2008-2009 Graduate Courselist in Chinese Studies

Crs.#	Topic	Instructor	Quarter	Time	Description
Ethno musicology 158C	Studies in Chinese Instrumental Music	Helen Rees; Chi Li	Spring 2009	--	Combines academic study of music (including musical and cultural analysis, learning of different notation styles, etc) with a hands-on basic course of instruction in either erhu or dizi. Basic background in music recommended, but not required.
History 282A 282B	Texts of the Qing Metropolis	Andrea Goldman	Spring/ Winter 2009	--	Focus on close reading of primary source texts in conjunction with some secondary scholarship on related thematic topics.
C244A C244B	Topics in Chinese Linguistics	Hongyin Tao	Fall/ Winter 08/09	--	--
Art History 115B/ 258	Advanced Chinese Art	Lothar Von Falkenhausen	Ongoing (Fall 08)	--	--
Art History 260 B	Topic Undetermined	Lothar von Falkenhausen	Winter 2009	--	Graduate Seminar; For details please contact Professor von Falkenhausen.
Chin 211A 211B	Literature of the Southern Dynasties	Jack Chen	Winter Spring 2009	--	Introduction to the major writers of the Southern Dynasties (420-579), and important period for both the development of shi poetry and the formation of classical narrative and literary theory. Readings will be roughly divided between poetry and prose.
Public Policy 290	US-China Relations	Rick Baum	Winter 2009	--	--
PoliSci 242	Political Economy of Reform in Post-Mao China	Rick Baum	Spring 2009	--	--
Geog 286	Geography of Contemporary China	Cindy Fan	Ongoing (Fall 08)	--	--
Chin 205	Special Topic: the Global 1960s	Shu-mei Shih	Ongoing (Fall 08)	--	--
Art Hist	Gardens in Chinese Art	Hui-shu Lee	Winter 2009	--	More information to come
Art Hist	Methods of Calligraphy	Hui-shu Lee; Peter Sturman	Spring 2009	W	More information to come
Asian 220A 220B	Topics in cultural Studies: Memory and Public Culture	Robert Chi	Winter Spring 2009	--	Comparative and interdisciplinary investigation of theories, practices, and histories of memory culture. Although some case studies will focus on modern Asia, graduate students with specialties in all eras and areas are encouraged to enroll.
History 201L	China’s Long 20^th Century	Bin Wong	Winter 2009	--	This course examines China’s recent social, political and economic transformations from the perspective of changes that began to take place in the 1890s. Particular attention is paid to changes that take place in cities, in the countryside, and in the relations between them. Questions to be addressed include: how revolutionary was the set of changes to rural China that occurred after 1949 and how do these compare to the changes that have occurred since 1978? How did urban centers become the sites of foreign ideas and institutions and how did they combine with Chinese sensibilities and strategies of organizing daily life to produce a new kind of culture? How have relations between city and countryside changed over the course of the twentieth century—what has connected them and how have they been at times separated?
Soc 217A	Global Ethnography	C.K. Lee	Winter 2009	--	This course examines the ethnographic method, broadly defined, as a tool for the study of global processes and phenomena. We will begin by discussing the methodological logic and theoretical potentials of global and comparative ethnography. We then read exemplary works using this method in three sociological subfields: (1) transnational justice movements (e.g. fair trade, human rights, environmentalism), (2) migration of labor and capital (diaspora, global business corporations), and (3) the transformation of intimate lives (romance, marriage, motherhood, childhood). Contact Professor Lee if interested in this course
Soc 287	China Unbound: Comparative and Global Perspectives	C.K. Lee	Spring 2009	--	This is a seminar for graduate students who are interested in learning about China from comparative and theoretical perspectives. The premise is that China is less a bounded geographical entity than a configuration of historical and political economic experiences of relevance to social and historical inquiries. We will examine China through the lens of: socialism and transition to capitalism, global labor, authoritarianism, civil society and citizenship, the role of foreign capital in social development, structures of inequality, women and gender, ethnicity. There is no language or China-related course pre-requisite. Contact Professor Lee if interested in this course
Chin 242A 242B	Sima Qian’s Shiji	David Schaberg	Winter Spring 2009	--	Readings will include large portions of the original text and sample secondary readings on literary and historiographical interpretations. Contact Professor Schaberg if interested in this course
Chin 186	Archaeology in China	Li Min	Spring 2009	--	This course explores the major themes in social and cultural development of early China from the perspective of anthropological archaeology. Attention will be placed on the emergence of cities and core symbols for political authority, development of interregional interaction networks, and rise of the early civilizations in the Neolithic and early Bronze Age. This will be the second of three courses on archaeology of China, spanning from the Paleolithic to the historical period
	Paradigms of Chinese Archaeology	Li Min	Spring 2009	--	This seminar caters to graduate students whose research make use of archaeological data and interpretation, i.e. Chinese history, text, and philosophy. The aim is to provide the consumers of archaeological knowledge the ability of critical assessment of its assumptions, methodology, flaws, and potentials. The first component examines paradigm shifts in archaeology of China, from the Anyang excavations to the current practice. The second offer a critical reading of the key questions in the production of archaeological knowledge in China—time and typology, mortuary analysis, spatial pattern, text and context, historiography and material culture. The course consists reading of major archaeological publications (original and/or translation), major research publications on these reports from different perspectives, relevant methodological essays on archaeological analysis, and works from other parts of the world that help to approach the Chinese archaeological data in new light.

Center for Chinese Studies

Published: Thursday, October 30, 2008

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