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OSPBEIJ 1C: First-Year Modern Chinese, First Quarter

Conversation, grammar, reading, elementary composition.
Terms: Aut | Units: 5
Instructors: ; Qian, X. (PI); Tian, Y. (GP)

OSPBEIJ 6C: Beginning Conversational Chinese, First Quarter

Three quarter sequence. Basic language skills in Mandarin to function abroad.
| Units: 2
Instructors: ; Tian, Y. (GP)

OSPBEIJ 7: Sex, Gender, and Power in Modern China

How sex, gender, and power are entwined in the Chinese experience of modernity. Interdisciplinary approach to how gender and sexuality have emerged as a privileged modality of modern identity and an important site of social and political struggles in 20th-century China and beyond. Topics include: cross-dressing, marriage resistance, free love, women¿s mobilization in revolution and war, state feminism, postsocialist celebrations of the body, and the emergent queer movement. Readings range from feminist theory to historiography, ethnography, memoir, biography, short story, play, essay, and film. Prior coursework in Chinese history or literature is recommended but not necessary. In English.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
Instructors: ; Lee, H. (PI)

OSPBEIJ 8: Marvelous Creatures: Animals and Humans in Chinese Literature and Society

What do pervasive animal imageries and metaphors tell us about the Chinese and how they relate to the world, be it natural or supernatural, and to their neighbors, be they ethnic minorities or foreigners? How do animals define the frontiers of humanity and mediate notions of civilization and Chineseness? How do culture, institution, and political economy shape concepts of human rights and animal rights? What does it mean to be human in the pluralistic and planetary 21st century? Course materials include scholarly treatises, novels, short stories, and films that feature an array of animalkind from late imperial times to the contemporary era.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II, WAY-ER
Instructors: ; Lee, H. (PI)

OSPBEIJ 9: Chinese Language Tutorial

Terms: Aut, Spr | Units: 2
Instructors: ; Tian, Y. (GP)

OSPBEIJ 17: Chinese Film Studies

Stages of Chinese cinema from the establishment of P.R. China in 1949 to the present. State policies, filmmaking trends, representative filmmakers and films, and the state of the industry in the different periods, with close readings of some important films. Historical perspective and broad knowledge of Chinese cinema; academic approaches to film studies.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors: ; Tian, Y. (GP)

OSPBEIJ 21C: Second-Year Modern Chinese

Terms: Aut | Units: 5
Instructors: ; Zhu, X. (PI); Tian, Y. (GP)

OSPBEIJ 42: Chinese Media Studies

Fundamental changes in Chinese media. Issues such as: how Chinese media emerge and evolve against the background of modern Chinese history; how they interact with government, sponsors, receivers, and other social institutions; and implications for Chinese social development.
Terms: Aut, Spr | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
Instructors: ; Tian, Y. (GP)

OSPBEIJ 58: China in the World Economy: Han Dynasty to the Present

Terms: Aut | Units: 5
Instructors: ; Hawke, F. (PI); Tian, Y. (GP)

OSPBEIJ 67: China-Africa and Middle East Relations

China¿s relations with the outside world, with a focus on Africa and the Middle East. Historically contextualized relations; evolution of relations within the international climate during different periods, especially in the present; impact of geopolitical and geoeconomic relations on the existing international order.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP
Instructors: ; Tian, Y. (GP)

OSPBEIJ 101C: Third-Year Modern Chinese

Terms: Aut | Units: 5
Instructors: ; Zhu, X. (PI); Tian, Y. (GP)

OSPBEIJ 199A: Directed Reading A

Course may be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Spr | Units: 1-4 | Repeatable for credit
Instructors: ; Cai, J. (PI); Tian, Y. (PI)

OSPBEIJ 199B: Directed Reading B

Course may be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Spr | Units: 1-4 | Repeatable for credit
Instructors: ; Tian, Y. (PI)

OSPBEIJ 211C: Fourth-Year Modern Chinese

Terms: Aut | Units: 5
Instructors: ; Wang, Y. (PI); Tian, Y. (GP)
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