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3.00 Credits
This course examines the diversity of Japanese art in the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries, relating it to audience diversity during the same period. The shogunal government and imperial court, samurai and merchants, regional lords and wealthy farmers, geisha and learned women, and urban dandies and lovers of Chinese culture all were patrons of paintings, ceramics, and other arts. We consider changes in the display of objects, concluding with the emergence of the modern Japanese artist and the museum. C. Foxwell. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
The crowd in its multiple manifestations, ranging from the ignorant mob blamed for China's backwardness to the insurgent masses celebrated as the most progressive agent of historical change, proves to be a crucial yet elusive figure in modern Chinese culture. This course explores the construction, interpretation, and comprehension of the "crowd" in the variety of figurations across media that helped fashion the transformation of China from a failing empire to a nation portrayed as a cohesive body. We examine how Chinese intellectuals have giventhe crowd different names, essences, and shapes, as well as realities in twentieth-century China within a global context. Texts in English. T. Xiao. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: JAPN 10300 or equivalent, or consent of instructor. Must be taken for a quality grade. No auditors permitted. The emphasis on spoken language in the first half of the course gradually shifts toward reading and writing in the latter half. Classes conducted mostly in Japanese. The class meets for five fifty-minute sessions a week. Autumn, Winter, Spring.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on various art forms (e.g., ritual jades and bronzes, tomb murals and sculptures, family temples and shrines) that were created between the third millennium BC and the second century AD for ancestral worship, the main religious tradition in China before the introduction of Buddhism. Central questions include how visual forms convey religious concepts and serve religious communications, and how artistic changes reflect trends in the ancestral cult. H. Wu. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Prior knowledge of East Asian art required; knowledge of Chinese or Japanese recommended. This course aims to provide groundwork skills in conducting primary research in the study of Chinese painting history. We emphasize the study of early periods, especially the Song and Yuan Dynasties. We consider implications in the material investigation of medium (e.g., silk, paper, mounting, ink, color) in conjunction with relevant sinological tools. We discuss connoisseurship practices and issues of authenticity and provenance (i.e., identification and judging of the authenticity of seals and inscriptions). P. Foong. Autumn.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Consent of instructor. This seminar explores artistic interaction between Japan and the West in the late nineteenth century. Topics include changing European and American views of Japan and its art, the use of Japanese pictorial "sources" by artists such as Manet and Van Gogh , Japan ? invocation by decorative arts reformers, Japanese submissions to t he world 's fairs, and new forms of Japanese art made for audiences within Japan. Class sessions and a research project are designed to offer different geographical and theoretical perspectives and to provide evidence of how Japonisme appeared from late nineteenth-century Japanese points of vi ew. C. Foxwell. Winte
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Consent of instructor. This course is intended to meet unique needs of heritage language students who have already acquired some listening and speaking skills but have not developed their knowledge of formal grammar. We cover important grammatical structures from first- and second-year level Korean for the purpose of providing tools to build upon the existing level of each student's Korean language ability. Upon successful completion of the course, students may continue to upper-level Korean (e.g., KORE 30100). The class meets for three fifty-minute sessions a week. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: CHIN 20300 or consent of instructor. Must be taken for a quality grade. This course introduces the basic grammar of the written Chinese language from the time of the Confucian Analects to the literary movements at the beginning of the twentieth century. Students read original texts of genres that include philosophy, memorials, and historical narratives. Spring Quarter is devoted exclusively to reading poetry. The class meets for two eighty-minute sessions a week. J. Zeitlin, Autumn; D. Harper, Winter; Y. He, Spring.
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1.00 - 5.00 Credits
PQ: CHIN 11300 or placement. The following credit is granted in Spring Quarter after successful completion of the year's work: students receive course credits for CHIN 21100-21200-21300 and credit by petition for CHIN 30100-30200-30300. This three-quarter sequence offers texts from both Intermediate Modern Chinese (CHIN 20100-20200-20300) and Advanced Modern Chinese (CHIN 30100-30200-30300). Our goal is to help bilingual students further develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Extensive reading is encouraged, and writing is strongly emphasized. The class meets for five one-hour sessions a week. Autumn, Winter, Spring.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: JAPN 20100 or consent of instructor . This course focuses on learning spoken Japanese that is aimed at native speakers. Our goals are to get students accustomed to that sort of authentic Japanese and to enable them to speak with high fluency. To keep the balance, writing and reading materials are provided. Students are encouraged to watch videos and practice their speaking . Winter, Spring.
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