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Why does the state and the economic market care about who we love, how we build families, and whether we reproduce? This course introduces students to the important events, processes, and debates with respect to the interrelation between kinship, citizenship, and social-political belonging in modern and contemporary East Asia (China, Korea, and Japan). We will read ethnographies, anthropological theories, and literary critiques, supplemented by clips of movies, TV dramas, and interviews. The key issues to explore include: How might inclusion and exclusion be created along the lines of class, gender, sexuality, nationality, or ethnicity? How might practices of love, gender, family, and reproduction come to condition political sovereignty, economic production, and everyday norms? How might discourses about love, belonging and care anchor the ideologies and practices of modernity, nationalism, socialism, or neoliberalism?

How has North Korea been studied? How should or could it be studied? What holds North Korean society together despite the manifold challenges it faces?  What ideas define and sustain the North Korean society? This course explores various existing approaches to understanding North Korea. Drawing from historical, cultural, and IR/security perspectives, the course explores how the North Korean state has been studied and debated by scholars and policy makers, paying close attention to North Korean statecraft, power, culture, ideas and their consequences, both domestic and international.  Drawing widely from North Korean publications, archival documents, oral history, interviews, works of literature, film, and other primary and secondary sources on North Korea, students will examine the strengths and limits of existing approaches. The course will aim to provide tools for students to be able better to contextualize North Korea's history, politics, economy and society in the shifting global order.  

As two of the most-consequential global powers, China and the United States have great influence on many complex transnational challenges, including climate change, threats to food and water security, nuclear proliferation, health security, and cyberspace. Further, none of these challenges can be managed by China or the United States alone and none can be managed successfully without at least some level of US-China coordination. This unique course will be taught jointly by faculty from Stanford and Peking University and is open to students from both schools. The course will examine American and Chinese perceptions of and approaches to resolving a number of different transnational challenges with the goal of identifying obstacles to and opportunities for cooperation. Enrollment is limited to 20 students, apply at https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/4d59f97817bd4450b7feb57018dcf35b. Those accepted will be notified by the week of March 24, 2026. Students registered in OSPBEIJ 70 will complete additional coursework commensurate with the larger 3-unit course requirement. NOTE: OSBEIJ 70 and EASTASN 285 are the same course. Students may only register in and earn credit in one or the other, but not both courses.

Independent studies under the direction of a faculty member for which academic credit may properly be allowed. For East Asian Studies M.A. students only.

On-the-job training under the guidance of experienced, on-site supervisors. Meets the requirements for curricular practical training for students on F-1 visas. Students submit a concise report detailing work activities, problems worked on, and key results. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: qualified offer of employment and consent of adviser.

Distinctive patterns and challenges of entrepreneurship in Asia; update of business and technology issues in the creation and growth of start-up companies in major Asian economies. Distinguished speakers from industry, government, and academia. Open to graduate and undergraduate students at all levels.