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208-209-210. Intermediate Modern Chinese I, II, III. PQ: Chin 110 or
consent of instructor. No P/N or P/F grades are permitted. No auditors
permitted. Class sessions, conducted in Chinese, emphasize drills and the
discussion of readings in a variety of source materials, including contemporary
Chinese short stories, lectures, newspapers, and some original academic
articles, supplemented by sessions with video material. Simplified characters
and cursive script are also introduced. The class meets for five
eighty-minute periods a week. C. Chao, C. Borchert. Autumn, Winter,
Spring.
211-212-213. Elementary Literary Chinese I, II, III. PQ: Chin 210 or
consent of instructor. This course provides an introduction to the
grammatical foundations of the classical language or wenyan. It includes
supplementary readings from Mencius, Zhuangzi, Sima Qian's Records of the
Historian, and other texts. E. Shaughnessy, Autumn; E. Møllgaard,
Winter, Spring.
255. The Chinese Classics. This course fulfills the third quarter of the
East Asian civilization sequence. This course focuses on the three most
important texts of the Chinese classical tradition: the Yijing or
Book of Changes, the Shangshu or Book of Documents,
and the Shijing or Book of Poetry. We examine each of these three
texts in four different historical contexts: their original composition (ca.
1000 B.C.), the first attempts at interpretation (ca. 500 B.C.), incorporation
into the Confucian canon (ca. 100 B.C.), and modern interpretation. E.
Shaughnessy. Spring.
279. Civilization and Peasant Society (=EALC 279, Hist 296). PQ: Chin
108-109-110 or equivalent, or consent of instructor. We think of the
cultured elites of imperial China and peasants as inhabiting separate worlds.
Yet the peasants who sustained the superstructure came into contact with the
elites in a myriad of ways. In this course, we try to create a dialogue between
the two worlds and to problematize the issue of "the unity of Chinese culture."
We study elite and popular understandings of such phenomena as the state,
commerce, religion, kinship, nation, and the "people" in late traditional and
revolutionary China. P. Duara. Winter.
290-291. History of Modern China, 1600 to the Present (=Hist 290-291). This
two-quarter lecture course presents the main intellectual, political, economic,
and social trends in China from 1600 to the present. It includes study of the
ideological and organizational structures, and the social movements, that
define a process variously described in Western literature as modernization,
reform and revolution, or political development. The emphasis is on
institutional and intellectual developments during this period, especially in
the twentieth century. Some attention is paid to historiographic analysis and
criticism. All readings in the English-language secondary literature. G.
Alitto. Autumn, Winter.
308-309-310. Advanced Modern Chinese I, II, III. PQ: Chin 210 or consent
of instructor. This course emphasizes drills for more advanced sentence
structures and requires discussions in Chinese on academic and scholarly
subject matter. It provides exercises designed to increase reading
comprehension and the ability to translate accurately original Chinese source
materials, ranging over various topics, authors, and styles; to broaden
students' experience; and to enhance their capacity for independent study.
F. Cai. Autumn, Winter, Spring.
375. Western Views of Early China. In this course we survey scholarship on
early China (Shang through Han) as it has developed in the West. Equal focus is
given to China and its Western interpreters. Developments in art, archaeology,
history, language, religion, philosophy, and technology are all considered. All
readings in English. E. Shaughnessy. Autumn.
395. Western Philosophy/Chinese Thought. PQ: Consent of instructor.
What is philosophy? What is thought? Why is there resistance to accepting
Chinese thought as philosophy? Are the Chinese thinkers committed to reason or
do they propose a quasi-philosophical way of life? What role do perfectionism,
therapeutic arguments, and rhetoric play in Chinese thought? Can the fragment
(a saying by Confucius or Laozi) be just as philosophical as systematic
philosophy? In this course we consider these and related issues. We read works
of philosophy/thought from both the Western and the Chinese tradition and
discuss some attempts to draw Chinese thought within the horizon of Western
philosophy. E. Møllgaard. Spring.
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408-409-410. Fourth-Year Rapid Readings and Discussion I, II, III. PQ:
Chin 310 or equivalent and consent of instructor. C. Borchert. Autumn, Winter,
Spring.
458. Song Lyrics. PQ: Knowledge of literary Chinese. This course
offers an intensive study and reading of selected medieval Chinese lyrics.
Students read and analyze ten to fifteen major poets and a variety of the most
popular meters, together with selected works of traditional Chinese criticism
and Western scholarship. A. Yu. Autumn.
261. Art of the East: China (=ArtH 161). PQ: Students must attend the
first class to confirm enrollment. This course surveys Chinese art and
architecture from prehistory to the recent avant-garde. Though the introduction
follows a chronological order, it is also thematically motivated. We see how
visual artifacts--paintings, sculptures, and architectural monuments--both
consciously encode different pragmatic agendas and circumstantial exigencies
and unconsciously betray cultural anxieties and tensions. The purpose is to
enable students to look at Chinese history in visual terms and to view visual
objects in historical terms, with a critique of the perception of Oriental art
as static and suspended in a timeless vacuum. Y. Wang. Spring.
270. Fifty Years Later: The Asia-Pacific War and Japanese Literature. In
this course we reflect on the legacy of remembering and forgetting that
characterizes postwar Japan, a period punctuated by declarations of its end.
Recent developments--the end of the Cold War, the revelations concerning the
so-called military comfort women, the controversy over the atomic bomb exhibit
at the Smithsonian--suggest that there is much unfinished business on both
sides of the Pacific vis-à-vis the Asia-Pacific War. We study a number
of literary texts with care for both their historical context and our own
moment. Even the canonical works (e.g., Ooka Shohei's Fires on the
Plain) and major topics--first and foremost the atomic bombs--should look
different in an age when we are acutely mindful of the pervasive historical
legacy of colonialism and the ways in which gender, class, race, and ethnicity
structure society. N. Field. Autumn.
297-298-299. Senior Tutorial I, II, III. PQ: Consent of instructor and
EALC director of undergraduate studies. Staff. Autumn, Winter, Spring.
312. Introduction to Religions of China and Japan (=DivHR 301). A. Yu.
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111-112-113. Elementary Modern Japanese I, II, III. This sequence
fulfills the Common Core foreign language requirement. Students should plan to
continue their language study through at least the second-year level to make
their skills practical. Must be taken for a letter grade. This is the first
year of a three-year program designed to provide students with a thorough
grounding in modern Japanese. Grammar, idiomatic expressions, and vocabulary
are learned through oral work, reading, and writing in and outside of class.
Daily practice in speaking, listening, reading, and writing is crucial. The
class meets for five fifty-minute periods a week. No auditors are permitted. Y.
Hirata, H. Lory, A. Nelson, Y. Uchida. Autumn, Winter, Spring.
211-212-213. Intermediate Modern Japanese I, II, III. PQ: Japan 113 or
equivalent and consent of instructor. Must be taken for a letter grade.
Continuation of the elementary course. The emphasis on spoken language in
the first half of the course gradually shifts toward reading and writing in the
latter half. The class is conducted almost entirely in Japanese. The class
meets for five fifty-minute periods a week. No auditors are permitted. H. Noto,
Autumn; Y. Uchida, A. Nelson, Winter, Spring.
293. Politics and Culture in Early Modern Japan (=Hist 293). An
intermediate-level survey of the history of the old Tokugawa Era, 1600-1868.
T. Najita. Autumn.
294. Ideologies of Modernism in Japan, 1900 to the Present (=Hist 294).
H. Harootunian. Winter.
311-312-313. Advanced Modern Japanese I, II, III. PQ: Japan 213 or
equivalent or consent of instructor. The third year marks the end of the
basic modern language study. The purpose of the course, which is conducted in
Japanese, is to help students become able to understand authentic written and
spoken materials with reasonable ease. The texts are all authentic materials
with some study aids. The class meets for three ninety-minute periods a
week. Staff, Autumn; H. Lory, Winter; Y. Uchida, Spring.
347. Premodern Japanese: Kobun. PQ: Japan 313 or equivalent or
consent of instructor. An introduction to classical grammar. W. Sibley.
Autumn.
348-349. Premodern Japanese: Kindai Bungo I and II. PQ:
Japan 313 or equivalent or consent of instructor. Readings are from
historical materials written in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. H.
Noto. Winter, Spring.
411-412-413. Fourth-Year Rapid Reading of Modern Texts I, II, III. PQ:
Japan 313 or equivalent or consent of instructor. These courses are
designed for students who have completed the three-year program of Japanese
language training and are prepared to begin the study of texts from various
areas of specialized research, as well as literary selections. W. Sibley,
Autumn; N. Field, Winter; H. Lory, Spring.
423. Cities and Country in Japanese Culture. PQ: Consent of instructor.
This course explores representations of life in the cities (Edo/Tokyo and
Osaka-Kyoto) and country life in early modern to contemporary Japanese fiction,
poetry, visual art, and film. Theoretical and critical readings include works
by Maeda Ai, Karatani Kojin, Raymond Williams, and Roland Barthes. Most primary
readings are in English. (Some of the theoretical readings are in Japanese
only, but this does not exclude nonreaders of Japanese.) W. Sibley.
Winter.
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Chinese
108-109-110. Elementary Modern Chinese I, II, III. This course
sequence fulfills the Common Core foreign language requirement. Must be taken
for a letter grade. No auditors permitted. This course introduces the
fundamentals of modern Chinese. Listening, speaking, reading, and writing are
equally emphasized. Accurate pronunciation is also stressed. The class meets
for five eighty-minute periods a week for "true beginners," and five
fifty-minute periods a week for "partial beginners." ("Partial beginners" are
those who can speak Mandarin fluently with or without dialectal accent, but do
not know how to read and write Chinese.) C. Chao, Staff. Autumn, Winter,
Spring.
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East Asian Languages and Civilizations
108-109-110. Introduction to the Civilizations of East Asia I, II, III
(=Hist 151-152-153, SocSci 235-236-237). PQ: Must be taken in
sequence. This course sequence fulfills the Common Core requirement in
civilizational studies. This is a three-quarter sequence on the
civilizations of China, Japan, and Korea. We emphasize major transformations in
these cultures and societies within the premodern period and as shown by
various forms of modernization during the past century and a half. P. Duara,
Autumn; T. Najita, Winter; Staff, Spring.
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Korean
111-112-113. Introduction to the Korean Language I, II, III. This
course sequence fulfills the Common Core foreign language requirement. The
first year is devoted to acquiring the basic skills for speaking and listening
comprehension and the beginnings of literacy through reading and writing. In
addition to the Korean script, some of the most commonly used Chinese
characters are introduced. Staff. Autumn, Winter, Spring.