This course will explore the art and archaeology of the eastern Iranian world, Central Asia and northern India before from the Achaemenid Perian Empire through the coming of Islam (ca. 550 BCE to 700 CE). It will focus, however, on the period between Alexander the Great and the Sasanian Empire, and thus on the Seleucid, Mauryan, Greco-Bactrian, Indo-Greek, Arsacid, and Kushan kingdoms and empires of Iran and South Asia. The course will thus study the impact of Persian, Hellenistic, Indian and Central Asian steppe nomadic visual and material cultures on these regions. One of its focal points will be on the development of Buddhist art in Afghanistan and Northern India (Gandhara), which selectively integrated aspects of Hellenistic visual culture to craft a visual message in a prestigious and globally intelligible idiom. 
Days: MO WE  12:00-01:20 PM

In recent decades, Japanese visual art has developed in manifold directions converging toward and diverging from transnational trends. This course highlights Japanese avant-gardism, women artists, environmental art, exhibitions, and post-disaster art. Media discussed include architecture, sculpture, performance, painting, and graphic design. We will investigate Japanese artistic responses to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and other historical events, the reassessment of traditional arts, artists' groups, the critique of popular culture, and artistic statements about environmental disasters. 
Days: TU TH  05:00-06:20 PM

Made in Germany, made in China: for 130 years, the two labels have kept trading places. Germany treated China as a testing ground for German models — colonial, spiritual, theatrical, socialist, economic — while China, at intervals, looked to Germany for models of its own renewal. From the “model colony” at Qingdao to a Ruhr coking plant dismantled, crated, and rebuilt in Shandong, the course follows these transfers and asks one question of every text and case: who changes whom? That is the only German phrase you will need this quarter — Wer wandelt wen?

The question rarely points in one direction for long. Working with speeches, treaties, translations, films, pamphlets, and policy documents, you will learn to track how models move — who exports them, who reworks them, who is changed in the exchange. And the story is never Germany’s alone: from the Yellow Peril to today’s debates over risk, the German encounter with China is where Europe’s ideas of China — and of itself — have taken their sharpest form. Whether Germany transformed China, or the reverse, is the question we shall be asking in this course.

(same as 24038 Euro St 100B, Lec A;   and 26730 History 114, Lec A)

Days: MO WE  02:00-03:20 PM

This course is an examination of the interaction between religious practice, doctrinal thoughts and visual imageries of Buddhism in China, Korea and Japan. It will also introduce recent scholarship on the cultural meaning and sociopolitical function of Buddhist monuments and objects in their own time as well as their modern historiography.''

Days: MWF  12:00-12:00 AM

This course is an overview of the linguistic features of modern Japanese. Its main goal is to provide students a systematic introduction to the nature and characteristics of the language, including: Genealogical tree of the Japanese language; Orthography (What are various writing systems used in modern Japanese?); Phonetics and phonology (How can we describe the sounds of Japanese words?); Morphology (How are Japanese words constructed and organized?); Regeneration of lexicon (How are new words created?); Syntax (How are Japanese sentences structured?); Semantics.

Through this course students will also explore the structure of the Japanese language and its historical development in conjunction with socio-cultural factors. Upon completion of this course, students should understand the idiosyncratic behavior of Japanese as a language.

(same as 65330 LSCI 165B, Lec B)

Days: MO WE  12:30-01:50 PM

This course surveys social, cultural, and political aspects of contemporary Korea.  We will examine and interpret some of the key cultural institutions and social changes including family and gender relationships, the impact of Korean War and national division, rapid industrialization and its legacies, social movement, labor and marriage migration, and culture industry.  We will also explore the life and society of North Korea and issues of North Korean refugees in South Korea. As part of class activities, we will follow closely some of the current events and interpret them considering what we learn in class for the purpose of enhancing the students’ critical skills to analyze Korean society. Course materials include scholarly articles, films, and literature.  No prerequisites required.

(same as 26112 GlblClt 103A, Lec A;   and 64530 Intl St 179, Lec C)

Days: MO WE  09:00-09:50 AM

From witty wordplay and mischievous jesters to political satire and slapstick comedy, this course dives into the many faces of humor in medieval Chinese literature. We’ll explore how laughter shaped identities of self and others through a wide range of sources, including jestbooks, philosophical writings, poems, religious tales, and plays. Along the way, we’ll rethink what it means to laugh: how humor can entertain, critique, enlighten, and challenge power.

Days: MO WE  12:30-01:50 PM

This course focuses on the experiences of women and men from roughly the end of the Heian period (794-1185) to the end of the 16th century. How did the roles and positions of women and men change in this time period, what were their problems, and how did they interact with each other and with the institutions and traditions that changed so markedly in the tradition from imperial to warrior rule? We will study women's and men's economic, social, political, and cultural roles, looking particularly at changes in women’s status, the spread of Buddhism, political movements and upheavals, warfare, entertainment, art, literature, and poetry.

(same as 26840 History 172G, Lec B;   and 31165 Rel Std 120, Lec A)

Days: MO WE  10:00-10:50 AM

Taiwanese authors began to write about countryfolk and rural Taiwan and call their stories “xiangtu” literature during the Japanese colonial era. Later under KMT martial law, a similar “xiangtu” literature movement emerged. Finally, yet another, analogous “xiangtu” literature boomed in the early twenty-first century. All three regularly are translated as “Taiwanese Nativism.” Students read examples of “xiangtu” fiction and related scholarship, consider themes unique or common to each, and formulate an understanding of how authors disclose hybridizing local culture and memory by representing and re-presenting countryfolk and rural Taiwan. Three sets of discussion questions and three in-class tests. No prerequisites.

Days: TU TH  02:00-03:20 PM

This course is an introduction to the society and culture of premodern Korea covering from the neolithic period to the Choson dynasty (1392-1910). It focuses on the history of visual culture discussing architecture, sculpture, ceramics, metal crafts, painting, printing, and textiles in diverse archaeological and historical contexts.

Days: MWF  12:00-12:00 AM

Made in Germany, Made in China
Euro Studies 100B; EAS 110; HIST 114 · Winter 2027 · Instructor: Prof. Broadbent

How have Germans understood China, and what have their accounts revealed about Germany itself? This course examines German Chinese encounters from the nineteenth century to the present. We consider attempts to change China alongside efforts to learn from it, asking what particular people and institutions sought from the relationship.

Through accounts of colonial Qingdao, translations of Chinese classics to films, political documents, and debates about trade, we examine how descriptions of China supported claims about progress, authority, and Germany’s international position. The course’s recurring question is Wer wandelt wen? —who changes whom? We ask what Germans and Chinese sought from one another, and how far these encounters met their expectations. Through this relationship, we also examine Germany’s understanding of its place in Europe: when did German actors claim to speak for Europe, and when did their interests differ from those of other European states?
Days: MO WE  02:00-03:20 PM

This course focuses on the experiences of women and men from roughly the end of the Heian period (794-1185) to the end of the 16th century. How did the roles and positions of women and men change in this time period, what were their problems, and how did they interact with each other and with the institutions and traditions that changed so markedly in the tradition from imperial to warrior rule? We will study women's and men's economic, social, political, and cultural roles, looking particularly at changes in women’s status, the spread of Buddhism, political movements and upheavals, warfare, entertainment, art, literature, and poetry. 

Same as EAS 155 (23030); and Rel STD 120 (31165 )
Days: MO WE  10:00-10:50 AM

This course will explore the art and archaeology of the eastern Iranian world, Central Asia and northern India before from the Achaemenid Perian Empire through the coming of Islam (ca. 550 BCE to 700 CE). It will focus, however, on the period between Alexander the Great and the Sasanian Empire, and thus on the Seleucid, Mauryan, Greco-Bactrian, Indo-Greek, Arsacid, and Kushan kingdoms and empires of Iran and South Asia. The course will thus study the impact of Persian, Hellenistic, Indian and Central Asian steppe nomadic visual and material cultures on these regions. One of its focal points will be on the development of Buddhist art in Afghanistan and Northern India (Gandhara), which selectively integrated aspects of Hellenistic visual culture to craft a visual message in a prestigious and globally intelligible idiom. 
Days: MO WE  12:00-01:20 PM

Emphasis/Category: Locating Asias (Nation, Culture, and Diaspora)
This course surveys social, cultural, and political aspects of contemporary Korea.  We will examine and interpret some of the key cultural institutions and social changes including family and gender relationships, the impact of Korean War and national division, rapid industrialization and its legacies, social movement, labor and marriage migration, and culture industry.  We will also explore the life and society of North Korea and issues of North Korean refugees in South Korea. As part of class activities, we will follow closely some of the current events and interpret them considering what we learn in class for the purpose of enhancing the students’ critical skills to analyze Korean society. Course materials include scholarly articles, films, and literature.  No prerequisites required.
Days: MO WE  09:00-09:50 AM