Modern China Studies: State of the Field

This is a survey course designed to acquaint master's and doctoral students in East Asian Studies with the latest English-language scholarship on modern China, broadly defined, across the humanities and interpretive social sciences. Each time the course is offered (once every two or three years), the disciplinary/thematic emphasis shifts and the readings are completely different. The course may be repeated up to 3 times. This year, we focus on innovative scholarship in the 'New Humanities,' including environmental humanities, health humanities, and digital humanities. Future topics include sinophone studies, film and visual culture, sensory studies, translation studies, genre fiction, queer studies, animal studies, new media and internet literature, world literature, cognitive approaches, literature (& philosophy, law, anthropology, history, psychology, religion, etc.), and so on.