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3.00 Credits
As Japanese leaders in the mid-nineteenth century faced the threat of colonization at the hands of the Western powers, they launched a project to achieve "Civilization and Enlightenment," quickly transforming Japan into a global power that possessed its own empire. In the process, fiction became a site for both political engagement and retreat. Reading key literary texts from the 1880s through the 1930s as well as recent scholarship, this course retraces this historical and literary unfolding, paying special attention to the relationship between language and subjectivity. Texts in English . M. Bourdaghs. Autumn.
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This course is a careful reading of Cao Xueqin's Honglou meng (The Dream of the Red Chamber). In the process, we examine some of the range of texts, images, and issues across various literary and cultural genres in late-imperial China that this immensely complex novel draws on. Our goal is to gain a deeper appreciation both of the novel itself and of the culture of late-imperial China. Texts in English. Optional section to introduce selections from the original text in Chinese offered. Y. He. Autumn.
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This course is a survey of medical ideas and practices in pre-modern China. Topics include "classical" medical theory, religious and magical medicine, sexology, and longevity practices . D. Harper. Spring.
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This course explores the Yuan zaju, or "variety play," both as a cluster of diverse performing arts of the Yuan dynasty (1271 to 1368) and as a legendary golden age of the Chinese theater created retrospectively by Ming drama aficionados and later by modern scholars. Taking the Yuanka n zaju sanshi zhong , a rare window into the print world of Yuan performance texts, as the core thread of our inquiry, we examine the linguistic, literary, musical, and other features of Yuan drama. We explore its rich after-life in the Ming by examining the complex relationships between Min g zaj u and their Yuan predecessors . Y. He. Autumn.
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In this course, we read in and about the Shi jing, or Classic of Poetry, China's earliest poetry anthology. Texts in English. Optional section to read poems in Chinese offered. E. Shaughnessy. Autumn.
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3.00 Credits
Required of students who are majoring in EALC. This seminar explores ways of translating into, between, from, and perhaps within the various East Asian languages, beginning with Chinese translations of Buddhist texts, ending with translations of Harry Potter, and in between considering other forms of translation (including in nonlinguistic media). We also consider strategies of translating into English. The seminar features presentations by a number of faculty members in EALC. E. Shaughnessy. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
This course meets the critical/intellectual methods course requirement for students majoring in Comparative Literature. This course examines conceptions of desire in ancient China and ancient Greece through an array of early philosophical, literary, historical, legal, and medical texts (e.g., Mencius, Sima Qian, Book of Songs, Plato, Sappho). We attempt not only to bring out the cultural specificities of ancient erotic experience but also to make visible the historical and geopolitical contingencies of our own methods of reading. To do so, we explore the broader cultural background of the two ancient periods, and engage with theoretical debates on the history of sexuality, feminist and queer studies, and intercultural comparative studies. T. Chin. Winter.
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Knowledge of Japanese not required. This course considers the history of Hiroshima and Nagasaki through literature, film, photo essays, and nonfiction writing. We grapple with the shifting understanding of the bomb and continued nuclear testing, both within and without Japan, during the Cold War and to the present. We also study what many consider the current and ongoing form of nuclear war in the widespread deployment of depleted uranium in war zones and military bases. We compare nuclear bombing with other forms of bombing, on the one hand, and with its putative peaceful use as a source of energy. N. Field. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the political, economic, social, cultural, racial, and military aspects of the major Asian wars of the twentieth century (e.g., Pacific, Korean, Vietnam). The first part of the course, pays particular attention to just war doctrines. We then use two to three books for each war (along with several films) to examine alternative approaches to understanding the origins of these wars, their conduct, and their consequences. B. Cumings. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
Knowledge of Chinese not required. This course explores the complex meanings, both literal and figurative, of the ghost in Chinese culture across history. We focus on the ghost story, on opera, and on film. Topics include the individual's confrontation with mortality; the relationship between death, gender, and sexuality; anxieties of the loss of the cultural past; and the politics of ghosts in modern times. Texts in English and the original. J. Zeitlin. Winter.
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