ASIA235
Supernatural in East Asia
Subject code
ASIA
Course Number
235
Department(s)
Instructor(s)
C. Zhang
Course Long Title
Supernatural in East Asia
Description
This course explores key themes in stories of the supernatural in East Asia, specifically China and Japan and their role in the cultural, visual, and religious imagination. Here the supernatural ranges from strange animals, ghosts, and demons to Buddhist miracles and Daoist immortals. The texts include short stories, plays, and visual representations. Students consider the boundaries between our world and other worlds and between humans and nonhumans. In the process, they consider the different ways the supernatural can function, from explorations of the self and the other to embodiments of cultural anxieties and desires.
Modes of Inquiry
Analysis and Critique [AC]
Writing Credit
No writing credit
INDS Program Relationship
IDAS - ASIA Program
GEC This Course Belongs To
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Offering Frequency
Normally offered every other year