Courses

East Asian Content Courses (Fall 2023)

20th-Century Japan (HA)
Subject associations
HIS 322 / EAS 324

Covering 1868 to the present, this course emphasizes Japan's dramatic rise as the modern world's first non-Western power, imperialism, industrialization, social change, gender relations, democracy, World War II, the U. S. Occupation, the postwar "economic miracle" followed by slow growth, and the preoccupation with national identity in a Western-dominated world. We will think about post-1945 developments in terms of continuities with prewar Japan. We will also hold Japan up as a "mirror" for America, comparing how the two capitalist societies have dealt with inequality, urbanization, health and welfare, and intervention in the economy.

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20th-Century Japanese History
Subject associations
HIS 527 / EAS 522

Readings in Japanese political, social, and economic history. Topics include transwar continuity and change, political economy, labor, gender issues, culture and state, religion, Japanese expansion and colonialism, the Allied Occupation of Japan and "social management." Some readings in Japanese (optional for those who do not specialize in Japanese history).

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A Global History of Monsters (CD or HA)
Subject associations
HUM 335 / EAS 376 / HIS 334

This class analyzes how different cultures imagine monsters and how these representations changed over time to perform different social functions. As negative objectifications of fundamental social structures and conceptions, monsters help us understand the culture that engendered them and the ways in which a society constructs the Other, the deviant, the enemy, the minorities, and the repressed. This course has three goals: it familiarizes students with the semiotics of monsters worldwide; it teaches analytical techniques exportable to other topics and fields; it proposes interpretive strategies of reading culture comparatively.

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Chinese Intellectual History
Subject associations
EAS 507

Methods, sources, and problems of research in history of Chinese thought.

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Chinese Literature: The Verses of Chu (Chuci)
Subject associations
EAS 531

Through close readings of the original poetry and historical sources, we analyze the anthology of the Verses of Chu (Chuci) in its aesthetic, historical, and hermeneutic dimensions, with particular attention to the formation and the nature of early Chinese textuality. Drawing on a wider range of early historical, literary, and philosophical texts, and using traditional as well as modern commentaries, we contextualize the songs in late Warring States and Han literary and intellectual culture.

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Classical Japanese Poetics
Subject associations
EAS 543

Reading of poetic works from pre-Meiji Japan together with an introduction to relevant topics including: commentaries and reception, book history and manuscript transmission, historical and social background, and the use of modern reference tools.

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East Asian Humanities I: The Classical Foundations (EM)
Subject associations
HUM 233 / EAS 233 / COM 233

An introduction to the literature, art, religion and philosophy of China, Japan and Korea from antiquity to ca. 1600. Readings focus on primary texts in translation and are complemented by museum visits and supplementary materials on the course website. The course aims to allow students to explore the unique aspects of East Asian civilizations and the connections between them through an interactive web-based platform, in which assignments are integrated with the texts and media on the website. No prior knowledge of East Asia or experience working with digital media is required.

Empire to Nation: 20th Century Japanese Fiction and Film (LA)
Subject associations
EAS 310

This course will examine modern Japanese fiction and film that engaged with Japan's shift from "empire" to "nation" (roughly from 1930s to 1960s) with a specific focus on identity formation via race, ethnicity, and nationalism.

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History of East Asia to 1800 (HA)
Subject associations
HIS 207 / EAS 207 / MED 207

A general introduction to the history of the political cultures in China and Japan, with some heed to comparisons with developments in Korea.

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Thomas D. Conlan
Japanese Society and Culture (SA)
Subject associations
EAS 225 / ANT 323

Japan became the first non-Western nation to industrialize and modernize in the late 19th century, determined to fend off colonization. Decades later, Japan challenged Americans to imagine alternative futures through its economic success and later its "soft power." The course will consider change and continuity in Japan and how Japan's current status as a stable, slowly growing economy informs our views of capitalism and society in the current era. Topics include gender, labor, and corporate welfare; youth socialization; marriage and divorce; race, "Japaneseness" and citizenship; diasporic identities; sub-cultures and popular culture.

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Junior Seminar
Subject associations
EAS 300

This seminar teaches the research and writing skills needed to produce a thesis as an East Asian studies major. Through mini-projects and guest lectures, the class introduces the various disciplines and methodologies used to study East Asia, including history, anthropology, political science, history, literature, and media studies. In addition, the class teaches techniques of research and writing: how to formulate a research question, find and use appropriate sources, write a research proposal, craft a compelling introduction and convincing conclusion.

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Medicine and Society in China: Past and Present (HA)
Subject associations
HIS 472 / EAS 472

This seminar provides a unique angle of studying Chinese history from antiquity to our present moment through the lens of medicine. Using China as method, it also aims at cultivating a pluralistic and historically informed understanding of medicine as evolving science, cultural system, socio-economic enterprises, and increasingly in the modern world a vital component of domestic and global governance. This semester, the thematic focus will be history of epidemic diseases.

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Modern Chinese Poetry: Seeing Modern China through the Poetry Cloud (LA)
Subject associations
EAS 239 / COM 254 / GSS 239

This course explores the work and life of poets across the Chinese-speaking world from the tumultuous twentieth century to the present. How does poetry adapt to the evolving media landscape and serve as a storage device for the events, experiences, and myths of modern China? How did poets transform crises--dynastic collapse, colonialism, national failure, revolution, war, displacement, state and mass violence, political repression, environmental calamity--into critical reflections on the diverse yet interconnected human condition? Concluding with a glimpse into the creativity of AI poets, we ask: why do humans still need poetry?

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Modern Japanese Prose
Subject associations
EAS 542

A study of selected major authors and literary trends in modern Japan, with an emphasis on the Meiji and Taisho periods.

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Qing History: Chinese Technology & Material Culture in Late Imperial China 1600-1900
Subject associations
EAS 518 / HIS 532

This course explores the role of science and technology in the material culture of late imperial China in the Qing (Ch'ing) era, roughly 1550-1900. Emphasis is on navigating Chinese and other language primary sources.

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Readings in Chinese Literature: Emotions in Middle Period Chinese Literature
Subject associations
EAS 533

This course explores the history of emotions in Tang, Five Dynasties, and Northern Song literature, examining form and emotional expression, genre-specific conventions, the discourse of emotions in Buddhism and Daoism, and norms of gendered emotional expression. We explore secondary scholarship to survey recent trends in the field. Key writers include Du Fu, Bai Juyi, Yuan Zhen, Han Yu, Meng Jiao, Li He, Mei Yaochen, Ouyang Xiu, Liu Yong, and Su Shi. Genres will include shi poetry, yuefu, song lyrics, funerary writing, and letters. Students from any field are welcome; strong reading skills in Classical Chinese required.

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Readings in Early Modern Japanese History
Subject associations
HIS 526 / EAS 521

A survey of major issues in the historiography of early modern Japan and Meiji Japan (1600-1890).

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Readings in Japanese Academic Style
Subject associations
EAS 563

The two-semester course is designed for students in Chinese studies, who already possess reading fluency in Chinese. Its goal is to train these students in reading the particular style of Japanese academic writing; at the end of the year, students are able to independently read modern Japanese scholarship on China. Students take this course after at least one year of modern Japanese (JPN 101/102). The course does not train all four skills of reading, writing, speaking, and listening; instead it is devoted entirely to rapidly develop the necessary reading skills in Japanese academic style. The course is conducted in English.

Instructors
Keiko Ono
Readings in Kanbun
Subject associations
EAS 545

This course focuses on various types of Japanese kanbun, including waka kanbun (Japanese vernacular kanbun) from Nara to Meiji era.

Instructors
Keiko Ono
Readings in Modern Chinese Intellectual History (LA)
Subject associations
CHI 411 / EAS 411

This course is designed for students who have had advanced training in modern Chinese. The focus of readings is modern Chinese intellectual history. Topics that will be discussed include language reform, women's emancipation, the encounter of western civilization, the rise of communism, etc.

Readings in Modern Japanese I
Subject associations
JPN 401 / EAS 401

This course is targeted to students whose Japanese proficiency is at an advanced or superior level. Students will (1) discuss various issues using dramas, short novels and editorials, and (2) learn business Japanese. Through these activities, students will develop critical thinking skills as well as Japanese language skills.

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Readings in Modern Korean l (LA)
Subject associations
KOR 405 / EAS 405

This sixth-year Korean course is designed to advance students' reading and writing skills to the superior level and to promote a deeper understanding of the Korean language, culture, society, and history. Readings cover various types of authentic materials (e.g., newspaper articles, editorials, think pieces, essays, and contemporary literary short stories). Discussion and presentation skills in formal settings (e.g., academic, professional) are also emphasized. Class discussions are conducted in Korean.

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Script Theories: Korea, East Asia, and Beyond
Subject associations
EAS 580 / COM 580

This seminar considers the issues of language, writing, and inscription in a broad comparative perspective that brings together critical theory and recent scholarship on Korea and East Asia. It traces the issues of language and inscription against the frameworks of semiology (Derrida, Irigaray), discursive order (Foucault, Kittler), folds of matter and power (Deleuze), and ideological control (Althusser). The class also uses this theoretical framework to build our understanding of Korean (and, when applicable, East Asian) writing systems, from calligraphy, to the development of print and digital culture. All readings available in English.

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Sources in Ancient and Medieval Japanese History
Subject associations
EAS 525 / HIS 525

This course provides an introduction to the written sources of Japanese history from 800-1600. Instruction focuses on reading and translating a variety of documentary genres, although court chronicles and some visual sources are introduced in class as well. Each week entails the translation of several short documents. Some research resources are also introduced. Weekly assignments include documents which are published on Princeton's komonjo website. In a presentation of the final translation project and analysis is required during the final class and a 12-15 page paper is due on Dean's Day.

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Thomas D. Conlan
State of the Field: Historiography of Chinese Painting
Subject associations
ART 569 / EAS 569

The course focuses on the intellectual stock of the field of Chinese painting. It offers an opportunity to rethink the topics and issues that important studies in the field have addressed. The goal of the seminar is to guide the Ph.D. students on how to tackle these topics and issues raised by previous scholarship.

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Cheng-hua Wang
Topics in the Anthropology of Japan (SA)
Subject associations
EAS 418 / ANT 418

The is a project-oriented seminar in which students undertake original research. Previous student projects have included the school lunch program; "internet addiction"; hydroponic gardening; and alternative education in Japan. This year our theme will be the government's slogan, "Preparing for the 100-year Life." Topics will include demographic change, meaning in late life, gender roles and fertility, medicalization, and death with dignity. The course may also include visits from palliative care physicians, bioethicists, visits to local facilities, and engagement with grass roots groups encouraging planning for late life.

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Translating East Asia (CD or LA)
Subject associations
TRA 304 / EAS 304 / HUM 333 / COM 373

Translation is at the core of our encounters with East Asia. From translations of the literary classics to contemporary novels and poetry, from the formation of modern East Asian cultural discourses to national identities to East-West travels of works in theater and film, the seminar poses fundamental questions to our encounters with East Asian cultural artifacts, reflecting on the classical principles of translation and problematizing what the "translation" of "original works" even means anymore in our globalized world. Open to students with or without knowledge of an East Asian language.

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Women and Gender in Chinese Art (LA)
Subject associations
ART 389 / GSS 390 / EAS 389

Women and their associated symbolism are a perpetual presence across a wide range of mediums throughout Chinese art history. Spanning the longue durée from 1200 BCE to the twentieth century, this course focuses on how the production, mediation, and reception of gendered artistic symbols operate in various contexts. It proceeds chronologically and thematically. The instructors intend to incorporate novel formats, such as classroom interviews and VR headsets, in investigating Chinese artworks concerning women and their relevant discourses from the angles of gender politics and identity construction, with a special emphasis on women's agency.

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Yutong Li
Cheng-hua Wang
Writing and Culture of Premodern Korea (HA)
Subject associations
EAS 216

This course is an introductory survey of the cultural history of premodern Korea-from early times until the turn of the twentieth century-focused on the primary sources. We will read various original materials (in English translation): myths, state histories, diaries, travelogues, and works of fiction, among others. Topics covered in this course include the imagination of the origins in myth, the idea of Confucian governance, everyday life and entertainment in Choson (1392-1910), and Korea's opening to the west in the late nineteenth century.

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Chinese-Language Courses (Fall 2023)

Elementary Chinese I
Subject associations
CHI 101

An introductory course in modern spoken and written Chinese, emphasizing oral-aural facility and the integration of the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

Fifth Year Modern Chinese I: Language and Culture in Contemporary China
Subject associations
CHI 451

Designed for students with advanced training in modern Chinese, this course will further develop their language comprehension, communication skills, and cultural understanding. Students will improve their spoken Chinese in various situations, from informal conversations to professional presentations suitable for business and academic settings. Students will also develop their ability to speak and write Chinese using more engaging, complex, and occasion-appropriate language. Course topics will focus on contemporary Chinese society, including cultural identities, pop culture, the economy, environmentalism, law, and social discourse.

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Fourth-Year Modern Chinese I
Subject associations
CHI 403

This course consists of reading and discussion of selections from Chinese media on contemporary Chinese political, economic, and social issues.

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Intensive Elementary Chinese
Subject associations
CHI 103

Chinese 103 is designed for students who already have some familiarity with spoken Mandarin or any Chinese dialect. This course will emphasize the integration of the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

Intensive Fourth-Year Modern Chinese I
Subject associations
CHI 405

This course consists of reading and discussion based on newspaper articles and essays by famous Chinese intellectuals on contemporary Chinese political, economic, and social issues. Students will also be exposed to literary writings.

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Intensive Third-Year Modern Chinese I
Subject associations
CHI 305

Chinese 305 will further develop student's overall language skills through readings and discussion of contemporary issues published in Chinese media. This course is designed for students who have familiarity with spoken Mandarin or any Chinese dialect.

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Intermediate Chinese I
Subject associations
CHI 105

While reinforcing the knowledge students have acquired thus far, this course will further develop the students' audio-lingual proficiency and bring their reading and writing ability to a higher level.

Introduction to Classical Chinese I (HA)
Subject associations
CHI 301

Chinese 301 provides basic training for students in classical Chinese and introduces students to theme-based readings about important cultural aspects of pre-modern China, such as the concept of Dao, life and death, Confucian ethics, etc. Each theme consists of passages selected from Chinese classics and short essays or stories full of wisdom and wit from later dynasties. This course will not only improve your four skills in Chinese language (speaking, listening, reading, and writing) but also enhances your general understanding of traditional Chinese philosophy and culture.

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Introductory Chinese II
Subject associations
CHI 1002

Introductory Chinese (CHI 1002) is a continuation of CHI 1001, an introductory course for true beginners. It is taught at half the instructional pace of First Year Chinese (CHI 101). The goal of this course is to develop students' four basic communication skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing, using both the Pinyin Romanization phonetic system and simplified (modern) Chinese characters. By the end of this course, students will be able to handle simple "survival situations" in Chinese, read and write over 300 Chinese characters, and engage in more advanced and intensive study of Chinese in the future.

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Readings in Modern Chinese Intellectual History (LA)
Subject associations
CHI 411 / EAS 411

This course is designed for students who have had advanced training in modern Chinese. The focus of readings is modern Chinese intellectual history. Topics that will be discussed include language reform, women's emancipation, the encounter of western civilization, the rise of communism, etc.

Third-Year Modern Chinese I
Subject associations
CHI 303

This course is designed to further develop students' overall language skills through reading and discussion of contemporary issues published in Chinese media.

Japanese-Language Courses (Fall 2023)

Advanced Japanese I
Subject associations
JPN 301

This course is designed to further students' reading ability. Students will have ample opportunity to hear and use increasingly more sophisticated vocabulary and grammatical constructions through discussion and composition. Japanese video will also be incorporated into the course. Reading materials include "Tobira" and selected readings from works in the original language.

Contemporary Japanese Language and Culture I
Subject associations
JPN 407

This course emphasizes continued development of the four skills (reading, writing, listening, and speaking) used in academic or professional settings. Materials include novels, essays, reports, films, and documentaries. The goal of this course is "superior" level according to the ACTFL/ETS guidelines.

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Elementary Japanese I
Subject associations
JPN 101

An intensive introduction to modern Japanese stressing oral-aural facility, but including an introduction to written Japanese.

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Integrative Advanced Japanese I
Subject associations
JPN 305

This course focuses on speaking, reading, listening, and writing with the goal of preparing students to continue on to JPN 306 in the Spring. Reading materials include novels, essays, etc. Video materials are also used to enhance listening skills. The goal of this course is "advanced" level according to the ACTFL/ETS guidelines.

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Intermediate Japanese I
Subject associations
JPN 105

This course aims to give a thorough mastery of modern colloquial Japanese (Tokyo speech) by consistent review and reinforcement of major grammatical points and more advanced vocabulary and grammar. Students will reinforce four major skills by using speaking - listening drills, readings, and written exercises.

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Hisae Matsui
Introduction to Classical Japanese
Subject associations
JPN 403

Introduction to the fundamentals of classical Japanese grammar. This course trains students to read premodern Japanese historical and literary texts. Texts: Makura no Soshi, Taketori Monogatari, Ujishui Monogatari, Hyakunin Isshu, etc.

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Keiko Ono
Readings in Modern Japanese I
Subject associations
JPN 401 / EAS 401

This course is targeted to students whose Japanese proficiency is at an advanced or superior level. Students will (1) discuss various issues using dramas, short novels and editorials, and (2) learn business Japanese. Through these activities, students will develop critical thinking skills as well as Japanese language skills.

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Korean-Language Courses (Fall 2023)

Advanced Korean I
Subject associations
KOR 301

Advanced Korean is designed for students to continue expanding linguistic repertoire and develop fluency in both oral and literary skills. Expansion of vocabulary and grammar, effectiveness in speech and writing, as well as intercultural knowledge are stressed through short readings and class discussions. Readings include different styles of writing on various topics including Korean culture, society, and history.

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Contemporary Korean Language and Culture I
Subject associations
KOR 401

This fifth-year language course is designed to accelerate students' proficiency to the high-advanced level to promote a deeper level of understanding of contemporary Korea and its people. A wide range of social, cultural and economic issues are covered through the use of various media resources (e.g., dramas, films, songs, commercials, newspapers, websites) as well as short essays. Classroom discussions are conducted in Korean.

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Elementary Korean I
Subject associations
KOR 101

Elementary Korean is designed for beginning students who intend to build a solid foundation for further study in the Korean language. The course provides four balanced language skills - listening, speaking, reading, and writing - needed for basic communication. It emphasizes the ability to use Korean appropriately and introduces students to useful information concerning culture and daily life in Korea.

Integrative Korean I
Subject associations
KOR 303

This fourth-year Korean course is designed to improve students' communicative and cultural competence to the advanced-mid level and to enhance their critical thinking skills through community engagement in academic and real-world contexts. Various authentic reading and audiovisual materials are reviewed in class discussion, presentation skills are emphasized, and a wider range of formal vocabulary is introduced.

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Intensive Korean I
Subject associations
KOR 103

The first part of Intensive Korean is designed for heritage students who have already had considerable amount of exposure to the Korean language and culture but have not received any formal instruction before their arriving at Princeton. It covers the Elementary Korean material focusing on vocabulary building, grammar, reading and writing.

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Intermediate Korean I
Subject associations
KOR 105

Intermediate Korean is designed for students who have learned the basics of the Korean language and want to improve their language skills. Complex sentences and grammar are covered while the basics are reviewed. Balancing four language skills -- listening, speaking, reading, and writing -- is emphasized. Journals are kept to practice better self-expression in Korean. Cultural aspects of language learning are reinforced through readings, media, and virtual reality contents.

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Readings in Modern Korean l (LA)
Subject associations
KOR 405 / EAS 405

This sixth-year Korean course is designed to advance students' reading and writing skills to the superior level and to promote a deeper understanding of the Korean language, culture, society, and history. Readings cover various types of authentic materials (e.g., newspaper articles, editorials, think pieces, essays, and contemporary literary short stories). Discussion and presentation skills in formal settings (e.g., academic, professional) are also emphasized. Class discussions are conducted in Korean.

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East Asian Content Courses (Spring 2023)

20th-Century Japanese Literature
Subject associations
EAS 544

Readings in selected texts in modern Japanese literature.

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Aesthetics and Politics of Chinese Painting (LA)
Subject associations
ART 216 / EAS 213

In this thematic introduction to the role of painting in Chinese cultural history, we will attend to the critical questions discussed within the field of Chinese painting in particular and art history in general. These questions, revolving around the dynamic between aesthetics and politics, include the influence of class, gender, political changes, and social behavior on painting; the formation of painting canons and lineages; and how local and global elements interacted in early modern, modern and contemporary Chinese painting. Students will have the opportunity to study Chinese painting first hand.

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Cheng-hua Wang
Brainwashing, Conversion and Other Technologies of Belief Contagion (SA)
Subject associations
EAS 370

The seminar explores brainwashing and conversion in media discourses and practices, with a focus on Asia. Brainwashing and conversion are approached as contingent and exploitable figures spanning religious doctrine, forces of economic mobility, cross-cultural encounters, states of political subjectivity and gender and sex formations. Media forms include portrayals of brainwashing, control of networks and content, and ideas about media's hypnotic power.

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Chang'an: China's Medieval Metropolis
Subject associations
EAS 553

With a walled city of thirty square miles and a population of more than one million, Chang'an, capital of the Tang dynasty, was the largest city in the world at the time. Through reading texts in different genres including official history, governmental documents, literary collections, anecdotes, legal codes, and stone inscriptions along with secondary scholarship, this course introduces the political, ritual, and economic structures of the city, and explores the lives of its citizens that in different ways either maintained or challenged these structures.

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China, 1850 to the Present (HA)
Subject associations
HIS 325 / EAS 355

This course is an introduction to the history of modern China, from imperial dynasty to Republic, from Red Guards to red capitalists. Through primary sources in translation, we will explore political and social revolutions, transformations in gender relations and intellectual life, and competing explanations for events such as the rise of the Communist Party and the 1989 democracy movement. Major themes include: the impact of imperialism, tensions between governance and dissent, the rise of nationalism, the political stakes of historical interpretation, and the significance of China's history for its present and future.

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Chinese Cinemas (CD or LA)
Subject associations
EAS 236 / COM 228

This course is an introduction to contemporary Chinese cinemas in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. From postwar musicals and pan-Asian blockbusters, to new wave avant-garde films and experimental documentaries, the diversity of Chinese cinemas reflects cinema's relations to global capitalism, Asia's democratization movements, financial crises, and the arrival of (post)socialism. Creating urban nomads, songstresses, daydreamers, travelers, and terrorists, Chinese cinemas put on full display the forces of globalization in shaping the aesthetics and politics of film. Selections broadly include popular commercial films to rare art house productions.

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Erin Y. Huang
Chinese Painting in the Collection of PUAM
Subject associations
ART 572 / EAS 573

This seminar teaches PhD students how to develop research topics and exhibition themes from their first hand experiences with actual art objects. It makes extensive use of PUAM's excellent collection of Chinese art, which includes diverse genres and categories of paintings that span more than one thousand years. The course also incorporates new scholarly trends that tackle how to interact with art objects and contemplate their visuality and materiality.

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Cheng-hua Wang
Classics, Commentaries, and Contexts in Chinese Intellectual History: Ritual Classics
Subject associations
EAS 506 / REL 543 / HIS 531

This course examines classical Chinese texts and their commentary traditions, with commentary selections and additional readings from the earliest periods through the early twentieth century.

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Dangerous Bodies: Cross-Dressing, Asia, Transgression (EM)
Subject associations
EAS 314 / GSS 314 / ASA 314

This course examines "dangerous bodies" - bodies that transgress existing gender and racial norms in Chinese and Sinophone cultures. Situated at the intersection of literary, film, performance, gender and ethnic studies, this course provides an introduction to the shifting social meanings of the body in relation to historical masculinity, femininity, and Chineseness. We examine different cross-dressed figures, ranging from Mulan, cross-dressed male opera singer, WWII Japanese/Chinese spy, to experimental queer cinema, in a study that unpacks whether these transgressive bodies represent social change or a tool for restoring traditional norms.

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Erin Y. Huang
East Asia since 1800 (HA)
Subject associations
HIS 208 / EAS 208

This course is an introduction to the history of modern East Asia. We will examine the inter-related histories of China, Japan, and Korea since 1800 and their relationships with the wider world. Major topics include: trade and cultural exchanges, reform and revolutions, war, colonialism, imperialism, and Cold War geopolitics.

For a Language To Come: A Creative/Critical Media Workshop (CD or LA)
Subject associations
EAS 410

Participants will develop multi-sensorial approaches to the study of diverse media. The workshop fosters new conceptual and aesthetic vocabularies for tracing the trans-disciplinary circulations of media today. Assembling the works of Japanese female artists, writers, and musicians together with scholarly perspectives on Afro-Asian intimacies, decolonial epistemologies, feminist cartographies, posthuman subjectivities, urban ecologies, and more, students collaboratively forge novel understandings of media thinking/making at the edges of the "legible" territories of knowledge.

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Franz K. Prichard
Intellectual History of China from the Ninth to the 19th Century (HA)
Subject associations
EAS 416

This seminar offers a unique perspective in understanding Chinese history through the lens of intellectual movements and scholarly debates. Students will be familiar with the key ideas, historical dynamics, and cultural significance of major intellectual trends before China's modernization. Special attention will be given to the manifestation of thought in a wide range of interconnected realms, such as natural studies, art practice, self-cultivation, family management, and statecraft.

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Yingtian He
Introduction to Chinese Literature (LA)
Subject associations
EAS 232

An introduction to some of the most important texts, writers, and topics of Classical Literature from antiquity through the Song dynasty. All readings are in English, and no previous background in Chinese or Asian culture is required. Topics include: nature of the Chinese language; the beginnings of poetry; development of narrative and historical writing; classical Chinese poetics; literature of protest, dissent, and political satire; love poetry; religious and philosophical ideas in Chinese literature.

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Introduction to Kanbun
Subject associations
EAS 546

Introduction to the basics of reading Chinese-style Classical Japanese and its related forms. Texts: Literary and historical texts from both China and Japan.

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Keiko Ono
Japanese Mythology (CD or HA)
Subject associations
REL 323 / EAS 358

Myths are powerful. The stories we will read were first recorded around 1,300 years ago and continue to be told in the present day. We will ask why people -- both in Japan and humans more generally -- tell these types of tales. To answer this question, we will explore comparative approaches that search for universal patterns, myths as "ideology in narrative form" used as tools of legitimization, and appropriation of myths for new purposes in original contexts including feminist critiques.

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Bryan D. Lowe
Korean Cinema (LA)
Subject associations
EAS 351

The seminar is structured around engagement with Korean films and reflection on theory, history and form. We will watch at least two films per week, one of which will be screened in theater. These include works of the colonial and war periods, but the majority are recent productions. Our thematic focus will be on the material and epistemic transformations wrought by the global neoliberal order and on new forms of racialized, gendered and techno-socialized subjectivity. Our core principle, and therein our method, is that the films peculiar insights into contemporary Korea can only be captured through careful attention to their forms.

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Korean Women: Postmodern to Premodern (LA)
Subject associations
EAS 242 / GSS 243

This course focuses on the images of women in Korean cultural production, spanning from contemporary to pre-twentieth-century periods. Analyzing the historical variations in the notions of femininity that appear in literary and filmic texts, we will use these feminine images as access points to the aesthetic conundrums produced at crucial historical junctures. These feminine images, produced locally and globally, will allow us to examine the experiences of immigrant diaspora, Korea's neo-colonial relationship with the United States, the Korean War, colonial modernity, and Confucian patriarchal kinship.

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Manga: Visual Culture in Modern Japan (LA)
Subject associations
EAS 211 / COM 213 / ART 225

This course examines the comic book as an expressive medium in Japan. Reading a range of works, classic and contemporary, in a variety of genres, we consider: How has the particular history of Japan shaped cartooning as an art form there? What critical approaches can help us think productively about comics (and other popular culture)? How can we translate the effects of a visual medium into written scholarly language? What do changes in media technology, literacy, and distribution mean for comics today? Coursework will combine readings, written analysis, and technical exercises. All readings in English. No fine arts experience required.

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Mind, Body, and Bioethics in Japan and Beyond (EM)
Subject associations
EAS 312 / ANT 312

The course addresses ethical issues in medicine, health, and health care. How are medicine and ethics shaped by cultural beliefs and social institutions? Topics include: mental illness and care; the politics of disability; notions of life and death; organ transfer; end-of-life care; citizen science; reproductive technologies; prognosis and disclosure; alcoholism and co-dependency; and health care allocation. The course explores the relationship of health care to other forms of social care (such as the family).

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Postwar Japanese Narrative: Modern to Postmodern (LA)
Subject associations
EAS 344 / COM 344

This course examines postwar Japanese experience through major literary, cinematic, and intellectual achievements. The objective is first to analyze a multitude of struggles in the aftermath of the Asia-Pacific War, and then to inquire into the nature of post-industrial prosperity in capitalist consumerism and the emergence of postmodernism. The course will cover representative postwar figures such as, Oe Kenzaburo, Dazai Osamu, Mishima Yukio, as well as contemporary writers such as Murakami Haruki. Topics include the rise of democratic ideas, unsolved issues of war memories, and the tension between serious and "popular" fiction writing.

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Readings in Chinese Literature: The Chinese Vernacular Novel, Journey to the West
Subject associations
EAS 534

This course focuses on the vernacular novel, Journey of the West, some of its central themes, and its long history of remediation. We read a good part of the novel, investigate the biographies and histories that preceded it, and look at the films, manga, and video games based upon it. We will compare editions, illustrations, and commentaries, and trace multi-media adaptations across national boundaries. In addition, we investigate concepts crucial to Ming dynasty literature: religious practice and self-cultivation, spatial/temporal imaginations, notions of humor and festival, and concepts of the monstrous.

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Readings in Japanese Academic Style II
Subject associations
EAS 564

The second half of the two-semester course, which trains students in reading the particular style of Japanese academic writing. The second semester particularly focuses on academic writings from Meiji to the 1950s, including brief introduction of necessary Classical Japanese Grammar for this purpose. Course conducted in English.

Instructors
Keiko Ono
Readings in Modern Japanese II
Subject associations
JPN 402 / EAS 402

This course is targeted to students whose Japanese proficiency is at an advanced or superior level. While reading is under focus, speaking, listening, and writing are intensively practiced. Materials include novels, essays, articles, and films.

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Readings in Modern Korean II (LA)
Subject associations
KOR 407 / EAS 406

This course is designed (1) to advance students' literacy skills to the Superior level; (2) to promote a deeper understanding of the Korean language, literature and history; (3) to further develop their critical thinking through reading and writing in Korean; and (4) to encourage intercultural interaction through outreach projects. Focusing on change in the Korean language in relation to history, society, and culture, the course covers a wide range of sociocultural and political as well as sociolinguistic issues presented in classic short stories, poems, and historical texts.

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Southeast Asia's Global History (HA)
Subject associations
HIS 342 / EAS 342 / NES 343

This course aims to provide an introduction to Southeast Asia and its prominent place in global history through a series of encounters in time; from Marco Polo in Sumatra to events in such buzzing cities as Bangkok, Jakarta and Hanoi. For the early modern period we will read various primary sources, before turning to consider a series of diverse colonial impacts across the region (European, American and Asian), and then the mechanisms underpinning the formation of some of the most vibrant, and sometimes turbulent, countries on the world stage.

Instructors
Michael F. Laffan
Strange Korean Families (EM)
Subject associations
EAS 372 / COM 377

Using family as a lens and a theme that brings together an array of vastly different literary, filmic, and theoretical works, this class will examine key moments in the history of Korea from 2019 to old times. We will look into disenchanted families, violent families, cyborg families, mixed race families, immigrant families, South and North Korean families, royal families, and more. Maintaining the longue-duree historical perspective, we will ponder on the ethical and aesthetic premises of kinship and family as modes of configuring human reciprocity and ways to imagine and live life.

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Studies in Classical Japanese Literature
Subject associations
EAS 565

This seminar introduces major genres, terminology, and historical transitions in the pre-1900 history of literature in Japan, including poetry, prose, and theater. Particular attention is given to the central scholarly debates that have shaped Anglophone scholarship on the subject, in the context of larger trends in literary criticism. This seminar is provided for researchers in other literary traditions or other disciplines within East Asian studies who wish to develop a basic grounding in Japanese literature.

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Submergent Opacities: Critical Ecologies of Relation
Subject associations
EAS 551 / ENG 588 / COM 548 / HUM 551

This seminar explores the confluences among Japanese, Black, and Indigenous thought in both creative and critical modalities. Through the uncharted encounters among Pacific and Caribbean discourses of ecological reimagining, the course surfaces the generative potentials of a planetary and comparative humanities. Participants develop creative/critical engagements with diverse scholarly approaches and collaborative experimentations with textual, audio-visual, and place-based forms of expression. Together, we trace the speculative archipelagoes that sound out shared but disparate genealogies of anti-colonial inquiry.

Instructors
Franz K. Prichard
The History of the Book in China
Subject associations
EAS 587 / MOD 587

The course offers a comprehensive history of books in China, with reference to relevant developments in Korea and Japan and to parallels in the West, from the advent of actual books in East Asia during the first millennium BCE until the introduction of virtual books at the end of the 20th century. It covers the physical evolution of traditional Chinese books as well as their crucial role in the transmission of text and knowledge throughout China's long and complex history, especially for the period of 9th to 19th century. Visual images and actual specimens are used to reinforce presentations and stimulate discussion.

Instructors
James Sören Edgren
The Qin Dynasty and the Beginnings of Empire in China (HA)
Subject associations
EAS 279 / HIS 276

This course tells the epic story of the people, ideas, and institutions that made the first Chinese empires, ca. third century BCE to the first century BCE. The course looks at the rise and fall of the Qin empire as well as the way Qin institutions and ideas reverberated through the succeeding Han dynasty--and beyond. Course will cover most recent archeological materials and excavated texts (in translation), including ongoing excavations of the terracotta warriors, funerary art, excavated legal codes, legal cases, religious and philosophical texts, and much more. Finally, we ask: did the Qin empire ever end?

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The Quest for Health: Contemporary Debates on Harm, Medicine, and Ethics
Subject associations
EAS 548 / ANT 548

The course explores issues in medicine and global health with a focus on ethics. We address both ethics in the context of clinical decision-making and also the social, cultural, and economic "ethical field" of health care. Ever-expanding technological possibilities re-shape our social lives, extending them, giving greater control but taking it away. Treatments such as living donor organ transplantation, stem cell therapies, and physician-assisted suicide transform our understandings of life, death and what we expect from one another. Technologies such as glucometers bring new inequalities.

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Translating East Asia (LA)
Subject associations
TRA 304 / EAS 304

Translation is at the core of our engagement with China, Japan, and Korea. From translations of the classics to contemporary literature, from the formation of modern East Asian cultural discourses to cross-cultural references in theater and film, the seminar poses fundamental questions to our encounters with East Asian cultural artifacts, reflecting on what "translation" of "original works" means in our globalized world. Open to students with or without knowledge of an East Asian language.

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Chinese-Language Courses (Spring 2023)

Advanced Chinese: Contemporary Literature and Film (LA)
Subject associations
CHI 418

This is an advanced Chinese language class that incorporates contemporary Chinese literature and film. It is open to students who have completed at least three years of modern Chinese at the college level or the equivalent. The course is designed to improve students' Chinese language skills at a high level by using a wide range of texts, including literary texts, and films. The class is taught in Chinese and all discussions/homework will be in Chinese.

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Elementary Chinese II
Subject associations
CHI 102

Continuation of Chinese 101. To develop basic competence in understanding, speaking, reading and writing Mandarin Chinese.

Fourth-Year Modern Chinese II
Subject associations
CHI 404

A continuation of 403. This course consists of reading and discussion of selections from Chinese media on contemporary Chinese political, economic, and social issues.

Instructors
Intensive Fourth-Year Modern Chinese II
Subject associations
CHI 406

This course consists of reading and discussion based on newspaper articles and essays by famous Chinese intellectuals on contemporary Chinese political, economic, and social issues. Students will also be exposed to literary writings.

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Intensive Intermediate Chinese
Subject associations
CHI 108

An intensive course covering 105 and 107 in one semester for students who have finished 103 which covers 101 and 102. The course will emphasize reading and writing skills and the analysis of grammar. After 108, students are ready for third year courses.

Instructors
Intensive Third-Year Modern Chinese II
Subject associations
CHI 306

A continuation of 305, designed to further improve the student's facility in written and oral expression through a close study of essays published in contemporary Chinese newspapers and magazines.

Instructors
Intermediate Chinese II
Subject associations
CHI 107

Continuing the intensive study of modern spoken and written Chinese, this course shifts the emphasis to the reading of modern cultural and social issues.

Introduction to Classical Chinese II (HA)
Subject associations
CHI 302

The purpose of this course is, first and foremost, to introduce the fundamental grammar of classical Chinese and to read short, original texts, from different periods and genres. It also provides theme-based readings about important cultural aspects of pre-modern China, such as conceptions of filial piety, warfare, conflicts between righteousness and profit. Questions such as these were at the heart of Chinese intellectual debates.

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Introductory Chinese I
Subject associations
CHI 1001

Introductory Chinese, (CHI 1001) and its subsequent course (CHI 1002), are introductory Chinese courses for true beginners. This course will be taught at half the pace of instruction compared to Elementary Chinese (CHI 101/CHI 102). The goal is to develop students' competence in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Both the Pinyin Romanization system and simplified characters will be used in class. After taking CHI 1001 and CHI 1002, students will develop basic abilities to handle simple survival situations in Chinese, to read and write over 300 Chinese characters, and be well prepared for more advanced and intensive study in Chinese.

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Third-Year Modern Chinese II
Subject associations
CHI 304

A continuation of CHI 303, designed to improve the student's facility in written and oral expression through a close study of newspaper essays and commentaries.

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Japanese-Language Courses (Spring 2023)

Advanced Japanese II
Subject associations
JPN 302

The course is designed to further students' proficiency in the four language skills aiming for ACTFL-ETS advanced level. Learning materials include the Japanese anime "Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (Spirited Away)" and selected readings from works in the original language.

Contemporary Japanese Language and Culture II
Subject associations
JPN 408

This course emphasizes continued development of four skills used in academic or professional settings. Materials include novels, essays, reports, films, and documentaries. The goal of this course is "superior" level according to the ACTFL/ETS guidelines.

Elementary Japanese II
Subject associations
JPN 102

Continuation of JPN 101, which emphasizes the basic four skills to achieve survival proficiency level.

Instructors
Integrative Advanced Japanese II
Subject associations
JPN 306

Four skills approach to advanced Japanese with a focus on reading, listening and speaking. Reading materials include novels, essays, etc. Video materials are also used to enhance listening skills. The goal of this course is "advanced" level according to the ACTFL/ETS guidelines.

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Intermediate Japanese II
Subject associations
JPN 107

The course aims at a thorough mastery of modern colloquial Japanese by consistent review and reinforcement of major grammatical points covered in JPN 101, 102, and 105. It is also intended to give students advanced vocabulary and expressions through aural-oral drills, readings, and written exercises. Emphasis will increasingly be on reading, but oral work will still comprise a fundamental aspect of the course.

Instructors
Hisae Matsui
Readings in Classical Japanese
Subject associations
JPN 404

Selections from outstanding works of Classical Japanese prose and verse from Nara to early Showa period, particularly in the genres of history, philosophy, and poetry.

Instructors
Keiko Ono
Readings in Modern Japanese II
Subject associations
JPN 402 / EAS 402

This course is targeted to students whose Japanese proficiency is at an advanced or superior level. While reading is under focus, speaking, listening, and writing are intensively practiced. Materials include novels, essays, articles, and films.

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Chinese-Language Courses (Fall 2023)

Elementary Chinese I
Subject associations
CHI 101

An introductory course in modern spoken and written Chinese, emphasizing oral-aural facility and the integration of the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

Fifth Year Modern Chinese I: Language and Culture in Contemporary China
Subject associations
CHI 451

Designed for students with advanced training in modern Chinese, this course will further develop their language comprehension, communication skills, and cultural understanding. Students will improve their spoken Chinese in various situations, from informal conversations to professional presentations suitable for business and academic settings. Students will also develop their ability to speak and write Chinese using more engaging, complex, and occasion-appropriate language. Course topics will focus on contemporary Chinese society, including cultural identities, pop culture, the economy, environmentalism, law, and social discourse.

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Fourth-Year Modern Chinese I
Subject associations
CHI 403

This course consists of reading and discussion of selections from Chinese media on contemporary Chinese political, economic, and social issues.

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Intensive Elementary Chinese
Subject associations
CHI 103

Chinese 103 is designed for students who already have some familiarity with spoken Mandarin or any Chinese dialect. This course will emphasize the integration of the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

Intensive Fourth-Year Modern Chinese I
Subject associations
CHI 405

This course consists of reading and discussion based on newspaper articles and essays by famous Chinese intellectuals on contemporary Chinese political, economic, and social issues. Students will also be exposed to literary writings.

Instructors
Intensive Third-Year Modern Chinese I
Subject associations
CHI 305

Chinese 305 will further develop student's overall language skills through readings and discussion of contemporary issues published in Chinese media. This course is designed for students who have familiarity with spoken Mandarin or any Chinese dialect.

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Intermediate Chinese I
Subject associations
CHI 105

While reinforcing the knowledge students have acquired thus far, this course will further develop the students' audio-lingual proficiency and bring their reading and writing ability to a higher level.

Introduction to Classical Chinese I (HA)
Subject associations
CHI 301

Chinese 301 provides basic training for students in classical Chinese and introduces students to theme-based readings about important cultural aspects of pre-modern China, such as the concept of Dao, life and death, Confucian ethics, etc. Each theme consists of passages selected from Chinese classics and short essays or stories full of wisdom and wit from later dynasties. This course will not only improve your four skills in Chinese language (speaking, listening, reading, and writing) but also enhances your general understanding of traditional Chinese philosophy and culture.

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Introductory Chinese II
Subject associations
CHI 1002

Introductory Chinese (CHI 1002) is a continuation of CHI 1001, an introductory course for true beginners. It is taught at half the instructional pace of First Year Chinese (CHI 101). The goal of this course is to develop students' four basic communication skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing, using both the Pinyin Romanization phonetic system and simplified (modern) Chinese characters. By the end of this course, students will be able to handle simple "survival situations" in Chinese, read and write over 300 Chinese characters, and engage in more advanced and intensive study of Chinese in the future.

Instructors
Readings in Modern Chinese Intellectual History (LA)
Subject associations
CHI 411 / EAS 411

This course is designed for students who have had advanced training in modern Chinese. The focus of readings is modern Chinese intellectual history. Topics that will be discussed include language reform, women's emancipation, the encounter of western civilization, the rise of communism, etc.

Third-Year Modern Chinese I
Subject associations
CHI 303

This course is designed to further develop students' overall language skills through reading and discussion of contemporary issues published in Chinese media.

Korean-language courses (Spring 2023)

Advanced Korean II
Subject associations
KOR 302

A continuation of KOR 301. Continued development of proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing through readings and discussions, focusing on increasing complexity and variety of language, as well as depth. Readings include different styles of writings on various topics including Korean culture, society, and history. Intercultural communications and understandings are emphasized.

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Contemporary Korean Language and Culture II (LA)
Subject associations
KOR 402

Reading and discussion of thoughts and issues within contemporary Korean society. Readings are drawn from a variety of sociocultural and historical as well as sociolinguistic topics including family, marriage, gender issues, education, technology, and the changes of the language in both South and North Korea. Class discussions are conducted in Korean.

Instructors
Sunyoung Lee
Elementary Korean II
Subject associations
KOR 102

A continuation of KOR 101. Continued development of proficiency in basic communication by balancing four language skills - listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

Instructors
Sunyoung Lee
Integrative Korean II
Subject associations
KOR 308

This course is a continuation of KOR 303, focusing on stabilizing literacy development through a variety of authentic reading materials, class discussions, presentations and various writing assignments. Expanding advanced-level vocabulary based on Chinese characters is also emphasized.

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Intensive Korean II
Subject associations
KOR 108

A continuation of Korean 103. This course covers Intermediate Korean material, focusing on complex grammatical structures, reading, and writing. Journals are kept for writing practice. Students who have successfully completed KOR 103 and 108 are placed in KOR 301 for further practice of conversation. Those with strong conversational skills may also test into KOR 303, Integrative Korean, which focuses more on literacy.

Intermediate Korean II
Subject associations
KOR 107

A continuation of KOR 105. Continued development of four skills (speaking, listening, reading, and writing) in Korean. Complex grammatical structures are taught while the basics are reviewed. Idiomatic expressions are introduced. Journals are kept for writing practice.

Instructors
Sunyoung Lee
Readings in Modern Korean II (LA)
Subject associations
KOR 407 / EAS 406

This course is designed (1) to advance students' literacy skills to the Superior level; (2) to promote a deeper understanding of the Korean language, literature and history; (3) to further develop their critical thinking through reading and writing in Korean; and (4) to encourage intercultural interaction through outreach projects. Focusing on change in the Korean language in relation to history, society, and culture, the course covers a wide range of sociocultural and political as well as sociolinguistic issues presented in classic short stories, poems, and historical texts.

Instructors