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Syllabi – Alphabetical

20th Century Tibetan History – Updated Spring 2016
A History of Tibet
Asia in Motion
The Anthropology of Global Tibet – Updated Fall 2015 (new)
Asian American Literature – Updated Fall 2015
Biography, Memory and Modern Tibet: Oral History on the Tibetan Plateau – Updated Spring 2016
Bodyscapes: Writing Bodies in Late Imperial Fiction
Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, and Taoism: Philosophy in Asian Traditions – Updated Fall 2015
Changing China: Social Development and Conflicts – Updated Fall 2015
China: Revolution and Reform
Chinese Culture Through Film
Chinese Foreign Policy
Chinese Inner East Asia to 1949
Chinese Martial Arts Classics: Fiction, Film, Fact – Updated Fall 2015
Chinese Politics
Chûshingura and the Samurai Tradition
Circuits of Knowledge in Modern China
Civil Society, Public Sphere, and Popular Protest in Contemporary China
Colonial Encounters
The Cold War in East Asia
Comparative Politics Seminar: Japan Government and Politics
Competing Nationalisms in East Asia: Representing Chinese and Tibetan Relations in History – Updated Spring 2016
Competing Views of Nationalism and Identity in Contemporary China – Updated Fall 2015
Constructing Culture: Imagine Tibet
Contemporary Chinese Culture and Society
Critical Approaches to East Asia in the Social Sciences
Crossing Cultures: International Culture in East Asia
Culture and Art in Contemporary Tibet – Updated Spring 2016
Development and Political Change in Asia Pacific
Development in Post-Mao China – Updated Fall 2015 (new)
Early Chinese Calligraphy
East Asia and the Future
East Asia’s Dynamic Economies: Reflections on Modern Economic Theory
East Asian Capitalisms and Globalization
East Asian Humanities
East Asian International Relations
East Asian Societies and Cultures
Economic Organization and Development of China
Emperors, Samurai, and the Men Who Love Them
Envisioning the Snowland: Film and TV in Tibet and Inner Asia – Updated Spring 2016
Ethnicity and Gender in China and Tibet
Exploring Culture in the Great Cities of Asia – Updated Spring 2016
Fashion Matters
Food in World History – Updated Fall 2015
Food, Self and Society
Gender and Ethnicity in China and Tibet – Updated Fall 2015
Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japanese Society
Gender in Contemporary East Asia – Updated Spring 2016
Ghosts, Dreams, and Visions: Literary and Psychological Representations of the Unconscious Mind
The Global 1960s as History
Global Feminism
Globalization and Citizenship
Globalization and the State in East Asia
The Great Wall of China
Great Works of Literature I
Great Works of Literature II
History of East Asian Martial Arts
The History of Modern Japan
History of Philosophy: The Classical Philosophers – Updated Fall 2015
The History of the World / The World of History
Humanities 101: Cultural Traditions of the World
Humanities 102: Cultural Traditions of the World Since 1700
Imperial China – Updated Fall 2015 (new)
Introduction to Asia
Introduction to Asian American Literature
Introduction to Asian Civilization: Tibet
Introduction to Japanese Cinema: Directors, Genres, History
Introduction to Japanese Literature & Culture: Japanese Cinema (1945-) – Updated Fall 2015
Japan and Globalization
Japan and the World
Japan, Globalization, and Citizenship: The Culture and Politics of Belonging – Updated Fall 2015
Japanese Government and Politics: Conflict and Consensus
Japanese Society and Culture
Korea in East Asia and the World
Life-Writing in Tibetan Buddhist Literature – Updated Spring 2016
Local History in Tibet – Updated Spring 2016
Media and Communication in China – Updated Fall 2015
Media and Popular Culture in Post-Mao China – Updated Fall 2015 (new)
Media, Culture & Society in Contemporary China – Updated Fall 2015
Modern Chinese Politics
Modern East Asia
Modern Global History: 1500 to the Present
Modern Korean Culture and Society – Updated Fall 2015
Modern Mongolia
The Modernization of the Samurai – Updated Fall 2015
Mongolia’s Middle Ages
Mythical Histories in China and Japan
National Cinema: East Asian Cinemas and Their Transnational Contexts
Ozu and World Cinema
Philosophy East and West: An Introduction
Philosophy in the Classical Age
Popular Culture in China
Race and Ethnicity in East Asia and Beyond
Race, Ethnicity, and National Identity: America, Korea, and Biracial Koreans – Updated Fall 2015
Representing Chinese and Tibetan Relations in History: Competing Nationalisms in East Asia
The Rise of Modern Tibet: History and Society, 1600-1913 – Updated Spring 2016
Rock in a Hard Place: Cultural Innovation in Contemporary Tibet
Ruling Inner Asia from Beijing: Lamas and Emperors- Added Spring 2016
Samurai, Cowboy, Shaolin Monk: National Myths and Transnational Forms in Literature and Film
The Samurai Tradition in Japanese Literature and Film
The Short Story in East Asia and Beyond
Space and Place in East Asia
Stories of (Dis)location: Chinese Female Subjectivity in Transition
Tibetan Buddhism – Updated Fall 2015
Tibetan Civilization – Fall 2007 (Prof. Dreyfus)
To Paint Their Lives: Women’s Autobiographical Practices
Traditional East Asia
Traditional East Asian Civilization
Tibetan Civilization – Updated Spring 2016 (Prof. Tuttle)
Tibetan Material History
Transnational East Asian Cinemas – Updated Fall 2015
Truth, Beauty and Alienation in Japanese Film and Fiction
Studying Closed Societies in East, North-East and South-East Asia: Tibet, Xinjiang and China’s Socialist Neighbors – Updated Spring 2016
Understanding Modern Tibet
The World of Banned Books

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