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Research seminar devoted to the theory and methods, possibilities and challenges of cross-cultural studies in the history of medicine and the body.
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Explores Asian art pedagogy through original research of museum objects and a survey of the scholarship on Asian art. The seminar will design and develop a General Education course on these themes for undergraduates.
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This course is a research seminar on the political economy of poverty and inequality in China. Because China has tried such a wide variety of methods to combat poverty, it provides a useful "laboratory" for exploring the origins and impact of many different anti-poverty policies. After an introduction to cross-national concepts of poverty, inequality and social rights, students will examine famine relief, land reform, the welfare state, NGOs, and development programs targeted to the poor.
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Theories and methods for research in East Asian history. Covers approaches to social, cultural, intellectual, and political history, analyzing significant works in each field and applications to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean materials.
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This course looks at some of the elements (philosophy and religion, art and literature, statecraft and technology) that are shared by the various regional cultures of East Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam), and the ways in which these vary in each of these cultures. We also look at the way in which the countries of East Asia have impacted each other in the process of modernization, and at their divergent paths towards globalization.
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Junior Tutorial for students in the Japan Social Science track.
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Junior Tutorial for students in the China Social Science track. After an introduction to the historical context of China's development, this course will focus on the political economy of reform in the post-Mao period. Some of the topics covered include the one-child policy, foreign trade and investment, the role of labor, rural-urban migration, and the rise of inequality.
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Cinema, music, television, dance, food, clothing, currency, and language: the present-day "waves" that seem one after another to sweep across East Asia's borders and boundaries also have historical counterparts. The course will examine the seismic events and media, practices, and circulation systems that constitute the contemporary Korean culture scene, and then how these are linked to or disassociated from the past.
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This course aims at enabling students to read and analyze in depth major religious texts of East Asia, representing diverse traditions and genres. The course encourages students to take up their reading of texts not only as ways to acquire knowledge on Asian religious traditions, but as practice, labor, and play in which their ordinary way of understanding/experiencing the world and themselves will be challenged, reaffirmed, and renewed.
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Examines the rich tradition of medieval Japanese picture scrolls (emaki). Provides training in the reading of scroll texts (kotobagaki), the analysis of paintings, and the examination of the production contexts of important scrolls from the 12th to the 16th century. Aims to make picture scrolls available as a primary source for graduate research in many different disciplines within Japanese studies.
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In 2008-09, focus on original texts related to the history of forensic medicine.
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Historical examination of the adoption and transformations of modern science and technology in East Asia; the interaction of local traditions with global knowledge and techniques.
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Exploration of the new horizons of communication created by current media technology and their implications for the future of teaching and scholarship. The seminar will combine theoretical readings and reflection with practical, hands-on experiments using podcasts, media-intensive lectures, and iMovies for conveying academic research.
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Thesis guidance under faculty direction.
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Junior Tutorial for students in the China Social Science track.
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Readings in selected Chinese, Japanese, and Korean verse forms, and composition or imitation in English. Study of Li Po and Tu Fu (Chinese couplet), Basho (haiku and haibun mixed prose and poetry), Yun Son-do and other Korean poets (shijo), and composition/imitation. Final project, an extended suite of poems or mixed prose and poetry.
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This course is an introduction to the religious history, philosophy and practices of Zen Buddhism. Zen is the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese word Chan, which is itself a transcription of the Sanskrit word dhyana, meaning meditation. While meditation is the backbone of the Zen tradition, we will see that Zen has a number of different faces and will examine the rich diversity of the Zen tradition as it developed in China, Korea, and Japan.
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