Asian Studies

This course provides an interdisciplinary and critical analysis of the impact of globalization on Hong Kong culture. It demonstrates how postcolonial Hong Kong culture can offer new ways to understand the relation between the colonial past and the present world order of global modernity. The course introduces key concepts and theories of globalization by focusing on cultural analyses and critical responses to globalization. Particular emphasis is placed on the creative media, transnational culture industries, and global cultural phenomena relevant to everyday Hong Kong experience. This includes the analysis and critique of Hong Kong's image and role as depicted in the popular press, the Internet, film, literature, theater, the built environment, the visual arts and cultural production and consumption. The global-local cultural dynamics that drive Hong Kong into the future are also explored. Assessment: midterm exam, essay, workshop, tour report, participation, discussion, presentations.

This course has been specifically designed for students in the Department of Korean Language and Literature AND the University of California Education Abroad Program (UCEAP). It surveys modern Korean history through close readings of selected major literary works. Rather than offering a mere narrative of the peninsula’s history, it focuses on particular episodes, events, influences, and historical ruptures that have shaped how Korean writers have interpreted and understood their past. The course looks at the use of a form of writing (“the novel”) as a historical source. It examines the development of the long story form, the formalistic aspects of narrative, and its cultural impact. Major themes include the country’s opening to the West, its colonial experience and subsequent fratricidal war, and the divergent post-colonial paths of the two separate Koreas. Throughout, we address the tensions of Korean nationalism, authoritarianism, and industrialization in conjunction with the politics of gender and class. The latter half of the semester will focus primarily on the diaspora and migrant workers in South Korea.

This course examines contemporary Korean society, with special focus on social issues across various fields including sociology of religion. 

This course studies South Korea’s remarkable transformation since 1960. The course concentrates on three critical turning points: Park Chung Hee’s creation of the development state beginning in the early 1960s, democratization in 1987, and the genesis of and reaction to the 1997 economic crisis. This course offers a new view of how Korea was able to maintain a pro-development state with sustained growth by resolving repeated crises in favor of rebalancing and greater political and economic openness. 

This course discusses the diverse aspects of Korean culture and fashion. It studies the unique social, psychological, and political attributes of Korean culture and fashion; reviews Korean fashion and fashion industry; and analyzes success DNA of K-pop, K- movie, and K-fashion. 

This course familiarizes students with factual knowledge of technological developments in China from the Mao era onwards, as well as various scholarly insights into such developments. By the end of the course, students will be able to critically analyze China’s technological developments and policies based on their increased understanding of different political contexts under different Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership, and how the technological developments have impacted social norms, social institutions, and social classes in China.

The course has one hour of lecture and one hour of class discussion. Different forms of class discussion will be held, including paired discussion, small group discussions, large group discussion, and short debates.

This course examines the intersection of Asia and urbanization through the lens of development, broadly defined. It covers pollution, housing, labor, gender, mobility, and education. 

This course examines globalization and regional transformation in East Asia especially from the joint and distance lectures of the three Universities in Korea, China and Japan. (Yonsei, Fudan, and Keio). Topics include general information and history of globalization, globalization theory, anti-globalization, regionalism, global politics of regionalism, regional transformation, politics and security, economics and society, and culture, consciousness and identity. 

The course provides a detailed examination of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in the Korean peninsula. It discusses the ways the DMZ affects the population, the effects on the local environment, and how people navigate the existence of the DMZ in their daily lives. It also looks at the controversies or tensions between the two sides in the zone and how the international community can help to create a more stable environment in the region. 

This course is for international students receiving undergraduate education in Fudan University. This course is designed to help international students in China better understand all aspects of China by introducing the current situation and history. Through various classroom activities, students are encouraged to collect, read and sort out materials in Chinese, so as to improve their ability to summarize, understand, discuss and reflect in Chinese, and train their academic application of Chinese. Through the combination of theory and practice, students are encouraged to understand China and the Chinese people on the basis of understanding, and to have dialogues with China and the Chinese people, so as to cultivate a broad perspective, an open, inclusive mentality and a global perspective.