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P.Smith This course introduces current and prospective majors to the scope and methods of East Asian Studies. It employs readings on East Asian history and culture as a platform for exercises in critical analysis, bibliography, cartography and the formulation of research topics and approaches. It culminates in a substantial research essay. A prerequisite for East Asian Studies majors, the course should be taken in the second semester of the sophomore year; in some circumstances it may be taken in the second semester of the junior year. Prerequisite: Required of East Asian Studies majors and minors; open to History majors and other interested students.
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3.00 Credits
H.Glassman Focusing on the East Asian Buddhist tradition, this course examines Buddhist philosophy, doctrine and practice as textual traditions and as lived religion. Not offered in 2008-09.
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3.00 Credits
Y.Li This course is a 200-level studio/lecture art course. It combines studio practice and creating art projects with slide lectures, readings and museum visits. Students will learn the basic techniques of Chinese Calligraphy, its historical roots and development, and its connection with society, politics, and religion. It offers training in disciplined hand-eye coordination together with an appreciation for this ancient and contemporary art form. At the same time students will learn how western artists, such as Van Gogh, Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, and Willem de Kooning, were influenced by Chinese calligraphy and built on its techniques in their own work.
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3.00 Credits
K.Wright Prerequisite: One 100 level course or its equivalent, or consent.
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3.00 Credits
S.Jilani A survey of the economic development and recent transitional experience in China and India, giant neighboring countries, accounting for roughly one third of total world population. The course will examine the economic structure and policies in the two countries, with a focus on comparing China and India's recent economic successes an failures, their development policies and strategies, institutional changes, and factors affecting the transformation process in the two countries. (Cross-listed in Economics)
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3.00 Credits
A.Gangadean An introduction to classical Indian Buddhist thought in a global and comparative context. The course begins with a meditative reading of the classical text-The Dhamapada-and proceeds to an in depth critical exploration of the teachings of Nagarjuna, the great dialectician who founded the Madhyamika School.
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3.00 Credits
M.Gillette Social institutions, cultural idioms, and forms of representation in and of Chinese society over the past 150 years. Through investigations of ethnographic monographs, missionary records, memoirs, and realist fiction, we develop skills in socialgraphs, missionary records, memoirs, and realist fiction, we develop skills in social analysis and cultural critique, and enrich our understanding of contemporary Chinese society. Prerequisite: One course in East Asian Studies or consent. (Cross-listed in Anthropology)
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3.00 Credits
H.Glassman What are we talking about when we talk about Zen This course is an introduction to the intellectual and cultural history of the style of Buddhism known as Zen in Japanese. We will examine the development and expression of this religious movement in China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam. Not offered in 2008-09.
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in History) P.Smith This course surveys the fundamental transformation of Chinese society between the 10th and 17th centuries, with particular stress on the civil service examinations and the rise of a literocentric elite; the impact of Neo-Confucianism on social and gender relations; relations between China, the nomad polities of the steppe, and (by the 16th century) the increasingly inquisitive representatives of the West; and the cultural consequences for Chinese of all social strata of the growing power of money. Prerequisite: Open to sophomores and above.
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3.00 Credits
Y.Jiang Places the causes and consequences of the Communist Revolution of 1949 in historical perspective, by examining its late-imperial antecedents and tracing how the revolution has (and has not) transformed China, including the lives of such key revolutionary supporters as the peasantry, women, and intellectuals.
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