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Asian Diasporas

Introduction to Asian American Literature
Race and Ethnicity in East Asia and Beyond
The Short Story in East Asia and Beyond
Space and Place in East Asia

Contemporary East Asian Societies

Asia in Motion
Circuits of Knowledge in Modern China
Civil Society, Public Sphere, and Popular Protest in Contemporary China
Constructing Culture: Imagine Tibet
Contemporary Chinese Culture and Society
Critical Approaches to East Asia in the Social Sciences
East Asian Societies and Cultures
Ethnicity and Gender in China and Tibet
Fashion Matters
Food, Self and Society
Gender in Contemporary East Asia – Updated Spring 2016
Globalization and Citizenship
Japan and Globalization
Japanese Society and Culture
Race and Ethnicity in East Asia and Beyond
Space and Place in East Asia
Studying Closed Societies in East, North-East and South-East Asia: Tibet, Xinjiang and China’s Socialist Neighbors – Updated Spring 2016
Understanding Modern Tibet

East Asian Economies

Circuits of Knowledge in Modern China
Development and Political Change in Asia Pacific
East Asia’s Dynamic Economies: Reflections on Modern Economic Theory
East Asian Capitalisms and Globalization
Economic Organization and Development of China
Globalization and Citizenship

Film

Chinese Culture Through Film
Envisioning the Snowland: Film and TV in Tibet and Inner Asia – Updated Spring 2016
Fashion Matters
The Global 1960s as History
Introduction to Japanese Cinema: Directors, Genres, History
National Cinema: East Asian Cinemas and Their Transnational Contexts
Ozu and World Cinema
Rock in a Hard Place: Cultural Innovation in Contemporary Tibet
Samurai, Cowboy, Shaolin Monk: National Myths and Transnational Forms in Literature and Film
The Samurai Tradition in Japanese Literature and Film
Truth, Beauty and Alienation in Japanese Film and Fiction

Gender

Bodyscapes: Writing Bodies in Late Imperial Fiction
Emperors, Samurai, and the Men Who Love Them
Ethnicity and Gender in China and Tibet
Fashion Matters
Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japanese Society
Global Feminism
Globalization and Citizenship
History of East Asian Martial Arts
Stories of (Dis)location: Chinese Female Subjectivity in Transition
To Paint Their Lives: Women’s Autobiographical Practices
Truth, Beauty and Alienation in Japanese Film and Fiction

Philosophy, Thought, and Religion

East Asian Humanities
Exploring Culture in the Great Cities of Asia – Updated Spring 2016
Humanities 101: Cultural Traditions of the World
Life-Writing in Tibetan Buddhist Literature – Updated Spring 2016
Philosophy East and West: An Introduction
Philosophy in the Classical Age
Tibetan Civilization – Fall 2007 (Prof. Dreyfus)
Tibetan Civilization – Updated Spring 2016 (Prof. Tuttle)

Politics and Government

China: Revolution and Reform
Chinese Foreign Policy
Chinese Politics
Chûshingura and the Samurai Tradition
Civil Society, Public Sphere, and Popular Protest in Contemporary China
Comparative Politics Seminar: Japan Government and Politics
Competing Nationalisms in East Asia: Representing Chinese and Tibetan Relations in History – Updated Spring 2016
Critical Approaches to East Asia in the Social Sciences
Development and Political Change in Asia Pacific
East Asia and the Future
East Asian International Relations
Globalization and Citizenship
Globalization and the State in East Asia
Modern Chinese Politics
Representing Chinese and Tibetan Relations in History: Competing Nationalisms in East Asia

Survey Courses

Crossing Cultures: International Culture in East Asia
East Asian Humanities
East Asian Societies and Cultures
Great Works of Literature I
Great Works of Literature II
The History of Modern Japan
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
Introduction to Asia
Rock in a Hard Place: Cultural Innovation in Contemporary Tibet
Traditional East Asia
Traditional East Asian Civilization

Visual Arts

Culture and Art in Contemporary Tibet – Updated Spring 2016
Early Chinese Calligraphy
Humanities 101: Cultural Traditions of the World
Tibetan Material History

World History

20th Century Tibetan History – Updated Spring 2016
A History of Tibet
Asia in Motion
Biography, Memory and Modern Tibet: Oral History on the Tibetan Plateau – Updated Spring 2016
Chinese Inner East Asia to 1949
Chûshingura and the Samurai Tradition
Circuits of Knowledge in Modern China
Colonial Encounters
The Cold War in East Asia
Constructing Culture: Imagine Tibet
Crossing Cultures: International Culture in East Asia
East Asian Humanities
Envisioning the Snowland: Film and TV in Tibet and Inner Asia – Updated Spring 2016
Exploring Culture in the Great Cities of Asia – Updated Spring 2016
Fashion Matters
Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japanese Society
The Global 1960s as History
The Great Wall of China
History of East Asian Martial Arts
The History of Modern Japan
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
Introduction to Asia
Introduction to Asian Civilization: Tibet
Japan and Globalization
Japan and the World
Japanese Society and Culture
Korea in East Asia and the World
Modern East Asia
Modern Global History: 1500 to the Present
Modern Mongolia
Mongolia’s Middle Ages
Mythical Histories in China and Japan
Popular Culture in China
Representing Chinese and Tibetan Relations in History: Competing Nationalisms in East Asia
Rock in a Hard Place: Cultural Innovation in Contemporary Tibet
Ruling Inner Asia from Beijing: Lamas and Emperors- Added Spring 2016
Space and Place in East Asia
Tibetan Civilization – Fall 2007 (Prof. Dreyfus)
Traditional East Asia
Traditional East Asian Civilization
Tibetan Civilization – Updated Spring 2016 (Prof. Tuttle)
Understanding Modern Tibet

World Literature

Biography, Memory and Modern Tibet: Oral History on the Tibetan Plateau – Updated Spring 2016
Bodyscapes: Writing Bodies in Late Imperial Fiction
Chinese Culture Through Film
East Asian Humanities
Emperors, Samurai, and the Men Who Love Them
Fashion Matters
Great Works of Literature I
Great Works of Literature II
Humanities 101: Cultural Traditions of the World
Humanities 102: Cultural Traditions of the World Since 1700
Introduction to Asian American Literature
Life-Writing in Tibetan Buddhist Literature – Updated Spring 2016
Popular Culture in China
Rock in a Hard Place: Cultural Innovation in Contemporary Tibet
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
Stories of (Dis)location: Chinese Female Subjectivity in Transition
To Paint Their Lives: Women’s Autobiographical Practices
Truth, Beauty and Alienation in Japanese Film and Fiction
The World of Banned Books

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