CHINGEN 51:
Chinese Calligraphy
Practice in writing Chinese characters with a brush, emphasizing standardized script and the composition of the characters and improving handwriting. Limited enrollment. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: CHINLANG 3 or equivalent.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
for credit
CHINGEN 70N:
Marvelous Creatures: Animals and Humans in Chinese Literature
Preference to freshmen. Read novels and short stories as well as view films that feature an array of marvelous creatures from late imperial times to the contemporary era. What animal imageries and metaphors can reveal about the Chinese and how they relate to the natural, supernatural, and human worlds across the centuries.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II, WAY-ER
CHINGEN 73:
Chinese Language, Culture, and Society (CHINGEN 173)
Topics include the origin of Chinese, development of dialects, emergence of the standard, preferred formulaic expressions, the evolution of writing, and language policies in greater China. Prerequisite: CHINLANG 1 or 1B, or equivalent.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
CHINGEN 91:
Traditional East Asian Culture: China
Required for Chinese and Japanese majors. Introduction to Chinese culture in a historical context. Topics include political and socioeconomic institutions, religion, ethics, education, and art and literature.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
CHINGEN 117:
Worship of Buddhist Images in Medieval China (CHINGEN 217)
Explores Buddhist image-making practices from Han to Tang China from a trans-Asian perspective. Topics include characteristics of earliest Chinese images (vis-a-vis those of Indian subcontinent), their growth as a dominant artistic genre, inroads of foreign images and Chinese interactions, constructions of Buddhist ritual spaces such as monumental pagodas and cave temples, cross-cultural contexts of image worship.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
CHINGEN 118:
Constructing National History in East Asian Archaeology (CHINGEN 218)
Archaeological studies in contemporary East Asia share a common concern, to contribute to building a national narrative and cultural identity. This course focuses on case studies from China, Korea, and Japan, examining the influence of particular social-political contexts, such as nationalism, on the practice of archaeology in modern times.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
CHINGEN 119:
Popular Culture and Casino Capitalism in China (CHINGEN 219)
Examination of different forms of Chinese popular culture used to gauge or control fate and uncertainty, from geomancy and qigong to ghost culture and mahjong. Ways in which Chinese are incorporating these cultural forms into the informal economy to get rich quick: rotating credit associations, stock market speculation, pyramid schemes, underground lotteries, counterfeiting. Impact of casino capitalism on Chinese culture and social life today.
Last offered: Winter 2010
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
CHINGEN 121:
Classical Chinese Rituals (CHINGEN 221)
Meanings of rituals regarding death, wedding, war, and other activities; historical transformations of classical rituals throughout the premodern period; legacy of the Chinese ritual tradition. Sources include canonical texts.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
CHINGEN 131:
Chinese Poetry in Translation (CHINGEN 231)
From the first millennium B.C. through the 12th century. Traditional verse forms representative of the classical tradition; highlights of the most distinguished poets. History, language, and culture. Chinese language not required.
Last offered: Winter 2011
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom
CHINGEN 132:
Chinese Fiction and Drama in Translation (CHINGEN 232)
From early times to the 18th century, emphasizing literary and thematic discussions of major works in English translation.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom
CHINGEN 133:
Literature in 20th-Century China (CHINGEN 233)
(Graduate students register for 233.) How modern Chinese culture evolved from tradition to modernity; the century-long drive to build a modern nation state and to carry out social movements and political reforms. How the individual developed modern notions of love, affection, beauty, and moral relations with community and family. Sources include fiction and film clips. WIM course.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II
CHINGEN 136:
The Chinese Family (CHINGEN 236)
History and literature. Institutional, ritual, affective, and symbolic aspects. Perspectives of gender, class, and social change.
Last offered: Spring 2011
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
CHINGEN 139:
Cultural Revolution as Literature (CHINGEN 239)
Literary form, aesthetic sensibility, and themes of trauma, identity, and the limits of representation in major literary works concerning the Cultural Revolution in China. Recommended: background in Chinese history or literature.
Last offered: Spring 2008
| Units: 4
CHINGEN 140:
Chinese Justice: Law, Morality, and Literature (CHINGEN 240)
Explores the relationship between law and morality in Chinese literature, culture, and society. Readings include court case romances, crime plays, detective novels, and legal dramas from traditional era and modern and contemporary periods. Prior coursework in Chinese history, civilization, or literature is recommended. All readings are in English.
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-GlobalCom
CHINGEN 141:
Emergence of Chinese Civilization from Caves to Palaces (ARCHLGY 111, CHINGEN 241)
Introduces processes of cultural evolution from the Paleolithic to the Three Dynasties in China. By examining archaeological remains, ancient inscriptions, and traditional texts, four major topics will be discussed: origins of modern humans, beginnings of agriculture, development of social stratification, and emergence of states and urbanism.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
CHINGEN 150:
Sex, Gender, and Power in Modern China (CHINGEN 250)
Investigates how sex, gender, and power are entwined in the Chinese experience of modernity. Topics include anti-footbinding campaigns, free love/free sex, women's mobilization in revolution and war, the new Marriage Law of 1950, Mao's iron girls, postsocialist celebrations of sensuality, and emergent queer politics. Readings range from feminist theory to China-focused historiography, ethnography, memoir, biography, fiction, essay, and film. All course materials are in English.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
CHINGEN 173:
Chinese Language, Culture, and Society (CHINGEN 73)
Topics include the origin of Chinese, development of dialects, emergence of the standard, preferred formulaic expressions, the evolution of writing, and language policies in greater China. Prerequisite: CHINLANG 1 or 1B, or equivalent.
| Units: 4
CHINGEN 198:
Senior Colloquium in Chinese Studies
Students research, write, and present a capstone essay or honors thesis.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1
CHINGEN 200:
Directed Readings in Asian Languages
For Chinese literature. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (Staff)
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-12
| Repeatable
for credit
CHINGEN 201:
Chinese Proseminar
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
CHINGEN 217:
Worship of Buddhist Images in Medieval China (CHINGEN 117)
Explores Buddhist image-making practices from Han to Tang China from a trans-Asian perspective. Topics include characteristics of earliest Chinese images (vis-a-vis those of Indian subcontinent), their growth as a dominant artistic genre, inroads of foreign images and Chinese interactions, constructions of Buddhist ritual spaces such as monumental pagodas and cave temples, cross-cultural contexts of image worship.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
CHINGEN 218:
Constructing National History in East Asian Archaeology (CHINGEN 118)
Archaeological studies in contemporary East Asia share a common concern, to contribute to building a national narrative and cultural identity. This course focuses on case studies from China, Korea, and Japan, examining the influence of particular social-political contexts, such as nationalism, on the practice of archaeology in modern times.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
CHINGEN 219:
Popular Culture and Casino Capitalism in China (CHINGEN 119)
Examination of different forms of Chinese popular culture used to gauge or control fate and uncertainty, from geomancy and qigong to ghost culture and mahjong. Ways in which Chinese are incorporating these cultural forms into the informal economy to get rich quick: rotating credit associations, stock market speculation, pyramid schemes, underground lotteries, counterfeiting. Impact of casino capitalism on Chinese culture and social life today.
Last offered: Winter 2010
| Units: 3-4
CHINGEN 221:
Classical Chinese Rituals (CHINGEN 121)
Meanings of rituals regarding death, wedding, war, and other activities; historical transformations of classical rituals throughout the premodern period; legacy of the Chinese ritual tradition. Sources include canonical texts.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| Units: 3-5
CHINGEN 231:
Chinese Poetry in Translation (CHINGEN 131)
From the first millennium B.C. through the 12th century. Traditional verse forms representative of the classical tradition; highlights of the most distinguished poets. History, language, and culture. Chinese language not required.
Last offered: Winter 2011
| Units: 4
CHINGEN 232:
Chinese Fiction and Drama in Translation (CHINGEN 132)
From early times to the 18th century, emphasizing literary and thematic discussions of major works in English translation.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| Units: 4
CHINGEN 233:
Literature in 20th-Century China (CHINGEN 133)
(Graduate students register for 233.) How modern Chinese culture evolved from tradition to modernity; the century-long drive to build a modern nation state and to carry out social movements and political reforms. How the individual developed modern notions of love, affection, beauty, and moral relations with community and family. Sources include fiction and film clips. WIM course.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
CHINGEN 235:
Chinese Bodies, Chinese Selves
Interdisciplinary. The body as a contested site of representational practices, identity politics, cultural values, and social norms. Body images, inscriptions, and practices in relation to health, morality, gender, sexuality, nationalism, consumerism, and global capitalism in China and Taiwan. Sources include anthropological, literary, and historical studies, and fiction and film. No knowledge of Chinese required.
Last offered: Spring 2009
| Units: 3-5
CHINGEN 236:
The Chinese Family (CHINGEN 136)
History and literature. Institutional, ritual, affective, and symbolic aspects. Perspectives of gender, class, and social change.
Last offered: Spring 2011
| Units: 3-5
CHINGEN 239:
Cultural Revolution as Literature (CHINGEN 139)
Literary form, aesthetic sensibility, and themes of trauma, identity, and the limits of representation in major literary works concerning the Cultural Revolution in China. Recommended: background in Chinese history or literature.
Last offered: Spring 2008
| Units: 4
CHINGEN 240:
Chinese Justice: Law, Morality, and Literature (CHINGEN 140)
Explores the relationship between law and morality in Chinese literature, culture, and society. Readings include court case romances, crime plays, detective novels, and legal dramas from traditional era and modern and contemporary periods. Prior coursework in Chinese history, civilization, or literature is recommended. All readings are in English.
| Units: 3-5
CHINGEN 241:
Emergence of Chinese Civilization from Caves to Palaces (ARCHLGY 111, CHINGEN 141)
Introduces processes of cultural evolution from the Paleolithic to the Three Dynasties in China. By examining archaeological remains, ancient inscriptions, and traditional texts, four major topics will be discussed: origins of modern humans, beginnings of agriculture, development of social stratification, and emergence of states and urbanism.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-4
CHINGEN 250:
Sex, Gender, and Power in Modern China (CHINGEN 150)
Investigates how sex, gender, and power are entwined in the Chinese experience of modernity. Topics include anti-footbinding campaigns, free love/free sex, women's mobilization in revolution and war, the new Marriage Law of 1950, Mao's iron girls, postsocialist celebrations of sensuality, and emergent queer politics. Readings range from feminist theory to China-focused historiography, ethnography, memoir, biography, fiction, essay, and film. All course materials are in English.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
CHINGEN 120:
Soldiers and Bandits in Chinese Culture (CHINGEN 220)
Social roles and literary images of two groups on the margins of traditional Chinese society; historical and comparative perspectives.
| Units: 3-5
CHINGEN 134:
Early Chinese Mythology (CHINGEN 234)
The definition of a myth. Major myths of China prior to the rise of Buddhism and Daoism including: tales of the early sage kings such as Yu and the flood; depictions of deities in the underworld; historical myths; tales of immortals in relation to local cults; and tales of the patron deities of crafts.
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
CHINGEN 138:
Love and Politics in Chinese Cinema (CHINGEN 238)
How films work as expressions of desire, impulse, emotional connection, and communal attachment during times of social upheaval and reconstruction. Film theory and aesthetics, and alternative paradigms about world and social relations. Chinese language not required.
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
CHINGEN 160:
New Directions in the Study of Poetry and Literati Culture (CHINGEN 260)
Inquiry into new approaches and interpretations of the poetic tradition in China in the context of cultural history. Readings in recent scholarship and criticism that situate poetry in print history, manuscript culture, gender studies, social history, etc. Readings in English. Reading knowledge of Chinese desirable but not required.
| Units: 4
| Repeatable
4 times
(up to 4 units total)
CHINGEN 193E:
Female Divinities in China (CHINGEN 393E)
The role of powerful goddesses, such as the Queen Mother of the West, Guanyin, and Chen Jinggu, in Chinese religion. Imperial history to the present day. What roles goddesses played in the spirit world, how this related to the roles of human women, and why a civilization that excluded women from the public sphere granted them such a major, even dominant place, in the religious sphere. Readings in English-language secondary literature.
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender
CHINGEN 201:
Teaching Chinese Humanities
Prepares graduate students to teach humanities at the undergraduate level. Topics include syllabus development and course design, techniques for generating discussion, effective grading practices, and issues particular to the subject matter.
| Units: 1
CHINGEN 220:
Soldiers and Bandits in Chinese Culture (CHINGEN 120)
Social roles and literary images of two groups on the margins of traditional Chinese society; historical and comparative perspectives.
| Units: 3-5
CHINGEN 234:
Early Chinese Mythology (CHINGEN 134)
The definition of a myth. Major myths of China prior to the rise of Buddhism and Daoism including: tales of the early sage kings such as Yu and the flood; depictions of deities in the underworld; historical myths; tales of immortals in relation to local cults; and tales of the patron deities of crafts.
| Units: 3-5
CHINGEN 238:
Love and Politics in Chinese Cinema (CHINGEN 138)
How films work as expressions of desire, impulse, emotional connection, and communal attachment during times of social upheaval and reconstruction. Film theory and aesthetics, and alternative paradigms about world and social relations. Chinese language not required.
| Units: 4-5
CHINGEN 260:
New Directions in the Study of Poetry and Literati Culture (CHINGEN 160)
Inquiry into new approaches and interpretations of the poetic tradition in China in the context of cultural history. Readings in recent scholarship and criticism that situate poetry in print history, manuscript culture, gender studies, social history, etc. Readings in English. Reading knowledge of Chinese desirable but not required.
| Units: 4
| Repeatable
4 times
(up to 4 units total)
CHINGEN 393E:
Female Divinities in China (CHINGEN 193E)
The role of powerful goddesses, such as the Queen Mother of the West, Guanyin, and Chen Jinggu, in Chinese religion. Imperial history to the present day. What roles goddesses played in the spirit world, how this related to the roles of human women, and why a civilization that excluded women from the public sphere granted them such a major, even dominant place, in the religious sphere. Readings in English-language secondary literature.
| Units: 3-5
