EALC 398

Fall 2010

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Credit: 3 hours.

May be repeated to a maximum of 6 hours. Prerequisite: Junior standing.

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31760
Lecture-Discussion
A
2:30PM -3:50PM
TR
336 Davenport Hall
Abelmann, N
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/23/10-12/08/10
Section Info:
EALC 398/550ANTH 499/550, Ethnography of contemporary East Asia, will introduce recent ethnographic writing on Japan, the Koreas, and China/s. The ethnographies span many topics but issues of gender, youth, family, and migration will be central. Book-length works will include Li Zhang's In Search of Paradise (on China?s middle class); Nicole Newendorp?s Uneasy Reunions (on the PRC wives of Hong Kong men); Lisa Hoffman?s Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China (on young professionals); Amy Borovoy?s The Too Good Wife (on the wives of alcoholics in Japan); Lieba Faiser?s Encounters: Filipina Women and the Remaking of Rural Japan; Gabriella Lukacs? Scripted Affects, Branded Selves: Television, Subjectivity, and Capitalism in 1990s Japan; Sealing Cheng?s On the Move for Love: Migrant Entertainers and the U.S. Military in South Korea; and Kelly Chong?s Deliverance and Submission: Evangelical Women and the Negotiation of Patriarchy in South Korea.
42888
Lecture-Discussion
F
2:00PM -3:20PM
TR
1018 Foreign Languages Building
Tierney, R
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/23/10-12/08/10
Section Info:
Seminar in East Asian Colonialism and Literatures. This course is an undergraduate seminar focusing on the imperial culture of Japan, the largest non-Western empire in the modern period. Students will read literary works by major Japanese, Taiwanese and Korean writers as well as a variety of historical and theoretical texts. The course aims to introduce students both to important works of modern literature and to the field of post-colonial studies in an East Asian context. All reading will be in English translation and no previous study of Japanese language or literature is required. Students wishing to receive graduate credit should register for EALC 590.
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