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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