HUM 234 / EAS 234 / COM 234

East Asian Humanities II: Traditions and Transformations

Ksenia Chizhova and Xiaoyu Xia

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Second in the two-semester sequence on East Asian literary humanities, this course begins at the turn of the twentieth century and covers a range of themes in the history, literature, and culture of Japan, Korea, and China until the contemporary period. Looking into the narratives of modernity, colonialism, urban culture, and war and disaster, we will see East Asia as a space for encounters, contestations, cultural currents and countercurrents. No knowledge of East Asian languages or history is required and first-year students are welcome to take the course.

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