Ph.D. East Asian Studies

ART 569 State of the Field: Historiography of Chinese Painting (also

EAS 569

) The course focuses on the intellectual stock of the field of Chinese painting. It offers an opportunity to rethink the topics and issues that important studies in the field have addressed. The goal of the seminar is to guide the Ph.D. students on how to tackle these topics and issues raised by previous scholarship.

ART 572 Chinese Painting in the Collection of PUAM (also

EAS 573

) This seminar teaches PhD students how to develop research topics and exhibition themes from their first hand experiences with actual art objects. It makes extensive use of PUAM's excellent collection of Chinese art, which includes diverse genres and categories of paintings that span more than one thousand years. The course also incorporates new scholarly trends that tackle how to interact with art objects and contemplate their visuality and materiality.

COM 581 Topics in Non-Western and General Literature (also

EAS 589

) By examining one or more literatures of the Near East or East Asia, and by referring to Western examples as well, the course raises literary issues that cannot be aired through the study of Western literature alone. Emphasis in any given year falls on Arabic, Persian, Chinese, or Japanese literature viewed in a comparative context.

EAS 502 Pro-Sem in Chinese & Japanese Studies General seminar dealing with the problems, methods, and possibilities of research peculiar to the fields of East Asian studies. Students may pursue their particular interests in their individual assignments, while participating in the general work of the seminar.

EAS 503 Early China Selected topics in Chinese political, institutional, and cultural history in the pre-Qin period and Qin and Han dynasties. Focus on sources, traditional historical scholarship, and modern interpretations.

EAS 504 Early China Selected topics in Chinese political, institutional, and cultural history in the pre-Qin period and Qin and Han dynasties. Focus on sources, traditional historical scholarship, and modern interpretations.

EAS 507 Chinese Intellectual History Methods, sources, and problems of research in Chinese thought, including examination of some broad interpretations of intellectual development in China. A reading knowledge of Chinese or Japanese is required for the study of selected problem areas through seminar discussion, oral reports, and research papers.

EAS 508 Chinese Intellectual History Methods, sources, and problems of research in Chinese thought, including examination of some broad interpretations of intellectual development in China. A reading knowledge of Chinese or Japanese is required for the study of selected problem areas through seminar discussion, oral reports, and research papers.

EAS 513 Special Topics in Chinese History Selected problems on the historiography of the early, medieval, or late empires with a focus on literati thought, religion, or literature in historical context. Working knowledge of classical Chinese strongly recommended.

EAS 514 Special Topics in Chinese History (also

ART 570

) Selected problems on the historiography of the early, medieval, or late empires with a focus on literati thought, religion, or literature in historical context. Working knowledge of classical Chinese strongly recommended.

EAS 518 Qing History (also

HIS 532

) Topics in Chinese social and cultural history, 1600-1900, ranging from material culture, popular religion, and education to the history of science.

EAS 524 Early Japanese History Selected major periods or topics in the institutional, intellectual, and cultural history of Japan prior to 1600.

EAS 525 Sources in Ancient and Medieval Japanese History (also

HIS 525

) This course provides an introduction to the written sources of Japanese history from 750-1600. Instruction focuses on reading and translating a variety of documentary genres, and court chronicles, although visual sources (e.g. maps, scrolls, and screens) are introduced in class as well. Each week entails a translation of five or six short documents and a library research assignment. Research resources and methods are also emphasized. A substantial research assignment, involving primary source research, is due at the end of the semester. The final week of class is devoted to presentations about the research project.

EAS 526 Research Seminar in Ancient and Medieval Japanese History This course is a research and writing seminar that introduces major historical methods of research in ancient and medieval Japan. In addition to weekly research assignments, students identify a research topic by the third week of the class, and complete a research paper at the end of the semester (entailing 15-20 pages). Instruction focuses on research methods and topics, although some reading of sources also occurs.

EAS 531 Chinese Literature Critical and historical studies of classical poetry and poetics, with particular stress on the application of linguistic theory and other tools of literary analysis to Chinese poetry.

EAS 532 Chinese Fiction and Drama A study of the development of Chinese narrative and dramatic literature, with emphasis on generic and thematic analysis.

EAS 533 Readings in Chinese Literature To suit the particular interests of students and instructor, a subject for intensive study is selected from classical or vernacular literature based on genres, periods, or individual writers, such as the prose of the Six Dynasties, the poetry of Tu Fu, the plays of Kuan Han-ch'ing, or Dream of the Red Chamber.

EAS 534 Readings in Chinese Literature To suit the particular interests of students and instructor, a subject for intensive study is selected from classical or vernacular literature based on genres, periods, or individual writers, such as the prose of the Six Dynasties, the poetry of Tu Fu, the plays of Kuan Han-ch'ing, or Dream of the Red Chamber.

EAS 540 Primary Sources in Japanese Literature This course introduces students to the location, handling, and interpretation of primary sources in the study of premodern Japanese literature and intellectual history. This semester the course focuses on the genre of the love letter, with peripheral attention to broader categories of erotic verse and epistolary writing. Using documents from the fourteenth through nineteenth centuries, students develop proficiency in reading handwritten and woodblock-printed texts using hentaigana and other cursive forms. Students must have prior training in classical Japanese.

EAS 541 Classical Japanese Prose Aspects of the development of the narrative tradition in Japan, with an emphasis on analytical discussion of selected texts.

EAS 542 Modern Japanese Prose A study of selected major authors and literary trends in modern Japan, with an emphasis on the Meiji and Taisho? periods. Possible topics include the development of the modern novel, "inter-war" literature, and Taisho modernism

EAS 543 Classical Japanese Poetics Man'yo shu the Imperial Anthologies, and the works of Basho.

EAS 544 20th-Century Japanese Literature This course examines Japanese literary modernism through twentieth-century narrative and criticism. Analysis of texts are augmented through discussion of contemporary literary, theoretical, and historical developments.

EAS 545 Readings in Kanbun This course focuses on various types of Japanese kanbun, including waka kanbun (Japanized kanbun) from Nara to Meiji era, such as Mayo-gana, okoto-ten, soro-bun, etc. Basic knowledge of classical Japanese grammar and kanbun kundoku reading system is required.

EAS 546 Introduction to Kanbun Introduction to the basic of reading Chinese-style Classical Japanese and its related forms. Texts: Literary and historical texts from both China and Japan.

EAS 549 Japan Anthropology in Historical Perspective (also

ANT 549

) The course concerns Japan studies in the context of theories of capitalism, personhood, democracy, gender, and modernity. The thematic focus this term is on health and medicine as they intertwine with social and cultural processes. Topics include: cultural variability of diagnosis and bio-medical practices; how biotechnologies shape and are shaped by social relationships; the containment of medicalization by received notions of kinship, gender, and national identity; conceptions of life itself; and models of public health and the containment of harmful behavior. Reading selections include material on Japan, China, and India.

EAS 550 Topics in Social Theory and East Asia (also

ANT 550

) An introduction to classical social theory and an exploration of new directions in historical and social science literatures on East Asia. Weber's copnstruction of capitalism, Durkheim's notion of society, and Marx's concept of ideology all continue to inform contemporary East Asian studies; in turn, East Asian Studies has also been central to demonstrationg the Eurocentrism of many of these theories.

EAS 563 Readings in Japanese Academic Style The two-semester course is designed for students in Chinese studies, who already possess reading fluency in Chinese. Its goal is to train these students in reading the particular style of Japanese academic writing; at the end of the year, students will be able to independently read modern Japanese scholarship on China. Students take this course after at least one year of modern Japanese (JPN 101/102). The course does not train all four skills of reading, writing, speaking, and listening; instead it is devoted entirely to rapidly develop the necessary reading skills in Japanese academic style. The course is conducted in English.

EAS 564 Readings in Japanese Academic Style II The second half of the two-semester course, which trains students in reading the particular style of Japanese academic writing. The second semester particularly focuses on academic writings from Meiji to the 1950s, including brief introduction of necessary Classical Japanese Grammar for this purpose. Course conducted in English.

EAS 568 Readings in Ancient and Medieval Japanese History (also

HIS 568

) This course is designed to introduce fundamental themes and debates about ancient and medieval Japanese history, and how conceptualizations of Japan have changed from the third century CE through 1600. Approximately two books, or a comparable number of articles, are required each week, and wherever possible, a brief passage of Japanese scholarship will be presented as well. Reading knowledge of modern Japanese is desirable.

EAS 572 Readings in Modern Korean History (also

HIS 528

) 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.

EAS 576 Critical Trespasses: Theorizing Political and Intellectual Borders 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 moves 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.

EAS 581 Japanese Film and Media Studies This course examines the vivid perspectives of Japanese documentary media from the 1945 to present as the focal point of our consideration of the geopolitics of image media. The course explores major documentary works that critically engage issues of cultural identity, environmental devastation, regional community, and historical memory to raise questions about the changing prospects and politics of image media. Our shifting focal points capture key transformations in the archipelago's urban and media environments from the dynamic views of Japan's most influential writers, critics, and media practitioners.

EAS 582 Readings in Manchu Language and History An introduction to Manchu language, texts, and history.

EAS 594 Seeing the Interior: Cinema, Media, Inverse Visuality (also

COM 594

) From the invention of microscope, X-ray, representations of biological contagion and virus, to surveillance camera, the world is increasingly mediated and constituted by visual technologies and new forms of visualities that collapse the boundary between visibility and invisibility. This seminar explores visual representations of the interior and their mediating roles in larger historical and social processes of colonialism, modernization, urbanization, and global capitalism in the East Asian and global context. Readings intersect cinema and media studies, globalization, urban studies, theories of the body, and science and medical studies.

HIS 526 Readings in Early Modern Japanese History (also

EAS 521

) Selected topics in the institutional and intellectual history of Tokugawa and Meiji Japan. Students attend the meetings of 321 and take part in a special graduate discussion group.

HIS 527 20th-Century Japanese History (also

EAS 522

) Selected topics in Japanese social and economic history since 1900.

HIS 529 Late Imperial/Early Modern China (also

EAS 519

) Selected problems and topics on 19th- and 20th- century China, that will also address historiographical issues in the West, the People's Republic, and Taiwan.

HIS 530 Modern China (also

EAS 520

) This seminar will examine the major historiographical and methodological issues in Chinese history for the period 1600-1900. We will read and evaluate the most important historians and consider the issues that seem especially provocative or interesting.

HUM 596 Humanistic Perspectives on Literature (also

EAS 537

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CLA 596

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HLS 596

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