NEW COURSES FOR FALL 2010:  The following new courses are being offered for the first time in the fall semester. See the complete course listing here.

East Asian Studies 98f. Junior Tutorial —The Study of East Asian Religions
Catalog Number: 94577
James Robson
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
This tutorial is designed to deepen and extend the student’s knowledge of the study of East Asian religions. It will build on the student’s foundational understanding of the development and history of Buddhism, Daosim, Confucianism, Shinto, and various forms of popular religion, by situating that material in the context of larger issues in the study of East Asian religions. The overarching concern within this tutorial will be on reading and discussing methodologically oriented scholarship that will introduce the student to new and intellectually engaging approaches to the various traditions covered.
Prerequisite: Culture and Belief 33: Introduction to the Study of East Asian Religions. If students have not previously taken this course, they are required to attend those lectures concurrently with this tutorial.

East Asian Studies 120. Melodrama in East Asian Cinema
Catalog Number: 54461
Jie Li
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., 11:30-1:00 with weekly film screenings.
Melodrama has been a prevalent mode of filmmaking in East Asia, addressing significant social changes and historical experiences. Through films by Bong Joon-ho, Mizoguchi Kenji, Kim Ki-young, Ang Lee, Ozu Yasujiro, Wong Kar-wai, Xie Jin, Zhang Yimou and other auteurs, this course takes a vicarious journey through modern China, Japan, and Korea, examining topics such as sentimentality and moral binaries, modernity and national identities, film genres and styles, as well as gender, class, and spectatorship.
Note: All films subtitled in English. No prior knowledge of East Asian history or film studies necessary.

Chinese History 267. Too Much Water or Too Little Water: Water and Man in the Chinese Environmental History: Seminar
Catalog Number: 24374
Ling Zhang
Half course (fall term). M., 1–4. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7, 8
Examines the history of the water-human relationship in pre-modern China from the environmental perspective to better understand Chinese environmental problems both past and present.
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of classical Chinese.

Japanese History 150. Early Modern Japan
Catalog Number: 34071
David Howell
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 2 with a discussion section Thursday afternoon. EXAM GROUP: 16
This course provides an introduction to the history and culture of Japan in the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. This was the Tokugawa period, the age of samurai rule, in which many elements of modern Japanese culture took familiar form. It was also the time when the roots of Japan’s emergence as a modern state were laid.

East Asian Studies 255. Epistolary Histories: The Letter Exchange and the Mode of Communication in the Medieval World: Seminar
Catalog Number: 26952
Tomoko Kitagawa
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
This course gives an overview of historical sources that are classified as "letters" in the medieval world, and demonstrates various ways of interpreting them from a theoretical standpoint.

Japanese History 270. Early Modern Japanese History: Proseminar
Catalog Number: 85593
David Howell
Half course (fall term). W., 2–5. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8, 9
This seminar surveys the recent English-language literature on the history of early modern Japan, roughly from the late sixteenth century to around 1875.

Japanese Literature 271. Topics in Gender and Culture in Japan: Seminar
Catalog Number: 76892
Tomiko Yoda
Half course (fall term). M., 3–5:30. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
A seminar course that studies the constructions of gender and gender relations in Japan through the examination of various forms of expressive culture (visual, textual, sonic) in their historical contexts.

Korean History 130. The Recurring Past--Early Korea and Northeast Asia as History and Identity
Catalog Number: 40272
Mark Edward Byington
Half course (fall term). M., W., F., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
With a focus on Korea’s proto-historic and early historic periods, this course will explore the question of history as shaper of identity, looking at the ways the remote past surfaces repeatedly in modern context. We will examine international disputes over historical interpretation, the popularization of the ancient past in popular culture, and the politicization of history in both North and South Korea.