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Spring 2012 Asian Humanities V3830 section 001
COLL ON MODERN EAST ASIA TEXTS

Call Number 28497
Day & Time
Location
W 4:10pm-6:00pm
522B Kent Hall
Points 4
Approvals Required None
Instructor Theodore Hughes
Type COLLOQUIA
Course Description AHUM V3400 is recommended as background. Introduction to and exploration of modern East Asian literature through close reading and discussion of selected masterpieces from the 1890s through the 1990s by Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writers such as Mori Ogai, Wu Jianren, Natsume Soseki, Lu Xun, Tanizaki Jun’ichiro, Shen Congwen, Ding Ling, Eileen Chang, Yi Sang, Oe Kenzaburo, O Chong-hui, and others. Emphasis will be on cultural and intellectual issues and on how literary forms manifested, constructed, or responded to rapidly shifting experiences of modernity in East Asia.
Web Site CourseWorks
Department East Asian Languages and Cultures
Enrollment 20 students (25 max) as of 11:56PM Thursday, May 24, 2012
Subject Asian Humanities
Number V3830
Section 001
Division Interschool
Open To Columbia College, Engineering and Applied Science, General Studies, School of Continuing Education, Barnard
Campus Morningside
Section key 20121AHUM3830V001

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