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This course examines books and readers in East Asia from the 4th century BCE to the onset of the printing era around 1000 CE. We explore how classical knowledge and pragmatic information composed, practiced, circulated, and forgotten via various pre-printing materials such as bamboo, wood, and paper, and how readers and writers before the advent of printing employed their learning tools and informational devices. Introducing a series of seminal scholarship and newly found materials from China, Japan, and Korea, we cover the most important archeological materials, examine a series of recently found literary, philosophical, historical, legal texts, and much more. We explore questions such as: How did people read, write, and learn from their books two thousand years ago? How was information represented and utilized through the media of bamboo, wood, and paper? How was the imperial administrative system and classical textual tradition established and renovated through the scribal culture of writing on bamboo, wood, and silk? And finally, we ask, how is our digital/printing age different, and how has it been inherited from the era of manuscript culture?

This course will discuss population health and healthcare systems in contemporary China, Japan, and Korea (north and south), in comparative perspective with other health systems. Using primarily the lens of social science, especially health economics, we will analyze recent developments in East Asian health policy, in comparison to other health systems of the world. Topics include the social determinants of health, demographic transition and population aging, control of infectious and chronic non-communicable diseases, healthcare financing, health insurance, health service delivery, payment incentives, competition, pharmaceutical policy, long-term care, and regulation. Although some background in Asian Studies, economics, and/or global health will be useful, no prior knowledge of economics or health policy is expected or required.

This course examines books and readers in East Asia from the 4th century BCE to the onset of the printing era around 1000 CE. We explore how classical knowledge and pragmatic information composed, practiced, circulated, and forgotten via various pre-printing materials such as bamboo, wood, and paper, and how readers and writers before the advent of printing employed their learning tools and informational devices. Introducing a series of seminal scholarship and newly found materials from China, Japan, and Korea, we cover the most important archeological materials, examine a series of recently found literary, philosophical, historical, legal texts, and much more. We explore questions such as: How did people read, write, and learn from their books two thousand years ago? How was information represented and utilized through the media of bamboo, wood, and paper? How was the imperial administrative system and classical textual tradition established and renovated through the scribal culture of writing on bamboo, wood, and silk? And finally, we ask, how is our digital/printing age different, and how has it been inherited from the era of manuscript culture?

This course will discuss population health and healthcare systems in contemporary China, Japan, and Korea (north and south), in comparative perspective with other health systems. Using primarily the lens of social science, especially health economics, we will analyze recent developments in East Asian health policy, in comparison to other health systems of the world. Topics include the social determinants of health, demographic transition and population aging, control of infectious and chronic non-communicable diseases, healthcare financing, health insurance, health service delivery, payment incentives, competition, pharmaceutical policy, long-term care, and regulation. Although some background in Asian Studies, economics, and/or global health will be useful, no prior knowledge of economics or health policy is expected or required.

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.