The Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations offers a Bachelor of Arts program in East Asian studies that introduces students to the traditional and modern civilizations of China and Japan and provides them with the opportunity to achieve a basic reading and speaking knowledge of Chinese, Japanese, or Korean. This program is interdisciplinary and students may take relevant courses in both the humanities and the social sciences.

Students enrolled in the concentration program normally meet the general education language requirement with Chinese, Japanese, or Korean; the concentration further requires a three-quarter second-year sequence in the language elected. In addition, concentrators are directed to take East Asian Languages and Civilizations 108-109-110 (Introduction to the Civilizations of East Asia I, II, III) to satisfy the civilization studies requirement in general education. This course sequence is cross listed with Social Sciences 235-236-237. Beyond the basic language requirement, the concentration requires ten courses related to East Asia, three of which may be either a third year of the East Asian language used to satisfy the College language requirement, or a year of a second East Asian language. A maximum of six quarters of language counts toward concentration requirements. A minimum of three of the ten courses should be in the same discipline (for example, history, sociology, literature, or art history). A maximum of six approved courses taken while studying abroad may count toward concentration requirements.

† Credit may be granted by examination.

Bachelor's Thesis. The department does not require a bachelor's thesis for graduation except from students competing for honors. However, all students are eligible to write a bachelor's thesis upon submitting an acceptable proposal to the department early in the fourth year, usually by the fifth week of the autumn quarter. Interested students should consult the director of undergraduate studies for details concerning the proposal.

Grading. All courses taken to fulfill requirements in the concentration must be taken for letter grades. No P/N or R grades are offered in language courses.

Honors. Any student who has maintained an overall grade point average of 3.0 or better is eligible to be considered for honors. Students who wish to compete for honors must submit a bachelor's thesis. This paper is read by two members of the department and, if judged to be of superior quality, the student is recommended to the College for graduation with honors. The final decision on the award of honors rests with the College. With the consent of the departmental adviser, honors students may include a senior tutorial in their program in preparation for the thesis.

101-102-103. Must be taken for a letter grade. No auditors permitted. One section is for "true beginners," and another section is 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.) This course introduces the fundamentals of modern Chinese. Listening, speaking, reading, and writing are equally emphasized. Accurate pronunciation is also stressed. Both classes meet for five eighty-minute periods a week. C. Chao, Autumn; C. Chao, F. Cai, Winter, Spring.

147. Frontiers in Modern East Asia (=EALC 147, Hist 147, Japan 147, Korea 147). PQ: EALC 108 or equivalent. We examine the transformation of the frontier zones of the old empires into the border regions of the new nation-states. We consider areas such as Hokkaido, Okinawa, Manchuria, Yunnan, and Xinjiang among others in terms of international rivalries, community relationships, and imaginative reconstruction. We use a variety of approaches such as the theory of the frontier, the history of anthropology, and concepts from the study of nationalism and imperialism to illuminate the problems. P. Duara. Spring.

166. Reading Contemporary Chinese Culture (=Chin 166, Hist 142). PQ: EALC 109. This introductory course covers the literary and visual culture of contemporary China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. We read fiction, study artwork, examine public posters, and watch films to understand the historical transformation that takes place in the late twentieth century. Students have the opportunity to develop their analytical skills and conduct small-scale research. Texts in English. X. Tang. Spring.

177. Art of Asia: China (=ArtH 161, Chin 177). For nonconcentrators, this course meets the general education requirement in the musical, visual, and dramatic arts. This course is an introduction to the arts of China focusing on the bronze vessels of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the Chinese appropriation of the Buddha image, and the evolution of landscape and figure painting traditions. This course considers objects in contexts, from the archaeological sites from which they were unearthed, to the material culture that surrounded them to reconstruct the functions and the meanings of objects, and to better understand Chinese culture through the objects it produced. J. Purtle. Winter.

201-202-203. Intermediate Modern Chinese I, II, III. PQ: Chin 103 or consent of instructor. Must be taken for a letter grade. No auditors permitted. This course emphasizes drills and the discussion of readings in a variety of source materials, including contemporary Chinese short stories, lectures, newspapers, and some original academic articles. Simplified characters and cursive script are also introduced. Classes conducted in Chinese. Classes meet for five eighty-minute periods a week. C. Borchert, Autumn; C. Borchert, C. Chao, Winter, Spring.

208-209-210. Elementary Literary Chinese I, II, III. PQ: Chin 203 or consent of instructor. Must be taken for a letter grade. This course provides an introduction to the grammatical foundations of the classical language or wenyan. It includes readings from Mencius, Zhuangzi, Sima Qian's Records of the Historian, and other texts. J. Zeitlin, Autumn; L. Skosey, Winter, Spring.

221. Chinese Painting in Its Context: Format, Image, and Environment (=ArtH 170, Chin 221, EALC 221). This course investigates different formats of Chinese painting in their cultural, religious, and political contexts. Rather than approaching painting as a self-contained artistic genre, students study different kinds of Chinese paintings (such as murals, handscrolls, hanging scrolls, screens, albums, and painted fans) as integral components of funerary paraphernalia, a scholar's studio, personal life, or a political monument. The course covers a broad chronological time span and investigates the creation and use of painting in a variety of social conditions and situations. H. Wu. Autumn. Not offered 1999-2000; will be offered 2000-2001.

224. The Personal and the Political in Chinese Lyric Modernity. This lecture/discussion course explores aspects of the "personal" and the "political" in Chinese lyricism by looking at Chinese poets and poetry in relation to a variety of historical backgrounds, including Confucianism, nationalism, war, Maoist socialism, and contemporary counterculture. We begin with a brief introduction to Chinese classical poetics, move quickly to the reaction against this tradition in the early twentieth-century Chinese "poetic revolution," and then survey the modern Chinese lyric. We use poetic, cinematic, and theoretical texts. Texts in English. J. Crespi. Autumn.

233. The Making of Modern Literature in China and Korea (=Chin 233, EALC 233, Korea 233). PQ: EALC 108-109-110. In this course, we read major texts from modern Chinese and Korean literary traditions. We move from the "new Novel" movement that took place both in China and Korea at the beginning of the twentieth century to the mid-century when social and national upheavals brought about a radical break to literary developments. Topics include the development of the modern vernacular, the technique and ideology of modernism, and literature of engagement in the realist mode. Texts in English. K.-H. Choi, X. Tang. Winter.

235. Literary, Authorial, and Readerly Identities: Asia in Recent Popular Fiction (=Chin 235, EALC 235, GendSt 235, Japan 235). PQ: Completion of the general education requirement in humanities and social sciences. We read several popular works of fiction dealing with Asia to consider the gender, class, and ethnic portrayals in relationship to authorship and contexts of reading. What does it mean for authors to represent ethnic and gendered others? What difference does narrative voice make? Is this an age when it is unwise for a white male author to write as a nonwhite female? What happens when a writer of one Asian American ethnic background writes about another? What kind of responsibility, if any, should works of fiction bear on these questions? N. Field. Spring.

245/345. Reading Qing Documents (=Chin 245/345, EALC 245/345, Hist 245/345). PQ: Chin 214 or equivalent. This reading/discussion course covers nineteenth- and early twentieth-century historical, political documents, including such forms as memorials, decrees, local gazetteers, diplomatic communications, essays, and the like. G. Alitto. Winter.

250/350. Art of Ancestral Worship: Chinese Art from Prehistorical to the Third Century (=ArtH 201/301, Chin 250/350, EALC 250/350). PQ: Any 100-level ArtH or COVA course, or consent of instructor. This course, the first of a series of "thematic introductions to Chinese art," focuses on various art forms, including ritual jades and bronzes, tomb murals and sculptures, and family temples and shrines, which were created between the third millennium B.C. and the second century A.D. for ancestral worship, the main religious tradition in China before the introduction of Buddhism. Central questions include how visual forms convey religious concepts and serve religious communication, and how artistic changes reflect trends in the ancestral cult. H. Wu. Winter. Not offered 1999-2000; will be offered 2000-2001.

266/366. From Steppe to City: Arts of the Mongol Empire (=ArtH 230/330, Chin 266/366, EALC 266/366). PQ: Any 100-level ArtH or COVA course, or consent of instructor. This course is an exploration of the visual production of the Mongols, and of those they conquered, centered around the impact of Mongol rule on the visual culture of China. Issues explored include urbanization of Mongol visual culture, internationalization of the Buddha image, commercialization and export of ceramics, development of the Buddha image, commercialization and export of ceramics, development of a distinctive mode of ink painting as a Chinese response to Mongol rule, and localized confrontation of disparate visual cultures within the Mongol empire. J. Purtle. Winter.

275. Topics in Pre-Modern East Asia (=Chin 275, EALC 275, Japan 275, Korea 275). PQ: Completion of the general education requirement in humanities and social sciences. This course, which concentrates on China and Japan (and addresses Korea where possible), explores some of the key constituent texts of pre-modernity. We look at several kinds of texts, many of them long held as classics in their own traditions and indeed, as "non-Western classics" through translation. We consider them in the context of their production as well as of their reception, including cultural contact between the mainland and the islands. We see that the categories that modernity has held to be self-evident have been much more overlapping in the past. Texts in English. N. Field, E. Shaughnessy. Autumn.

277/377. The Art of Confrontation: Chinese Visual Culture in the Twentieth Century (=ArtH 287/387, Chin 277/377, EALC 277/377). PQ: Any 100-level ArtH or COVA course, or consent of instructor. This course is a survey of Chinese visual culture of the twentieth century that is focused on the theme of confrontation. In the twentieth century, traditional modes of Chinese visual culture have confronted Western styles and techniques of visual expression, modernism, competing political ideologies, developments in China's distant and recent history, disparate regional Chinese identities (i.e., China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan), and technological change. This course explores these confrontations through a variety of media and methodological approaches. J. Purtle. Spring.

290-291. History of Modern China: 1600 to Present I, II (=Chin 290-291, EALC 290-291, Hist 243/343-244/344). PQ: Hist 151 or consent of instructor. This two-quarter sequence lecture course presents the main intellectual, political, economic, and social trends in modern China. The course covers the ideological and organizational structures, and the social movements that define a process variously described in Western literature as modernization, reform, and revolution, or as political development. Readings are in the secondary literature. Emphasis is on institutional and intellectual developments during this period, especially in the twentieth century. Some attention is paid to historiographic analysis and criticism. Texts in English. G. Alitto. Autumn, Winter.

295/395. Outlaws, Assassins, and Swordswomen: The Representation of Violence in Chinese Culture (=Chin 295/395, EALC 295/395, GendSt 295). PQ: Completion of the general education requirement in humanities and social sciences. We read some of the greatest works in Chinese literature to consider idealized representations of violence in Chinese culture through time and across a spectrum of genres. Issues to be explored include the formation of the hero/heroine; glorification of suicide; the disciplining of body and mind to transcend ordinary human limitations; and the conflict between obligations owed to state and family and those owed to the alternative society of a sworn brotherhood/sisterhood. The course hopes to get beyond a simple notion of the preservation and persistence of traditional forms in the modern age to think about how old ideals affected and were shaped by political events and technological change. Texts in English and the original. J. Zeitlin. Winter. Not offered 1999-2000; will be offered 2000-2001.

301-302-303. Advanced Modern Chinese I, II, III. PQ: Chin 203 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.

352. Modern Chinese Literature: Historiography. PQ: Advanced standing. This seminar serves two purposes: it offers an in-depth survey of twentieth-century Chinese literature as a historical continuum and critical object, and initiates a theoretical investigation into the problems of writing a literary history. Readings include anthologies, monographic studies, historical narratives, and theoretical discussions. Texts in English and the original. X. Tang. Winter.

353. Graduate Seminar: Historical Drama and Drama of Fantasy. PQ: Two years of Classical Chinese or consent of instructor. This seminar focuses on Changsheng dian (Palace of Lasting Life), Hong Sheng's famous early qing dramatizations of the romance between the Tang Emperor Xuanzong and Yang Guifei. To understand the play's genealogy, we read influential earlier treatments of the Xuanxong-Yang Guifei romance but we also examine the play in light of its relationship to contemporary events, particularly in the fall of the Ming, and to contemporary debates on historical drama and the role of the playwright in the publication and production of theatrical works. J. Zeitlin. Winter. Not offered 1999-2000; will be offered 2000-2001.

369. The Yijing. PQ: Chin 203 or equivalent. This course introduces students to the Yijing or Book of Changes, the first of China's classics. The first half of the course focuses on how the text first came to be composed towards the end of the Western Zhou dynasty, while the second half of the course surveys the later commentarial tradition. E. Shaughnessy. Winter.

412-413. The Journey to the West I, II (=Chin 412-413, ComLit 284-285/384-385, DivRL 491-492, EALC 412-413). PQ: Consent of instructor. Must be taken in sequence. A two-quarter sequence on this classic Chinese epic narrative on the quest for Buddhist scriptures. Intensive study of the entire one hundred chapters through class presentations and discussions, supplemented by readings of a selected body of criticism treating Chinese religions, literary and social history, and comparative studies. A. C. Yu. Autumn, Winter.

108-109-110. Introduction to the Civilizations of East Asia I, II, III (=EALC 108-109-110, Hist 151-152-153, SocSci 235-236-237). PQ: Must be taken in sequence. This course sequence fulfills the civilization studies requirement in general education. This is a three-quarter sequence on the civilizations of Japan, Korea, and China, with emphasis on major transformation in these cultures and societies from the Middle Ages to the present. This year's sequence focuses on Japan from 1600 to the present, China from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, and Korea from the tenth century to the present. P. Duara, Autumn; J. Ketelaar, Winter; K.-H. Choi, Spring.

147. Frontiers in Modern East Asia (=EALC 147, Hist 147, Japan 147, Korea 147). PQ: EALC 108 or equivalent. We examine the transformation of the frontier zones of the old empires into the border regions of the new nation-states. We consider areas such as Hokkaido, Okinawa, Manchuria, Yunnan, and Xinjiang among others in terms of international rivalries, community relationships, and imaginative reconstruction. We use a variety of approaches such as the theory of the frontier, the history of anthropology, and concepts from the study of nationalism and imperialism to illuminate the problems. P. Duara. Spring.

166. Reading Contemporary Chinese Culture (=EALC 166, Hist 142). PQ: EALC 109. This introductory course covers the literary and visual culture of contemporary China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. We read fiction, study artwork, examine public posters, and watch films to understand the historical transformation that takes place in the late twentieth century. Students have the opportunity to develop their analytical skills and conduct small-scale research. Texts in English. X. Tang. Spring.

233. The Making of Modern Literature in China and Korea (=Chin 233, EALC 233, Korea 233). PQ: EALC 108-109-110. In this course, we read major texts from modern Chinese and Korean literary traditions. We move from the "new Novel" movement that took place both in China and Korea at the beginning of the twentieth century to the mid-century when social and national upheavals brought about a radical break to literary developments. Topics include the development of the modern vernacular, the technique and ideology of modernism, and literature of engagement in the realist mode. Texts in English. K.-H. Choi, X. Tang. Winter.

235. Literary, Authorial, and Readerly Identities: Asia in Recent Popular Fiction (=Chin 235, EALC 235, GendSt 235, Japan 235). PQ: Completion of the general education requirement in humanities and social sciences. We read several popular works of fiction dealing with Asia to consider the gender, class, and ethnic portrayals in relationship to authorship and contexts of reading. What does it mean for authors to represent ethnic and gendered others? What difference does narrative voice make? Is this an age when it is unwise for a white male author to write as a nonwhite female? What happens when a writer of one Asian American ethnic background writes about another? What kind of responsibility, if any, should works of fiction bear on these questions? N. Field. Spring.

255-355. Literature of War and "Division" (=EALC 255-355, GendSt 256, Korea 255-355). PQ: Advanced standing. This course examines selected Korean writings and films produced in the last three decades that deal with the nation's division and war. Considering as well a range of historical and political supplementary materials, we articulate the political, psychological, and literary issues that Korean writers bring to the foreground through their literary representations. Students with sufficient Korean proficiency may engage some materials in Korean. Texts in English and the original. K.-H. Choi. Autumn.

256-356. Gender and Modernity in Colonial Korea (=EALC 256-356, GendSt 257, Korea 256-356). PQ: Advanced standing. This course deals with various modern cultural artifacts produced in and about colonial Korea (including literature, essays, photographs, songs, comic strips, films, and advertisements) with a view to exploring the constructed nature of masculinity, femininity, tradition, and the nation. While reading selected theoretical writings about gender, modernity, and the nation and nationalism, we examine the ways in which various politics are played out in the production, the text, and the consumption of new modern cultural products. Students with sufficient Korean proficiency may engage some materials in Korean. Texts in English and the original. K.-H. Choi. Autumn.

275. Topics in Pre-Modern East Asia (=Chin 275, EALC 275, Japan 275, Korea 275). PQ: Completion of the general education requirement in humanities and social sciences. This course, which concentrates on China and Japan (and addresses Korea where possible), explores some of the key constituent texts of pre-modernity. We look at several kinds of texts, many of them long held as classics in their own traditions and indeed, as "non-Western classics" through translation. We consider them in the context of their production as well as of their reception, including cultural contact between the mainland and the islands. We see that the categories that modernity has held to be self-evident have been much more overlapping in the past. Texts in English. N. Field, E. Shaughnessy. Autumn.

290-291. History of Modern China: 1600 to Present I, II (=Chin 290-291, EALC 290-291, Hist 243/343-244/344). PQ: Hist 151 or consent of instructor. This two-quarter sequence lecture course presents the main intellectual, political, economic, and social trends in modern China. The course covers the ideological and organizational structures, and the social movements that define a process variously described in Western literature as modernization, reform, and revolution, or as political development. Readings are in the secondary literature. Emphasis is on institutional and intellectual developments during this period, especially in the twentieth century. Some attention is paid to historiographic analysis and criticism. Texts in English. G. Alitto. Autumn, Winter.

297-298-299. Senior Tutorial I, II, III. PQ: Consent of instructor and EALC director of undergraduate studies. Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form. This course may substitute for one of the courses in the concentration. Staff. Autumn, Winter, Spring.

412-413. The Journey to the West I, II (=Chin 412-413, ComLit 284-285/384-385, DivRL 491-492, EALC 412-413). PQ: Consent of instructor. Must be taken in sequence. A two-quarter sequence on this classic Chinese epic narrative on the quest for Buddhist scriptures. Intensive study of the entire one hundred chapters through class presentations and discussions, supplemented by readings of a selected body of criticism treating Chinese religions, literary and social history, and comparative studies. A. C. Yu. Autumn, Winter.

101-102-103. Elementary Modern Japanese I, II, III. Must be taken for a letter grade. No auditors permitted. 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. Students should plan to continue their language study through at least the second-year level to make their skills practical. The class meets for five fifty-minute periods a week. H. Lory, Y. Uchida. Autumn, Winter, Spring.

147. Frontiers in Modern East Asia (=EALC 147, Hist 147, Japan 147, Korea 147). PQ: EALC 108 or equivalent. We examine the transformation of the frontier zones of the old empires into the border regions of the new nation-states. We consider areas such as Hokkaido, Okinawa, Manchuria, Yunnan, and Xinjiang among others in terms of international rivalries, community relationships, and imaginative reconstructions. We use a variety of approaches such as the theory of the frontier, the history of anthropology, and concepts from the study of nationalism and imperialism to illuminate the problems. P. Duara. Spring.

201-202-203. Intermediate Modern Japanese I, II, III. PQ: Japan 103 or equivalent, and consent of instructor. Must be taken for a letter grade. No auditors permitted. The emphasis on spoken language in the first half of the course gradually shifts toward reading and writing in the latter half. Classes conducted mostly in Japanese. The class meets for five fifty-minute periods a week. H. Noto, Y. Uchida. Autumn, Winter, Spring.

235. Literary, Authorial, and Readerly Identities: Asia in Recent Popular Fiction (=Chin 235, EALC 235, GendSt 235, Japan 235). PQ: Completion of the general education requirement in humanities and social sciences. We read several popular works of fiction dealing with Asia to consider the gender, class, and ethnic portrayals in relationship to authorship and contexts of reading. What does it mean for authors to represent ethnic and gendered others? What difference does narrative voice make? Is this an age when it is unwise for a white male author to write as a nonwhite female? What happens when a writer of one Asian-American ethnic background writes about another? What kind of responsibility, if any, should works of fiction bear on these questions? N. Field. Spring.

240/340. Love and Eros in Japanese History (=EALC 240/340, GendSt 240, Hist 240/340, Japan 240/340). J. Ketelaar. Spring.

242/342. Introduction to Politics and Culture in Modern Japan (=EALC 242/242, Hist 242/342). The focus of this course is on the "postindustrial" reflections in twentieth-century Japan on modernity, historical change, and identity. The central questions is: Is a distinctive identity possible in the process of radical industrial transformation; or is change inevitable and, hence, "identity" an ideological promise? We place our discussion within the political context of the modern nation-state. T. Najita. Autumn.

275. Topics in Pre-Modern East Asia (=EALC 275, Chin 275, Korea 275). PQ: Completion of the general education requirement in humanities and social sciences. This course, which concentrates on China and Japan (and addresses Korea where possible), explores some of the key constituent texts of pre-modernity. We look at several kinds of texts, many of them long held as classics in their own traditions and indeed, as "non-Western classics" through translation. We consider them in the context of their production as well as of their reception, including cultural contact between the mainland and the islands. We see that the categories that modernity has held to be self-evident (religion, philosophy, history, or literature) have been much more overlapping in the past. We hope to enjoy our exploration of different forms of poetry and prose fiction while speculating about how we might meaningfully discuss so broad a category as "pre-modern East Asian civilization." N. Field, E. Shaughnessy. Autumn.

296. History Colloquium: Doing Intellectual History (=Hist 296, Japan 296). Reading and discussion of various conceptual issues that might be considered in doing intellectual history. Historiographical reading focuses on questions such as the nature of texts and authorship, as well as on the relationship between action and thought. Specific historical narratives are reviewed and critiqued. T. Najita. Spring.

301-302-303. Advanced Modern Japanese I, II, III. PQ: Japan 203 or equivalent, or consent of instructor. Must be taken for a letter grade. The third year marks the end of the basic modern language study. The purpose of the course is to help students learn to understand authentic written and spoken materials with reasonable ease. The texts are all authentic materials with some study aids. All work in Japanese. The class meets for three ninety-minute periods a week. Staff. Autumn, Winter, Spring.

325. Prewar Japanese Fiction: Gender, Class, National Identity, and Literary Form (=EALC 325, GendSt 225, Japan 325). PQ: Reading knowledge of modern Japanese. Over the past ten years in the United States, the study of modern Japanese literature (primarily fiction) has been enormously stimulated by the writings of Masao Miyoshi (Off-Center) and Karatani Kojin (The Origins of Modern Japanese Literature). We concentrate on reading short fiction in Japanese by a range of authors. We explore how writings by men and women, of privileged background and not, address their readers in terms of gender, class, and national identity as they were being worked out in the formative decades of prewar Japan, and how the "literariness" of the works impacts on the kinds of conclusions we might draw about such categories, as well as those put forth by Miyoshi and Karatani. N. Field. Winter.

326. City-Cult in Twentieth-Century Japan. PQ: Knowledge of Japanese not required. This course looks closely at various representations of the metropolis in Japanese fiction, poetry, and social/cultural commentary between the late Meiji and the present era. Images from the graphic arts, photography, and film are also studied. Reflections of and reflections on Tokyo are central, but the alternate metropolis of Osaka-Kyoto-Cobe is included; and certain, generally more detached, observations by such as Sôseki, Ogai, and Kafû Yokomitsu of foreign cities (e.g., London, Berlin, and Paris) offer a prism of interest. W. Sibley. Spring.

101-102-103. Introduction to the Korean Language I, II, III. PQ: Consent of instructor. Must be taken for a letter grade. 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.

147. Frontiers in Modern East Asia (=EALC 147, Hist 147, Japan 147, Korea 147). PQ: EALC 108 or equivalent. We examine the transformation of the frontier zones of the old empires into the border regions of the new nation-states. We consider areas such as Hokkaido, Okinawa, Manchuria, Yunnan, and Xinjiang among others in terms of international rivalries, community relationships, and imaginative reconstructions. We use a variety of approaches such as the theory of the frontier, the history of anthropology, and concepts from the study of nationalism and imperialism to illuminate the problems. P. Duara. Spring.

201-202-203. Intermediate Korean I, II, III. PQ: Korean 103 or equivalent, and consent of instructor. Must be taken for a letter grade. The goals of this course include the comprehension and production of more complex spoken constructions and an ability to read somewhat complex materials. Videotapes are used in a supplementary fashion and enough new Chinese characters are introduced for the achievement of basic literacy. J.-H. Shim. Autumn, Winter, Spring.

233. The Making of Modern Literature in China and Korea (=Chin 233, EALC 233, Korea 233). PQ: EALC 108-109-110. In this course, we read major texts from modern Chinese and Korean literary traditions. We move from the "new Novel" movement that took place both in China and Korea at the beginning of the twentieth century to the mid-century when social and national upheavals brought about a radical break to literary developments. Topics include the development of the modern vernacular, the technique and ideology of modernism, and literature of engagement in the realist mode. Texts in English. K.-H. Choi, X. Tang. Winter.

235. Literary, Authorial, and Readerly Identities: Asia in Recent Popular Fiction (=Chin 235, EALC 235, GendSt 235, Japan 235). PQ: Completion of the general education requirement in humanities and social sciences. We read several popular works of fiction dealing with Asia to consider the gender, class, and ethnic portrayals in relationship to authorship and contexts of reading. What does it mean for authors to represent ethnic and gendered others? What difference does narrative voice make? Is this an age when it is unwise for a white male author to write as a nonwhite female? What happens when a writer of one Asian-American ethnic background writes about another? What kind of responsibility, if any, should works of fiction bear on these questions? N. Field. Spring.

255-355. Literature of War and "Division" (=EALC 255-355, GendSt 256, Korea 255-355). PQ: Advanced standing. This course examines selected Korean writings and films produced in the last three decades that deal with the nation's division and war. Considering as well a range of historical and political supplementary materials, we articulate the political, psychological, and literary issues that Korean writers bring to the foreground through their literary representations. Students with sufficient Korean proficiency may engage some materials in Korean. Texts in English and the original. K.-H. Choi. Autumn.

256-356. Gender and Modernity in Colonial Korea (=EALC 256-356, GendSt 257, Korea 256-356). PQ: Advanced standing. This course deals with various modern cultural artifacts produced in and about colonial Korea (including literature, essays, photographs, songs, comic strips, films, and advertisements) with a view to exploring the constructed nature of masculinity, femininity, tradition, and the nation. While reading selected theoretical writings about gender, modernity, and the nation and nationalism, we examine the ways in which various politics are played out in the production, the text, and the consumption of new modern cultural products. Students with sufficient Korean proficiency may engage some materials in Korean. Texts in English and the original. K.-H. Choi. Autumn.

275. Topics in Pre-Modern East Asia (=Chin 275, EALC 275, Japan 275, Korea 275). PQ: Completion of the general education requirement in humanities and social sciences. This course, which concentrates on China and Japan (and addresses Korea where possible), explores some of the key constituent texts of pre-modernity. We look at several kinds of texts, many of them long held as classics in their own traditions and indeed, as "non-Western classics" through translation. We consider them in the context of their production as well as of their reception, including cultural contact between the mainland and the islands. We see that the categories that modernity has held to be self-evident have been much more overlapping in the past. Texts in English. N. Field, E. Shaughnessy. Autumn.

301-302-303. Advanced Korean I, II, III. PQ: Korean 203 or equivalent and consent of instructor. Must be taken for a letter grade. Along with continued work on spoken Korean, the emphasis shifts to readings in a wide selection of written styles, including journalistic pieces, college-level textbooks, and literary prose. An effort is made to accommodate the specialized interests of individual students. Also, some audio and videotapes are used. Students are expected to increase their knowledge of Chinese characters to a total of roughly nine hundred. Staff. Autumn, Winter, Spring.