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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Selected readings in Classical Japanese text.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A study of selected major authors and literary trends in modern Japan, with an emphasis on the Meiji and Taisho periods.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Selected texts of the Japanese poetic tradition to be examined in the light of modern critical perspectives and cross-cultural issues.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The course considers Japan studies in the context of theories of capitalism, personhood, democracy, gender, and modernity. We will be discussing issues of fieldwork as method and "area" as a unit of analysis. We will also consider the place of Japan in American social thought.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course provides a survey of major issues and debates in the historiography of early modern Korea, and introduces the major English language works on Choson history as well as some key primary texts from the Choson period in classical Chinese. No previous knowledge of Korean history or language is necessary, but a working knowledge of classical Chinese or classical Japanese (kanbun) is required.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A survey of major issues and debates in the historiography of modern Korea. Course introduces the major English language works on modern Korean history. Topics include: "opening" of Korea, Japanese colonialism, space of liberation, the Korean war, issues of gender and labor, and U.S.-Korean relations. No previous knowledge of Korean history or language is necessary, but basic knowledge of twentieth century East Asian history is expected.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This seminar structures an encounter with theoretical writings about nation, subjectivity, power and culture, which are assembled for their relevance to "East Asia." The collection is not meant to be comprehensive, but is intended to facilitate discussion of work that has shaped and revised active intellectual traditions. It starts with reflection on "area studies" as an academic discipline and move to considerations of national identity and nationalism. It proceeds to a study of power through psychoanalysis and "neo-Marxism." Finally, it turns to practices - writing, media, technology - that embody and inflect these conceptual formations.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Course addresses the issue of Chinese modernity through medicine and its relationship with culture, society, and state power up to the post-Mao transformation, and the complexity of modernity - its unique roots, its tumultuous turns, its predicament, and its promise - in the globalized world yet the rising consciousness of its Chinese nature. Course consists of roughly three sections - traditional Chinese medicine, psychiatry, and social and culture history of diseases and governance--in an effort to deepen the link between medical anthropology and history of medicine and science.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Chinese modernity is addressed using different approaches and issues, while focusing on one set of issues each time. This term, course examines how a certain way of governing became the threshold of modernity. The inspiration and limits of the framework of governmentality and biopower, in particular, are seen through cases such as famine prevention, famine relief and the failure to do so, and through the interaction of different modes of power in Maoist socialism and post-Mao China.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Economics is the study of how people and societies deal with scarcity. This course focuses on the advantages and disadvantages of market systems for allocating scarce resources.
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