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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
(Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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25.00 Credits
Study of a selected topic in one or more Asian literatures and cultures. The course will cover subjects not listed in the regular curriculum and may vary from year to year; taught by Asian Studies faculty and visiting faculty. Blocks 1 - 4: Topics in Asian Literature and Culture: The Art of Chinese Calligraphy and Painting. This course will introduce students to the origin and history of Chinese calligraphy and to the interrelationship between Chinese calligraphy and painting - including bamboo, orchid, and bird painting. This is a hands-on course; students are expected to practice Chinese calligraphy several times a week, to get to know how to use Chinese brushes and charcoal ink, and to develop an understanding of Chinese art and culture through brushwork. (Also listed as Chinese Language 250.) .25 unit - Tu. Block 1: Topics in Asian Literature and Culture: Religious Identities in Modern South Asia. As a thematic course in modern identity politics, this course begins with the nineteenth century emergence of modern religious communities in colonial British India. The course then historically investigates the politics of religious identity in South Asia from the early twentieth century to the present day. Comprising Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh traditions, three units will examine religious community in each tradition, encompassing claims of authenticity, relations to state politics, and revolutions against orthodoxies and hierarchies. The final element of the course will consider how far terms such as "Hindu," "Muslim," and "Sikh" encapsulates the religious reality of South Asia. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Also listed as History 200.) 1 unit - Bose. Block 1: Topics in Asian Literature and Culture: Religious Identities in Modern South Asia. As a thematic course in modern identity politics, this course begins with the nineteenth century emergence of modern religious communities in colonial British India. The course then historically investigates the politics of religious identity in South Asia from the early twentieth century to the present day. Comprising Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh traditions, three units will examine religious community in each tradition, encompassing claims of authenticity, relations to state politics, and revolutions against orthodoxies and hierarchies. The final element of the course will consider how far terms such as "Hindu," "Muslim," and "Sikh" encapsulates the religious reality of South Asia. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Also listed as History 200.) 1 unit - Bose. Block 3: Topics in Asian Literature and Culture: Asian American Literature. The Asian American Literature is a course designed to be a survey of the classics of Asian American Literature in chronological order but with an emphasis on 20th century writings, and also a comprehensive view to different genres (novels, short stories, drama, poetry and a little criticism). While the course covers major literary movements within the Asian American tradition, it also tries to pay its special attention to history, social changes and ideologies. Similarly, it will not only centers around the Far Eastern writers from China, Japan and Korea, but also those from Vietnam, the Philippines, East India, etc. The general purpose is to provide a historical overview of the development of Asian American Literature from the end of 19th century to the beginning of 21st century, and, of course, the writers and their works selected for the course are representative for different nations and different genres. 1 unit - Department. Block 3: Topics in Asian Literature and Culture: Modern South Asia - An Introduction. This course thematically surveys the history of modern South Asia with a focus on political economy, culture, and the emergence of modern politics. With a brief introduction to ancient and early modern South Asia, particularly the Mughal Empire, t
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
Japanese women writers wrote the most heralded novels and poetic diaries in the classical literary canon; this celebration of women's literary contributions is an anomaly among world literatures. Yet for over five hundred years, women's literary voices were silenced before reemerging in the modern era, when a renaissance of "women's literature" (joryu bungaku) captured popular imagination, even as it confronted critical disparagement. This course traces the rise, fall and return of writing by women and the influence of attitudes toward gender on what was written and read through a wide array of literary texts, historical documents, and cultural artifacts. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
This course explores how Japanese writers have dealt with issues of gender and sexuality from the Heian Period through the modern era. Drawing on literary sources such as The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu (11th c.), Five Women Who Loved Love by Ihara Saikaku (17th c.), and Kitchen by Yoshimoto Banana (20th c.), as well as films and manga, we will analyze how both male and female authors have portrayed gender and sexuality within an ever-changing landscape. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of constructions of gender and the status of women in Hindu and Islamic cultures, with attention to both texts and practices. Primary and secondary readings survey a variety of topics from classical and modern periods, including marriage, sexuality and reproduction, sati, Islamic law, devotion, renunciation and tantra. Prerequisite: Religion 140 or 160 or consent of instructor. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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1.00 Credits
Early Chinese funerary art examined in relation to the Chinese religious philosophies of Confucianism and Daoism. Relationships between Chinese painting and poetry explored, particularly in relation to the handscroll format. The rise of scholar-literati painting in the Song followed by issues of politics, commerce, and art. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Also listed as Art History 254.) 1 unit - Department.
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
Classical relationships between Heian-period court art, poetry, and aristocratic patronage; medieval Kamakura and Muromachi periods, dominated respectively by Pure Land Buddhism and Zen Buddhism; consolidation of the tea ceremony and unique qualities of castle architecture and screen paintings in the Momoyama; the Edo-period shift towards more inexpensive and widely-reproducible formats, such as the woodblock print. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Religion 160 or 170 or consent of instructor. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
Considers the impact on art of expanding sea trade between Europe and East Asia in the early modern period. Begins by examining what goods went where, how increasingly global trade affected particular economies; how the East India companies operated, and what effects stepped up contact had stylistically and iconographically on art forms such as porcelain, prints and paintings. On a theoretical level, the course addresses "things foreign" as a means of asserting the artist's practice and identity. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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1.00 Credits
Poetic traditions in China and Japan and in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism. Topics will include poetry as an expression of the heights and depths of religious experience, as a vehicle for spiritual growth, and as a literary form of prestige and power. We will look at poetry of liberation by early Buddhist nuns, praises of transcendent wisdom by Tibetan spiritual virtuosos, links between verse and painting in China, and the relationship between Japanese haiku and Zen aesthetics. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Also listed as Religion 281.) 1 unit - Gardiner.
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