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Syllabi – Region

East Asia

Circuits of Knowledge in Modern China
Colonial Encounters
Competing Nationalisms in East Asia: Representing Chinese and Tibetan Relations in History – Updated Spring 2016
Critical Approaches to East Asia in the Social Sciences
Crossing Cultures: International Culture in East Asia
Development and Political Change in Asia Pacific
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
Emperors, Samurai, and the Men Who Love Them
Exploring Culture in the Great Cities of Asia – Updated Spring 2016
Fashion Matters
Gender in Contemporary East Asia – Updated Spring 2016
Globalization and the State in East Asia
History of East Asian Martial Arts
Introduction to Asia
Modern East Asia
The Modernization of the Samurai – Updated Fall 2015
Mythical Histories in China and Japan
National Cinema: East Asian Cinemas and Their Transnational Contexts
Philosophy East and West: An Introduction
Race and Ethnicity in East Asia and Beyond
The Short Story in East Asia and Beyond
Space and Place in East Asia
Traditional East Asia
Studying Closed Societies in East, North-East and South-East Asia: Tibet, Xinjiang and China’s Socialist Neighbors – Updated Spring 2016

Asian Diasporas

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

China

Bodyscapes: Writing Bodies in Late Imperial Fiction
China: Revolution and Reform
Chinese Culture Through Film
Chinese Foreign Policy
Chinese Inner East Asia to 1949
Chinese Politics
Chûshingura and the Samurai Tradition
Circuits of Knowledge in Modern China
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
Contemporary Chinese Culture and Society
Early Chinese Calligraphy
Economic Organization and Development of China
Ethnicity and Gender in China and Tibet
Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japanese Society
The Great Wall of China
Modern Chinese Politics
Popular Culture in China
Representing Chinese and Tibetan Relations in History: Competing Nationalisms in East Asia
Samurai, Cowboy, Shaolin Monk: National Myths and Transnational Forms in Literature and Film
Stories of (Dis)location: Chinese Female Subjectivity in Transition

Japan

The History of Modern Japan
Introduction to Japanese Cinema: Directors, Genres, History
Japan and Globalization
Japan and the World
Japanese Government and Politics: Conflict and Consensus
Japanese Society and Culture
The Modernization of the Samurai – Updated Fall 2015
Ozu and World Cinema
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

Korea

Korea in East Asia and the World

Tibet

20th Century Tibetan History – Updated Spring 2016
A History of Tibet
Biography, Memory and Modern Tibet: Oral History on the Tibetan Plateau – Updated Spring 2016
Competing Nationalisms in East Asia: Representing Chinese and Tibetan Relations in History – Updated Spring 2016
Constructing Culture: Imagine Tibet
Culture and Art in Contemporary Tibet – Updated Spring 2016
Envisioning the Snowland: Film and TV in Tibet and Inner Asia – Updated Spring 2016
Ethnicity and Gender in China and Tibet
The Great Wall of China
Introduction to Asian Civilization: Tibet
Life-Writing in Tibetan Buddhist Literature – Updated Spring 2016
Local History in Tibet – Updated Spring 2016
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
Ruling Inner Asia from Beijing: Lamas and Emperors- Added Spring 2016
Tibetan Civilization – Fall 2007 (Prof. Dreyfus)
Tibetan Civilization – Updated Spring 2016 (Prof. Tuttle)
Tibetan Material History
Studying Closed Societies in East, North-East and South-East Asia: Tibet, Xinjiang and China’s Socialist Neighbors – Updated Spring 2016
Understanding Modern Tibet

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