This course studies representative scholarly works in Chinese from the early twentieth century till the present. Emphasizing scholarship as a sophisticated rhetorical artifice produced within specific historical contexts, this course explores the rhetoric of academic writing and examines Chinese scholarship as a site of linguistic, epistomological, and cultural contestation. This course is taught in Mandarin Chinese.
This course brings graduate students interested in Vietnam Studies together across field lines and period focus to discuss some foundational questions of historiography and methods within the field. We have striven to combine key conceptual or theoretical work with examples drawn from the specific context of the study of Vietnam. The course is intended to provide a common vocabulary for the discussion of Vietnam Studies.
This course examines the rise and demise of the Chinese Revolution from the unique angles provided by avant-garde writers, artists, designers, graphic novelists, filmmakers, playwrights, and theatre directors in modern China.
Provides students the opportunity to present work in progress or final drafts to other students and relevant faculty to receive guidance and feedback.
Prerequisites: JPNS W4007-W4008 or the equivalent, and the instructors permission.
Comparative media is an emergent approach intended to draw upon and interrupt canonical ideas in film and media theory. It adopts a comparative approach to media as machines and aesthetic practices by examining contemporary media in relation to the introduction of earlier technologies. The class also extends our focus beyond the U.S. and Europe by examining other cultural locations of media innovation and appropriation. In doing so, it decenters normative assumptions about media and media theory while introducing students to a range of media practices past and present.