Chinese (CHINESE)
CHINESE 1 Intensive Elementary Modern Chinese-Intensive 10 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 15 hours of Lecture and 5 hours of Laboratory per week for 10 weeks. 19 hours of Lecture and 6 hours of Laboratory per week for 8 weeks.
This course is the equivalent of 1A-1B offered in the regular academic year.
Students will not receive credit for 1 after taking 1A-1B.
CHINESE 1A Elementary Chinese 5 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: A is prerequisite to B.
These courses are designed for students who are of non-Chinese origin and were not raised in a Chinese-speaking environment; or who are of Chinese origin but do not speak any dialect of Chinese and whose parents do not speak any dialect of Chinese. This series of courses provides elementary training in listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Modern Standard Chinese. It enables students to function adequately in Chinese-speaking places or communities.
Students will receive no credit for 1A after taking 1.
CHINESE 1B Elementary Chinese 5 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: A is prerequisite to B.
These courses are designed for students who are of non-Chinese origin and were not raised in a Chinese-speaking environment; or who are of Chinese origin but do not speak any dialect of Chinese and whose parents do not speak any dialect of Chinese. This series of courses provides elementary training in listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Modern Standard Chinese. It enables students to function adequately in Chinese-speaking places or communities.
Students will receive no credit for 1B after taking 1, 1X, or 1Y.
CHINESE 1X Elementary Chinese for Mandarin Speakers 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
This course is designed specifically for heritage Chinese students who possess speaking skill but little or no reading and writing skills in Chinese. It introduces functional vocabulary and provides a systemic review of grammar through various cultural related topics. The course teaches and uses pinyin and traditional/simplified characters.
Students will receive no credit for 1X after taking 1, 1A-1B, or 1Y.
CHINESE 1Y Elementary Chinese for Dialect Speakers 5 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Tutorial per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Designed for students who have had exposure to a non-Mandarin Chinese dialect but cannot speak Mandarin and possess little or no reading and writing skills in Chinese. Students will gain fundamental knowledge of Mandarin Chinese. While there is training in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, prominence is given to listening and speaking. This course will help students meet their basic needs in functioning in Mandarin-speaking environments, while exploring aspects of their Chinese heritage.
Students will receive no credit for 1Y after taking 1, 1A-1B, or 1X.
CHINESE 7A Introduction to Premodern Chinese Literature and Culture 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
An introduction to Chinese literature in translation in a two-semester sequence. In addition to literary sources, a wide range of philosophical and historical texts will be covered, as well as aspects of visual and material culture. 7A covers early and premodern China up to and including the Yuan Dynasty (14th century); 7B will focus on late imperial, modern, and contemporary China. Course will focus on the development of sound writing skills for freshman/sophomore-level students.
Students will receive no credit for 7A after taking 181A, but they can remove a deficient grade in 181A by taking 7A.
CHINESE 7B Introduction to Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
An introduction to Chinese literature in translation in a two-semester sequence. In addition to literary sources, a wide range of philosophical and historical texts will be covered, as well as aspects of visual and material culture. 7A covers early and premodern China up to and including the Yuan Dynasty (14th century); 7B will focus on late imperial, modern, and contemporary China. Course will focus on the development of sound writing skills for freshman/sophomore-level students.
Students will receive no credit for 7A after taking 181A. Students can remove a deficient grade in 181A by taking 7A.
CHINESE 10 Intermediate Modern Chinese--Intensive 10 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 15 hours of Lecture and 5 hours of Laboratory per week for 10 weeks. 19 hours of Lecture and 6 hours of Laboratory per week for 8 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1B, 8.
This course is equivalent to 10A-10B offered in the regular academic year.
Students will receive no credit for 10 after taking 10A-10B.
CHINESE 10A Intermediate Chinese 5 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1B; 10A is prerequisite to 10B; or consent of instructor.
This is the second year of the modern Chinese language sequence. The courses are designed to help students develop their reading, listening, speaking, and writing skills.
Students will receive no credit for 10A-10B after taking 10, 10X, or 10Y.
CHINESE 10B Intermediate Chinese 5 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1B; 10A is prerequisite to 10B; or consent of instructor.
This is the second year of the modern Chinese language sequence. The courses are designed to help students develop their reading, listening, speaking, and writing skills.
Students will receive no credit for 10A-10B after taking 10, 10X, 10Y.
CHINESE 10X Intermediate Chinese for Mandarin Speakers 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1X or consent of instructor.
This course is for students who have taken Elementary Chinese for Mandarin Speakers or who have similar language proficiency. It further helps students develop their Chinese language through various culturally-related topics. Students are provided opportunities to use the language knowledge learned in class in real world experiences.
Students will receive no credit for 1X after taking 10, 10A-10B, or 10Y.
CHINESE 10Y Intermediate Chinese for Dialect Speakers 5 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Tutorial per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1Y or consent of instructor.
This course continues to help students develop their communicative competence in Mandarin Chinese by engaging in a variety of formal and informal communications. It trains students to use Mandarin more accurately and fluently in speaking and in writing and to become more competent and confident in reading and informal texts. It helps students connect with the knowledge and information of other disciplines through the study of Chinese.
Students will receive no credit for 10Y after taking 10, 10A-10B, or 10X.
CHINESE 98 Directed Group Study for Lower Division Students 1 - 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Hours to be arranged.
Prerequisites: Lower division standing, 3.5 GPA.
Small group instruction in topics not covered by regularly scheduled courses.
Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
CHINESE 99 Independent Study for Lower Division Students 1 - 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Hours to be arranged.
Prerequisites: Lower division standing, 3.5 GPA.
Independent study in topics not covered by regularly scheduled courses.
Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
CHINESE 100A Advanced Chinese 5 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 10B; 100A is prerequisite to 100B.
These courses further develop students' communicative competence through exposure to the speech of native speakers in real situations. Students learn to differentiate between written and spoken discourses. The courses train students to interpret subtle textual meanings in texts and to describe, narrate, and write about opinions using connected paragraph length discourse.
Students will receive no credit for 100A-100B after taking 100 or 100XA-100XB.
CHINESE 100B Advanced Chinese 5 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 10B; 100A is prerequisite to 100B.
These courses further develop students' communicative competence through exposure to the speech of native speakers in real situations. Students learn to differentiate between written and spoken discourses. The courses train students to interpret subtle textual meanings in texts and to describe, narrate, and write about opinions using connected paragraph length discourse.
Students will receive no credit for 100A-100B after taking 100 or 100XA-100XB.
CHINESE 100XA Advanced Chinese for Heritage Learners 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 10X or 10Y or consent of instructor.
This course helps students to further develop their Chinese language competence. More sophisticated linguistic forms are used and reinforced while dealing with various socio-cultural topics. Close reading knowledge and skills, formal and informal registers, discourses in speaking and writing, and different genres of Chinese reading and writing are introduced and practiced. Students learn to recognize a second version of Chinese characters.
Students will receive no credit for 100XA-100XB after taking 100 or 100A-100B.
CHINESE 100XB Advanced Chinese for Heritage Learners 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 100XA or consent of instructor.
This course continues to develop students' analytical skills, including advanced skills in interpreting texts and writing in different genres and styles. It guides students to use their linguistic knowledge and skills to survey portions of Chinese history and society and comprehend Chinese cultural heritage in contemporary and historical economic, social, and political contexts.
Students will receive no credit for 100XA-100XB after taking 100 or 100A-100B.
CHINESE 101 Fourth-Year Readings: Literature 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 100B or 100XB; consent of instructor.
This course is designed to elevate abilities in speaking, reading, listening, and writing. Students will read the works of famous Chinese writers. Movie adaptations of these writings are also used. Students' writings will be circulated, and students will act in plays they write.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
CHINESE 102 Fourth-Year Readings: Social Sciences and History 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 100B or 100XB; consent of instructor.
This course is designed to further improve abilities in speaking, reading, listening, and writing. Students will read Chinese newspapers and other sources of social, political, and historical writings. They will circulate their works as part of the class requirements.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
CHINESE 105 Business Chinese 6 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 15 hours of lecture and 1 excursion per week for 6 weeks.
Daily topics of instruction will include media Chinese, reading business Chinese, and oral training. This courses will cover intensive instruction in third-year Chinese with an emphasis on business terminology and introduction to cultural knowledge specific to conducting business in the Chinese environment. Two afternoons per week will be devoted to field trips related to the topics of study including visits to banks and businesses, government units, museums, and guided tours of the city.
Instructor: Li
CHINESE 110 Introduction to Literary Chinese 8 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 10 hours of Lecture per week for 10 weeks.
Prerequisites: 10B or consent of instructor.
This ten-week course is an introduction to the core vocabulary and basic grammar of literary Chinese and is designed to provide students with the skills necessary for advanced reading in the various genres of literary Chinese. We will focus on reading skills through the introduction of basic grammatical features of the language and through the intensive study of actual texts. This course is the equivalent of CHINESE 110A-110B offered in the regular academic year.
Students will receive partial or no credit for 110 after taking 110A or 110B. A deficient grade in 110A or 110B may be removed by taking 110.
CHINESE 110A Introduction to Literary Chinese 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 10B is recommended but not required.
The first half of a one-year introductory course in literary Chinese, introducing key features of grammar, syntax, and usage, along with the intensive study of a set of readings in the language. Readings are drawn from a variety of pre-Han and Han-Dynasty sources.
CHINESE 110B Introduction to Literary Chinese 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 110A.
The second half of a one-year introductory course in literary Chinese, continuing the set of grammar review topics from the first semester, and giving basic coverage of more relevant issues in the history of the language and writing system, and the use of basic reference sources.
CHINESE 111 Fifth-Year Chinese A 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 102 and consent of instructor.
This course is designed to bring up the students to advanced-high competence in all aspects of modern Chinese; it aims to prepare students for research or employment in a variety of China-related fields. Materials are drawn from native-speaker target publications, including modern Chinese literature, film, intellectual history, and readings on contemporary issues. Radio and TV broadcasts will also be included among the teaching materials. Texts will be selected, in part, according to the students' interests. With the instructor's guidance, students will conduct their own research projects based on specialized readings in their own fields of study. The research projects will be presented both orally and in written form.
CHINESE 112 Fifth-Year Chinese B 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 102 and consent of instructor.
This course is designed to bring up the students to advanced-high competence in all aspects of modern Chinese; it aims to prepare students for research or employment in a variety of China-related fields. Materials are drawn from native-speaker target publications, including modern Chinese literature, film, intellectual history, and readings on contemporary issues. Radio and TV broadcasts will also be included among the teaching materials. Texts will be selected, in part, according to the students' interests. With the instructor's guidance, students will conduct their own research projects based on specialized readings in their own fields of study. The research projects will be presented both orally and in written form.
CHINESE C116/BUDDSTD C116 Buddhism in China 4 Units
Department: Chinese; Group in Buddhist Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture per week.
This course is an introduction to the history of Buddhism in China from its beginnings in the early centuries CE to the present day. Through engagment with historical scholarship, primary sources in translation, and Chinese Buddhist art, we will explore the intellectual history and cultural impact of Buddhism in China. Students will also be introduced to major issues in the institutional history of Buddhism, the interactions between Buddhism and indigenous Chinese religions, and the relationship between Buddhism and the state. Previous study of Buddhism is helpful but not required.
CHINESE 120 Ancient Chinese Prose 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 110A.
Readings in historical, religious, and philosophical texts of the Zhou, Han, and later periods from printed and manuscript sources.
CHINESE 122 Ancient Chinese Poetry 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 110A.
Readings from the , the , and selections from other early compilations of poetry.
CHINESE 130 Topics in Daoism 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture per week.
Readings in printed and manuscript sources.
CHINESE 134 Readings in Classical Chinese Poetry 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 110B or consent of instructor.
Introduction to the forms and subtypes of classical poetry, focusing on both learning to read poems in the original as well as developing the critical and analytical tools to discuss and respond to them in an informed way.
Course may be repeated for credit with consent of instructor as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
CHINESE 136 Readings in Medieval Prose 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 110B or consent of instructor.
Thematic focus and range of readings will vary. The course will deal with readings from one or more genres of classical Chinese prose, such as essays, epigraphical materials, historical works, classical tales, administrative documents, scholars' notes, geographical treatises, or travel diaries.
Course may be repeated for credit with consent of instructor as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
CHINESE C140/BUDDSTD C140 Readings in Chinese Buddhist Texts 4 Units
Department: Chinese; Group in Buddhist Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisites: 110A. One semester of classical Chinese. Prior background in Buddhist history and thought is helpful, but not required.
This course is an introduction to the study of medieval Buddhist literature written in classical Chinese. We will read samples from a variety of genres, including early Chinese translations of Sanskrit and Central Asian Buddhist scriptures, indigenous Chinese commentaries, philosophical treatises, and sectarian works, including Chan (Zen koans). The course will also serve as an introduction to resource materials used in the study of Chinese Buddhist texts, and students will be expected to make use of a variety of reference tools in preparation for class. Readings in Chinese will be supplemented by a range of secondary readings in English on Mahayana doctrine and Chinese Buddhist history.
This course is intended for students who already have some facility in literary Chinese.
CHINESE 153 Reading Taiwan 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 100A or 100XA (may be taken concurrently).
This course is an intensive introduction to Taiwanese literature and media culture.
CHINESE 155 Readings in Vernacular Chinese Literature 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 100A or 100XA (may be taken concurrently) or consent of instructor.
A critical study of pre-modern Chinese fiction.
Course may be repeated for credit with consent of instructor as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructors: Ashmore, Volpp
CHINESE 156 Modern Chinese Literature 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 100A or 100XA (may be taken concurrently).
This course will introduce students to selected works of modern Chinese literature produced in the first half of the 20th century, as well as their cultural and historical context. How did writers such as Lu Xun, Shen Congwen, Eileen Chang, and others attempt to make themselves "at home" in a world profoundly dislocated by the forces of colonialism, war, and revolution? We will examine the politics of literary style, questions of nationalism, representations of gender, and the problem of colonial modernity in these texts. All primary texts are presented in the original Chinese, supplemented by critical and biographical articles in English.
CHINESE 157 Contemporary Chinese Literature 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 100A or 100XA (may be taken concurrently).
This course explores popular, realist, and avant-garde literature from mainland China and Taiwan since 1949. We will consider how writers have engaged with the cultural dislocations of modernity by exploring questions such as the presentation of cultural and gender identities and the politics of memory and place. Central to our discussion will be the problem of how literature not only reflects but also critically engages with historical and cultural experience through a variety of genres. A crucial aspect of this course will be the development of skills in close, critical, and historically contextualized reading.
CHINESE 158 Reading Chinese Cities 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 100A or 100XA (may be taken concurrently).
Chinese cities are the sites of complicated global/local interconnections as the nation is increasingly incorporated into the world system. Understanding Chinese cities is the key to analyzing the dramatic transformation of Chinese society and culture. This course is designed to teach students to think about Chinese cities in more textured ways. How are urban forms and urban spaces produced through processes of social, political, and ideological conflict? How are cities represented in literary, cinematic, and various popular cultures? How has our imagination of the city been shaped and how are these spatial discourses influencing the making of the cities of tomorrow?
CHINESE 159 Cities and the Country 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 100A or 100XA (may be taken concurrently).
This course explores one of the most central and potent areas of cultural politics in modern China: the city and its relations to the countryside. We will explore how urban space and native soil became central places of imagination and desire in modernity; how Beijing and Shanghai become mediums of imagining differing meanings of "modernity" and "tradition," "Chinese" and "Western," and cultural authenticity; the repeated reformist and revolutionary desire to return from the city back to the countryside; as well as more recent mass migrations from the countryside during a time of (and as part of) drastic urban destruction and "renewal." Throughout the course, we will examine fiction, essays, photographs, films, and theoretical writings in order to consider a variety of ways in which people have sought to picture or narrate the shifting relations of cities and country.
CHINESE 161 Structure of the Chinese Language 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 100A or 100AX; Linguistics 5 or 100 recommended.
Chinese dialects, Mandarin phonology, and Mandarin grammar.
CHINESE 165 History of the Chinese Language 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 100A or 100AX; Linguistics 5 or 100 recommended.
Writing system, early dictionaries, historical phonology, and classical grammar.
CHINESE 172 Contemporary Chinese Language Cinema 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 1 to 2 hours of discussion per week. 8 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week for 6 weeks.
This course introduces Chinese language cinema since the late 1970s across the geopolitical divides between Mainland, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. We will focus on the distinct new waves in the three regions, as cinematic engagement of their respective political and cultural history, but also examine to what extent these “New Cinemas” share similar concerns on questions of gender, politics, remembrance, and urbanization.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Bao
CHINESE 176 Bad Emperors: Fantasies of Sovereignty and Transgression in the Chinese Tradition 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture per week.
Ideals of good governance are a core concern of many brands of traditional Chinese thought. The image of the ruler whose authority is exercised in harmony with the desires and interests of the society at large plays a key role not only in theories of governance but also in thought about ethics and psychology. There is also a fascination with the bad ruler. In addition to serving as negative examples just as good rulers serve as positive examples, bad rulers also provide an imaginative space for thinking about extremes of human will, offering an outlet for fantasy and vicarious gratification of desires that normally remain taboo.
Instructor: Ashmore
CHINESE 179 Exploring Pre-modern Chinese Novels 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Vernacular fiction in late imperial China emerged at the margins of official historiography, traveled through oral storytelling, and reached sophistication in the hands of literati. Covering the major genres and masterpieces of traditional Chinese novels including military, martial arts, libertine, and romantic stories, this course investigates how shifting boundaries brought about significant transformations of Chinese narrative at the levels of both form and content.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Lam
CHINESE 181 Sex and Gender in Premodern Chinese Culture 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
This course explores Chinese cultures of sex and gender from antiquity to the eighteenth century. We will look at how sex and gender are treated in the political, moral, medical, and religious discourses. Through a variety of literary genres, we will see the complexity of gender differences, the fluidity of desire, and ultimately the plasticity of the human body. These texts reveal how Chinese writers imaginatively examined and reinvented what it meant to be men and women.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Lam
CHINESE C184/MUSIC C134C Sonic Culture in China 4 Units
Department: Chinese; Music
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 7A or 7B, and/or previous course work in either Chinese literature and culture, or music.
This course explores the aesthetics and politics of sound - both musical and otherwise - in Chinese cultures. Through musical discourse and literary discourses on music, we trace the ways in which sound has been produced, heard, understood, and debated in both pre-modern and modern China. Topics include Confucian musical theory, Daoist hermeneutics, music, and poetry; the impact of recording technology and Western music; urban popular musics, sound and cinema, and contemporary soundscapes.
Instructor: Jones
CHINESE 186 Confucius and His Interpreters 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week. 5 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week for 10 weeks. 8 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week for 6 weeks.
This course examines the development of Confucianism in pre-modern China using a dialogical model that emphasizes its interactions with competing viewpoints. Particular attention will be paid to ritual, conceptions of human nature, ethics, and to the way that varieties of Confucianism were rooted in more general theories of value.
CHINESE 187 Literature and Media Culture in Taiwan 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
This course is an intensive introduction in English translation to the history, literature, and media culture of Taiwan.
CHINESE 188 Popular Culture in 20th-Century China 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
This course is an introduction to media culture in 20th-century China, with an emphasis on photography, cinema, and popular music. The course places these productions in historical and cultural context, examining the complex intertwinement of culture, technology, and politics in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan from the turn of the last century to the beginning of the 21st. Students will also be introduced to a number of approaches to thinking about and analyzing popular cultural phenomena.
CHINESE 189 Chinese Landscapes: Space, Place, and Travel 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: One previous course in literature or cultural studies.
What do landscapes "do"? How do landscape images and travel narratives mediate experiences of land, nature, and other peoples? How do landscapes map one's place in the world, shaping both cultural identities and real geographic spaces? Can landscapes travel? This course explores such questions by examining one of the world's longest-running traditions of landscape representation. We will consider such landscape genres as poetry, prose description, fiction, travel narrative, maps, painting, and photography, and consider their work across China's long history of imperial expansion, colonization, and globalization. We will also consider China's places in thinking about landscape and travel in the West.
CHINESE H195A Honors Course 2 - 5 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade. This is part one of a year long series course. A provisional grade of IP (in progress) will be applied and later replaced with the final grade after completing part two of the series.
Hours and format: Hours to be arranged.
Prerequisites: Senior honors standing in East Asian Languages, 3.5 GPA in major, 3.3 overall.
Directed independent study and preparation of senior honors thesis. Limited to senior honors candidates in East Asian Languages (for description of Honors Program, see Index).
CHINESE H195B Honors Course 2 - 5 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade. This is part two of a year long series course. Upon completion, the final grade will be applied to both parts of the series.
Hours and format: Hours to be arranged.
Prerequisites: Senior honors standing in East Asian Languages, 3.5 major GPA, 3.3 overall.
Directed independent study and preparation of senior honors thesis. Limited to senior honors candidates in East Asian Languages (for description of Honors Program, see Index).
CHINESE 198 Directed Group Study 1 - 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Hours to be arranged.
Prerequisites: Junior standing.
Small group instruction in topics not covered by regularly scheduled courses.
Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
CHINESE 199 Independent Study 1 - 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Hours to be arranged.
Prerequisites: Junior standing.
Independent study in topics not covered by regularly scheduled courses.
Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
CHINESE 220 Seminar in Philological Analysis of Ancient Chinese Texts 2 or 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Readings vary from year to year and are drawn from a wide variety of philosophical and historiographical sources.
CHINESE 221 Reading the Zhuangzi 2 or 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: unit(s):3 hours of seminar per week; 4 unit(s):3 hours of seminar per week.
This course sets out to examine a set of “focus chapters” from the Zhuangzi along several dimensions: 1) in the context of Warring States thought, 2) as independent stories that need to be puzzled through and read critically, and 3) tracing the influence of those chapters on subsequent periods of Chinese thought.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
CHINESE 222 Early Chinese Thought 2 or 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: At least one year of Classical Chinese.
An analytical exploration of the central texts of Warring States (453-221 BCE) philosophy.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
CHINESE C223/BUDDSTD C223 Readings in Chinese Buddhist Texts 2 or 4 Units
Department: Chinese; Group in Buddhist Studies
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: unit(s):3 hours of seminar per week; 4 unit(s):3 hours of seminar per week.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
This seminar is an intensive introduction to various genres of Buddhist literature in classical Chinese, including translations of Sanskrit and Central Asian scriptures. Chinese commentaries, philosophical treatises, hagiographies, and sectarian works. It is intended for graduate students who already have some facility in classical Chinese. It will also serve as a tools and methods course, covering the basic reference works and secondary scholarship in the field of East Asian Buddhism. The content of the course will be adjusted from semester to semester to best accommodate the needs and interests of students.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
CHINESE 230 Seminar in Chinese Literary History 2 or 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Good reading knowledge of classical Chinese and consent of instructor. Previous course work in classical Chinese literature is desirable.
Readings in major genres and authors of Chinese literature, with attention to relevant "nonliterary" (philosophical, scholarly, historiographical, etc.) sources where useful; period and thematic focus varies from semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
CHINESE 234 Texts on the Civilization of Medieval China 2 or 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Course content varies with interests of students.
CHINESE 242A Genre and Method in Traditional Chinese Texts 2 or 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 110B, and 100B or 100XB; 242A is prerequisite to 242B; consent of instructor.
Introduction to the history of Chinese textual production. Detailed close reading of the texts and training in the methodologies of solving problems of lexicon, theme, structure, imagery, and metaphor.
CHINESE 242B Genre and Method in Traditional Chinese Texts 2 or 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 2B and 100B; 242A is a prerequisite to 242B; consent of instructor.
Introduction to the history of Chinese textual production. Detailed close reading of the texts and training in the methodologies of solving problems of lexicon, theme, structure, imagery, and metaphor.
CHINESE 254 Chinese Literatures and Cultures in Global Context 2 or 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
This course explores relations of Chinese literature and culture to other parts of Asia, Africa, Latin America, or the West, ranging from specific global transactions to comparative perspectives, and ranging widely across different historical periods. Specific topics vary from year to year.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
CHINESE 255 Late Imperial Fiction and Drama 2 or 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
This course examines the canonical texts of the late-imperial period, placing them in the context of literary culture of the Ming-Qing. The course focuses on a different set of texts each time it is taught; the aim is to introduce students to the primary issues in scholarship of late-imperial fiction and drama over a period of several years.
CHINESE 257 Modern Chinese Literature 2 or 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Reading knowledge of modern Chinese.
Graduate seminar in modern Chinese literature. Topics vary from year to year.
CHINESE 280 Modern Chinese Cultural Studies 2 or 4 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Reading knowledge of modern Chinese.
Directed study of modern Chinese literary and media cultures. Course provides both historical coverage and a grounding in various theoretical problems and methodological approaches. Topics include print culture, cinema, popular music, and material culture; emphasis varies from year to year.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
CHINESE 298 Directed Study for Graduate Students 1 - 8 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Hours to be arranged.
Special tutorial or seminar on selected topics not covered by available courses or seminars.
CHINESE 299 Thesis Preparation and Related Research 1 - 8 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: Hours to be arranged.
Prerequisites: Consent of thesis supervisor and graduate adviser.
CHINESE 601 Individual Study for Master's Students 1 - 8 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Graduate examination preparation
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: Hours to be arranged.
Prerequisites: Consent of graduate adviser.
Individual study for the comprehensive or language requirements in consultation with the graduate adviser. Units may not be used to meet either unit or residence requirements for a master's degree.
CHINESE 602 Individual Study for Doctoral Students 1 - 8 Units
Department: Chinese
Course level: Graduate examination preparation
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: Hours to be arranged.
Individual study in consultation with the major field adviser, intended to provide an opportunity for qualified students to prepare for various examinations required of candidates for the Ph.D.
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