Chinese General (CHINGEN)

These courses are open to all undergraduate and graduate students, are taught in English, and do not require a knowledge of an Asian language.

CHINGEN 51. Chinese Calligraphy—Practice in writing Chinese characters with a brush, emphasizing standardized script and the composition of the characters and improving handwriting. Limited enrollment. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisite: CHINLANG 3 or equivalent.
1-2 units, Spr (Chuang, Y)

CHINGEN 70N Marvelous Creatues: nimals and Humans in Chinese Literature--Novels, short stories, and films with an array of marvelous creatures from late imperial times to the contemporary era. What animal imageries and metaphors tell us about the Chiense and how they relate to the world. Freshman seminar. 3-4 units, Spr (Lee, H)

CHINGEN 73/173. Chinese Language, Culture, and Society—(Graduate students register for 173.) Topics include the origin of Chi-nese, development of dialects, emergence of the standard, preferred formulaic expressions, the evolution of writing, and language policies in greater China.
Prerequisite: CHINLANG 1 or 1B, or equivalent.
GER:DB-SocSci
4 units, aut (Sun, C)

CHINGEN 74Q. What is Modern Chinese?—Stanford Introductory Dialogue. Preference to sophomores. Continuation of 73. Language planning, including corpus planning and status planning, in China from the late Imperial to the present. Differing standards for spoken and standard script Chinese and the arguments underlying them. Current policies and practices concerning standard Chinese, dia-lects, and minority languages in relation to political changes.
Prerequisite: 73 or equivalent.
1-2 units, not given 2009-10 (Sun, C)

CHINGEN 91. Traditional East Asian Civilization: China—Required for Chinese and Japanese majors. Introduction to Chinese culture in a historical context. Topics include political and socioeconomic institutions, religion, ethics, education, and art and literature. GER:DB-Hum, EC-GlobalCom
5 units, Aut (Lee, H)

CHINGEN 119/219. Popular Culture and Casino Capitalism-Forms of Chinese popular culture used to gauge or control fate and uncertainty, from geomancy and qigong to ghost culture and mahjong, and the ways in which these are incorporated into the informal economy in rotating credit associations, stock market speculation, underground lotteries, etc. 3-4 units, Win (Festa)

CHINGEN 120. Soldiers and Bandits in Chinese Culture (Same as CHINGEN 22.) Social roles and literary images of two groups on the margins of traditional Chinese society; historical and comparative perspectives.
3-5 units, not given 2009-10 (Zhou, Y)

CHINGEN 121. Classical Chinese Rituals (Same as CHINGEN 221.) Meanings of rituals regarding death, wedding, war, and other activities; historical transformations of classical rituals throughout the premodern period; legacy of the Chinese ritual tradition. Sources include canonical texts.
3-5 units, not given 2009-10(Zhou, Y)

CHINGEN 131/231. Chinese Poetry in Translation—(Graduate students register for 231.) From the first millennium B.C. through the 12th century. Traditional verse forms representative of the classical tradition; highlights of the most distinguished poets. History, language, and culture.
Chinese language not required.
GER:DB-Hum, EC-GlobalCom
4 units, Win (Sargent, S)

CHINGEN 132/232. Chinese Fiction and Drama in Translation—(Graduate students register for 232.) From early times to the 18th century, emphasizing literary and thematic discussions of major works in English translation.
GER:DB-Hum, EC-GlobalCom
4 units, not given 2009-10 (Wang, J)

CHINGEN 133/233. Literature in 20th-Century China—(Graduate students register for 233.) Required for Chinese majors. How modern Chinese culture evolved from tradition to modernity; the century-long drive to build a modern nation state and to carry out social movements and political reforms. How the individual developed modern notions of love, affection, beauty, and moral relations with community and family. Sources include fiction and film clips. In English.
GER:DB-Hum, EC-GlobalCom, WIM
4 units, Win (Wang, B)

CHINGEN 135. Chinese Bodies, Chinese Selves (Same as CHINGEN 235.) Interdisciplinary. The body as a contested site of representational practices, identity politics, cultural values, and social norms. Body images, inscriptions, and practices in relation to health, morality, gender, sexuality, nationalism, consumerism, and global capitalism in China and Taiwan. Sources include anthropological, literary, and historical studies, and fiction and film. No knowledge of Chinese required.
3-5 units, not given 2009-10 (Festa, P)

CHINGEN 137. Tiananmen Square: History, Literature, Iconography (Same as CHINGEN 237). Multidisciplinary. Literary and artistic representations of this site of political and ideological struggles throughout the 20th century. Tiananmen-themed creative, documentary, and scholarly works that shed light on the dynamics and processes of modern Chinese culture and politics. No knowledge of Chinese required. GER: EC-GlobalCom. 3-5 units, Spr (Lee, H)

CHINGEN 138. Passion and Love in Chinese Film. How films work as expressions of desire, impulse, emotional connection, and communal attachment during times of social upheaval and reconstruction. Film theory and aesthetics, and alternative paradigms about world and social relations. Chinese language not required. GER: DB-Hum.
4-5 units, not given 2009-2010 (Wang, B)

CHINGEN 193E. Female Divinities in China--Fundamental role of powerful goddesses-the Queen Mother of the West, Guanyin, Chen Jinggu, and others, in Chinese religion.Seminar. What role goddesses played in the spirit world, and how this related to the roles of human women.
4-5 units, Win (M. Lewis)

CHINGEN 200. Directed Readings in Asian Languages—For Chinese literature. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
1-12 units, Aut, Win, Spr, Sum (Staff)

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