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| | 01 | M-W-F-- | 10:00A-11:00A | Brown / 118 | Hegel | May 8 2017 10:30AM - 12:30PM | 100 | 82 | 0 | | |
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| 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. |
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| Description: | This course attempts to ground the history of modern China in physical space such as imperial palaces, monuments and memorials, campus, homes and residential neighborhoods, recreational facilities, streets, prisons, factories, gardens, and churches. Using methods of historical and cultural anthropological analysis, the course invests the places where we see with historical meaning. Through exploring the ritual, political, and historical significance of historical landmarks, the course investigates the forces that have transformed physical spaces into symbols of national, local, and personal identity. The historical events and processes we examine along the way through the sites include the changing notion of rulership, national identity, state-building, colonialism and imperialism, global capitalism and international tourism. Acknowledging and understanding the fact that these meanings and significances are fluid, multiple, contradictory, and changing over time are an important concern of this course. |
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| | 01 | -T-R--- | 10:00A-11:30A | Eads / 204 | Miles | May 9 2017 6:00PM - 8:00PM | 30 | 28 | 0 | | |
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| | 01 | -T-R--- | 1:00P-2:30P | Eads / 207 | Marcus | May 9 2017 1:00PM - 3:00PM | 25 | 11 | 0 | | |
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| Description: | Surveying the arts of Japan from prehistory to present, this course focuses especially on early modern, modern, and contemporary art. Emphasizing painting, sculpture, architecture, and print culture, the course will also explore the tea ceremony, fashion, calligraphy, garden design, and ceramics. Major course themes include collectors and collecting, relationships between artists and patrons, the role of political and military culture or art, contact with China, artistic responses to the West, and the effects of gender and social status on art. |
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| | 01 | M-W---- | 2:30P-4:00P | Kemper / 103 | Kleutghen | May 8 2017 3:30PM - 5:30PM | 43 | 33 | 0 | | |
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| | 01 | -T-R--- | 11:30A-1:00P | Eads / 103 | Chen, L | No Final | 45 | 30 | 0 | | |
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| Description: | What can Psy's "Gangnam Style" and Girls Generation's "The Boys" teach us about gender roles in contemporary Korea? What roles do writers, musicians, and filmmakers play in shaping our thinking about gender? And, how do competing ideas about sex shape the current system of literary, cinematic, television, and popular music genres? These questions will be explored through the analysis of Korean literature and popular media, while the course will simultaneously provide a broad introduction to the field of gender studies. Topics will include love, marriage, beauty myth, family, work, class, sex, intimacy, and body politics. Prerequisites: None. |
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| Description: | Romance is a popular theme in cinema. Since the early silent "Laborer's Love," Chinese filmmakers have created love stories on the silver screen in diverse genres, aesthetics, and cultural perspectives. The "romantic" film lens not only follows popular narratives in general but also intervenes modern Chinese culture in significant historical moments. This course explores the romantic representations in Chinese-language cinema from the 1920s to the contemporary. We will discuss topics of love, sexuality, emotion, personal memories, and historical legacies in a wide range of films from Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, including works of silent cinema, leftist cinema, new wave cinema, transnational cinema, and slow cinema. All lectures, discussions, and assignments will be in English. Film materials will be provided with English subtitles. Film screenings on Tuesday. |
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| | A | -T----- | 4:00P-6:00P | Eads / 207 | Wen | Default - none | 15 | 4 | 0 | | | |
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| Description: | Considered by many to be the pinnacle of Chinese vernacular fiction, the sprawling novel The Dream of the Red Chamber (Honglou meng) follows the fortunes of a peculiar young man, Jia Baoyu, as his once elite family crumbles around him. This beloved novel, published in 1791 and known also as The Story of the Stone, has had an outsized impact on Chinese culture for well over two centuries, inspiring TV and movie adaptations, and even amusement parks. The course is largely discussion based, with periodic short writing assignments. Topics of discussion will be wide-ranging but will include Qing dynasty society, the literary representation of sex and gender, the distinction between fiction and non-fiction, and the generic conventions of the late imperial vernacular novel. Previous experience with Chinese literature and history is recommended but not required. Taught in English. |
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| | 01 | M-W---- | 11:30A-1:00P | Eads / 203 | Wille | No Final | 20 | 12 | 0 | | |
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| | 01 | -T-R--- | 1:00P-2:30P | Eads / 211 | Gao-Miles | No Final | 20 | 17 | 0 | | |
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| Description: | This course examines the place of health, illness, and healing in Asian societies. We will explore how people experience, narrate, and respond to illness and other forms of suffering - including political violence, extreme poverty, and health inequalities. In lectures and discussions we will discuss major changes that medicine and public health are undergoing and how those changes affect the training of practitioners, health care policy, clinical practice and ethics. The course will familiarize students with key concepts and approaches in medical anthropology by considering case studies from a number of social settings including China, India, Indonesia,Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Tibet, Thailand, Vietnam and Asian immigrants in the United States. We will also investigate the sociocultural dimensions of illness and the medicalization of social problems in Asia, examining how gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, disability and other forms of social difference affect medical knowledge and disease outcomes. This course is intended for anthropology majors, students considering careers in medicine and public health, and others interested in learning how anthropology can help us understand human suffering and formulate more effective interventions. |
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| 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. |
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| | 01 | M-W---- | 4:00P-5:30P | Busch / 202 | Zuern | May 5 2017 6:00PM - 8:00PM | 25 | 19 | 0 | | |
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| 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. |
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| | 01 | M-W---- | 2:30P-4:00P | January Hall / 10A | Ma | No Final | 15 | 10 | 0 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| Description: | This course explores the theme of madness in modern Chinese literature, cinema, and visual arts. We will discuss the mad characters, manic revolutions, melancholy places, modernist discontents, colonial disorders, stories of obsessiveness, and many more representations of madness in Chinese literature and visual culture. Some works offer provocative social critique. Others depict emotional trauma, identity crisis, and feelings of alienation. Still others challenge aesthetic norms. We will examine significant works, such as fictions by Lu Xun, Nie Hualing, Can Xue, and Zhang Guixing, films by Zhang Yimou, Tsai Ming-liang, and Jia Zhangke, and also text and images in poetry, art, and documentary. All course materials are in English. Prerequisite: none.
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| Description: | In this course, we will read a broad range of literary works written by ethnic Chinese from various parts of the world. We will examine the notion of "Sinophone," primarily its implications to the challenge of cultural identity formation to those Chinese who are not traditionally identified as "Chinese" because of war, migration, immigration, colonialism, among others. We will also examine the meaning of being on the margins of geopolitical nation-states. Finally we will discuss the notions of hybridity and authenticity vis-à-vis literary representation. We will read works by ethnic Chinese writers from the United States, France, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Mongolia, Tibet, and so on. This course is limited to seniors and graduate students only. All readings will be available in English. 3 units. Active class participation is required. |
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| | 01 | M-W---- | 1:00P-2:30P | Eads / 215 | Newhard | No Final | 15 | 6 | 0 | | |
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| Description: | Uno Chiyo (1897-1996) was a writer, notorious femme fatale, magazine editor, fashion arbiter, and kimono designer. Her fiction offers a unique perspective on the historical sweep of the twentieth century. In this course we will explore the different facets of "modernity" in Japanese literature through an overview of Uno's life and works. Topics include "the modern girl," "mass culture," and "tradition and nostalgia." Whereas Uno Chiyo will be the primary focus of the course, we will also examine the works of her contemporaries, such as Tanizaki Jun'ichirô, Kajii Motojirô, Kawabata Yasunari, Hirabayashi Taiko, and others. Readings will be in both Japanese and English. Accommodations will be made for those who do not read Japanese. |
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