East Asian Languages & Lits 360 - SEM:T-E ASIAN LANG & LIT: BOOK

Topics course: This seminar will explore print and media cultures of the 16th through the 20th centuries in China and Japan. Students will read literary and popular works from China and Japan in the context of the cultural, intellectual, and technological transformations that defined these texts' creation, circulation, and reception. We will study historical and theoretical scholarship on topics such as vernacularity, the reading experience, and changing literacies for men and women. We will also consider how media developments shape the experience of Asian modernity. All readings in English translation. Prerequisite: at least one 200-level EAL course or instructor's permission.

Instructor Permission. Not open to first-years, sophomores