Consent of instructor required. An interdisciplinary examination of the relationship between war and gender. Perspectives from literature, history, art, anthropology, geology, and political science. Voicing Theory from the Margins. Mainland Chinese aesthetic modernity in the 1980s and 1990s examined through the study of narrative fiction and films.
Topics vary each semester.
East Asian Cultural Studies. The bestseller culture industry in post-Mao China. Topics include the classification of the high, low, and middle brow cultures of the bestseller, the publishing industry's response to the issues of subcultures, consumerism, and the post-Mao social imaginary, the consumption of politics, and tabooed subjects. Modern Japanese Literature and Culture. An examination of modern Japanese culture through a variety of media including literary texts, cultural representations, and films.