topics of Song, Jin, and
Middle Period China, often seen as a pivotal point of inflection and transformation, is currently subject to ongoing debate regarding its scope and definition. This graduate course aims to approach literature from this era by moving beyond the traditional framework of Tang-Song literary history. It considers literature a key variable in this historic crossroads and recontextualizes it within the broader landscape of cultural history. This course analyzes primary texts along with topics like periodization, Sino-barbarian discourses, cultural memory, materiality of texts, urban culture, gender politics, etc.
COLL ON KOREAN HISTORY TO 1900
Prerequisites: HIST W4031 or ASCE V2364 or the equivalent. Reading and discussion of mostly English and some Korean works dealing with Korea from the ancient period through the 19th century with special attention to historical and historiographical issues as they were formulated and reformulated in the West and in Korea.
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jungwon Kim
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
SEM-SOURCES-MOD TIBETAN HIST
- M 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Gray W Tuttle
CULPA: 3
Info
- 4 points