printer friendly pageCHINA 105: Beginning Classical Chinese, First Quarter (CHINA 205)
The goal is develop students' reading knowledge of classical Chinese, including basic grammar and commonly used vocabulary. Students will also learn concepts and ideas fundamental in Chinese culture involving family, human relationships, governance, learning, life/death, philosophy, etc. through reading canonical classical Chinese texts. Prerequisite:
CHINLANG 23 or equivalent.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2-5
Instructors:
Sun, C. (PI)
CHINA 111: Literature in 20th-Century China (CHINA 211)
(Graduate students register for 211.) 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: WAY-A-II, GER:EC-GlobalCom, GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Wang, B. (PI)
;
Zheng, T. (TA)
CHINA 151: The Use of Classical Antiquity in Modern China (CHINA 251, CLASSICS 143)
This course examines the roles played by classical antiquity--Greek, Roman, and Chinese--in China's modernization process. Central topics of discussion include: the relationship between tradition and modernity, the relationship between China and the West, the politics and techniques of appropriation in the reception of classical heritage, and the evolving and highly contentious nature of the differences among various approaches to classical antiquity. Tackling the most fundamental questions that have confronted an ancient civilization from the turn of the twentieth century to the present, the course investigates how "classics" and "classical tradition" acquire different meanings and functions in changed contexts, and serves as a convenient introduction to key moments and figures in modern Chinese cultural and intellectual history.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Zhou, Y. (PI)
CHINA 176: Emergence of Chinese Civilization from Caves to Palaces (ARCHLGY 111, ARCHLGY 211, CHINA 276)
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
Instructors:
Liu, L. (PI)
;
Li, J. (TA)
CHINA 205: Beginning Classical Chinese, First Quarter (CHINA 105)
The goal is develop students' reading knowledge of classical Chinese, including basic grammar and commonly used vocabulary. Students will also learn concepts and ideas fundamental in Chinese culture involving family, human relationships, governance, learning, life/death, philosophy, etc. through reading canonical classical Chinese texts. Prerequisite:
CHINLANG 23 or equivalent.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2-5
Instructors:
Sun, C. (PI)
CHINA 209: Advanced Classical Chinese: Historical Narration
Students must have taken
CHINA 107/207, or have received permission from instructor or department to take this course.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2-5
Instructors:
Bartlett, T. (PI)
CHINA 211: Literature in 20th-Century China (CHINA 111)
(Graduate students register for 211.) 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
Instructors:
Wang, B. (PI)
;
Zheng, T. (TA)
CHINA 251: The Use of Classical Antiquity in Modern China (CHINA 151, CLASSICS 143)
This course examines the roles played by classical antiquity--Greek, Roman, and Chinese--in China's modernization process. Central topics of discussion include: the relationship between tradition and modernity, the relationship between China and the West, the politics and techniques of appropriation in the reception of classical heritage, and the evolving and highly contentious nature of the differences among various approaches to classical antiquity. Tackling the most fundamental questions that have confronted an ancient civilization from the turn of the twentieth century to the present, the course investigates how "classics" and "classical tradition" acquire different meanings and functions in changed contexts, and serves as a convenient introduction to key moments and figures in modern Chinese cultural and intellectual history.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Zhou, Y. (PI)
CHINA 276: Emergence of Chinese Civilization from Caves to Palaces (ARCHLGY 111, ARCHLGY 211, CHINA 176)
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
Instructors:
Liu, L. (PI)
;
Li, J. (TA)
CHINA 371: Politics and Aesthetics of Critical Ecology in the Anthropocene (COMPLIT 371)
The crises of the Anthropocene compel us to confront environmental catastrophes through reflection, analysis and critique. This class will bring together issues of aesthetics, politics, and artworks that pivot around ecocritical perspectives in the discourse of Anthropocene. We will begin by exploring the key issues in environmental studies by reading Timothy Clark's Literature and the Environment. Moving on to the critical ecology of the Frankfurt School and Marx's ecology, the class will study critiques of anthropocentrism and capitalist production and examines their structure and practice of domination over nature and other humans. We will explore ecological insights by Walter Benjamin and Adorno, the revival of Marxist eco-critique of the metabolic rift of capitalism in John Foster and Brett Clark as well as Kohei Saito's revisionist perspective on Marx ecology. Our critique of anthropocentrism will address post-anthropocentrism as a form of posthumanism--the technologically mediat
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The crises of the Anthropocene compel us to confront environmental catastrophes through reflection, analysis and critique. This class will bring together issues of aesthetics, politics, and artworks that pivot around ecocritical perspectives in the discourse of Anthropocene. We will begin by exploring the key issues in environmental studies by reading Timothy Clark's Literature and the Environment. Moving on to the critical ecology of the Frankfurt School and Marx's ecology, the class will study critiques of anthropocentrism and capitalist production and examines their structure and practice of domination over nature and other humans. We will explore ecological insights by Walter Benjamin and Adorno, the revival of Marxist eco-critique of the metabolic rift of capitalism in John Foster and Brett Clark as well as Kohei Saito's revisionist perspective on Marx ecology. Our critique of anthropocentrism will address post-anthropocentrism as a form of posthumanism--the technologically mediated conditions beyond the human well-articulated by Ross Braidotti. We will explore further Asian environmental traditions of gongsheng (symbiotic, co-becoming) along with an inquiry into contemporary Chinese eco-critical literature and film, including Jia Zhangke's film Still Life. Chinese is not required. Students will do a 15-minute presentation on a reading (10% of grade) and participate in discussion (10% of grade). PhD students are required to write a term paper of 20 pages. MA and undergrads will write two short essays of 6 pages, one as midterm and the other as final work, in response to a list of prompts (80% of grade). The texts for purchase at Stanford or online bookstores. Timothy Clark, Literature and the Environment. Rosi Braidotti, The Posthuman. All other readings are on "Files" on Canvas.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Wang, B. (PI)
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