printer friendly pageCHINGEN 91: Traditional East Asian Culture: China
Required for Chinese and Japanese majors. Introduction to Chinese culture in a historical context. Topics include political and socioeconomic institutions, religion, ethics, education, and art and literature.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DBHum, GER:ECGlobalCom
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Egan, R. (PI)
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Zhang, Y. (PI)
CHINGEN 133: Literature in 20th-Century China (CHINGEN 233)
(Graduate students register for 233.) How modern Chinese culture evolved from tradition to modernity; the century-long drive to build a modern nation state and to carry out social movements and political reforms. How the individual developed modern notions of love, affection, beauty, and moral relations with community and family. Sources include fiction and film clips. WIM course.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 4-5
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UG Reqs: GER:DBHum, GER:ECGlobalCom
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Wang, B. (PI)
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Zhou, C. (PI)
CHINGEN 135: Chinese Bodies, Chinese Selves (CHINGEN 235)
Interdisciplinary. The body as a contested site of representational practices, identity politics, cultural values, and social norms. Body images, inscriptions, and practices in relation to health, morality, gender, sexuality, nationalism, consumerism, and global capitalism in China and Taiwan. Sources include anthropological, literary, and historical studies, and fiction and film. No knowledge of Chinese required.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3-5
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Festa, P. (PI)
CHINGEN 141: Emergence of Chinese Civilization from Caves to Palaces (ARCHLGY 111, CHINGEN 241)
Introduces processes of cultural evolution from the Paleolithic to the Three Dynasties in China. By examining archaeological remains, ancient inscriptions, and traditional texts, four major topics will be discussed: origins of modern humans, beginnings of agriculture, development of social stratification, and emergence of states and urbanism.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3-4
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UG Reqs: GER:DBHum
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Liu, L. (PI)
CHINGEN 169: A History of Chinese Drama (CHINGEN 269)
A survey of Chinese drama from its origins to late imperial China. In addition to tracing the historical development of Chinese drama, we will also examine both plays and traditional criticism of drama in an attempt to understand the aesthetic norms and moral values that went into its process of development, in other words, how Chinese performed, read, watched and evaluated plays.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3-4
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Llamas, R. (PI)
CHINGEN 194: The History and Culture of Peking Opera (CHINGEN 294)
Explores the history and culture of Peking opera from its regional origins to a major national form. It will focus on genre formation, the professional and social position of actors and the political role of Peking opera. In addition to academic texts, we will read memoirs, biographies and watch videos and movies.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3-4
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Llamas, R. (PI)
CHINGEN 200: Directed Readings in Asian Languages
For Chinese literature. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (Staff)
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
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Units: 1-12
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Repeatable for credit
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Egan, R. (PI)
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Lewis, M. (PI)
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Liu, L. (PI)
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Sun, C. (PI)
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Instructors:
Egan, R. (PI)
;
Lewis, M. (PI)
;
Liu, L. (PI)
;
Sun, C. (PI)
;
Wang, B. (PI)
;
Wang, J. (PI)
;
Zhou, Y. (PI)
CHINGEN 233: Literature in 20th-Century China (CHINGEN 133)
(Graduate students register for 233.) How modern Chinese culture evolved from tradition to modernity; the century-long drive to build a modern nation state and to carry out social movements and political reforms. How the individual developed modern notions of love, affection, beauty, and moral relations with community and family. Sources include fiction and film clips. WIM course.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 4-5
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Wang, B. (PI)
CHINGEN 235: Chinese Bodies, Chinese Selves (CHINGEN 135)
Interdisciplinary. The body as a contested site of representational practices, identity politics, cultural values, and social norms. Body images, inscriptions, and practices in relation to health, morality, gender, sexuality, nationalism, consumerism, and global capitalism in China and Taiwan. Sources include anthropological, literary, and historical studies, and fiction and film. No knowledge of Chinese required.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3-5
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Festa, P. (PI)
CHINGEN 241: Emergence of Chinese Civilization from Caves to Palaces (ARCHLGY 111, CHINGEN 141)
Introduces processes of cultural evolution from the Paleolithic to the Three Dynasties in China. By examining archaeological remains, ancient inscriptions, and traditional texts, four major topics will be discussed: origins of modern humans, beginnings of agriculture, development of social stratification, and emergence of states and urbanism.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3-4
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Liu, L. (PI)
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