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EAST ASIAN STUDIES (L03)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)SP2017

L03 East Asia 236FIntroduction to East Asian Religions: Ritual as a Transformative Device3.0 Units
Description:This course introduces fundamental features of several Eastern religious traditions. We will focus on the idea of ritual as a transformative tool and observe its manifold manifestations in three religious communities: Buddhism, Shinto, and Daoism. We will encounter such diverse practices as ritualized self-immolation, bodily possession, and biospiritual self-cultivation. These techniques are all linked to the idea that a ritual performance may trigger a transformative process in practitioners and/or their surroundings. In our case, they transform practitioners into an enlightened being (Buddhism), into a vessel that may host godly spirits (Shinto), and into a powerful catalyzer that exudes the nourishing and ordering powers of the cosmos (Daoism). While this course is a general introduction to East Asian religious cultures, it is also a course in critical thinking. Drawing upon examples from China and Japan, we will consider ways people have thought about their worlds and have acted on those thoughts in the world. We will also examine the ways other people (including ourselves) have thought about those people's ideas and activities. In order to inspire such moments of reflection, we will regularly engage in experiential and experimental exercises such as the throwing of pottery or playing pokemon go as a means to create moments in which you may personally and sensually relate to some aspects of these religious practices. Hence, we strive to learn from these religious communities' distinctiveness in this course in order to engage with our own prejudices and convictions, a transformative goal we may only achieve through direct involvement with their practices and ideas.
Attributes:A&S IQHUM, LCDArchHUMArtHUMBUETHENH
Instruction Type:Classroom instruction Grade Options:CPA Fees:
Course Type:IdentSame As:L23 236f  L23 236FFrequency:Unpredictable / History
SecDays       TimeBuilding / RoomInstructorFinal ExamSeatsEnrollWaits
01M-W----1:00P-2:30PLopata Hall / 202 ZuernMay 10 2017 1:00PM - 3:00PM30210
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L03 East Asia 3163Historical Landscape and National Identity in Modern China3.0 Units
SecDays       TimeBuilding / RoomInstructorFinal ExamSeatsEnrollWaits
01M-W----11:30A-1:00PLopata Hall / 229 MaMay 9 2017 10:30AM - 12:30PM30210
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L03 East Asia 4033Culture, Illness, and Healing in Asia3.0 Units

L03 East Asia 4180Sexuality and Gender in East Asia: The Body in Daoism3.0 Units
Description:The Body! There is probably no other phenomenon in the world that is as directly experienceable and tangible as our own physique, yet at the same time disconcerts and remains opaque to us due to its oftentimes unforeseeable and hardly controllable responses. In this course, we won't try to conclusively solve the question about what the corpus truly is. Instead, we will use the diversity of responses our body has triggered throughout human history and engage in conceptualizations of sex, body, and gender that are quite distinct to our modern-day perceptions. In particular, we will explore early and medieval Daoist visions of the corpus as a microreplica of the cosmos and its impact on various practices such as Inner Alchemy, Techniques of the Bed Chamber, Chinese medicine and mountain-and-water paintings. We will use these perspectives as an opportunity to question our own understandings that are mainly influenced by a dichotomy between the body and soul/psyche as developed in a Euro-Christian context and its materialization in the modern disciplines of medicine and psychology. In other words, we will delve into Daoist conceptualizations of sex, body, and gender in order to understand the emphases and some of the limitations of our own preconceived notions that are far from being universal or exhaustive, yet, heavily determine our actions.
Attributes:A&S IQHUM, LCD, SCArchHUMArtHUMCFHMHENH
Instruction Type:Classroom instruction Grade Options:C Fees:
Course Type:IdentSame As:L23 418  L04 418  L77 418C  L85 418  L97 4180Frequency:Unpredictable / History
SecDays       TimeBuilding / RoomInstructorFinal ExamSeatsEnrollWaits
01M-W----4:00P-5:30PBusch / 202 ZuernMay 5 2017 6:00PM - 8:00PM25190
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L03 East Asia 4242Culture and Politics in the People's Republic of China: New Approaches3.0 Units
Description:This course inquires into the political, ideological, and social frameworks that shaped the cultural production and consumption in the People's Republic of China (PRC). In the realm of literature, film, architecture, and material culture and everyday life, this course pays a close attention to the contestation and negotiation between policy makers, cultural producers, censors, and consumers. Understanding the specific contour of how this process unfolded in China allows us to trace the interplay between culture and politics in the formative years of revolutionary China (1949-1966), high socialism (1966-1978), the reform era (1978-1992), and post-socialist China (1992 to present). The course examines new scholarship in fields of social and cultural history, literary studies, and gender studies; and it explores the ways in which new empirical sources, theoretical frameworks, and research methods reinvestigate and challenge conventional knowledge of the PRC that have been shaped by the rise and fall of Cold War politics, the development of area studies in the U.S., and the evolving U.S.-China relations. Prerequisites: Advanced undergraduate students must have taken no fewer than two China-related courses at the 300-level or higher. Graduate students should be proficient in scholarly Chinese, as they are expected to read scholarly publications and primary materials in Chinese.
Attributes:A&S IQHUM, LCDBUISENH
Instruction Type:Classroom instruction Grade Options:CPA Fees:
Course Type:HomeSame As:L04 4242  L22 4242  L97 4245Frequency:Every 1 or 2 Years / History
SecDays       TimeBuilding / RoomInstructorFinal ExamSeatsEnrollWaits
01M-W----2:30P-4:00PJanuary Hall / 10A MaNo Final15100
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