EALC8622 - Advanced Classical Chinese II

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Advanced Classical Chinese II
Term
2025A
Syllabus URL
Subject area
EALC
Section number only
401
Section ID
EALC8622401
Course number integer
8622
Meeting times
TR 3:30 PM-4:59 PM
Meeting location
MEYH B2
Level
graduate
Instructors
Ori Tavor
Description
Close reading and interpretation of texts in various styles of classical Chinese drawn from the Han, Wei, Tang, and Song periods. Focus on strengthening students' reading ability in classical Chinese. Attention to questions of style, rhetoric, and syntax. It is preferred, but not required, that students take Advanced Classical Chinese I first.
Course number only
8622
Cross listings
CHIN1155401, CHIN8622401, EALC3624401
Use local description
No

EALC7771 - History of US-Korea Relations

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
History of US-Korea Relations
Term
2025A
Subject area
EALC
Section number only
401
Section ID
EALC7771401
Course number integer
7771
Meeting times
T 3:30 PM-6:29 PM
Meeting location
GLAB 100
Level
graduate
Instructors
Juyoung Lee
Description
This course explores the relationship between the Unites States and Korea by examining the roles and contributions of a diverse range of individuals. While the US-Korea relationship is often studied from a top-down perspective, focusing on high-level officials and grand diplomatic agreements, this course analyzes the stories of individuals with different backgrounds. It includes not only diplomats and politicians, but also businesspeople, immigrants, students, and others who have been overlooked in traditional diplomatic history, yet all contributed to the formation of US-Korea relations. By listening to these varied voices, students will have a better understanding of how micro-interactions shaped the broader cultural, political, and social context of US-Korea relations. Each week, we will engage in primary source or media analysis activities in class, utilizing materials in different formats to familiarize students with various historical methodologies. By analyzing a variety of source materials¬—such as memoirs, novels, diaries, films, and more—students will explore how everyday lives of individuals are entangled with major historical events, and moreover, how they are remembered and forgotten today.
Course number only
7771
Cross listings
EALC3771401
Use local description
No

EALC7731 - China's Ethnic Frontiers: Tibet, Xinjiang, Mongolia, and beyond

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
China's Ethnic Frontiers: Tibet, Xinjiang, Mongolia, and beyond
Term
2025A
Subject area
EALC
Section number only
401
Section ID
EALC7731401
Course number integer
7731
Meeting times
R 1:45 PM-4:44 PM
Meeting location
36MK 107
Level
graduate
Instructors
Dotno Pount
Description
This course offers a unique exploration of China’s ethnic frontiers, with a special focus on the North and the Western regions. We will delve into major works in the field that delve into topics such as the politics and discourse of ethnicity, nationality, religion, minority status and indigeneity, patriotism/loyalty, historiography, geography, cultural expression, modernization, settler colonialism, imperialism, natural resources, and other related subjects within the context of modern China. Our journey will span the historical periods from the 17th century to the present.
The readings for this course are eclectic, drawing from various disciplines. This interdisciplinary approach provides in-depth insights into the history and forms of expression of pluralism and the tensions it creates in China. We will engage with the works of historians, anthropologists, political scientists, and social theorists, fostering a broad perspective on some of the most relevant issues of our time.
Course number only
7731
Cross listings
EALC3731401
Use local description
No

EALC7681 - Introduction to Classical Mongolian

Status
X
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Introduction to Classical Mongolian
Term
2025A
Subject area
EALC
Section number only
401
Section ID
EALC7681401
Course number integer
7681
Meeting times
CANCELED
Level
graduate
Instructors
Narantsetseg Tseveendulam
Description
In this class students who already know some modern Mongolian in the Cyrillic script will learn how to transfer that knowledge to the reading of first post-classical, and then classical texts written in the vertical or Uyghur-Mongolian script. Topics covered will include the Mongolian alphabetic script, dealing with ambiguous readings, scholarly transcription, vowel harmony and syllable structure, post-classical and classical forms of major declensions, converbs, verbal nouns, and finite verbs, syntax, pronunciation and scribal readings. Readings will be adjusted to interests, but as a rule will include selections from short stories, diaries, chronicles, Buddhist translations, government documents, popular didactic poetry, ritual texts, and traditional narratives. Students will also be introduced to the most important reference works helpful in reading classical and post-classical Mongolian.
Course number only
7681
Cross listings
EALC3681401
Use local description
No

EALC7622 - Introduction to Classical Chinese II

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Introduction to Classical Chinese II
Term
2025A
Syllabus URL
Subject area
EALC
Section number only
401
Section ID
EALC7622401
Course number integer
7622
Meeting times
MW 1:45 PM-3:14 PM
Meeting location
WILL 201
Level
graduate
Instructors
Paul Rakita Goldin
Description
Continuation of Introduction to Classical Chinese I, which is the only prerequisite for this course. Upon completion of Shadick, readings in a wide selection of texts with Chinese commentaries may be taken up. These readings are in part chosen to reflect student interest. This is the second half of a year-long course. Those who enroll must take both semesters.
Course number only
7622
Cross listings
CHIN1055401, EALC3622401
Use local description
No

EALC7531 - Chinese Law and Society

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Chinese Law and Society
Term
2025A
Subject area
EALC
Section number only
401
Section ID
EALC7531401
Course number integer
7531
Meeting times
W 3:30 PM-6:29 PM
Meeting location
COHN 204
Level
graduate
Instructors
Teemu Ruskola
Description
This course is an introduction to the study of law and society in China in a comparative and global context. We will begin by considering the tradition of imperial Chinese law and its social and philosophical foundations. We will then turn to the confrontation between the Qing empire and Euro-American imperial powers in the nineteenth century and the attendant collision between European and Chinese notions of sovereignty. Next, we will consider early twentieth-century law reforms as the Qing empire was transformed into the constitutional form of a modern republic, followed by the introduction of socialist law and the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. The course will conclude with post-Mao reforms and their implications for the future of Chinese law and society. Throughout the course, we will pay attention to the use of historical and comparative methods. What are the potentials and liabilities of using law as an analytical category in cross-cultural study? What happens when “Eastern” and “Western” legal cultures come in contact with each other? How is law related to capitalism and socialism? How does law structure political and socio-economic relations globally? How does law produce as well as constrain subjects and identities? What is the relationship between law, gender, and sexuality?
Course number only
7531
Cross listings
EALC3531401
Use local description
No

EALC7522 - Medicine and Healing in China

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Medicine and Healing in China
Term
2025A
Subject area
EALC
Section number only
401
Section ID
EALC7522401
Course number integer
7522
Meeting times
TR 8:30 AM-9:59 AM
Meeting location
DRLB 2C6
Level
graduate
Instructors
Hsiao-Wen Cheng
Description
This course explores medicine and healing culture in Chinese history, including the introduction of Western/biomedicine to China since the 17th century. We start from the early 20th century, when we witnessed the major confrontation between Chinese medical traditions and the modernizing Chinese state. We go back in time two thousand years ago and move chronologically to highlight plurality and changes. In the second half of the semester we come back to the 20th–21st centuries and investigate the practice and policies of public health in China and Chinese East Asia, including the recent history of SARS and COVID-19 in Taiwan.
This is an upper-level class with substantial reading and written assignment each week. The first half of each class will be discussions of the assigned readings. No prior knowledge of China or Chinese history is required.
Course number only
7522
Cross listings
EALC3522401, HSOC3326401
Use local description
No

EALC7501 - East Asian Medical History

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
301
Title (text only)
East Asian Medical History
Term
2025A
Subject area
EALC
Section number only
301
Section ID
EALC7501301
Course number integer
7501
Meeting times
T 12:00 PM-2:59 PM
Meeting location
COHN 237
Level
graduate
Instructors
Hsiao-Wen Cheng
Description
This graduate seminar introduces students to critical and up-to-date scholarship on East Asian medical history. The focus will depend on students’ interest and new scholarship of the time, but in principle we will cover multiple regions/culture in East Asia in both premodern and modern times. Although the focus is medical history, we will also introduce essential and related questions in the history of science of East Asia, such as the “Needham Question.” The goal is to equip graduate students in East Asian studies and in history of science/medicine with the ability to teach surveys on East Asian medical history and to familiarize them with the important issues and methods that have developed in this field.
Course number only
7501
Use local description
No

EALC7351 - Japanese Performance Aesthetics: To Anime from Zen

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Japanese Performance Aesthetics: To Anime from Zen
Term
2025A
Subject area
EALC
Section number only
401
Section ID
EALC7351401
Course number integer
7351
Meeting times
F 1:45 PM-4:44 PM
Meeting location
COLL 219
Level
graduate
Instructors
Ayako Kano
Description
Japan has one of the richest and most varied theatrical traditions in the world, and is a veritable museum of classical and contemporary performances practices. This seminar is designed to introduce students to several major aesthetic principles that are embodied in different theatrical genres. The students will be taken deep into several important texts of the performance tradition, as well as to various places on Penn campus and in Philadelphia in order to fully experience these aesthetics:
1. The “zen” aesthetic of the medieval noh theater characterized by minimalism and Buddhist contemplation.
2. The “queer” aesthetic of the early modern kabuki theater characterized by gender impersonation and exaggeration.
3. The “grotesque” aesthetic of modern butoh performance characterized by distorted physicality and apocalyptic scenarios.
4. The “anime” aesthetic of the all-female Takarazuka Revue and of postmodern theater characterized by parody and fan-generated culture.
Course number only
7351
Cross listings
EALC3351401
Use local description
No

EALC7141 - Ukiyo-e: Beyond the Great Wave

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Ukiyo-e: Beyond the Great Wave
Term
2025A
Syllabus URL
Subject area
EALC
Section number only
401
Section ID
EALC7141401
Course number integer
7141
Meeting times
T 1:45 PM-4:44 PM
Meeting location
VANP 623
Level
graduate
Instructors
Julie N Davis
Description
In this seminar we will take a closer look at the prints, paintings, and illustrated books produced in the genre known as "ukiyo-e," the "pictures of the floating world." We'll begin by asking how the "Great Wave" became a global icon and we'll bust the myth of prints being used as wrapping paper. As we learn the history of the genre, from 1600 to ca. 1850, we'll also make critical interventions into that narrative, asking how "ukiyo-e" became a genre within a larger artistic sphere; how publishers collaborated with designers to construct artistic personae; how illustrated books contributed to knowledge formations; and how concepts of authenticity and authorship remain critical to its understanding. This course will also consider how internet resources affect our understanding of the work of art. Students need not have any Japanese language skills, but should have taken related courses in art history or East Asian Studies. Advanced undergraduates and graduate students preferred.
Course number only
7141
Cross listings
ARTH5130401
Use local description
No