| | 01 | M-W---- | 11:30A-1:00P | Steinberg / 105 | Kleutghen | May 8 2018 10:30AM - 12:30PM | 100 | 54 | 0 | | |
| B | ---R--- | 10:00A-11:00A | Kemper / 211 | Kleutghen | See Department | 15 | 9 | 0 | | |
| C | ---R--- | 4:00P-5:00P | Kemper / 211 | Kleutghen | See Department | 15 | 14 | 0 | | |
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| | 01 | M-W-F-- | 9:00A-10:00A | Busch / 100 | Hegel | Paper/Project/Take Home | 100 | 65 | 0 | | |
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| | 01 | --W-F-- | 1:00P-2:30P | Eads / 116 | Ma | No Final | 25 | 22 | 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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| | 01 | -T-R--- | 2:30P-4:00P | Eads / 207 | Marcus | Paper/Project/Take Home | 25 | 14 | 0 | | |
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| Description: | The course studies the history of Chinese cities from the mid-19th century to the late 20th century. It situates the investigation of urban transformation in two contexts: the domestic context of modern China's reform and revolution and the global context of the international flow of people, products, capitals, and ideas. It chooses a local narrative approach and situates the investigation in one of China's largest, complex, and most dynamic and globalized cities - Shanghai. The experience of the city and its people reveals the creative and controversial ways people redefined, reconfigured, and reshaped forces such as imperialism, nationalism, consumerism, authoritarianism, liberalism, communism, and capitalism. The course also seeks to go beyond the "Shanghai model" by comparing Shanghai with other Chinese cities. It presents a range of the urban experience in modern China. |
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| | 01 | -T-R--- | 11:30A-1:00P | Eads / 103 | Chen, L | No Final | 45 | 37 | 0 | | |
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| Description: | The Daoist classic Zhuangzi, a collection of cryptic sayings and short anecdotes attributed to the mysterious Master Zhuang Zhou (trad. 369-286 BCE), has deeply influenced cultural life in East Asia. Considered to be one of the most important texts in Chinese history, it triggered a wide range of discourses on the nature of the universe and good living while informing diverse practices such as calligraphy, landscape painting, poetry, drama, Daoist ritual, Zen Buddhism, sitting meditation, and politics. In this course, we engage in both the Daoist classic's multifaceted content and its diverse reception over the last two millennia. In the first half, we read the Zhuangzi as a primary source focusing on its short philosophical vignettes on the possibility and limits of knowledge and language, its humorous anecdotes that celebrate deformed and useless bodies, its youthful invectives against Confucians, as well as its powerful calls to live a creative and independent life as a recluse. In the second half, we will encounter concrete responses to the Zhuangzi in the form of commentaries, paintings, plays, performances, and comic books that exemplify the scripture's far-ranging cultural impact. This course provides both a focused and multifaceted avenue to the cultural history of East Asia and a personal experience of the life-changing appeal and topicality of the text. |
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| Description: | This writing-intensive seminar explores transformations in popular culture and everyday life in Chinese society since 1949 through an analytical focus on political economy and material culture. Drawing upon ethnographic texts, films, and material artifacts, we will investigate how the forces of state control and global capitalism converge to shape consumer desires and everyday habits in contemporary China. Case studies include eating habits, fashion standards, housing trends, entertainment, sports, and counterfeit goods.
Prerequisite: previous course in China studies (anthropology, economics, history, literature, philosophy, or political science) required.
Enrollment by instructor approval only. |
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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: | In this course we will explore the role of women in the religious traditions of China, Japan and Korea, with a focus on Buddhism, Daoism, Shamanism, Shinto and the so-called "New Religions." We will begin by considering the images of women (whether mythical or historical) in traditional religious scriptures and historical or literary texts. We will then focus on what we know of the actual experience and practice of various types of religious women - nuns and abbesses, shamans and mediums, hermits and recluses, and ordinary laywomen - both historically and in more recent times. Class materials will include literary and religious texts, historical and ethnological studies, biographies and memoirs, and occasional videos and films. Prerequisites: This class will be conducted as a seminar, with minimal lectures, substantial reading and writing, and lots of class discussion. For this reason, students who are not either upper-level undergraduates or graduate students, or who have little or no background in East Asian religion or culture, will need to obtain the instructor's permission before enrolling. |
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| | 01 | -T-R--- | 2:30P-4:00P | Busch / 202 | Grant | See Instructor | 15 | 5 | 0 | | |
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| Description: | Excessive emotion, unreasonable sacrifice, hidden truth, untimely knowledge, and forbidden desire-the power of melodrama and its moving representations have fueled the popularity of hundreds, if not thousands, of books, plays, and films. Melodrama has variously been defined as a genre, a logic, an affect, and a mode, applied to diverse media, divergent cultural traditions, and different historical contexts. The course provides a survey of East Asian melodrama films-as well as films that challenge conventional definitions of melodrama-by pairing Japanese, Korean, and Chinese-language productions with key critical texts in melodrama studies. We will see classics such as Tokyo Story, Two Stage Sisters, and The Housemaid. We will examine melodrama's complex ties to modernity, tradition, and cultural transformation in East Asia; special emphasis will be placed on representations of the family, historical change, gender, and sexuality. In addition to historical background and film studies concepts, we will also consider a range of approaches for thinking about the aesthetics and politics of emotion. No prerequisites. No prior knowledge of East Asian culture or language necessary. REQUIRED SCREENING: Wednesdays @ 4pm
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| Description: | Home to 24 emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-1911), the Forbidden City today occupies the heart of Beijing and comprises the largest ensembles of pre-modern architecture in China. This seminar examines the origins of the palace, its construction in early Ming, the coded symbolisms of its plan and decoration, the rituals of court, and the lives of its denizens, from emperors (including Pu Yi, the "last emperor") to concubines, from Jesuit missionaries to eunuchs. The course also considers the twentieth-century identity of the site as a public museum and the backdrop to major political events, as well as its role in the urban design and contemporary art of twenty-first century Beijing. Prereqs: L01 112, L01 113, L01 211, or L01 215; one 300-level course in Art History preferred; or permission of instructor. |
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| | 01 | M------ | 3:00P-6:00P | Kemper / 211 | Kleutghen | May 7 2018 3:30PM - 5:30PM | 14 | 12 | 0 | | |
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| | 01 | -T-R--- | 8:30A-10:00A | Eads / 210 | Copeland | No Final | 25 | 9 | 0 | | |
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| Description: | This course examines the culture of the Edo period (1600-1868), a time when Japan was largely closed to the outside world, but when economic growth, urbanization, the rise of commercial publishing and the establishment of theaters combined to create one of the most vibrant, innovative periods in Japanese literary and cultural history. We will consider cultural output as a means of both upholding and subverting traditional values, focusing particularly on representations of love, sex, and gender in the "floating world" of the pleasure quarters, images of samurai honor, stories of ghosts and the supernatural, and nascent ideas about national identity. When relevant, we will also consider images of early modern Japan in modern literature and film. Readings will be in English translation. Prerequisites: Previous exposure to Japanese literature or history is helpful but not required. |
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| | 01 | M-W---- | 1:00P-2:30P | Eads / 210 | Newhard | No Final | 15 | 7 | 0 | | |
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| Description: | The Daoist classic Zhuangzi, a collection of cryptic sayings and short anecdotes attributed to the mysterious Master Zhuang Zhou (trad. 369-286 BCE), has deeply influenced cultural life in East Asia. Considered to be one of the most important texts in Chinese history, it triggered a wide range of discourses on the nature of the universe and good living while informing diverse practices such as calligraphy, landscape painting, poetry, drama, Daoist ritual, Zen Buddhism, sitting meditation, and politics. In this course, we engage in both the Daoist classic's multifaceted content and its diverse reception over the last two millennia. In the first half, we read the Zhuangzi as a primary source focusing on its short philosophical vignettes on the possibility and limits of knowledge and language, its humorous anecdotes that celebrate deformed and useless bodies, its youthful invectives against Confucians, as well as its powerful calls to live a creative and independent life as a recluse. In the second half, we will encounter concrete responses to the Zhuangzi in the form of commentaries, paintings, plays, performances, and comic books that exemplify the scripture's far-ranging cultural impact. This course provides both a focused and multifaceted avenue to the cultural history of East Asia and a personal experience of the life-changing appeal and topicality of the text. |
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| | 01 | M-W-F-- | 1:00P-2:00P | Eads / 209 | Liang | See Department | 10 | 4 | 0 | | |
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