CHNS 5700a, Introduction to Literary Chinese I  Pauline Lin

Reading and interpretation of texts in various styles of literary Chinese (wenyan), with attention to basic problems of syntax and literary style. Prerequisite: CHNS 1510 or CHNS 1530 or equivalent.
TTh 11:35am-12:50pm

CHNS 5710b, Introduction to Literary Chinese II  Pauline Lin

Continuation of CHNS 570. Reading and interpretation of texts in various styles of literary Chinese (wenyan), with attention to basic problems of syntax and literary style. Prerequisite: CHNS 570 or equivalent.
TTh 11:35am-12:50pm

EALL 5050b, The Culture of Landscape in China  Pauline Lin

An introduction to Chinese philosophical, poetic, and visual explorations of landscape and the changing relationship between human beings and nature. Through texts, archaeological materials, visual and material culture, and garden designs from the second century BCE to modern times, we learn about the Chinese conception of the world; relationship to and experiences in nature; and shaping of the land through agriculture, imperial parks, and garden designs. We conclude with contemporary environmental issues confronting China and how contemporary parks can help regenerate our ecosystem. None
F 1:30pm-3:20pm

EALL 5670a, Japan's Global Modernisms: 1880–1980  Rosa van Hensbergen

This course is an introduction to Japanese literature from the 1880s to 1980s. Our reading is guided by a different “ism” each week, from 19th-century eroticism and exoticism, through mid-century cosmopolitanism and colonialism, to second-wave feminism and existentialism in the wake of World War II. These distinct moments in the development of Japanese modernism (modanizumu) are shaped by encounters with foreign cultures and by the importing of foreign ideas and vogues. All the same, we question—along with modernist writer Yū Ryūtanji—the “critique that says modanizumu is nothing more than the latest display of imported cosmetics” (1930). We seek to develop a correspondingly nuanced picture of the specific and changing ways in which Japan understood and figured its relationship to the rest of the world through the course of a century. Creative and comparative perspectives are especially welcome, and assignments can accommodate a range of media and presentation formats to suit. There are no prerequisites for this course, beyond an enthusiasm for reading literature. All readings are in translation, however there is an opportunity to read short stories in the original language. To facilitate this, our second class each week is structured around break-out groups that allow students to focus on one of the following: (a) comparative works of Western literature, (b) works of Japanese literary theory, and (c) original-language short stories.
M 3:30pm-5:20pm

EALL 5810a / FILM 8730a / FILM 873a and FILM 8730a, Japanese Cinema and Its Others  Kirsten Seuffert

Critical inquiry into the myth of a homogeneous Japan through analysis of how Japanese film and media historically represent “others” of different races, ethnicities, nationalities, genders, and sexualities, including women, black residents, ethnic Koreans, Okinawans, Ainu, undocumented immigrants, LGBTQ minorities, the disabled, youth, and monstrous others such as ghosts.
MW 11:35am-12:50pm, T 7pm-10pm

EALL 6000a / EAST 6222a, Sinological Methods  Pauline Lin

A research course in Chinese studies, designed for students with background in modern and literary Chinese. Students explore and evaluate the wealth of primary sources and research tools available in China and in the West. For native speakers of Chinese, introduction to the secondary literature in English and instruction in writing professionally in English on topics about China. Topics include Chinese bibliographies; bibliophiles’ notes; specialized dictionaries; maps and geographical gazetteers; textual editions, variations, and reliability of texts; genealogies and biographical sources; archaeological and visual materials; and major Chinese encyclopedias, compendia, and databases.
F 9:25am-11:15am

EALL 7330a, Zhuangzi  Mick Hunter

An in-depth examination of one of the great masterworks of ancient philosophy. Topics vary according to student interest but include: the interpretation of the text, its formation and history, its reception in the commentarial and scholarly literature, and its role in the modern construction of classical Chinese philosophy. This seminar is designed primarily for students who can read classical Chinese but is also open to students reading the text in translation. In that event, we hold separate sessions for students working in the original language. Proficiency in classical Chinese is preferred but not absolutely necessary.
F 1:30pm-3:20pm

EALL 7530a / EMST 9600a / MDVL 9005a / NELC 5400a / RLST 9550a, Proseminar for Jobseekers in Premodern Fields  Lucas Bender

This course is intended for doctoral students (particularly studying topics in the premodern humanities) in their penultimate and final years. Over the course of the semester, students work with peers as well as faculty convener to build the skills they need to present their research to others in a clear, compelling way. Topics covered include preparing application materials, interviewing, negotiating job offers, alt-ac careers, publishing, CV building, and how to succeed in postdoctoral and junior faculty positions. Weekly sessions generally include workshop time as well as presentations by the convener and visitors. This proseminar is particularly directed toward students affiliated with Archaia and medieval studies but welcomes all those with research interests in the premodern world; if space allows, students working on modern topics can also join. The broad range of primary specialties represented provides students with experience engaging with scholars outside their field, which is increasingly essential for premodernists in the modern academic world.
T 1:30pm-3:20pm

EALL 7540b and EALL 7550b, Proseminar in East Asian Languages and Literatures  Lucas Bender and Rosa van Hensbergen

This course asks, "why do we need East Asian studies?" Through a series of core readings in the discipline, we interrogate the foundations of East Asian studies and consider the critiques that have troubled those foundations over recent decades. We also read important works of East Asian literary theory in conjunction with foundational works from the West. The aim of this course is to enable graduate students to critically articulate their relationship to the discipline of East Asian studies, to frame the relevance of their own research for the future of the discipline, and to understand their own work within broader humanities frameworks.  Prerequisite: graduate standing in EALL or permission from the instructors.  ½ Course cr per term
T 1:30pm-3:20pm

EALL 8230a / CPLT 9053a / EAST 8220a, Topics in Sinophone and Chinese Studies  Jing Tsu

This recurring graduate research seminar and symposium examines different areas, periods, genres, and conceptual frameworks in Chinese and Sinophone studies. The topic this year is 1950s–2020. Prerequisite: reading fluency in modern and semi-classical Chinese. Enrollment is restricted; no auditors.
T 1:30pm-3:20pm

EALL 8920a / FILM 8740a, Japanese New Wave Cinema  Kirsten Seuffert

This course explores the "New Wave" in Japanese cinema in the context of the rise of "new wave" across cinemas in the American sphere in the period roughly between 1955 and 1975. It focuses on both local contexts and global flows in the turn to experimental filmmaking in Japan, paying particular attention to how films sought to make social and political interventions in both content and form. We analyze New Wave films and critical writing by asking what they can tell us about Japan's postwar, high-speed economic growth, student and counterculture movements, and place in the Cold War order. We also consider what the Japanese New Wave tells us about the possibilities of cinema: its global simultaneity, transcultural movement, and historical trajectory. Topics include the legacy of World War II in Japan and cinema as a mode for narrating history; the rise of global youth culture in the context of postwar economic growth; cinema and protest against the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty; the aesthetic use of sex, violence, and politics to shock mainstream culture; documentary as a site for radical experimentation; the studio system, independent filmmaking, and transformations of the Japanese film industry; and what is meant by "modernist" and "avant-garde" in New Wave cinema.
HTBA

EALL 9000a or b, Directed Readings  Mick Hunter

Offered by permission of instructor and DGS to meet special needs not met by regular courses.
HTBA

EALL 9900a or b, Directed Research  Mick Hunter

Offered as needed with permission of instructor and DGS for student preparation of dissertation prospectus.
HTBA

JAPN 5700a, Introduction to Literary Japanese  Yoshitaka Yamamoto

Introduction to the grammar and style of the premodern literary language (bungotai). We read Taketori monogatari (The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, ca. 909), the oldest surviving work of prose fiction in Japanese, with a view toward understanding how literary texts were created, preserved, and disseminated in premodern Japan and East Asia. Prerequisite: JAPN 1510 or equivalent.
TTh 9am-10:15am

JAPN 5710b, Readings in Literary Japanese  Yoshitaka Yamamoto

Close analytical reading of a selection of texts from the Nara through Tokugawa period: prose, poetry, and various genres. Introduction of kanbun. Prerequisite: JAPN 570 or equivalent.
W 9:25am-11:15am