Course Listings, Fall 2008

EAS 190 Freshman Seminar: Mind and Body in China - Cancelled
Section 000, TT 10:00-11:15
Same as CHN 190 Limit 15
EAS 190 Limit 3
Instructor: Wan-Li Ho (Same as CHN 190)

Content: This course will explore the theoretical and practical aspects of the concept of "Mind and Body" in Chinese religious traditions. As we explore how these traditional Chinese views fit into a modern context, students will have hands-on-experience with this ancient widsom, such as Qigong, Tai-chi, seated and moving meditation, acupuncture, traditional Chinese medicine, spiritual practice in nature, and Daoist methods of enhancing longevity.

Required Texts: TBA

Particulars: There will be short written assignments, a group project on developing practical methods of mind/body cultivation and a research paper comparing Chinese and other conceptions of mind and body.

EAS 250WR - Introduction to East Asian Studies
TuTh 10:00-11:15
Instructor: Eric Reinders

This interdisciplinary course introduces students to major topics in East Asian Studies as well as relevant methods and approaches. This is a required course for East Asian Studies majors and minors, but is open to students in other disciplines. The course has a variety of themes, including Orientalism, Colonialism, globalization, and other “East/West” issues; poetry and visual culture; and religion in modern East Asia.

The course also emphasizes the development of skills in writing, research, and critical thinking. We will also deal with topics geared towards helping the student become proficient in East Asian Studies: a general review of writing systems; important reference works and resources; major institutions of East Asian studies; an introduction to the research interests and teaching areas of EAS faculty at Emory; and a history of the study of East Asia in the West.

Required books may include: Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook; Ryusaku Tsunoda et al, ed.s, Sources of Japanese Tradition. vol. 1; James Watson (Editor), Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia; Bill Porter, Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits; Sharon Kinsella, Adult Manga: Culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society.

EAS 270WR Introduction to Japanese Culture
Section 000 TT 1:00-2:15
Same as JPN 270WR Limit 10
Same as ASIA 270WR Limit 2
Same as EAS 270WR Limit 3
Instructor: Cheryl Crowley

Content: An introduction to aspects of the study of the culture of modern Japan. We will explore such issues as writing and writing systems, gender, memory and history, geography and the environment, science, aesthetics, and the formation of national identity. No background in Japanese studies is required. Special attention will be given to these questions: When is Japanese culture? How do the Japanese view their culture and tradition, and how is it viewed by non-Japanese? How have these views changed throughout history?

Texts:Texts will include (but not be limited to) Helen McCullough, Genji and Heike, Ryusaku Tsunoda, et al., eds., Sources of Japanese Tradition; Yoshida Kenko, Essays in Idleness, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai, Conrad Totman, Japan Before Perry, and films.

Particulars:  No Prerequisite.

EAS 272WR Literature in Early and Imperial China
Section 000 TT 10:00-11:15
Same as CHN 272WR Limit 9
Same as ASIA 375WR Limit 3
Same as CPLT 333WR Limit 3
EAS 272WR Limit 3
Instructor: Joachim Kurtz

Content: An introduction to Chinese literature from its beginnings through the end of the imperial era in 1911. Focusing on close readings of selected pieces in their literary and historical contexts, we will analyze representative works of various eras, writers, and genres. The aim of the course is to illustrate the beauty and diversity of classical Chinese literary voices and poetic sensibilities, and enable students to come to adequate terms with literary texts that were produced in a cultural environment often portrayed as being ‘worlds apart’ from our own. All texts will be studied in English translation.

Required texts:
Owen, Stephen. An Anthology of Chinese Literature. Beginnings to 1911. New York: W. W. Norton 1996.
Mair, Victor H. (ed.). The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature. New York: Columbia University Press 1994.
Further readings will be made available on online reserve.

Particulars: No knowledge of Chinese required. Evaluation based on class participation, written assignments, research paper, midterm and final.

EAS 364WR Intro to Modern Japanese Literature
Section 000 TT 2:30-3:45
Same as JPN 372WR Limit 10
Same as ASIA 372WR Limit 2
EAS 364WR Limit 3
Instructor: Julia Bullock

Surveys Japanese literature from the mid-19th century to the present. Introduces the nature and range of literary genres as they developed in the context of Japan's confrontation with modernity. The course opens for discussion issues in contemporary literary theory in order to understand aspects of Japanese literature and culture, such as gender, nationalism, intertextuality, Orientalism, and identity. Texts are in English translation.

EAS 371 East Asian Musical Cultures
Same as MUS 371
Instructor: Tong Soon Lee
EAS Limit: 3


EAS 375 Contemporary Chinese Politics
T/Th 11:30-12:45
Same as: POLS 375: Limit 20
EAS 375: Limit 5
Instructor: Mary Brown Bullock

Content: This course reviews Chinese politics during the Communist era with particular focus on the political and economic changes that have taken place in China since the death of Mao Zedong in l976. Key political questions include the changing nature of the state and the role of the Communist Party, the debate over the nature of political reform, the role of public protest movements and the partial retreat of the state from the lives of the people. China’s transition from a socialist to a market economy and its evolving global economic and political role will also be considered.

Text: (Likely) Kenneth Liberthal, Governing China: From Revolution Through Reform, 2nd edition
Peter Hays, China's New Nationalism: Pride, Politics and Diplomacy Elizabeth J. Perry and Mark Selden, eds., Chinese Society: Change, Conflict , and Resistence, 2nd Edition Susan Shirk: China: A Fragile Superpower Additional readings will be on electronic reserve. One or more documentary videos will also be assigned.

Particulars: This course will include lectures and active class discussion. In addition to a mid-term and final exam there will be several short writing assignments, a bibliographic essay, and responsibility for a class-led discussion.

EAS 378WR Postwar Japan Through Its Media
Section 000 TT 4:00-5:15
Same as JPN 378WR Limit 10
Same as ASIA 378WR Limit 2
EAS 378WR Limit 3
Instructor: Julia Bullock

This course examines the way the postwar Japanese experience has been reflected (and constructed) through various types of popular media. Through film, television, magazines, newspapers, music, and manga, we will explore the various ways in which Japanese society has narrated its experiences of recovery and rebuilding after World War II, and the role these media sources have played in this reconstruction. Whenever possible, class discussions will incorporate methodologies of cultural criticism that elaborate the relationships between media, representation, and national or racial identity.

EAS 385: Modernity and Social Change in East Asia
Section 000 Hyun Song Lee TT 2:30-3:45 Limit 6
Same as REALC 375
Same as SOC 389
4 credits

Content: The basic objective of this course is to understand modern transformation in East Asian Countries (primarily China, Japan, Taiwan, South and North Korea). This course will examine political, economic and cultural development of such countries from a comparative perspective. Throughout this course students could find out the commonality and differences among them. In the first half of the course the historical makings of societies in the region mostly from a macro-perspective will be compared. In the second half, the current shape of everyday lives and cultures from a micro-perspective will be compared based upon the understanding of historical and macro context. In those works students could understand how and why they diverged in their 

historical path to modernity, and what still remains to be common among them. This course is not aimed to survey a general history of those countries, but to discuss major issues in social change and cultural patterns in the region from a comparative perspective. 

Texts: TBA

EAS 394S: Screening China
Section 000 TT 1:00-2:15 Limit 2
Same as CHN 394S Limit 7
Same as ASIA 375S Limit 2
Same as CPLT 389S Limit 2
Same as FILM 394S Limit 2
Instructor: Rong Cai

***Mandatory film screenings on Monday evenings at 6 p.m.

Content: The course explores the history and development of Chinese cinema since the early twentieth century. It discusses "film in China" and "China in film" by focusing on the function of cinema and the continual reconfigurations of time, space, gender, and history in Chinese films under different historical conditions in the past hundred years.

Texts: TBA

Particulars: Several one-page film response papers; two presentations; and a final paper (8-10 pages) of film analysis and discussion of a representative feature of Chinese cinema (research required). Attendance and active participation will count in determining final grades.

EAS 471SWR Tradition in Modern China
Section 000 TT 2:30-3:45
CHN 471SWR Limit 9
Same as ASIA 375SWR Limit 3
Same as HIST 385 Limit 3
EAS 471SWR Limit 3
Instructor: Joachim Kurtz

Content: This seminar examines the multiple ways in which traditions have been attacked, defended, revised, and reinvented in twentieth-century China. Our aim is to disentangle the anxieties, interests, and rhetorical devices that have shaped modern Chinese answers to the question of historical continuity. In our explorations, we will scrutinize representations of the past in scholarly works, including histories of Chinese science and thought, as well as depictions of historical events and personalities in historiography, film, fiction, music, monuments, and art.

Required Texts: Course readings on Reserves Direct.

Particulars: Prerequisite: Completion of one China or East-Asia related seminar or lecture course. Knowledge of Chinese is desirable but not required. Evaluation based on class participation, written assignments, exams, research paper.

History 489SWR: JR/SR Colloquium: History of Western Medicine in China

Mary Brown Bullock; MAX:12
http://www.history.emory.edu/undergrad/atlas/fall08.htm

Content: This course reviews the history of Western medicine in China from the Jesuits to the SARS epidemic with particular focus on the late l9th and 20 th centuries. Themes to be explored include the modern evolution of Western medicine and public health, the pattern of its introduction to China, the changing relationship between traditional Chinese and Western medicine, the Western model of hospitals, medical education and public health, and the politics of medicine and public health in both the Nationalist and Communist eras. Critiques of Western medicine in China over time will be explored as well as China’s current health care challenges. The course will conclude with a discussion of the nature of China’s modern system of medicine and public health and its importance in the global health system.

Texts: Two books are assigned and are available for purchase in the bookstore: Roy Porter, Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine and Arthur Kleinman and James L. Watson, SARS in China: Prelude to Pandemic? The majority of the readings will comprise articles and chapters of books which are available on e-reserve. Some additional readings will be assigned. Readings are designed to introduce the student to a variety of perspectives on the history of Western medicine in China.

Particulars: Writing: This is a writing intensive course. Students will keep a writing journal that reflects analytically on the weekly reading assignment and class discussion. They will also write a major 20 page research paper. With an emphasis on the process of writing, students will prepare preliminary thesis statements, an outline and a full (graded) draft before the final paper is submitted. Details on the research paper will be provided. Oral presentations: The articulation of good questions and the exchange of ideas is central to the writing process.

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