• Chinese Law , University of British Columbia
  A comparative study of Chinese Law, emphasizing the role of law in the People's Republic of China.
  courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/main?pname=subjarea&tname=subjareas&req=3&dept=LAW&course=336C - August 5, 2004

• Ideology and Social Change in Contemporary China , University of California, Los Angeles
  Introduction to sociocultural changes in China from 1949 to the present. Topics include ideology and politics in everyday life, social stratification and mobility, cultural construction of socialist person, changes in courtship, marriage, and family, and political economy of reforms in post-Mao era.
  www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/catalog.asp?sa=ANTHRO+&funsel=3 - August 6, 2004

• Modern Chinese Society , University of Victoria
  This course traces the various attempts by China at economic development and socialist transformation since 1949. Particular emphasis will be placed on the impact of these policies on village life and the response of rural inhabitants in China.
  web.uvic.ca/calendar2004/CDs/PACI/319B.html - August 6, 2004

• A Deserving Entry for Taiwan in WHO's Who , Government Information Office
  This online publication covers three topic areas:Ê "A Happier, Healthier Society: Public Health in the Republic of China (Taiwan);" "Taiwan, Human Rights, and the WHO -- Foundation of Medical Professionals Alliance in Taiwan;" and "Taiwan's Medical NGOs: An Important Link in World Health."Ê All sections are accompanied with colorful pictures and a thorough overview of each topic.
  www.gio.gov.tw/taiwan-website/5-gp/health/ - December 2, 2004

• Abramson, Daniel , University of Washington
  Prof. Abramson's research focuses on transnational comparative aspects of urban design, historic preservation and neighborhood planning, as well as particular problems in the physical, social and cultural transformation of Chinese cities. He is the leading faculty member in a multi-university collaboration to research and consult on a Ford Foundation-funded community-based preservation and revitalization planning project in the city of Quanzhou, Fujian Province, and has led numerous field studios for planning and architecture students in China
  www.caup.washington.edu/udp/Abramson.html - November 5, 2004

• Anagnost, Ann , University of Washington
  Dr. Ann Anagnost is a specialist in the ethnography of the state; politics of reproduction; late capitalist transformations of childhood. Her teaching specializations include: peasant society; mass culture; nationalism; anthropology of the body; and childhood. Dr. Anagnost's field experience includes the CSCPRC (National Academy of Sciences) Fellowship for Advanced Study in China, 1990-91.
  jsis.artsci.washington.edu/cv/faccv/a-e/anagnost.html - November 5, 2004

• Asian Studies , Hamilton College
  The Asian Studies Program offers a multidisciplinary approach to the study of the histories, cultures, languages, politics, philosophies and religions of several Asian societies. A concentration in Asian studies consists of nine courses distributed among at least three departments.
  www.hamilton.edu/academics/Asian/default.html - August 26, 2004

• Asian Studies Proseminar: China , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  Note: In order to access the course description, select the course from the list. Designed for incoming MA students concentrating on China, this seminar provides an interdisciplinary overview of the current state of Chinese Studies, both overall and in particular here at the University of Hawaii. Via selected readings, discussions, lectures by disciplinary specialists, and a major research project conducted by each student, we will develop significant expertise in three areas: 1) broad-based content knowledge about China, 2) discipline-based methodological approaches to research on China, and 3) available resources to support study and research in the China field.
  www.hawaii.edu/shaps/asia/courses_next_sem.html - January 13, 2005

• Barlow, Tani E. , University of Washington
  Professor Barlow has been a member of the Women Studies faculty since 1994. She is the Founding Senior Editor of positions: east asia cultures critique, Director of the Project for Critical Asian Studies from 2000-2001, and Co-Director of the Project for Critical Asian Studies from 1995-2000. Dr. Barlow's research interests includeÊmodern Chinese gender history and international feminism.
  depts.washington.edu/webwomen/People/barlow.htm - November 5, 2004

• Benedict, Carol A. , Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
  Carol A. Benedict is an expert in 20th century Chinese history; social history of Chinese medicine and disease; and history of public health. Her current project is a social and cultural history of tobacco consumption in China from its introduction in the mid-sixteenth century to the present. She seeks to analyze the historical and cultural factors that have shaped Chinese tobacco use over the longue durée.
  wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?topic_id=1462&fuseaction=topics.profile&person_id=87552 - October 21, 2004

• Bibliography and Research Methods in Chinese Studies , University of Southern California
  An introduction to reference works and research methods in all fields of sinology. Works in Chinese, Japanese and western languages.
  www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ealc/courses.php - October 2, 2004

• Bibliography and Research Methods in Chinese Studies , University of Southern California
  An introduction to reference works and research methods in all fields of sinology. Works in Chinese, Japanese and western languages
  www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ealc/courses.php - January 17, 2005

• Braester, Yomi , University of Washington
  Dr. Yomi Braester is an associate professor at the University of Washington as well as an adjunct associate professor in the department of Asian Languages and Literature.Ê Dr. Braester is also a book review editor for "Modern Chinese Literature and Culture," "Modern Languages Quarterly," and others. He is a member of the China Studies Program and of the Project for Critical Asian Studies.Ê His current project isÊa Lecture Series on Chinese Cities sponored by the China Program at the UW.
  faculty.washington.edu/yomi/about.html - November 5, 2004

• Brown, Ronald C. , Center for Chinese Studies
  Professor Brown is the Director of the Center for Chinese Studies for the 2000-2006 academic year. He has been involved in a variety of China activities including teaching at Peking University Law Department, and establishing and conducting exchange programs and legal and judicial training programs for Chinese lawyers and justices with the Ministry of Justice and the Supreme Court of the PRC, respectively. He has written and lectured on legal topics regarding China and Asia, chaired the Hawai\'i State Bar Committee on the Development of International Law Practice, directed the Law School Pacific Asia Law Studies Program and its Summer Program, and serves as president of the US–Asia Law Institute, which coordinates educational exchanges with the PRC and Asian and American lawyers and judges. He also acts as consultant with the World Bank on Chinese labor law projects. His current research concerns Chinese and Asian labor law.
  www.chinesestudies.hawaii.edu/community/faculty/brown_ronald.html - November 5, 2004

• Brown, Shana , Center for Chinese Studies
  Professor Brown’s interests include questions of social and political modernity, visual representation, and popular culture in twentieth-century China. Future research projects include the history of photography in modern China and the politics of material culture in the People’s Republic.
  www.chinesestudies.hawaii.edu/community/faculty/brown_shana.html - November 5, 2004

• Center for Chinese Studies , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  The Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Hawai'i aims broadly at an increased understanding of contemporary China in light of its civilization and its hopes for the future. The Center pursues this goal through instruction, research, publications, community outreach, conferences, and national and international linkages. 
  www.hawaii.edu/shaps/enter/chinese.html - February 15, 2005

• Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley , University of California, Berkeley
  The Center focuses not only on the People's Republic of China but on the Chinese societies of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia as well. As the Chinese faculty community at Berkeley grew during the 1960's, the mission of the Center expanded to support scholarly activities in the full range of China's historical experience. Faculty and emeritus faculty in Chinese studies are present in more than fifteen departments on the Berkeley campus, ranging from Anthropology to Sociology. This site includes events, faculty, postdoctoral fellows, visiting scholars, Wuliu Society, awards, programs, libraries, publications, links, and a mailing list.
  ieas.berkeley.edu/ccs/ - October 2, 2004

• Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan , Center for Chinese Studies
  The Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan was founded in 1961 and has maintained its leading position among centers nationwide for more than 40 years. The Center’s thirty-plus faculty forms an intellectual community fostering collaboration among humanists, professionals, and social scientists, in an environment appreciative of the interdependency of past and present. Situated within the International Institute, the mission of the Center is to provide students, specialists and the public at large with expert resources and a deeper understanding of issues ranging from today’s headlines to time-honored questions of value and meaning. CCS collaborative projects, outreach initiatives, and the M.A. Program all make full use of the multiple disciplines and analytical perspectives promoted by the Center.
  www.umich.edu/~iinet/ccs/ - October 29, 2004

• Chan, Kam Wing , University of Washington
  Dr. Kim Wing Chan is a professor in the Department of Geography and in the Jackson School of International Studies, Chinese Studies programs. Dr.Chan's research interests include urban and economic geography; migration; labor market, urban finance; and China.
  faculty.washington.edu/kwchan/ - November 5, 2004

• Changes in Child Care Methods in China's Orphanages , Wang, Tingyu
  This article discusses some of the progress that\'s been made concerning orphange care in China over the last 20 years.Ê However, the author also points to some of the inherent problemsÊwith the traditional attitudes and the older system of providing institutionalized care.Ê Currently, there is a shiftÊtoward care that\'s designed to provide children with a more family like settingÊand many orphanages are now focusing their efforts on providing foster care families for these children so they can grow up in healthier and happier surroundings.Ê This article also discusses the challenges with trying to makeÊsuch reforms more widespread.
  www.savethechildren.org.cn/job_6_4.html - January 1, 2003

• Cheek, Timothy , Institute of Asian Research
  Dr. Timothy Cheek is professor at the Centre for Chinese Research of the Institute of Asian Research. His research interests include Modern Chinese history. His current projects focus on contemporary Chinese intellectuals and Chinese thought, writings of Mao Zedong (Yan'an period), and Chinese historiography. Dr. Cheek has published extensively on issues concerned with Chinese Modern History.
  www.iar.ubc.ca/introduction/cheek.html - October 22, 2004

• Children's Participation in China , West, Andy
  Quoted from author: \"This report looks at children’s participation in China from the experience of Save the Children UK, but draws on experience of work with partner and other agencies. For example in the first National China Children’s Forum held in 2001, in partnerships with the All China Women’s Federation, and with UNICEF and Plan International.Ê There are other Alliance members funding work in China, such as Save the Children Hong Kong and Save the Children Korea, and there has not been time to gather experiences from them, but it would seem that Save the Children UK is the major proponent of work in this area.\"
  www.savethechildren.org.cn/doc/job02.doc - January 1, 2004

• China and Global Issues in the 21st Century , Lampton, David M.
  The course focuses on the global opportunities and challenges arising from China's emergence as a political, economic and military power. It develops an understanding of Chinese behavior in the global system and its implications for the international community. Examines Chinese policy and behavior with respect to a wide range of issues, including international institutions, arms control, trade and investment, environment, human rights and drug trafficking. Also discusses the global significance of such regional issues as the South China Sea.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/china/chinacourses.html - September 20, 2004

• China and the Internet , University of Toronto
  The course explores the history of the internet in China, studies its current and future distribution, government policies around the net, and the social implications of its spread. Hands-on exploration of sites for research on Chinese culture, politics, business and economics. Usually offered only in summer.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_eas.htm#EAS203Y1 - January 13, 2005

• China and the West , Mazumdar, Sucheta
  Survey course with overview of the pre-nineteenth-century Western contacts with China (for example, the French Physiocrats and European idealization of China, early American and English trade). Focus on nineteenth-century topics such as the Opium Wars, British and French imperialism, the efforts to import western technology into China by Westerners, and twentieth-century matters such as the impact of the Russian Revolution and Euro-American foreign policy towards China, concluding with Nixon's visit to China in 1972 and the re-establishment of Sino-American foreign relations.
  aas.duke.edu/reg/synopsis/view.cgi?s=01&action=display&subj=HISTORY&course=172B&sem=0980 - August 12, 2004

• China and the West , Duke University
  Survey course with overview of the pre-nineteenth-century Western contacts with China (for example, the French Physiocrats and European idealization of China, early American and English trade). Focus on nineteenth-century topics such as the Opium Wars, British and French imperialism, the efforts to import western technology into China by Westerners, and twentieth-century matters such as the impact of the Russian Revolution and Euro-American foreign policy towards China, concluding with Nixon's visit to China in 1972 and the re-establishment of Sino-American foreign relations. Instructor: Mazumdar
  www.aas.duke.edu/reg/synopsis/view.cgi?s=01&action=display&subj=HISTORY&course=172B&sem=0980 - August 22, 2004

• China and Tibet: Profiles of Tibetan Exiles , Human Rights Watch
  Quoted from Human Rights Watch: "This report profiles five Tibetans living in exile in Dharamsala, India. All are in their late twenties or thirties, and all are originally from the areas known to Tibetan nationalists as Amdo and Kham. Today almost all of this territory lies in what Tibetans call "eastern Tibet" and Chinese call the Tibetan regions of Sichuan, Gansu, Qinghai, and Yunnan provinces. Their stories show a common pattern: all had unusual access to education; all became involved in political activities through discussions at state schools or academies; all were arrested and detained by Chinese security forces for possession or circulation of published materials about the Dalai Lama or Tibetan independence; and some were tortured. The men's stories are similar to many others we heard in Dharamsala, and while we do not claim that five cases are illustrative of a broader pattern of repression, their accounts suggest that peaceful political activity in Tibetan areas outside the Tibetan Autonomous Region (T.A.R.) and its capital, Lhasa, is no more acceptable to authorities than it is in the T.A.R."
  www.hrw.org/reports/1999/tibet/ - September 1, 2000

• China Country Analysis , American Military University
  This course covers the strategic analysis of China. It emphasizes those major factors that have interplayed to make China what it is today, and what it is becoming. Although the focus is on the predominate political and military factors at work in contemporary China, the analysis must also relate, when and where appropriate, Chinese society, politics and policy debates, diplomatic initiatives, and evolving economic strategy to China in the larger context.
  www.apus.edu/AMU/Academics/CourseDescriptions.aspx?Prefix=IN - September 21, 2004

• China in the 20th Century , University of Pennsylvania
  This lecture course-the second of a two-part sequence-provides a broad survey of political history and social change from the fall of the imperial order to the \"market socialism\" of today, including the following themes: the interplay of new and traditional forces which made the end of one dynasty the end of a centuries-old political and social order; the political role of new social classes; the search for viable models; war with Japan, civil war, and rural revolution; socialist construction and the development of the two-line struggle; the impact of the Cold War; the Cultural Revolution; the opening to the West, economic reforms, and social ferment since the death of Mao.
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/eacourses.html#Description - September 21, 2004

• China Since 1935 , Brown University
  Examines competing visions of Modern China as seen from the vantage points of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet, and Inner Asia. Emphasizes changing relations among these places and China's contributions to the rise and fall of international socialism, feminism, decolonization, the cold war, the emergence of Asian capitalism, the growth of international exile communities, and environmentalism. Lecture with discussion.
  boca.brown.edu/nontopicsdet.asp?year=2004&term=2&crsCode=HI0152&SectCode=S001 - January 12, 2005

• China Studies Program , University of Washington
  The China Studies Program at the University of Washington provides a broad understanding of the Chinese people and their culture, historical development, and contemporary issues. Language learning and facility are a core element of the program of study. The more than 20 faculty members in the China Studies Program provide extensive course offerings in the social sciences and humanities, and in some of the professional schools at the University of Washington. The breadth of offerings allows students to select courses to meet career goals in business, government, teaching, and other professions. Three historians focus on the premodern, late imperial, and modern eras of Chinese history, providing background and perspective for all students of China. Political science courses are provided by two specialists examining contemporary Chinese domestic and foreign policy and US-China relations. Two sociologists offer courses on China's population and social organization.
  jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/easc/ChinaStudiesProgram.html - February 15, 2005

• China Through the Media , Guo, Gang
  The major purposes of this course are to familiarize students with the main media sources on Mainland China, including newspaper, radio, television, Internet, etc.; to help students understand political affairs on Mainland China through the media sources; to improve students' skills at analyzing news, reports, and stories from Chinese media sources. This is not a language course, and no prior language skills in Chinese are required (but are definitely helpful). The media contents utilized in this course come from a variety of sources, all of which are in English.
  olemiss.edu/courses/inst310/ - August 26, 2004

• China's Late Empires , Brown University
  A post-nationalist perspective on history in China from 1200-1930, with emphasis on empire--formation, gender, and daily life in the Mongol Yuan, Chinese Ming, and Manchu Qing empires, as well as nationalist reconstructions of the Chinese past in the early twentieth century.
  boca.brown.edu/nontopicsdet.asp?year=2004&term=1&crsCode=HI0151&SectCode=S002 - January 12, 2005

• China's Post-WTO Technology Policy: Standards, Software, and the Changing Nature of Techno-Nationalism , Suttmeier, Richard P. and Yao, Xiangkui
  In recent years, through administrative action, legal innovation, and increased support for research and development, China has been actively developing a new technology policy based on the promotion of its own technical standards. These activities impinge upon business decisions and raise questions about China's commitment to honor its World Trade Organization (WTO) obligations, and are thus attracting increasing attention from foreign business leaders and government officials. This study reviews the origins and motivations for China's standards strategy, places it in the context of China's accession to the WTO, and examines the operation of China's new standards regime, with particular reference to standards for wireless devices and software. We suggest that the standards strategy is best understood in terms of a neotechno-nationalsim" in which technological development in support of national economic and security interests is pursued through leveraging the opportunities presented by globalization for national advantage. Unlike older forms of techno-nationalism, China's standards strategy necessarily requires attention to international norms, cooperation with foreign partners, and a recognition of the need for new forms of public-private accommodation.
  www.nbr.org/publications/special_report/SR7-China_Tech_Policy/ChinaTechPolicy.pdf - May 1, 2004

• China's Two Social Revolutions , Whyte, Martin
  This site displays a syllabus for Harvard University's course "China's Two Social Revolutions." 
  www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~fc63/syllabus/FC63-Syllabus.pdf - August 24, 2004

• China: State Control of Religion , Human Rights Watch
  Quoted from Human Rights Watch: "Religion is becoming more and more important in China. In a country that remains officially atheist, conversions to Christianity have risen sharply, the country's 19 million Muslims are attracting the attention of their co-religionists elsewhere, and Buddhism is the fastest growing religion of all. The Chinese government acknowledges 100 million believers of all faiths out of a population of 1.2 billion, but it has been using the 100 million figure since the mid-1950s. In the kind of intrusive control the Chinese government exercises over religious activities, it violates the rights to freedom of association, assembly, and expression as well as freedom of religion. The only limitations that a government can impose, according to the declaration, are those necessary to secure 'due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others' and protecting 'morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.' The peaceful gathering of unregistered groups is no threat to morality, public order, or general welfare; China's onerous registration requirements are clearly an unnecessary limitation on freedom of religion, particularly when failure to register results in some of the penalties outlined above."
  www.hrw.org/reports/1997/china1/ - October 1, 1997

• Chinese Civilization , University of Southern California
  Characteristics and aspects of Chinese civilization; interpretation of philosophy, literature, religion, art, and music.
  www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ealc/courses.php - October 2, 2004

• Chinese Culture and Society , University of Pennsylvania
  An introduction to the anthropological study of China. Topics include family structure, marriage, language, views of life and death, ritual and religion, social structure, gender roles and relations, and regional and ethnic identities. Central to our understanding are the notions of diversity and transformation: China is a changing and complexly varied place inhabited by real, physical people, not a timeless, eternal, essential mysterious locus for the imaginings of the West. We keep in mind always the question of recent and current transformations of China's social structure and culture. Lecture and discussion.
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/eacourses.html#Descriptionof - September 21, 2004

• Chinese Culture in Imperial Times , Hamilton College
  In-depth study of late imperial Chinese cultural, intellectual and political history from the 11th through the 18th centuries. Focuses on imperial and popular religious cults; the decline of the medieval aristocracy and emergence of the Confucian gentry and civil bureaucracy in the 11th century; the civil service examination system; footbinding; and conceptions of gender.
  www.hamilton.edu/applications/catalogue/catalogue_search.cfm?action=CourseDisplay&ID=3124 - August 26, 2004

• Chinese Department , Augustana College
  Augustana is one of the very few colleges in the country that offers four years of Chinese. The Chinese courses are designed and taught to prepareÊthe students to excel in listening, speaking, reading and writing (both complicated and simplified versions). Augustana\'s Chinese curriculum also offers students the opportunity to travel to Asia inÊan overseas term program. This program gives students who choose to join the Asian Term the basic knowledge and skills necessary for their study abroad.
  www.augustana.edu/academ/chinese/ - February 17, 2005

• Chinese Family and Kinship , University of California, Los Angeles
  Examination of family and kinship organization in traditional Chinese society, socialist transformation of these institutions on mainland China during Maoist era, and role of familial culture in economic development of Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and mainland China in post-Mao era.
  www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/catalog.asp?sa=ANTHRO+&funsel=3 - August 6, 2004

• Chinese for Legal ST , Duke University
  "Chinese for Leagal Studies" is an introduction to the terminology and basic concepts of Chinese law. Reading and analysis of legal texts (codes, cases, contracts, wills). Communication about law and law-related issues in Chinese. Prerequisite: three semesters or equivalent of Chinese. Instructor: Yang
  www.siss.duke.edu/schedule/0820/LAW/605/ - August 22, 2004

• Chinese Foundations of Civilization , Vervoorn, Aat
  The course examines social, political, economic and cultural developments in China to the end of the Han Dynasty in AD 220. This was the period that saw the emergence of the schools of thought, institutions, technological and artistic traditions that were to shape subsequent Chinese history and strongly influence the other societies and cultures of East Asia. Topics covered include the roles of agriculture and technology in the rise of ‘advanced’ civilization during the Shang and Zhou periods; innovation and competition among the states of the period of political division; the unification of China under the First Emperor; and the continuing influence of political, intellectual an artistic achievements of the 400 year-long Han Dynasty. Particular attention will be paid to the rise of the various schools of philosophy during the pre-Han period, including Confucianism, Moism, Daoism, and Legalism. The outstanding thinkers of this period dealt with fundamental social, moral and political issues as relevant and important now as they were 2500 years ago. The introduction of Buddhism into China, and it’s domestication there, will also be considered.
  info.anu.edu.au/StudyAt/_Asian_Studies/Postgraduate/Courses/_ASIA6203.asp - January 11, 2005

• Chinese Gender, Kinship and the Family , Hamilton College
  Introduction to the cultural construction of gender, kinship and the family in contemporary and historical China. Emphasis on marriage practices, lineage structure, life cycle rituals, the effects of socialist collectivization and economic liberalization.
  www.hamilton.edu/applications/catalogue/catalogue_search.cfm?action=CourseDisplay&ID=1815 - August 26, 2004

• Chinese History , University of Calgary
  Chinese history through the twentieth century; archaeological and traditional accounts to the middle of the Ming dynasty; modern China from 1500 through the Qing dynasty and the early twentieth century; the history of the Communist movement in China to the death of Mao Zedong in 1976; cultural, intellectual, political, social, diplomatic and military history of China.
  www.ucalgary.ca/pubs/calendar/current/what/courses/HTST.htm - April 7, 2004

• Chinese Law and Society , Duke University
  "Chinese Law and Society" is a survey of Chinese legal thought and practice in the People's Republic of China. Focus on the relation of law to social ideals, to social change, and to politics. Consideration of socialist theories of law, conventional criminal and civil processes, informal and extrajudicial institutions, international law, and trade law. Prior familiarity with Chinese history or politics is unnecessary. Instructors: Gao and Ocko
  www.siss.duke.edu/schedule/0820/LAW/508/ - August 22, 2004

• Chinese Literature in Internation/Historical Contexts , Beloit College
  The aim of this course is to place specific themes and genres of Chinese literature in various comparative perspectives. China has never existed in isolation from the rest of the world, and the consequences of this fact are clearly evident in its literature. Engaging with issues of influence, translation, and hybridity, this course may focus on topics ranging from Buddhist narrative, to European Enlightenment adaptations and translations of Chinese fiction and drama, to early Chinese science fiction. This course may be repeated for credit provided the topic differs each time. Taught in English.
  www.beloit.edu/~academic/fields/majors/modern_languages_literature_courses.php - January 11, 2005

• Chinese Political Thought and Institutions , University of British Columbia
  A survey of the practice and theory of government in pre-modern China from the formation of the state in the 2nd millennium B.C. to the seventeenth century A.D. when China saw the founding of its last imperial dynasty, the Ch\'ing (Qing). Topics include feudalism, classical political ideas, emperor and bureaucracy, structure of the central government, local administration, foreign policies, civil service recruitment, and foreign rule.
  www.asia.ubc.ca/courses/history.htm - January 18, 2005

• Chinese Religions , University of Iowa
  This course is a general survey of Chinese religions.  It will focus on Chinese traditional religious beliefs and practices, both among the elite and the general population, and will also address recent developments in mainland China and Taiwan, as well as Chinese religions in the West.  In the course we will discuss the religious ideas of Confucianism, Daoism, and aspects of Buddhism, and we will also examine ancestor worship, cults of deities, and practices such as spirit possession, faith healing, and ghost marriages.
  isis2.uiowa.edu/isis/courses/detail/039:007:AAA - January 12, 2005

• Chinese Society , University of Pittsburgh
  This course explores contemporary Chinese society and culture. Some of the topics to be covered include: family and kinship, marriage, community organization, social stratification and gender roles, religion and symbolic systems, ethnicity, social and cultural change, and popular culture.
  www.pitt.edu/~caswww/cdesc/ds043051/anth.htm#1759Chinese%20Society - January 16, 2004

• Chinese-Amer Intl Relations , Duke University
  This course is a seminar designed to analyze the international law issues relating to the current play in Sino-US relations. It chiefly centers on the international law aspects of the issues in Taiwan, human rights, trade and some untraditional security problems such as protection of environment and combating international terrorism. The seminar is based on the assumption that healthy and constructive Sino-US relations in the post-Cold War era will not only benefit two great nations but will also serve as a promise for a more peaceful and prosperous world. Instructor: Li
  www.siss.duke.edu/schedule/0880/LAW/711/ - August 22, 2004

• Clarke, Donald C. , University of Washington
  Professor Clarke joined the faculty in 1988 to teach Asian law courses. Prior to that time he taught for two years at the Law Department of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Before attending Harvard Law School, he studied for two years at Beijing and Nanjing Universities in the People's Republic of China, spent two years working in Japan, and received an M.Sc. degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. While at law school, he was a member of the editorial boards of the Harvard Law Review and the Harvard International Law Journal. From 1995 to 1998, he spent a leave of absence as an attorney at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York, where he worked primarily on China-related matters. His current research interests are Chinese legal process and Chinese commercial and economic law.
  faculty.washington.edu/dclarke/ - November 5, 2004

• Comparative Law: The Role of Law in Chinese Society , Harvard University
  The course initially will focus upon China's rich, but much neglected, legal history. Particular attention will be paid to traditional Chinese views on the role of law in society, to the legal aspects of early Sino-Western interaction, and to efforts to introduce foreign models of law into China. The remainder of the course will center on contemporary Chinese society. Issues to be examined in this part of the course include (1) legal dimensions of Chinese "modernization"; (2) concepts of human rights and the relationship of the individual to the state (with special reference to the status of women); and (3) the place of law in China's economic development.
  www.law.harvard.edu/academics/registrar/catalog/electives.html - August 24, 2004

• Confucian and Communist China , Keenan, Barry
  The major reforms in socialist China after 1976 raised issues of recurrent importance in China's twentieth century history. This course systematically compares the reforms that redefined Confucian institutions after 1895 with the post-Mao reforms of communist China. Common themes emerge: the repression of the radical 1898 reforms and the repression of the 1989 Tiananmen democracy movement; the challenge of the decentralization of state-run economics; inventing unprecedented legal and judicial protections for private enterprise; and cultural iconoclasm towards Chinese tradition. Could modernization in Confucian or communist China propel the economy forward without inducing politically revolutionary results? Could the intellectual elite relate to established political power without selling out their objectivity or inducing repression?
  www.denison.edu/catalogs/EAST.html#EASTcourses - August 30, 2004

• Conner, Alison , Center for Chinese Studies
  Professor Conner joined the School of Law in January 1995 after nearly twelve years of teaching and research in Asia, most recently in Hong Kong. She has also worked in Singapore, Taiwan and China. Her general areas of research interest include Chinese legal history, particularly Qing and Republican period, and current legal developments in the PRC.
  www.chinesestudies.hawaii.edu/community/faculty/conner_alison.html - November 5, 2004

• Contemporary China Industrialization and Reform , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  No course description at this site.
  chinesestudies.hawaii.edu/programs/chinese_courses.html - September 18, 2004

• Contemprorary China Through Film , St. Olaf College
  Students study basic concepts and approaches of film analysis, while examining aesthetics, themes, and techniques of masterworks directed by Chinese Fifth Generation directors. Through readings of cinema theory and criticism and class discussions, students explore artistic merits in these films and aspects of Chinese society and culture in contemporary China, particularly the changes which occurred since 1978 with China's Four Modernizations. All readings are in English.
  www.stolaf.edu/depts/asian-studies/courses/ - January 19, 2005

• Cooperating to Compete , China Brief
  With the increased competitive pressures that WTO will bring, many Chinese and international experts believe that Chinese agriculture will need to move towards greater regional and sectoral specialisation, with improved production, storage and processing technologies and better market information and analysis. Farmer's associations may have the potential to fill some of the gaps left by shrinking government provision, in a way that is more farmer-driven, or at any rate more responsive to farmers' needs, than an extension system traditionally geared to meeting government objectives such as increasing grain yields. However, many farmer-initiated organizations are now facing difficulties.
  www.chinadevelopmentbrief.com/article.asp?art=337&sec=19&sub=1&toc=1 - December 1, 2000

• Culture and Society of China , University of Alberta
  No course description at this site.
  www.arts.ualberta.ca/~eastasia/course_offerings.htm - September 21, 2004

• Current Sinology , University of Pennsylvania
  Major trends in scholarship as reflected in important recent publications. Components of a career in East Asian studies-organizing information, planning teaching and structuring formal reports of research-will be discussed by faculty members for roughly half of the meetings.
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/eacourses.html#Description - January 5, 2005

• Daniel C. Lynch, Ph.D. , Daniel C. Lynch
  Professor Lynch currently is researching the international origins of democratization. He is contrasting the experiences of Taiwan and Thailand with those of China and Burma. Lynch is also researching Chinese concepts of comprehensive security and how they relate to identity formation. The courses he offers are both East Asia- and theory-based. His East Asia courses include Chinese Foreign Policy and East Asian Security Issues. His theory courses include State and Society in International Relations and Global Forces and Political Change.
  usc.edu/dept/LAS/ir/faculty/g-lynch.htm - October 8, 2004

• Daoism (Taoism) , Beloit College
  The ultimate interdisciplinary subject. Though in China Daoism is both a philosophy and a religion, students are introduced to Daoist history, politics, poetry, painting, diet, exercise, and sexual doctrines from the 6th century B.C. to the present.
  www.beloit.edu/~academic/fields/minors/asianstudies_courses.php - January 11, 2005

• Development of Traditional Chinese Thought , University of British Columbia
  Chinese thought from the Han dynasty (206 B.C.E. to 220 C.E.) to Wang Yangming (1472-1529) in its historical and cultural contexts. Basic Text: W.T. Chan, ed. And trans. A Sourcebook in Chinese Philosophy.
  www.asia.ubc.ca/courses/history.htm - January 18, 2005

• Dobson, Will , Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  William Dobson is an expert in Asian politics and security; Chinese politics and economics; the World Trade Organization; and American foreign policy. William J. Dobson is the managing editor of "Foreign Policy" magazine. He is responsible for managing the editorial planning and editorial production of the magazine, as well as editing and commissioning feature articles, reviews, and essays. Prior to joining FP, he served as Newsweek International's Senior Editor for Asia and as an associate editor at "Foreign Affairs". While at "Newsweek", he supervised coverage that was honored for overall general excellence by the Society of Asia Publishers in 2003 and 2004. He has published widely on Asia and international relations and was recently named a 2004 New Asian Leader by the World Economic Forum - the only Westerner to receive such recognition. His most popular articles have appeared in the "New York Times", "Wall Street Journal", "Boston Globe", and "New Republic", among other publications.
  www.carnegieendowment.org/experts/index.cfm?fa=expert_view&expert_id=217 - October 21, 2004

• Ebrey, Patricia Buckley , University of Washington
  Dr. Patricia Buckley Ebrey is a Professor of History at the University of Washington. Her recently offered Courses include: a Field Course in Chinese History to 1276, Chinese Social History, Chinese Civilization, Literati Culture in Northern Song China, State and Society in Song China Women in East Asia and Chinese Historical Sources.
  faculty.washington.edu/ebrey/ - November 5, 2004

• Emperors and Revolutionaries: Histories of Modern China , Louie, K.
  This course explores the transformations in Chinese society and culture from the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) through the tumultuous period of the early Republic (1911-1949). It aims to introduce students to key concepts in the analysis of modern Chinese history while developing the understanding of main events that led to the development of the contemporary Chinese states. Major issues include: the internal tensions developing within the prosperous Qing state, the impact of European expansion on China’s stability, the urban intellectuals’ attempts at reform, the rising influence of the youth voice, and the emancipation of women. The main historiographical theme is the exploration of the “ownership” of history (e.g. tensions between nationalist and communist versions of history, Chinese and Western histories, and imperial and republican notions of the past). English is the language for instruction and for all readings.
  info.anu.edu.au/StudyAt/_Asian_Studies/Postgraduate/Courses/_ASIA6037.asp - January 11, 2005

• Ethnic Chinese - Their Economy, Politics and Culture , Sakasawa Peace Foundation
  Essays included in this book are various attempts at better understanding the ethnic Chinese economies by considering not only the economy itself, but also politics, society, culture and so on. This book is the academic outcome of worldwide collaboration of reseachers on ethnic Chinese.
  www.spf.org/e/special/ethnic.html - November 9, 2004

• Ethnology of China , University of Manitoba
  This is a listing of courses offered by the University of Manitoba. Included are the course offerings for the Major and Minor programs and a link to the current 2003-2004 timetable.
  www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/asian_studies/program.html - August 22, 2004

• Exclusionary Policies and Practices in Chinese Minority Education: The Case of Tibetan Education , Johnson, B. & Chhetri, N.
  Quoted from authors: "This paper examines how the government of the People's Republic of China (hereafter referred to as China) modifies its educational policies to achieve separate and distinct regional objectives, which are linked to regional and ethnic differences. These policies often result in exclusionary practices. Using the case of the Chinese region of Tibet, this paper illustrates the dichotomy of Chinese educational policy: how to achieve universal education for all students and at the same time contain regional ethnic resistance against the communist government and maintain national unity."
  www.tc.columbia.edu/cice/articles/bjnc122.pdf - April 30, 2000

• Exploring the Silk Road , University of Pennsylvania
  This class focuses on the history and archaeology of the infamous trade route across Asia called the Silk Road. We will explore such issues as what sparked people to begin long distance trade between China and the West - what was traded and why, and how did this trade affect the cultures along this fabled trail in Central Asia? We will read and discuss 18th and 19th c. travelerÕs accounts, current archaeological reports, and weave these into a history of the region that is returning to global importance.
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/eacourses.html#Description - January 5, 2005

• Field Study in Asia: China , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  No course description at this site.
  www.chinesestudies.hawaii.edu/programs/chinese_courses.html - September 18, 2004

• First Steps to Literacy in Chinese classrooms , Ingulsrud, J. & Allen, K.
  In a country as linguistically diverse as China, a central feature in the process of teaching children to read is the creation of a national identity which involves teaching first year children to speak the national language. In this process of acquiring literacy, children discover not only their national identity, but also identities linked to global and local contexts as well as gender identities.Ê Through textbook illustrations, children are exposed to gender-based roles that depict social realities instead of social ideals. Yet not all have access to school, particularly children in rural and minority areas, and migrant workers’ children in the cities. The authors here illustrate the ways some of the identities are represented in school textbooks. These representations indicate the enormous gap between urban children and the realities of most Chinese children who live in rural areas.
  www.tc.columbia.edu/cice/articles/ka152.pdf - May 12, 2003

• Foster, Lawrence C. , Center for Chinese Studies
  Professor Foster was Associate Dean of the Richardson School of Law 1987-1994, and has been Dean of the University of Hawaii's School of Law since 1995. His research concentrates on contemporary PRC jurisprudence, and the development of the PRC legal system. He is currently assisting in the development of the Pacific Asian Legal Studies program at the School of Law. The most recent product of this effort has been a new course offering, Readings in Contemporary Chinese Law, in which students will read a variety of Chinese law-related materials including statutes, regulations and essays on Chinese law.
  www.chinesestudies.hawaii.edu/community/faculty/foster_lawrence.html - November 8, 2004

• Foundations of Chinese Thought , University of British Columbia
  Chinese thought from its beginnings until the Han dynastry (206 B.C.E. to 220 C.E.) in its historical and cultural contexts. Includes, among others: Confucius; Mo Zi; the Legalists/Authoritarians; Zhuang Zi; the Lao Zi book.
  www.asia.ubc.ca/courses/history.htm - January 18, 2005

• Frechette, Ann , Hamilton College
  Frechette joined the Hamilton faculty in 2000. She was the recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for Peace and Security in a Changing World, 1994-1996, and went on to complete her Ph.D. in social anthropology at Harvard University in 1997. Frechette's teaching and research interests include economic and political anthropology, globalization, international migration, the anthropology of Tibet and the Buddhist Himalaya, Chinese gender, kinship, and the family. She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct fieldwork in Nepal in 1995. Her first book, "Tibetans in Nepal: The Dynamics of International Assistance among a Community in Exile\" (Berghah Books, 2002), was based on that research. Frechette is currently at work on her second book, "The Invisible Red Thread: Family, Community, and Identity in the China-U.S. Adoption Process," which analyzes families created through China-US adoptions.
  www.hamilton.edu/academics/faculty.html?dept=Asian%20Studies - November 4, 2004

• From Rice Bowl to Safety Net: Insecurity and Social Protection during China's Transition , Cook, Sarah
  Quoted from abstract: "Alongside economic growth, inequality and insecurity have increased rapidly in China. Groups formerly excluded from the security of the 'iron rice bowl' are now excluded from new forms of social assistance, often designed to compensate those losing livelihood guarantees. There is thus a need for new safety-net measures, both to assist the most vulnerable and least secure members of society throughout the transition, and to enhance their longer-term security. This article argues that compensatory arrangements can be effective only alongside a complementary set of social protection policies including increased investment in human resources. Better-designed interventions could strengthen rather than undermine existing informal safety nets, and allow an expanded role for nongovernmental organisations in social protection." This is a Blackwell Publishing paper. Blackwell Publishing charges $25.00 for this paper.
  papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=368771 - February 12, 2003

• Gender in China , Louie, K.
  This course explores key concepts in the analysis of gender relations in China. It includes both historical and contemporary perspectives on the evolution of gender roles in Chinese society. It aims to present students with a broad vision of the major tensions between the genders and draws examples from a range of genres - such as literary texts, film, historical documents, newspaper articles, magazine advertisements, and poster art. The course presents a uniquely Chinese perspective on the study of gender in a global context. It facilitates an important cross-cultural comparison for those students studying gender while simultaneously providing Asian Studies students with fundamental knowledge of men-women relations, sexuality and the impact of these on social and political structures in this important East Asian culture. English is the language for instruction and for all readings.
  info.anu.edu.au/StudyAt/_Asian_Studies/Postgraduate/Courses/_ASIA6035.asp - January 11, 2005

• Geography of China , University of Georgia
  A systematic and regional analysis of the physical and human geography of contemporary China.
  uga.edu/cas/courses.html - January 20, 2005

• Gladney, Dru C. , Center for Chinese Studies
  Dr. Gladney is Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii. A Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Washington, Seattle, Dru C. Gladney has been a Fulbright Research Scholar twice, and has conducted long-term field research in China, Central Asia, and Turkey. He has authored over 50 academic articles and chapters, many on the subject of the Muslim minority in China. His most recent book is "Dislocating China: Muslims, Minorities, and Other Sub-Altern Subjects" (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).
  www.chinesestudies.hawaii.edu/community/faculty/gladney_dru.html - November 8, 2004

• Gong, Gerrit W. , Center for Strategic and International Studies
  Gerrit W. Gong is an expert in East Asian affairs; U.S.-East Asia policies; Chinese domestic and foreign policies; the Korean peninsula; Southeast Asia. Gerrit Gong is a senior associate with the CSIS Asia Program, as well as assistant to the president for planning and assessment at Brigham Young University in Utah. Previously, he held the Freeman Chair in China Studies at CSIS and, from 1989 to 2001, directed its Asia Program. Earlier, he served in the U.S. State Department with assignments at the U.S. embassy in Beijing, in the office of the department's senior career officer, and as the under secretary for political affairs, as well as serving at the American Institute in Taiwan.
  www.csis.org/experts/4gong.htm - October 21, 2004

• Hannum, Emily , Center for East Asian Studies
  Emily Hannum, Assistant Professor of Sociology, is affiliated with the Population Studies Center and the Graduate School of Education. She joined the Penn faculty in 2001, having taught previously at Harvard University. Hannum received her Ph.D. in Sociology and Demography in 1998 from the University of Michigan. Hannum’s research interests focus on access to education and the social and economic consequences of education in developing countries, especially China. Hannum’s past research in China includes publications about ethnic and gender stratification, labor market inequalities, and education and children’s welfare. Funded by a fellowship from the National Academy of Education, she is currently working on a book about children’s schooling experiences in rural Gansu.
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/bios_hannum.html - November 5, 2004

• Harris, Kristine , State University of New York at New Paltz
  Associate Professor, Department of History, Director, Asian Studies Program, State University of New York Her current research explores the social and political impact of film culture in China from the 1890s through to the present, with an emphasis on the period prior to the 1949 Revolution. For this research I work with original sources in Chinese and Japanese, located in archives in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan.
  www2.newpaltz.edu/~harrisk/ - January 25, 2005

• Harwitt, Eric , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  Associate Professor, Asian Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa. His recent work has focused on the politics of industrial development in China. He is currently writing a book about telecommunications regulation in the PRC, a project that examines the political and social impact of the Internet as well as the spread of telecommunications to both urban and rural parts of the country. His teaching includes courses on comparative Asian development, and a new project looks at China's political and economic relations with Central Asia.
  www.chinesestudies.hawaii.edu/community/faculty/harwit_eric.html - October 20, 2004

• History and Memory in China , Brown University
  How do societies remember? This cultural history of history and memory examines how individuals and collectivities instrumentalize the past to shape the present. Case studies are drawn from Chinese history and emphasize the history of time-keeping and temporalities, traditional Chinese historiography, ritualized memory, and monumental archives.
  boca.brown.edu/nontopicsdet.asp?year=2004&term=2&crsCode=HI0097&SectCode=S015 - January 12, 2005

• HIstory of China I , University of Georgia
  The Traditional Order from Prehistory to the Tang Dynasty. Emphasis is on traditional Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism, the primary molders of Chinese culture.
  uga.edu/cas/courses.html - January 20, 2005

• HIstory of China II , University of Georgia
  The Transitional State from the Tang Dynasty to 1800. An examination of significant changes in Chinese culture, as well as an analysis of those forces that contributed to or inhibited modernization.
  uga.edu/cas/courses.html - January 20, 2005

• History of China III. The Modern Transformation from 1800 to the Present , University of Georgia
  A study of China in the 20th century with the focus on the Republic of China, its disintegration, the rise of Communism, and the changes in the nature of the People's Republic of China.
  uga.edu/cas/courses.html - August 26, 2004

• History of China up to Modern Times , Cornell University
  A survey of the principal developments in the history of China from the earliest times to the eighteenth century that also undertakes a topical introduction to Chinese culture and civilization, in part by the use of visual materials.
  cuinfo.cornell.edu/Academic/Courses/CoScourses.phtml?college=AS&dept=History - September 27, 2004

• History of China's Performing Art , University of Toronto
  An historical overview of Chinese theatre, a reading of selected texts, viewing of videotaped performances and class discussions of the characteristics of this art form.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_eas.htm#EAS233H1 - January 13, 2005

• History of Chinese Civilization , University of British Columbia
  The goal of this course is to give a general overview of Chinese history before modern times, from ancient times to ca. 1800, with the emphasis on the period up to C.E. 1000: how China came into being, the rise and development of her institutions and civilization, the evolution of her society before modern times. The extensive material available on such topics will be covered mainly in the form of lectures. Texts: Jacques Gernet. A History of Chinese Civilization. Wm. T. de Bary. Sources of Chinese Tradition, vol. 1.
  www.asia.ubc.ca/courses/history.htm - January 18, 2005

• History of Hong Kong , University of Toronto
  A study of political, economic, and social change in the British colony of Hong Kong from 1842 until the present day.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_his.htm - January 17, 2005

• Human Rights and the Development of Democracy in China , Thurston, Anne F.
  The cource covers China's efforts to democratize both recently and in teh first half of the 20th century; theories of democratization and democratic transition in relation to analysis of the possibilities of and impediments to future democratization in China; and polictical and societal applications of the Human Rights concepts both in China and the United States.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/asiaoverview/readinglists/chinareadinglists/HRDemocracyofChinaThurston.pdf - September 20, 2004

• Hung, Veron , Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  Veron Hung has in-depth experience in Chinese law, and law and politics in the Asia-Pacific region. In academia and the private sector, she has studied such areas as administrative litigation and judicial reform in China, constitutional development in Hong Kong, human rights in Cambodia, and trade with China.
  www.carnegieendowment.org/experts/index.cfm?fa=expert_view&expert_id=144 - October 21, 2004

• Ideas for Child Participation and the Exploration of New Practices , Yang, Haiyu
  In 1989, the United Nation\'s Convention on the Rights of the Child provided a basic legal framework for international law concerning children\'s issues. However, each individual, each culture, each society and each country will interpret children\'s rights differently. In this article we discuss some of the ideas and problems that have arisen concerning child participation in China.
  www.savethechildren.org.cn/doc/job06.doc - August 1, 2001

• Idema, Wilt L. , Fairbank Center for East Asian Research
  Dr. Wilt Idema is Director and Professor of Chinese Literature at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research of Harvard University. His field of specialization is Chinese vernacular literature of the imperial period. Dr. Idema came to Harvard in 2000 and is professor of Chinese literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations.
  www.fas.harvard.edu/~fairbank/people/staff.html#wilt - October 22, 2004

• Institute of Taiwan Studies , Institute of Taiwan Studies
  The Institute of Taiwan Studies researches Taiwan's politics, economy, society, history, culture, and cross strait relations.
  www.cass.net.cn/webnew/chinese/y_03/y_03_50twyjs.html - October 7, 2004

• International Law: Research on Japanese Law: Seminar , Harvard University
  This seminar will both introduce students to issues in Japanese industrial organization and train them to use Japanese language legal and social scientific materials. During the term, students will read a wide variety of materials on industrial organization in Japanese. Students should have at least two years of language studies or the equivalent. The class is not open to native speakers of Japanese.
  www.law.harvard.edu/academics/registrar/catalog/electives.html - August 24, 2004

• Introduction to Chinese Cultures , University of Pennsylvania
  In this seminar we look at the diverse cultural traditions and patterns of social formations of traditional and modern China, to gain an introductionto social life in that country. We will consider basic anthropological topics in the Chinese context, including kinship, power and politics, gender, ethnicity, class and status, economic activities, ritual practicesand ceremonies, religion, expressive culture, and diaspora/transnational communities in Greater China.
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/eacourses.html#Description - January 5, 2005

• Introduction to Chinese Language and Culture , Beloit College
  Open to students with no Chinese language background, this course introduces some basic elements of Chinese such as its dialectal systems, the history and methods of its writing form, the pictographic signs related to myth and legends of cultural origins, and some basic grammatical patterns of Mandarin. The course also teaches basic vocabulary of everyday communication and Chinese character-writing.
  www.beloit.edu/~academic/fields/majors/modern_languages_literature_courses.php - January 11, 2005

• Introduction to Classical Chinese Thought , University of Pennsylvania
  This course is intended as an introduction to the history of Chines thought. The first part of the course is devoted to China's philosophical awakening in the 5th to 3rd centuries B.C. All subsequent philosophy continually returned to the problems defined during this formative period.We shall examine the various schools of thinkers of the time, and the ways in which representatives of different opinions reacted to each other. Nextwe follow the current of Chinese thought leading to the Confucian revival of the T'ang and Sung dynasties. This portion of the course culminates in an extensive examination of the philosophy of Chu Hsi (1130-1200), the most influential Neo-Confucian thinker. After considering some alternatives to Chu Hsi's vision put forward in later centuries, we assess the viability of Chinese thought in a modern context.
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/eacourses.html#Description - January 5, 2005

• Introduction to East Asian Civilization: China , Brown University
  A comprehensive survey of Chinese history, from imperial times to the present. Seeks to establish the impact of China's historical legacy upon contemporary society, politics, and culture.
  boca.brown.edu/nontopicsdet.asp?year=2003&term=1&crsCode=HI0041 - August 9, 2004

• Introduction to East Asian History I - China , Beloit College
  In this course we will explore the foundations of Chinese society and the role Chinese culture played in the broader context of East Asian history. Students will work with an array of lively historical and cultural materials as they build a broad knowledge of China from its pre-dynastic roots into the 20th century, and will develop skills in historical analysis and writing that will provide a foundation for further work in East Asian history.
  www.beloit.edu/~academic/fields/majors/history_courses.php - January 11, 2005

• Japanese Society , Imamura
  This course provides an introduction to Japanese Society. Topics covered include social structure, norms and values, religion, family, gender, community, current social problems and social change. Throughout the course, comparisons will be made to the United States and other societies.
  www.georgetown.edu/undergrad/bulletin/184courses.html - September 21, 2004

• Jin, Hong Gang , Hamilton College
  Jin came to Hamilton in 1989. After studying English language and literature at Shanxi University in China, she earned her master's and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. At Hamilton she helped establish the Associated Colleges in China program, a study abroad consortium in Beijing, sponsored by Hamilton, Oberlin and Williams Colleges. Winner of the Carnegie Foundation 1998 Outstanding Baccalaureate College Professor of the Year award, Jin is co-author of several books and software programs about multimedia approaches to teaching Chinese language and culture, as well as numerous articles for professional journals. A two-volume textbook series, "Crossing Paths: Living and Learning in China" and "Shifting Tides: Culture in Contemporary China" (both with DeBao Xu)was published in February, 2003. She has also been involved with writing and designing a series of multimedia computer software to provide interactive exercises in teaching Chinese.
  www.hamilton.edu/academics/faculty.html?dept=Asian%20Studies - November 4, 2004

• Kipnis, Andrew , Australian National University
  Research Fellow, Contemporary China Centre, Department of Anthropology, Australian National University Research Interests: Postsocialism and postsocialist societies; anthropology of education; processes of subjectification; kinship and gender; language and culture; China; East Asia; USA.
  rspas.anu.edu.au/people/personal/kipna_ant.php - January 23, 2005

• Language, Script, and Society in China , University of Pennsylvania
  The Chinese writing system is the only major surviving script in the world that is partially picto-ideographic, Egyptian hieroglyphic and Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform having passed out of use about two millennia ago. Partly because it is so unique, a tremendous number of myths have grown up around the Chinese script. In an attempt to understand how they really function, this seminar will examine the nature of sinographs and their relationship to spoken Sinitic languages, as well as their implications for society and culture. We will also discuss the artistic and technological aspects of the Chinese characters and the ongoing efforts to reform and simplify them. The use of sinographs in other East Asian countries than China will be taken into account.
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/eacourses.html#Description - January 5, 2005

• Law in the People's Republic of China , Columbia University
  A survey of contemporary Chinese legal attitudes and institutions in historical and comparative perspective. The course begins with a brief examination of certain essential themes and practices in China's traditional legal order and an appraisal of China's early twentieth-century effort to import a Western legal model. The major portion of the term is devoted to a study of formal and informal legal institutions and procedures in the criminal and civil processes of the People's Republic of China.
  www.sipa.columbia.edu/CourseDescriptions/index.html - September 23, 2004

• Legal Aid in China , Choate, Allen C.
  An examination of China\'s recently established national legal aid program. This paper discusses the origins, purposes, and motives of legal aid in China, the structure and operation of the new public legal aid program, issues of eligibility and scope of coverage, and financial and technical support. It concludes with some preliminary observations about the meaning of public aid for law reform in China. The paper includes some actual case summaries from legal aid centers in Guizhou and Yunnan provinces of China.
  www.asiafoundation.org/pdf/wp12.pdf - April 1, 2000

• Legal Aspects of Doing Business in China , Columbia University
  Examines the role of foreign lawyers in structuring large and complex transactions in the PRC. After an introductory session devoted to a description of recent legal reforms and of the political and legal institutions and procedures, the seminar focuses on the law and procedures related to several major types of transactions, including: land use rights, restructuring of state enterprises for purposes of foreign public offerings of their stock, joint contracting for extraction of oil and gas, tax and legal planning for a variety of types of foreign investment in the PRC, and finance of major construction projects such as power plants and highways.
  www.sipa.columbia.edu/CourseDescriptions/index.html - September 23, 2004

• Li, Wenhua , Harvard University
  Wenhua Li is a visiting scholar in the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. His research will focus on the comparison between the development of clean coal technology in China and the U.S.. Prior to coming to Harvard, he has worked as the deputy director of Beijing Research Institute of Coal Chemistry of China Coal Research Institute. He is also the director of expert committee of clean coal technology subject of China National High Tech Programme ("863" programme) and the director of China National Technical Committee for Standardization of Coal. He gained his Ph.D in Chemical Engineering from China Coal Research Institute and he also earned a Master's Degree in Coal Chemical Engineering from China Coal Research Institute. He has worked in coal industry for about 20 years, and his research field covers coal characteristics, coal standardars, SO2 emission control and coal liquefaction technology.
  bcsia.ksg.harvard.edu/person.cfm?order_by=name&program=CORE&ln=full&item_id=807 - October 28, 2004

• Malayan Chinese and China , Hara, Fujio
  This study focuses on the process by which China-oriented identity consciousness within the local Malayan Chinese community was transformed into Malaya-oriented identity consciousness. The author discusses the high point among the Chinese in Malaya of a China-oriented identity, its eventual decline, and the appearance of a deep-rooted Malayan identity in its place. He bases his study on analyses of Chinese-language newspapers and journals and Chinese organizations in Malaya (present-day Malaysia and Singapore) from the end of World War II until around 1960. He examines: (1) how the China-oriented identity of the whole Chinese community in Malaya was reflected in their political and social activity, (2) what kind of organizations participated in that activity, and (3) when and how such organizations began to foster (or be converted to) a Malayan identity, or when and how they disappeared (or were compelled to disband) before \"Malayanization\" could occur. The author also examines other important elements for measuring the level of China-oriented identity such as the policy that the Chinese government (including the Chinese consulates in Malaya) implemented at the local level, the influence that this policy exerted on Malayan Chinese, and the perception that the Chinese community in Malaya had of the Chinese government and its consulates. Looking at the conditions under which the Chinese community nurtured its Malayan identity and at the kind of movements it was linked to, the author seeks to lay out an overall picture of the evolution of Chinese identity consciousness and analyze its meaning.
  www.ide.go.jp/English/Publish/Books/Ops/033.html - November 16, 2004

• Master of Asia-Pacific Studies, Australian National University , The Australian National University
  The Master of Asia-Pacific Studies is an intensive graduate coursework degree designed for those seeking vocationally focused academic preparationÊin a career requiring an advanced understanding of the region. Core coursework will be methodological in character, providing an essential disciplinary focus for a progression to language and elective options centred on the cultural, social, historical and language context in analysing current issues. The program draws on the expertise of a wide range of internationally ranked scholars from all parts of the University, specialising in various disciplines and countries of the region.
  info.anu.edu.au/StudyAt/_Asian_Studies/Postgraduate/Programs/_7505XMAPS.asp - August 9, 2004

• Modern China , Columbia University
  Makes an attempt to conduct a deep analysis in terms of the major patterns of change in Chinese society during the 20th century, both before and after the establishment of the People's Republic.
  www.sipa.columbia.edu/CourseDescriptions/index.html - September 23, 2004

• Modern China and the West , University of British Columbia
  Modern China and the West. The invasion of China since the 1600s by western civilization; the impact of Chinese culture and of the modern Chinese revolution on the West, Canadian relations with China included. Open to students with no previous knowledge of China.
  www.asia.ubc.ca/courses/history.htm - January 18, 2005

• Modern China since 1800 , University of Toronto
  An examination of political, social and economic developments in Chinese history from 1800 to the present day. Main topics are the decline of the Imperial order and the challenge of Western imperialism; the Republican period; the rise of the Communist movement; the People's Republic of China.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_his.htm - January 17, 2005

• Modern Chinese Fictions: Identity Politics in China , The Australian National University
  Modern Chinese fiction is a potentially powerful means for enhancing our understanding of present-day China. In recent years, with the rapid growth of translations of this literature into English, this potential is increasingly being realized. With the aim of understanding the people and culture of China, this courses examines twentieth–century fiction, in translation from late imperial times to the present. Selected novels and short stories will be read and discussed in relation top the social setting of the time. The course examines these influential works by using categories such as class and gender throughout. At the end of the semester, students should be able to intelligently discuss the general historical trends of twentieth century China that have impacted in the ways that Chinese writers fictionalise their world. Students should also have in-depth knowledge of the major works of several of the most important Chinese writers in the last hundred years.
  info.anu.edu.au/StudyAt/_Asian_Studies/Postgraduate/Courses/_ASIA6034.asp - January 11, 2005

• Modern Chinese History since 1840 , University of British Columbia
  Modern Chinese History since 1840. An analysis of changes in institutions and ideas in China from the late Imperial Period to the most recent developments of the Chinese Revolution. Approaches are thematic, by periods, and by problems.
  www.asia.ubc.ca/courses/history.htm - January 18, 2005

• Modern Chinese History: Its Relevance for the Present , Thurston, Anne F.
  The course analyzes Chinese history from the Opium War to the present. Focuses on themes in China's political, social and economic development that continue to resonate today. Explores such issues as political orthodoxy and heterodoxy, the role of the emperor and the role of party leader, dynastic decline and political decay, traditional concepts of change, the Western intrusion and the evolution of Chinese nationalism, the Nationalist interregnum and interpretations of the Communist Party's rise to power.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/china/chinacourses.html - September 20, 2004

• Modern Chinese Society , University of Victoria
  This course traces the various attempts by China at economic development and socialist transformation since 1949. Particular emphasis will be placed on the impact of these policies on village life and the response of rural inhabitants in China.
  web.uvic.ca/calendar2003/CDs/PACI/319B.html - September 22, 2004

• Modern Chinese Society , University of Victoria
  This course traces the various attempts by China at economic development and socialist transformation since 1949. Particular emphasis will be placed on the impact of these policies on village life and the response of rural inhabitants in China.
  web.uvic.ca/calendar2003/CDs/PACI/319B.html - August 22, 2004

• Modernity and Nationhood in China , Hamilton College
  Examination of the social factors in the decline of imperial China in the 19th century, cultural interaction with Westerners and nationalist revolutions in the 20th century. Reevaluation of the coherence of nationhood in Chinese identity and Western impact as the crucial factor in the formation of modernism. No knowledge of Asian history required.
  www.hamilton.edu/applications/catalogue/catalogue_search.cfm?action=CourseDisplay&ID=2199 - August 26, 2004

• Out of Place and Out of School , West, Andy & Yang, Haiyu
  Quoted from abstract: \"Who are China\'s street children? The extent and nature of the issue are outlined here by Andy West and Yang Hai Yu, who for the last two years have been working with Save the Children UK to support government responses. They argue that the notion of \'street children\' encompasses many different situations, and that this suggests the need for a more integrated system of child protection.\"
  www.savethechildren.org.cn/doc/job01.doc - December 1, 2001

• Overhauling and Regulation Schools Set Up by Migrants , Jianzhong, Ding
  The article presents information on overhauling and regulating schools set up by migrants. An overall investigation of the fifty-nine schools set up by migrants was conducted and the results are reported. About 94.1 percent of the teaching materials used were from the national edition or People\'s Education Publishing House edition. These schools offered five, six, or nine years of education. The operators of the schools were between the ages of thirty-five and forty many were thirty-nine years old. The first migrant students who came to study in Shanghai arrived in 1987, whereas most came after 1996, and the largest number in 2001. They ranged between the ages of six and eighteen, with thirteen-year-olds in the majority. Journal article may only be available to subscribers of Chinese Education & Society.
  search.epnet.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=afh&an=15808863 - September 1, 2004

• Papers on China , Nautilus Institute
  A list of publications on China. It contains links to the actual papers that cover various aspects of policial, economic, security and energy issues of the country.
  www.nautilus.org/papers/energy.html#aes - November 23, 2004

• Participation, Rights and Children Care in China , West, Andy
  Quoted from introduction: \"This paper looks at some participation examples and issues for children in care (that is in residential and foster care), but in the context of separation from family, protection and rights.Ê That is, first, children in care as part of a larger group of children who are separated from their families for a variety of reasons, such as abuse, trafficking, abandonment, and so on. Second, the broader perspective of social protection emerging from the development of child rights programming – that is, the development of services and initiatives for children based on analysis of their circumstances and rights.\"
  www.savethechildren.org.cn/doc/xiangmu26.doc - October 1, 2003

• Popular Culture and Contemporary Chinese Society , University of Alberta
  Cultural texts and social changes in contemporary China.
  www.arts.ualberta.ca/~eastasia/course_offerings.htm - September 21, 2004

• Popular Religious Movements in Modern China , University of Pennsylvania
  A topical approach to Ch'ing and 20th-century China at the intermediate level. No background necessary, although some Chinese history is an advantage. Topics include: religion in traditional Chinese society, millenarian movements, peasant rebellions, and the politicization of religious movements in the modern period. Seminar with intensive readings and a research paper.
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/eacourses.html#Description - January 5, 2005

• Porter, Edgar A. , School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies
  Edgar A. Porter is the Interim Dean and Liaison for International Affairs at the School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies. Dr. Porter's research interest lies in the area of foreign involvement in China, and issues in international education.
  www.hawaii.edu/shaps/asia/faculty/porter-ea.html - November 5, 2004

• Poverty Among Children in Urban China: A Survey of Poverty-affected Families in Three Cities , Chen, W., Benyon, L. & Maher, K.
  Quoted from CHIP: "Based on research with 900 households in 3 Chinese cities, this report examines the situation of poor families and the implications for their children. It focuses particularly on families of laid-off workers and rural-urban migrants and children's health and educational prospects. Though all families interviewed valued education highly, migrant children's access to education is compromised by the additional fees payable by migrants. 45 per cent of poor urban families cannot afford to obtain 'user-pays' vaccinations for their children. The report concludes with recommendations of ways to boost family livelihoods, enhance children's access to health and education services and address the spcific problems facing rural-urban migrants."
  www.childhoodpoverty.org/index.php/action=documentfeed/doctype=pdf/id=96/ - January 1, 2005

• Problems in Modern Chinese History , Cornell University
  Conflicting interpretations of Chinese history during the late imperial period and the first half of the twentieth century.
  cuinfo.cornell.edu/Academic/Courses/CoSdetail.phtml?college=AS&number=493&prefix=HIST&title=Problems+in+Modern+Chinese+History+%28also+ASIAN+493%2F693+and+HIST+693%29+%40+%28III%29+%28HA%29 - September 27, 2004

• Proseminar in Chinese Cultural History , University of Southern California
  Intensive readings in English concerning interpretive issues in the study of Chinese cultural history.
  www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ealc/courses.php - January 17, 2005

• Public Administration in Hong Kong , Hong Kong University
  Note: In order to access the course descriptions, select "Courses Offered" from the menu on the left and follow the links to corresponding Undergraduate courses. Public administration in Hong Kong has long been going through a series of reforms over the last decade or so. This course introduces students to the major issues confronting the bureaucracy, in particular its relationships to other actors in the political system and questions of accountability.
  www.hku.hk/ppaweb/ - January 11, 2005

• Reasings in Japanese History , University of Iowa
  The purpose of this course is to introduce students to recently published English-language scholarship on selected topics in modern Japanese history.
  isis2.uiowa.edu/isis/courses/detail/39J:257:001 - January 12, 2005

• Regional Chinese Language Center , Far Eastern National University
  The Chinese Language Center was established in 2000 with the assistance of the Ministry of Education of the Chinese People's Republic. It is the basis for training Sinologists in the Russian Far East, for holding scientific and methodical seminars and conferences, regional Chinese language contests for the students of Russian Far East, and other activities related to the Chinese Studies. The Center houses a library containing textbooks and scientific literature, audio- and videotapes, multi-media materials on China. The library is formed with the help of the Chinese Language Department teaching under Ministry of Education of the Chinese People's Republic. Starting in 2000, the Center annually administers Chinese Proficiency Test for Russian university students.
  www.fenu.ru/?a=page&id=401 - October 4, 2004

• Research Seminar in Chinese Documents , University of Southern California
  An introduction to the different genres of documents for the study of Chinese civilization, and training in their use.
  www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ealc/courses.php - October 2, 2004

• Research Seminar on China , Bottelier
  The cource provides students the opportunity to research, in depth, some aspect of China's changing society, government and/or economy and to relate this research to broader comparative issues and analytic frameworks. Introduces students to research methodologies and interviewing techniques.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/china/chinacourses.html - September 20, 2004

• Saich, Tony , Saich, Tony
  Tony Saich is the Daewoo Professor of International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. From 1994 to July 1999, he was the Chief Representative of the China Office at the Ford Foundation in Beijing. Prior to this, he was the Director of the Sinological Institute, Leiden University, the Netherlands. His teaching and research focus on the interplay between state and society in Asia and the respective roles they play in determining policy-making and framing socio-economic development. He has written several books on development in China including China: Politics and Government (1981); China''s Science Policy in the 80s (1989); Revolutionary Discourse in Mao''s China (1994 with David E. Apter); and The Rise to Power of the Chinese Communist Party (1996). He received his B.A. (Hons) from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, his M.Sc. (Econ) from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, and his Ph.D. from Leiden University. He studied in China on a British Council reciprocal scholarship from 1976-77 and has visited China almost every year since. From 1988-90, he was a visiting research fellow at the Fairbank Center, Harvard University, and in the academic year 1992-93, he was a Visiting Professor at UCLA. He has taught at universities in England, Holland and the US.
  bcsia.ksg.harvard.edu/person.cfm?order_by=name&program=ISP&ln=full&item_id=39 - October 28, 2004

• School of Sinology , Far Eastern National University
  English-language web site of the School of Sinology, a division of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Far Eastern National University, Vladivostok, Russia.
  www.fenu.ru/?a=page&id=383 - September 30, 2004

• Searching for Civil Society , Young, Nick
  This is China Development Brief Editor Nick Young's introduction to the organization's latest publication - "250 Chinese NGOS - Civil Society in the Making." The publication sets out to show that China does have a growing number of autonomous, nongovernmental organizations, and to make some of these more visible to the international donor community. The publication also aims to promote awareness among Chinese readers and policy makers that such organizations can play an important role in addressing emerging social needs.
  www.chinadevelopmentbrief.com/page.asp?sec=2&sub=3&pg=0 - April 20, 2005

• Selected Topic in Chinese Civilization (in translation) , Beloit College
  A seminar course involving study of selected topics in Chinese civilization. Topics may focus on a particular theme, such as an introduction to traditional Chinese culture, examination of a period, foreign influence on Chinese society, intersections of culture and society, Chinese cinema, arts and calligraphy. This course may be repeated for credit provided the topic differs each time. Taught in English.
  www.beloit.edu/~academic/fields/majors/modern_languages_literature_courses.php - January 11, 2005

• Selected Topics in Sociology of East Asia , University of California, Los Angeles
  Selected problems in China, or in China and Japan comparatively. Possible topics include (1) China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, (2) internal contradictions in Chinese society: male/female relations, city and countryside, minority nationalities, class struggle under socialism, etc., (3) China and Japan: two models of development.
  www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/catalog.asp?sa=SOCIOL+&funsel=3 - August 9, 2004

• Seminar on Social Continuity and Social Change in China , University of Victoria
  This seminar will explore selected aspects of modern and pre-modern China, focusing on the theme of social continuity and change as China moves from a Confucian state, through the Nationalist period, to a socialist state.
  web.uvic.ca/calendar2003/CDs/PACI/420.html - May 19, 2003

• Seminar on Social Continuity and Social Change in China , University of Victoria
  This seminar will explore selected aspects of modern and pre-modern China, focusing on the theme of social continuity and change as China moves from a Confucian state, through the Nationalist period, to a socialist state. Oral presentations, written papers and participation in class discussion are required throughout the course.
  web.uvic.ca/calendar2003/CDs/PACI/420.html - August 22, 2004

• Seminar: China , University of Southern California
  Individual research and seminar reports on selected phases of Chinese traditional civilization.
  www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ealc/courses.php - October 2, 2004

• Seminar: China , University of Southern California
  Individual research and seminar reports on selected phases of Chinese traditional civilization.
  www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ealc/courses.php - January 17, 2005

• Shambaugh, David L. , Shambaugh, David L.
  David Shambaugh is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Director of The China Policy Program in the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University (1996-present), and Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at The Brookings Institution (1998-present). Before joining the faculty at George Washington, he taught for eight years at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies, where he also served as Editor of the "China Quarterly" from 1991-96. He also served as Acting Director of the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1987-1988), and as an analyst in the Department of State Bureau of Intelligence and Research (1976-77), and the National Security Council staff (1977-78).
  www.gwu.edu/~elliott/facultystaff/shambaugh.cfm - October 14, 2004

• Shanghai!: Adventurer's Paradise? , Brown University
  A history of China's most cosmopolitan city, tracing its rise from a 'land of rice and fishes' to the 'Paris of the Orient.' Emphasis is on social and cultural topics, including immigration, labor, prostitution, organized crime, 'Shanghai faction' modernism, and fashion, as well as the city's transformations under Socialism.
  boca.brown.edu/nontopicsdet.asp?year=2004&term=1&crsCode=HI0197&SectCode=S046 - January 12, 2005

• Social History of China: From Empire to People's Republic , University of Pennsylvania
  This lecture course-the first of a two-part sequence-examines the history of late imperial China through the early 19th century. We begin with the Song Dynasty transformation: the rise of gentry society and imperial absolutism, the institution of Confucian orthodoxy, the shift of the population and the economic center of gravity to the south, the commercialization of the economy, and change in the relative status of women and men. We then trace China\'s subsequent political and social history, including the following themes: inner vs. outer court politics; law, government, and society; intellectuals and political dissent; gender, family, and kinship practices; patterns of peasant life and rebellion; traditional foreign relations and first contacts with the West; internal sources of the decline of imperial order.
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/eacourses.html#Description - September 21, 2004

• Social Issues in Contemporary China , University of Pennsylvania
  China's transition to a market-oriented society has effected fundamental changes in the lives of citizens. This class will consider pressing social concerns that China must struggle to address as it continues down the path of market reforms. Using topical problems to illustrate broader issues of social inequality along lines of gender, ethnicity, residence status, and poverty status, the course will consider questions such as the following: How are women and men faring differently in China's new labor market and workplaces? Are rural peasants and the emerging underclass of urban laid-off workers being left behind by market transition? How are minorities faring in China's transition? How does the emerging digital divide play into the dichotomies of east-west and urban-rural in China? What is the plight of millions of "floaters" migrating into China's cities, with minimal legal rights and protections? Can China's rapidly-changing public health system handle emerging diseases such as SARS and AIDS? How has the one-child policy affected women, children, and society in China? Who are the "missing girls" of China, and what are the social implications of their disappearance? How has the welfare of children and adolescents changed with market reforms? The class will combine lectures, academic readings, case studies, films, and discussions.
  www.ssc.upenn.edu/soc/Courses/fall2004courselistings.html - September 23, 2004

• Social Structure and Social Change in China , University of Victoria
  This course attempts to provide interpretations for the "development of underdevelopment" of China: the various structural, cultural as well as external barriers obstructing China's various attempts to modernize and industrialize in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It also examines the counterculture of China in the form of secret societies and peasant movements which paved the way for the triumph of Mao in 1949.
  web.uvic.ca/calendar2002/CDs/PACI/319A.html - September 22, 2004

• Social Structure and Social Change in China , University of Victoria
  This course attempts to provide interpretations for the "development of underdevelopment" of China: the various structural, cultural as well as external barriers obstructing China's various attempts to modernize and industrialize in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It also examines the counterculture of China in the form of secret societies and peasant movements which paved the way for the triumph of Mao in 1949.
  web.uvic.ca/calendar2002/CDs/PACI/319A.html - August 22, 2004

• State and Society in 20th Century China , University of Toronto
  This course explores China\'s efforts to construct a modern and effective political order in the face of powerful demographic and revolutionary challenges. The clash between competing ideologies, political and social movements and institutional alternatives in the context of rapid social and economic change are analyzed.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_eas.htm#JMC301Y1 - January 17, 2005

• Studies in Chinese Thought , University of Southern California
  Chinese thought, particularly as formulated in the great traditions; Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism.
  www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ealc/courses.php - October 2, 2004

• Suggested Policy Prescriptions and Countermeasures for Preventing HIV/AIDS , Li, Dongli
  Assessing Wasserheit\'s \"Dynamics of STIs\" as well as underlying social and cultural issues facing China, this article assesses the state of HIV/AIDS in China in four contexts: the epidemiology of STIs, the problem with China\'s dismissive attitude toward STIs and HIV/AIDS, linking intervention and prevention to family planning, and three relevant goals (use the masses to reach out to the most vulnerable populations, compile HIV/AIDS information to disseminate throughout China for educational purposes, and have print media, especially those directedÊtowards women,Êrepeatedly carry the messages of laborers about HIV/AIDS). Finally, the author concludes by adapting the American James D. Shelton\'s work, \"Prevention First: A Three-Pronged Strategy To Integrate Family Planning Program Efforts Against HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections\" to the Chinese case.
  www.cpirc.org.cn/yjwx/yjwx_detail.asp?id=913 - March 28, 2005

• Sung, Wen-Ching , Harvard University
  Wen-Ching Sung is a Pre-doctoral Fellow in the Science, Technology and Globalization Project, an activity of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program at the Belfer Center for International Affairs. Wen-Ching is a doctoral candidate focusing on medical anthropology and social studies of science in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard. Her research interests include 1) trans-nationalization of science and technology, 2) co-production of social factors, diseases, medical knowledge, and treatments, 3) alternative medicines, and 4) reproductive and regenerative medicines. For her dissertation research, she conducted fieldwork in 2002 at Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI), which participated in several international genome sequencing projects including the Human Genome Project. With this instituted-centered approach, she hopes to discuss the transnationalization of genomics from a perspective of a developing country on the one hand, and the dynamics of scientific transformation in post-Mao China on the other.
  bcsia.ksg.harvard.edu/person.cfm?order_by=name&program=CORE&ln=full&item_id=886 - October 28, 2004

• Suzhou , Marme, Michael
  This book shows how, though Suzhou entered the Ming defeated and suspect, interactions between the imperial state and local elites gave rise to a network of markets, centered on Suzhou, that fostered high-quality local specialization.
  www.sup.org/cgi-bin/search/book_desc.cgi?book_id=3112%20 - February 22, 2005

• Taiwan: Internal Development and Foreign Affairs , George Washington University
  Analysis of the political, social, and economic development of Taiwan since WW II and foreign policy issues.
  www.gwu.edu/~eastasia/courses/grd_desc.htm - August 12, 2004

• Textual Analysis of Classical Chinese Philosophy , University of Toronto
  Readings of texts from ancient and medieval Chinese philosophy. Beginning by linguistic (especially semantic) analysis of key words, structure and meaning of sentences, paragraphs and text as a whole. Philosophical analysis proceeds from linguistic analysis.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_eas.htm#EAS407H1 - January 17, 2005

• The Changing Face of China , Hamilton College
  Study and analysis through selected journals and magazines. Students will examine aspects of the changing face of China, including in-depth coverage of population, housing and employment policies. Taught in Chinese.
  www.hamilton.edu/applications/catalogue/catalogue_search.cfm?action=CourseDisplay&ID=300 - August 26, 2004

• The Chinese Overseas: Conference Course , Harvard University
  In modern times, Chinese migrants have settled in more than 100 countries worldwide and have contributed significantly to the integration of the world economy. Their struggles to find a future in their adopted lands is a major theme in modern history. Explores aspects of Chinese emigration, including "globalization" and migration; colonial and post-colonial societies in Southeast Asia; the Americas, Europe, and Australasia; Chinese economic enterprise; and the changing role of China itself.
  www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~hst1834/ - December 31, 2001

• The Chinese: Society and Culture in Transition , University of Toronto
  The course explores issues of identity, self, and community among other topics in a broad exploration of cultural transformation in China.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_eas.htm#EAS340H1 - January 17, 2005

• The Civilization of Late Imperial China , University of British Columbia
  Evolution of Chinese civilization from ca. C.E. 1000 to ca. 1600. The political and cultural legacy of the Sung period, the impact of the period of Mongol domination; the Ming period. The cultures of peoples who ruled all or parts of China will be touched upon.
  www.asia.ubc.ca/courses/history.htm - January 18, 2005

• The Development of Greater China , University of Tronto
  To achieve an in-depth understanding of China, this course discusses China's national and international issues in the "living textbook." It emphasizes current events and hot topics in the media. The focus may vary depending on current events and the instructor's interests.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_eas.htm#EAS476Y0 - August 11, 2004

• The Emergence of Modern China , Harvard University
  Can a nation's quest for modernity draw upon its historical experience? In what respects must its history be cast aside? We shall explore the complex relationships between China's imperial history and her modern experience. Emphasis of this course will be on analysis of primary sources, in translation, to understand the Chinese experience through the writings of those who lived it.
  www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~hist1824/Syllabus/aasyllabus.doc - August 24, 2004

• The Family in England and China: Continuity and Change , University of Pennsylvania
  This course compares the evolution of the family in England and China, from the 16th century to the present. Drawing on materials from history and sociology, it will emphasize elements of continuity in the structure of the family, and the interactions between the family and the broader society, in both countries during a period of tumultuous social change.
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/eacourses.html#Description - September 21, 2004

• The Far Side of the Old World: Perspectives on Chinese Culture , Brown University
  A survey of traditional Chinese culture focusing on the major literary and artistic achievements of six major periods in Chinese history, including philosophical texts, poetry, various forms of the fine arts, and vernacular fiction and drama. A broad range of primary materials will give the student greater insight and appreciation of Chinese culture in general and also provide a foundation for further study of East Asia in other disciplines.
  - January 12, 2005

• The Geography of Contemporary China and Its Place in a Globalizing World Economy , Muldavin, Joshua
  In this yearlong seminar we will explore China\\\'s evolving place in greater Asia and the Pacific Rim through regional political-economic integration efforts and globalization processes. This will allow brief introductions of neighboring countries including Japan and the Koreas in East Asia; the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, and other countries of Southeast Asia; India, Nepal, Pakistan, and other countries of South Asia; Russia, the former Soviet republics of Central Asia and Afghanistan. In China, the primary focus of the course, we will explore the impact of the post-1978 reforms. From agrarian change and rural development, to urban and industrial transformations, to Hong Kong\\\'s return and China\\\'s emergence as a global superpower, we will analyze the complex intertwining of the environmental, political-economic, and socio-cultural aspects of these processes as we interpret the geography of contemporary China. We will begin with an overview of contemporary China, discussing the unique aspects of China\\\'s modern history, contemplating the changes and continuities that exist from one era to the next. Using a variety of theoretical perspectives, we will analyze a series of debates — environment/development conflicts, the moral economy debate, the role of the state, globalization and regional transformation issues, and the roots of the Tian\\\'anmen student and social movement. Theoretical debates will revolve around the concepts and constructs of sustainable development, welfare of the peasantry and vulnerability, changing intra-household relations, modernization and socialist transition. We will follow this with analyses of popular culture, recent issues of Hong Kong\\\'s transition, and border region/minority conflicts. China borders many of the most volatile places in the contemporary world. Thus we will conclude with a discussion of security issues and geopolitics, the 16th Party Congress, and potential scenarios for China\\\'s future. Other trends in China\\\'s evolving path will also be examined as time permits. Throughout the seminar there will be openness to comparisons with other areas of the world within the context of the broader theoretical and thematic questions mentioned above. Weekly lectures, films, mass media, and selected readings will be used to inform debate and discussion. A two-part structured conference project will integrate closely with one of the diverse topics of the seminar. Open to any interested student. Some experience in the social sciences desired but not required.
  pages.slc.edu/~muldavin/courses.html - February 2, 2005

• The People's Republic of China at Fifty , Scalapino, Robert A.
  This study addresses the PRC's likely political and economic future and China's regional and global role in the twenty-first century. China's foreign policy priorities primary among which is the effort to curb what China perceives as U.S. "hegemonism" are outlined and the PRC's future relations with the nations in the Asia-Pacific are projected. China's future politics are likely to be dominated by authoritarian-pluralism and strengthened international mechanisms for the resolution of issues and the enforcement of agreements will be crucial to China's positive interaction with regional and global partners. Although the PRC will attempt to counter U.S. efforts, the United States will play an important role in maintaining the balance of power in the Asia-Pacific.
  www.nbr.org/publications/analysis/vol10no4/v10n4.pdf - October 1, 1999

• The Peoples of China , Hamilton College
  Examination of diversity in the peoples and cultures of modern China. Emphasis on national integration, minority relations and differential effects of economic, social and educational policies.
  www.hamilton.edu/applications/catalogue/catalogue_search.cfm?action=CourseDisplay&ID=1848 - August 26, 2004

• Themes of Modern Chinese History , Vanderbilt University
  Intensive reading, discussion, and short papers on selected themes in Chinese social and cultural history. Particular topics vary from semester to semester.
  www.vanderbilt.edu/catalogs/undergrad/history.html - October 4, 2004

• Thomas J. Bickford, Ph.D. , Thomas J. Bickford
  Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. Research interests include Chinese Politics, International Relations and Comparative Politics.
  uwosh.edu/political_science/ThomasBickford.htm - October 8, 2004

• Tkacik, John J. , Heritage Foundation
  John Tkacik is a 23-year veteran of the U.S. State Department, John Tkacik joined the Asian Studies Center of The Heritage Foundation in 2001. As a research fellow in the foundation's Asian Studies Center, Tkacik (pronounced TASS-ick) analyzes policies and events concerning China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao.
  www.heritage.org/About/Staff/JohnTkacik.cfm - October 22, 2004

• Topics in Chinese Culture and Society , University of Texas at Austin
  Study of various aspects and periods of Chinese culture and society. May be repeated for credit when the topics vary. Topic 1: Advanced Readings in Chinese Politics. Same as Government 390L (Topic 19: Advanced Readings in Chinese Politics). Asian Studies 380T (Topic: Advanced Readings in Chinese Politics) and 381 (Topic 1) may not both be counted. Additional prerequisite: Twenty-four semester hours of coursework in government or related fields, and consent of the graduate adviser. Topic 2: Confucian Texts. Topic 3: Daoist Texts. Asian Studies 380T (Topic 44: Daoist Texts and 381 (Topic 3) may not both be counted.
  www.utexas.edu/student/registrar/catalogs/grad03-05/ch4/la/ans.crs.html - January 18, 2005

• Topics in Chinese Society , University of California, Los Angeles
  Introduction to current research questions in Chinese sociology, as well as major themes in study of Chinese society, both historical and contemporary, including demographic, economic, political, and social change before and after 1949.
  www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/catalog.asp?sa=SOCIOL+&funsel=3 - August 9, 2004

• Topics in Late Imperial and Modern Chinese History , University of Toronto
  A seminar on aspects of Chinese history from 1368 to the present, with emphasis on social history. Topics vary and include: social structure in Ming-Qing China; religion and ritual in Chinese society; Chinese popular culture. Topic for 2003-04: Topics in the history of Chinese popular religion.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_his.htm - January 17, 2005

• Trials of a Tibetan Monk: The Case of Tenzin Delek , Human Rights Watch
  Quoted from Human Rights Watch: "This 108-page report by Human Rights Watch says that the persecution of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, a highly-respected Tibetan lama facing a death sentence on unproven allegations of involvement in a bombing, highlights the ongoing strictures placed on Tibetans in China. In recent years, the Chinese government has consolidated secular control at the expense of monastic influence. Human Rights Watch says that the international community should raise Tenzin Delek’s case at every opportunity in meetings with Chinese officials and press the Chinese government to bring to account those officials who have persecuted this man and his community."
  hrw.org/reports/2004/china0204/china0204.pdf - February 1, 2004

• Tx Implctns / Bsnss in GRTR China , Duke University
  This course will be taught at a law school in Hong Kong.  The course examines the tax implications for foreign investment and doing business in Greater China, including the People's Republic of China, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Taiwan. Highlight on the major taxes on investment and business activities in those areas. Review of certain tax policy issues arising out of this study and consider possible future taxation developments. Instructor: Law Faculty
  www.siss.duke.edu/schedule/0830/LAW/271H/ - August 22, 2004

• Urban Poverty, Childhood Poverty and Social Protection in China: Critical Issues , Solomon, Colette et al
  Quoted from CHIP: "This report examines some of the ways that rapid change in urban China has affected children. It focuses on rural-urban migration, the restructuring of state-owned enterprises and social security reforms, in particular the 'dibao' (Minimum Living Standards) programme. Given increasing problems of poor children's access to health and education services, it recommends that the 'dibao' programme builds in additional allowances to meet the costs of these services, and that children's welfare becomes a central principle of comprehensive social policy."
  www.childhoodpoverty.org/index.php/action=documentfeed/doctype=pdf/id=83/ - January 1, 2004

• Wang, Lu , Wang, Lu
  Lu Wang is currently an assistant professor at Queen's University at Kingston, Canada. Her research Areas include: consumption and identity, Multicultural retailing and ethnic economies, Economic geography, Mixed methods in geographical research. Lu Wang's current research activities consist of a Geomatics Approach to Immigrant Settlement Service: The Integration of Supply and Demand over Space and Time.
  geog.queensu.ca/profiles/profiles_wang.html - October 28, 2004

• Wilson, Thomas , Hamilton College
  Wilson, who joined the Hamilton faculty in 1989, earned a master's and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He also studied in Taiwan, at the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies (or Stanford Center), and in the graduate department of history at the National Taiwan University. He returned to Taiwan in 1984 on a Department of Education Fulbright-Hays scholarship to conduct research for his dissertation. Wilson has been a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ, and he has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and Summer Stipend. He has written extensively on Confucian orthodoxy and is a board member of the Society for the Study of Chinese Religions.Ê Wilson edited \"On Sacred Grounds: Culture, Society, Politics, and the Formation of the Cult of Confucius" (Harvard, 2003), to which he also contributed two chapters and is currently co-authoring a cultural history of Confucius titled "Confucius through the Ages," to be published by Random House.
  www.hamilton.edu/academics/faculty.html?dept=Asian%20Studies - November 4, 2004

• Women and Gender in China: Past and Present , University of Southern California
  An examination of changes in gender roles and in constructs of the female as influenced by traditional Chinese thought and later social developments.
  www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ealc/courses.php - October 2, 2004

• WTO and China , Duke University
  This course will examine key elements of the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements, as well as China's particular obligations and specific commitments, and assess their impact on systemic governance and the regulation of trade and investment in China. The course will also examine selected aspects of PRC foreign investment law, beginning with an overview of available forms of business in China.
  www.siss.duke.edu/schedule/0950/LAW/218H/ - August 12, 2004

• WTO and China , Duke University
  This course will examine key elements of the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements, as well as China's particular obligations and specific commitments, and assess their impact on systemic governance and the regulation of trade and investment in China. The course will also examine selected aspects of PRC foreign investment law, beginning with an overview of available forms of business in China. Instructor: Law Faculty
  www.siss.duke.edu/schedule/0950/LAW/218H/ - August 22, 2004

• Yang, Guobin , Woodrow Wilson Internatoinal Center for Scholars
  Guobin Yang is an expert in voluntary associations and NGOs in China; Internet and democracy; social movements; and transnational civil society. His current project is a study of the developments of the Internet and environmental NGOs are two important recent phenomena in China. They have attracted much academic and political interest independently, yet their interactions have not been explored. This project examines how China's environmental NGOs respond to the Internet in their efforts to solve environmental problems and achieve organizational growth. By exploring the role of the Internet in networking, mobilization, citizen education, and the politicization of environmental issues, the analysis will show that the wedding of civil society organizations with new information technologies may strengthen the institutional infrastructures for grassroots democratic participation in China.
  wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?topic_id=1462&fuseaction=topics.profile&person_id=34972 - October 21, 2004

• Zhao, Jimin , University of Michigan
  Dr. Jimin Zhao's research Interests include environmental policy, planning, and management, energy policy and technology innovation, clean vehicle policy and technology, international environmental institutions, environmental impact assessment, and Chinese environmental and energy policy. Dr. Zhao's current/recent research Projects include: 1. Directing project on energy policy and technology development in China and Sino-US cooperation in the energy field, focusing on clean vehicles, clean coal and renewable energy. The project aims to craft and catalyze a set of policies and institutions that can stimulate research, development, and deployment of energy technologies to address not only climate issues but also a full range of energy-related challenges of the 21st century. The work on clean vehicles is being undertaken in collaboration with China’s Ministry of Science and Technology and Chinese researchers and consists of international workshops and in-depth case study interviews with key actors in China and the United States. It aims to analyze the barriers preventing China from developing its technological capability in the automotive sector, and to help the Chinese government design policy mechanisms that can assist the automotive industry in adopting clean vehicle technologies (hybrid and fuel cell) to catch up with or leapfrog world technology levels 2. Participate in project on “Sustainable Concrete Infrastructure Materials and Systems: Developing an Integrated Life Cycle Design Framework,” applying life cycle models to assess the sustainability of road infrastructure systems in China, in cooperation with Tsinghua University 3. Continue to study the implementation of international environmental agreements in China and understand the incentives and barriers facing developing countries in complying with these agreements.
  www.snre.umich.edu/faculty-staff-directory/faculty-detail.php?faculty_id=192 - October 28, 2004

• Zheng, Wang , Center for Chinese Studies
  Professor Wang completed her doctorate in History with a designated emphasis in Social Theory and Comparative History at UC Davis in 1995, and joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in 2001. Her research interests include the study of women in contemporary China, gender and Maoist urban reorganization, gender studies and pedagogy in China.
  141.211.136.209/ccs/FacultyListDetail.asp?ID=53 - October 29, 2004

• Zhu, Zhiqun , Zhu, Zhiqun
  Professor Zhu has taught at Hamilton College in New York, University of South Carolina, and Shanghai International Studies University. In the early 1990s, he worked as the chief information assistant to the Consul for Press and Cultural Affairs at the American Consulate General in Shanghai. Dr. Zhu has published several book chapters on US-China relations. His articles have appeared in "Asian Perspective", "Global Economic Review", "Journal of Asia-Pacific Affairs", "Journal of Chinese Political Science" and elsewhere. His book, "US-China Relations in the 21st Century: Managing a Potential Power Transition", is to be published in 2005. The BBC, Associated Press and other media outlets have interviewed Zhu for his views on US policy towards Asia.
  www2.hawaii.edu/~pollard/advisory.html - October 7, 2004

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• Modern Japanese Society , University of Victoria
  A consideration of Japan's re-emergence as an industrialized nation in the post-war period and prospects for further development in view of the world energy crisis, environmental degradation, and other domestic and foreign problems. Emphasis will be upon the socio-political effects of Japan's post-war economic transformation.
  web.uvic.ca/calendar2004/CDs/PACI/321B.html - August 6, 2004

• Abe, Mark Nornes , University of Michigan
  Associate Professor, Program in Film and Video Studies and Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cinema, film and critical studies, Japanese cinema, Japanese documentary film
  websvcs.itcs.umich.edu/cjs/faculty/bio.php?personid=28 - February 18, 2005

• Advanced Topics in Japanese Cinema , University of Toronto
  The focus ranges from the examination of cross-cultural theoretical problems (such as Orientalism) to a director based focus, from the examination of genre (such as documentary or the category of genre itself) to the way film intersects with other cultural forms and technologies (such as Video and New Media).
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_eas.htm#EAS431H1 - January 17, 2005

• Advanced Topics in the Anthropology of Japan , University of Alberta
  No course description at this site.
  www.arts.ualberta.ca/~eastasia/course_offerings.htm - August 22, 2004

• Akita University , Akita University
  The home page of the Akita University. The site contains information on the University's academic programs, faculty, and organization. The site will be useful for the students interested in studies in Japan.
  www.akita-u.ac.jp/english/ - September 28, 2004

• Allinson, Gary Dean , University of Virginia
  Education: B.A. Stanford 1964 M.A. Stanford 1966 Ph.D. Stanford 1971 Courses : Probing Postwar Japan Japan from Susa-no-O to Sony Current Research: "Family, Work, and Community in the Re-ordering of Japanese Civic Society."
  www.virginia.edu/history/faculty/allinson.html - October 6, 2004

• American Culture in Japan , Chalfren, Richard
  This course examines versions and varieties of American life that have become a part of Japanese society and culture. We have seen a tremendous curiosity for \"things American\" in Japanese daily life -- but how is American culture in Japan? What kinds of transformations, reformulations and re-inventions have taken place? We will review Japanese adoptions and adaptations of language, \"American\" settings, architecture and design, foods and restaurants, clothing and fashions, popular films, television and advertising, and even holidays.
  astro.temple.edu/~rchalfen/anthro272.html - February 18, 2005

• Angst, Linda Isako , Lewis and Clark College
  Assistant Professor of Anthropology, East Asian Studies, Lewis and Clark College Her research in cultural anthropology has focused on questions of ethnicity, colonialism/postcolonialism, gender, and national identity in Japan. Her dissertation for Yale University looked at questions of Okinawan women’s political subjectivity, particularly as understood through their narratives about wartime experiences and memories and postwar occupation by the U.S. military. Today she studies the effects of developing Okinawa as a tourist site for Japanese consumption. Other research includes the politics of representation in Japan’s new peace museums and a collaborative comparative study of aging and diet in Okinawa and Tohoku.
  www.lclark.edu/dept/eas/angst.html - January 26, 2005

• Approaches to Modern Japanese History , University of Toronto
  This advanced seminar analyzes contemporary and past approaches to the writing of modern Japanese history, including detailed discussion of dominant tropes, metaphors and periodization schemes in historiography, especially as it is practiced in North America. Readings include contemporary theories of historical writing and \"the event\" by Jacques Rancierre, Foucault, Blanchot and others.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_eas.htm#EAS457H1 - January 17, 2005

• Arisaka, Yoko , University of San Francisco
  Master of Arts in Asia Pacific Studies (MAPS) Faculty, University of San Francisco Specialization: modern Japanese philosophy, Asian philosophy, modern European philosophy, ethics, and philosophy of technology.
  www.pacificrim.usfca.edu/academics/faculty.html - January 14, 2005

• Art and Religious Experience in Japan , University of Toronto
  Experience, ritual, discipline and training in Japanese art and religion. Art as religion, and religion as art. Shinto, mountain cults, shamanism, divination, esoteric Buddhism, Zen, the folk arts movement, music, internationalism in modern Japanese culture. Illustrated with slides and other material.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_eas.htm#EAS342H1 - January 17, 2005

• Asian Humanities Japan , University of Iowa
  This course is an introduction to Japanese culture from early times to the modern period as presented in literature as well as drama, architecture, landscaping, tea practices, and the visual arts. Reading assignments will include translations of selected Japanese literary and dramatic works as well as background readings in cultural history. Visual presentations (videos, slides, etc.) will be used in class whenever possible.  Requirements for the course in addition to the readings will include in-class examinations and one or two short written assignments.
  isis2.uiowa.edu/isis/courses/detail/039:020:AAA - January 12, 2005

• Asian Studies Proseminar: Japan , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  Note: In order to access the course description, select the course from the list. The seminar introduces the student to the major themes and research methodologies of Japanese Studies as practiced in the United States. The student will engage in a rigorous critical analysis of representative readings, including three books that look at some aspect of Japanese society from a consciously interdisciplinary perspective. Students should emerge from the course with a solid grounding in the Japanese Studies field that they can apply to further Japan-related study and research at the graduate level.
  www.hawaii.edu/shaps/asia/courses_next_sem.html - January 13, 2005

• Atomic Histories: Trinity, iIroshima, Nagasaki , Brown University
  Few events define the modern era as these do: the detonation of the world's first atomic device, the destruction of Hiroshima, and the use of a second nuclear weapon on Nagasaki. This course explores these events and their legacies through survivors' accounts, documentation in literature and film, and the troubled personal and public histories connecting Trinity, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
  boca.brown.edu/nontopicsdet.asp?year=2004&term=1&crsCode=HI0197&SectCode=S011 - January 12, 2005

• Auslin, Michael , Yale University
  Assistant Professor, Department of History, Yale University Michael Auslin specializes in Japanese international history, focusing on the cultural, intellectual, and strategic dimensions of Japan\'s foreign relations in the 19th and 20th centuries.
  www.yale.edu/history/faculty/auslin.html - March 25, 2005

• Azuma, Eiichiro , University of Pennsylvania
  Assistant Professor, History, University of Pennsylvania Specialization: Modern Japanese history, immigration, U.S.-Japan relations, and the history of Asians in the United States.
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/bios_azuma.html - February 2, 2005

• Barnhart, Michael , SUNY Stony Brook
  Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of History, SUNY Stony Brook Research Interests: US foreign relations, especially US-Japan relations.
  www.sunysb.edu/history/faculty/facultybio/barnhart.htm - October 6, 2004

• Barshay, Andrew , University of California Berkeley
  Professor, Department of History, Chair, Center for Japanese Studies, University of California Berkeley Research Interests: Modern Japanese intellectual and economic history.
  ieas.berkeley.edu/faculty/barshay.html - January 20, 2005

• Bartholomew, James R. , Ohio State University
  Professor of modern Japanese history,Department of History, Ohio State University. He is particularly interested in the history of science in Japan and in other countries historically less central to the scientific enterprise, and has taught senior seminars in which students are required to study the history of science only in areas outside the U.S. after 1900 and most of western Europe.
  comparativestudies.osu.edu/fac_assoc_bartholomew5.htm - October 6, 2004

• Bernstein, Andrew , Lewis and Clark College
  Assistant Professor of History, East Asian Studies, Lewis and Clark College His research interests are eclectic but tend to pivot on the basic question, "What makes the modern world 'modern'?" The geographical focus of my work is Japan, an especially fruitful place to explore the relationship between "modernization" and "westernization," processes that are often conflated uncritically in the popular and academic imaginations.
  www.lclark.edu/faculty/awb/ - January 26, 2005

• Berry, Mary Elizabeth , University of California Berkeley
  Professor, Department of History, University of California Berkeley Research Interests: Japan, Kyoto during the sengoku period, the Confucian family orientation.
  ieas.berkeley.edu/faculty/berry_m.html - January 20, 2005

• Boling, Patricia , Purdue, University
  Associate Professor, Purdue University Professor Boling teaches half-time in Political Science and half-time in Women's Studies. She is currently comparing family policies and democratic responsiveness in France, Germany, Japan, and the United States.
  www.polsci.purdue.edu/Directory/Faculty/boling.html - October 13, 2004

• Brown, Delmer M. , University of California Berkeley
  Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of California Berkeley Research Interests: Early Japanese religious history.
  ieas.berkeley.edu/faculty/brown.html - January 20, 2005

• Bryant, Taimie , University of California Los Angeles
  Professor, Department of Law, UCLA Research Interests: Contemporary Japanese law and society Japanese family law
  www.isop.ucla.edu/eas/Bryant.htm - January 20, 2005

• Burns, Susan L. , University of Chicago
  Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago Expertise: Intellectual and Cultural History of Tokugawa and Meiji Japan, Nativist and Confucian discourses on society and culture, Gender, reproduction, and maternity, Medicine and the body.
  history.uchicago.edu/faculty/burns.html - January 25, 2005

• Center for Japanese Legal Studies , Columbia University
  The Center for Japanese Legal Studies, directed by Professor Curtis J. Milhaupt (CLS ’89), was established in 1980 with financial support from the Fuyo Group (a group of leading Japanese companies) and the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission. The Center administers a range of research-oriented, programmatic, and informal programs designed to enhance understanding of the Japanese legal system. It also maintains extensive ties with Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Center on Japanese Economy and Business. Currently, the Center is expanding its activities to reflect the dynamic process of legal reform underway in Japan—reforms which touch upon virtually every aspect of Japanese society. The website includes research and teaching, academic exchanges, conferences and speakers, affiliated researchers, upcoming events, Japanese alumni, and friends of the center.
  www.law.columbia.edu/center_program/japanese_legal - January 18, 2005

• Center for Japanese Studies , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  The Center is a coordinating unit of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, the flagship campus of the University of Hawai'i, which fosters the study of Japan across academic disciplines. It is housed among other area studies units within the School of Hawaiian, Asian & Pacific Studies (SHAPS), which focuses on the international, intercultural, and multidisciplinary education of UH Students. The Center's mission is to promote a deeper understanding of Japan within a global context.
  www.hawaii.edu/shaps/enter/japanese.html - February 15, 2005

• Center for Japanese Studies, Keio University , Keio University
  This Center has provided students from around the world with the opportunity to learn not only the Japanese language, but also the particular customs and culture of Japan. In addition to a one-year language program, a summer intensive program is also offered. For regular undergraduate and graduate students who are not native speakers of Japanese, a Japanese as a Foreign Language program is available. In order to continue and improve upon the teaching of Japanese, the program for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language helps cultivate the next generation of Japanese language teachers.
  www.keio.ac.jp/05/09.html - November 11, 2004

• Center for Japanese Studies, University of California, Berkeley , University of California, Berkeley
  Founded in 1958, the Center for Japanese Studies (CJS) supports the teaching and research mission of the University in all areas of Japanese studies. This mission is sustained by approximately 20 faculty members, and it annually serves over 2,000 undergraduate and 100 graduate students in the fields of Anthropology, Architecture, Art History, Buddhist Studies, Business Administration, East Asian Languages, History, Journalism, Law, Linguistics, Music, Political Science, and Sociology. This site includes events, faculty bios, student groups, Maruyama lectures, publications, visiting scholars, student support, resources, Japan-related links, and a mailing list.
  ieas.berkeley.edu/cjs/ - October 2, 2004

• Center for Japanese Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  This webpage provides photos, e-mail addresses, and biographical information for the faculty and specialists of the Center for Japanese Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
  www.hawaii.edu/cjs/faculty.html - October 4, 2004

• Chalfren, Richard , Temple University
  Professor, Department of Anthropology, Temple University Specializations: Visual Anthropology of Modern Japan American Culture in Japan Indigenous Media Anthropology of Mass Media
  astro.temple.edu/~rchalfen/ - February 18, 2005

• Contemporary Japanese Society , University of Pennsylvania
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/eacourses.html - September 21, 2004

• Cultural and Social History of Japan's Recent Past , Vanderbilt University
  Japanese culture and society from the 1930s to the present. Impact of war experiences on postwar Japan, and the political nature of cultural production. (Not currently offered)
  www.vanderbilt.edu/catalogs/undergrad/history.html - August 26, 2004

• Culture and Society of Japan , University of Alberta
  No course description at this site.
  www.arts.ualberta.ca/~eastasia/course_offerings.htm - September 22, 2004

• Current Japanology , University of Pennsylvania
  Major trends in scholarship as reflected in important recent publications, especially formative books and periodical literature. The trajectory within certain disciplines as well as the interaction among them will be critically evaluated in terms of gains and losses. Implications of these theses in planning of graduate and postgraduate research will be discussed.
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/eacourses.html#Description - January 5, 2005

• Cybriwsky, Roman , Temple University
  Professor, Directors of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Dean, Temple University Japan Areas of Expertise: Urban-social geography, world cities, neighborhood change and development, cultural geography, Pacific Asia
  www.temple.edu/gus/faculty/cybriwsky.htm - February 18, 2005

• Devos, George A. , University of California Berkeley
  Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, University of California Berkeley Research Interests: Culture and personality, mental health, ethnic problems, minority issues, social deviancy, research methods in psychological anthropology, culture and society of Japan, European ethnicity.
  ieas.berkeley.edu/faculty/devos.html - January 20, 2005

• Dierkes, Julian , University of British Columbia
  Assistant Professor and Keidanren Chair in Japanese Research, Institute of Asian Research, Associate Director, Centre for Japanese Research, Faculty Associate, Institute of European Studies    Expertise: Comparative Political Sociology and Sociology of Education Japanese and German History Education Japanese Cram Schools Canada-EU-Japan Policy Responses to Globalization Economic Sociology and Organizational Behavior The Organizational Structure of Large U.S. Firms East Asian Corporations and Organizational Behavior Implications of Japan's Malaise for Organizational Sociology
  www.iar.ubc.ca/introduction/JulianDierkes.html - January 31, 2005

• Dingman, Robert , University of Southern California
  Professor, Department of History, University of Southern California Research Interests: Professor Dingman is an American, international, military, and naval historian with a particular interest in 20th century trans-Pacific relations. His research focuses on Japanese-American relations. He is currently working on two books: Bridge to the Rising Sun is a study of World War II Japanese language officers and their impact on America’s postwar relations with Japan. Anchor for Peace traces the history and cross-cultural impact of the American naval presence in Japan since 1853.
  www.usc.edu/assets/college/faculty/profiles/210.html - January 7, 2005

• Doing Photography And Social Research In The Allied Occupation of Japan, 1948 - 1951: A Personal and Professional Memoir , Bennet, John W.
  Photographs taken by anthropologist John W. Bennett in occupied Japan, 1948-1951, (a few were made in the 1960\'s during his term at Waseda University), with comments on the photos by Bennett. Also included are extensive selections from Bennett\'s professional journal of the period, and other documents. Consisting of a personal and professional memoir, this site is also a record of a unique experiment in social analysis and research that focuses on a period of particular significance in the development of Japanese and international history, politics, economics, and culture.
  library.osu.edu/sites/rarebooks/japan/about.html - January 27, 2005

• Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture , Columbia University
  The Center is dedicated to advancing the understanding of Japan and its culture in the United States through university instruction, research, and public education. In addition, the Center seeks to encourage study of the interrelationships among the cultures of Japan, other Asian countries, Europe, and  the United States. The website contains an events calander, fellowships, lectures, translation prizes, visiting fellows, supporters and friends, and a mailing list.
  www.columbia.edu/cu/ealac/dkc/ - January 18, 2005

• Doshisha University , Doshisha University
  This homepage contains information on academic programs and research centers of the university. The site will be useful particularly for students considering studies in Japan.
  www.doshisha.ac.jp/english/ - September 30, 2004

• Economic History of Japan: 1850 - present , Duke University
  The economic achievements and problems of Japan in their historical and comparative context. The prewar and wartime economy; postwar and current issues. How economic development has transformed ordinary people's lives.
  aas.duke.edu/reg/synopsis/view.cgi?s=01&action=display&subj=ECON&course=120&sem=0980 - August 12, 2004

• Education and Social Change in Modern Japan , The Australian National University
  The political history of Japan since 1850 serves as the main framework for the study of social change and education in modern Japan. The transformation of an agrarian society into an urban one, with the attendant reshaping of the life course of Japanese people, is studied within the context of state formation in modern Japan. The lives of representative Japanese, especially that phase of the life course spent in school, are studies in relation to the political history of the nation-state and the changing place of Japan in the modern world.
  info.anu.edu.au/StudyAt/_Asian_Studies/Postgraduate/Courses/_ASIA6309.asp - January 11, 2005

• Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies , Harvard University
  The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University supports research on Japan and provides a forum for  related academic activities and the exchange of ideas. It seeks to stimulate scholarly and public interest in Japan and Japanese studies at Harvard and around the world.  This site includes a Japan forum and events, fellowships and grants, postdoctoral fellowships, a newsletter, links, global Japanese studies events calendar, and the Documentation Center on Contemporary Japan.
  www.fas.harvard.edu/~rijs/ - January 20, 2005

• Emperor, Courtier and Samurai in Early Japan , Hamilton College
  Study of the politics, religion, and literature of classical Japan, the social and political impact of the emergence of the samurai in medieval Japan, and "restoration" of imperial authority during the Meiji era. Focuses on interaction with Chinese culture in the formation of Heian politics and religion; the contestation for political power at the imperial court; tensions among the court, the shogun and regional samurai vassals in the medieval era; and the emergence of a nativist reaction to Chinese influence beginning in the 18th century. No previous knowledge of Asian history required. Prerequisite, one 100-level history course.
  www.hamilton.edu/applications/catalogue/catalogue_search.cfm?action=CourseDisplay&ID=579 - January 25, 2005

• Engstrom, Erika , University of Nevada Las Vegas
  Associate Dean, Greenspun College of Urban Affairs, Associate Professor, Hank Greenspun School of Communication, UNLV. She has published articles on media representations of the Japanese, Japanese-Americans, and women, focusing primarily on television news, advertising, and other mass media messages. She has broadcasting experience in radio as a news producer, anchor, and reporter.
  liberalarts.unlv.edu/interdisciplinary/ErikaEngstromtextAsianStudies - January 23, 2005

• Family and Gender in Japan , Imamura
  This course addresses contemporary issues of family and gender in Japan. It will examine these issues as defined by both Japanese and external perspectives and include historical and contemporary definitions of family, femininity and masculinity.
  www.georgetown.edu/undergrad/bulletin/184courses.html - September 21, 2004

• Feminism and Japan , McGill University
  No course description at this site.
  arts.mcgill.ca/programs/eas/crs2004updated.html - June 14, 2004

• Fetters, Michael , University of Michigan
  Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Co-Director, Nagoya University-University of Michigan Family Medicine Exchange Program RESEARCH INTERESTS: The influence of culture on medical decision making and the ethical implications of those differences
  websvcs.itcs.umich.edu/cjs/faculty/bio.php?personid=10 - February 18, 2005

• Fujitani, Takashi , University of California San Diego
  Associate Professor with the Department of History, University of California San Diego Expertise: Modern Japanese history. His most recent publication is Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(s). Co-edited with Lisa Yoneyama and Geoffrey M. White (Duke University Press, 2001).
  japan.ucsd.edu/pages/people.html - January 25, 2005

• Gender and Japanese History , Harvard University
  Participants in this course will use a focus on gender and sexuality to explore important aspects of Japanese social history.  The course introduces important theoretical issues as well as covering a broad sweep of the past, starting in the medieval era and stretching up until Japan's recovery from the disasters of World War II. Students should be prepared to engage actively in discussion each week, and use the case of Japan to develop their own ideas about gender, sexuality and the state of the world we live in today.
  www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~hst1854/syllabus/ - August 24, 2004

• Gender and Sexuality in Japan , University of Pennsylvania
  This seminar deals with issues such as the cultural and historical constructions of femininity and masculinity; gendered division of education and labor; representation of gender and sexuality in literature, theater, and popular culture; and forms of activism for the rights of women and sexual minorities. This course will use films, videos, and manga, as well as readings from anthropological, historical, literary, and theoretical texts. All readings will be in English, but Japanese materials will be available to those interested.
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/eacourses.html - September 21, 2004

• Gill, Thomas , Meiji Gakuin University
  Associate Professor, Faculty of International Studies, Meiji Gakuin University Geographic Regions: Japan Research Areas: socioeconomic issues, urban issues, popular culture
  tomgill.homestead.com/TomGill.html - November 28, 2004

• Gluck, Carol , Columbia University
  George Sansom Professor of History; director of Expanding East Asian Studies Program (ExEAS), Columbia University Expertise: Modern Japan ; intellectual history and cultural history; historiography Professor Gluck's research and teaching interests are modern Japan , from the late nineteenth century to the present, international history, and history writing in Asia and the West. Her courses cover topics such as World War II in history and memory, "Telling the Twentieth Century," and "Ideas and Society in Modern Japan, 1600-present."
  www.columbia.edu/cu/weai/faculty/gluck.html - January 18, 2005

• Goto, Kenichi , Waseda University
  Professor of Modern and Contemporary History of Asia; History of Japan-Asia Relations, Waseda University Research Interests: Modern Japanese Outlooks on Asia; Modern History of Southeast Asia; History of Asia-Pacific International Relations in the Postwar World.
  www.wiaps.waseda.ac.jp/default.asp?lang=EN&frame=110!*!0&file=Public/Staff/PS_Lmenu_EN.htm!Bin/PS_List.asp%3fLang=EN%26Section=2!Common/Dmy.htm - October 25, 2004

• Graburn, Nelson , University of California Berkeley
  Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California Berkeley Research Interests: Social structure and kinship, ethnic arts, tourism, museums; Circumpolar peoples, Japan
  ieas.berkeley.edu/faculty/graburn.html - January 20, 2005

• Hackett, Roger , University of Michigan
  Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of Michigan Research Interests: Tokugawa-Meiji Era Japan Political Development in Modern Japan Japanese Civilization Yamagata Aritomo in the Rise of Modern Japan
  websvcs.itcs.umich.edu/cjs/faculty/bio.php?personid=15 - February 18, 2005

• Hanashiro, Roy , University of Michigan-Flint
  Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan- Flint Research Interests: The Japanese Imperial Mint and the Coal Industry The Japanese Imperial Mint and the Issue of Jurisdiction Over Foreign Employees
  websvcs.itcs.umich.edu/cjs/faculty/bio.php?personid=16 - February 18, 2005

• Hanes, Jeffrey , University of Oregon
  Assistant Professor, History, East Asian Focus, University of Oregon He specializes in Japanese history and urban culture. Among his publications is the forthcoming "Urban Mass Culture of Interwar Japan," (in Japanese) in Yoshimi Shunya, ed., Toshi no kukan toshi no shintai (Urban Space, Urban Body), and "From Megalopolis to Megaroporisu," in The Journal of Urban History (February 1993).
  darkwing.uoregon.edu/~ast/faculty/hanes.html - January 25, 2005

• History of Modern Japan , Vanderbilt University
  The political, social, economic, and cultural history of Japan in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Radical changes in the state, society, and economy and the effects of these changes on Japan's place in the world.
  www.vanderbilt.edu/catalogs/undergrad/history.html - October 4, 2004

• HIstory of Modern Japan: Imperial Japan from 1895 to 1945 , Li, Narangoa
  This course focuses on the changes brought by the imperialist expansion on the political, cultural, and economic fabric of Japanese society. With its successes in the Sino-Japanese War in 1895 and the Russo-Japanese War in 1904-05 Japan emerged as a great power in world history. Japan challenged the colonial interests of the Western powers in Asian continent and developed its expansionist ambitions. Starting from colonial bases in Taiwan and Korea, Japan launched a program of military, economic and cultural expansion, first on the Asian mainland, and then in the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Although this program of expansion ended more than 50 years ago, Japan\'s activities in Asia in the first half of this century remain unfinished business in a political sense. Even beyond the boundaries of the Japanese empire, the rest of Asia was affected in one or the other way by the Japanese military interlude, and those territories occupied by Japan experienced fundamental transformations. The issue of collaboration and the questions of reparations and of textbook history remain profoundly sensitive across the Asian continent. Through lectures, discussions and films, students will gain a better understanding of these historic changes and Japan\'s political and economic relations with its Asian neighbours today.
  info.anu.edu.au/StudyAt/_Asian_Studies/Postgraduate/Courses/_ASIA6029.asp - January 11, 2005

• Hitotsubashi University , Hitotsubashi University
  The home page of Hitotsubashi University. It covers basic information about the history of the institution, academic programs, research centers and faculty. The page will be useful for students considering undergraduate and graduate studies in Japan.
  www.hit-u.ac.jp/EnglishVersion/2001/ - September 30, 2004

• Inaga, Shigemi , International Research Center for Japanese Studies
  Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Japan Specialized Fields: Comparative literature and culture; history of cultural exchange Current Research Themes: Formation process of modernism in art; Japonism and orientalism
  www.nichibun.ac.jp/research/staff1/INAGA_Shigemi2_e.htm - February 24, 2005

• Information Center for Social Science Research on Japan , University of Tokyo
  The page covers basic facts about on the Information Center for Social Science Research on Japan at the Department for Social Studies of the University of Tokyo. The Center works on creation and maintaining of a comprehensive database of social science data conserning Japan; conducts research of the social issues in Japan; and facilitates builing of a worldwide network of academic research on Japan. The site contains valuable information on the recent social research projects, publications and organizations focusing on Japan studies. It is a very useful resource for researchers, educators and students interested in various aspects of Japanese society.
  www.iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Center/ - September 28, 2004

• Institute for Media and Comnunacations Research , Keio University
  The Institute was founded in 1946, right after World War II, to conduct research into the role of the media and other forms of mass communication in the social, political, economic and cultural life of Japan. The Institute also sponsors various educational programs for undergraduate students, and offers a special diploma course which trains some 150 students intending to become specialists in mass media.
  www.mediacom.keio.ac.jp/english/about.html - November 11, 2004

• Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies , Columbia University
  The Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies, founded in 1968, is an international liaison and research center designed primarily to serve European and American scholars whose main area of study focuses on medieval Japan. The overall purpose of the Institute is to encourage research on all aspects of premodern Japanese civilization, especially the medieval period (primarily, but not exclusively, the Kamakura and Muromachi periods, 1185-1600), centuries which, until the 1970s, had been relatively neglected among Japanese and Western scholars alike. The website contains past events, grants, publications, IMJS reports, and a Columbia Japanese Support Network
  www.columbia.edu/cu/ealac/imjs/ - January 18, 2005

• Institute of Japanese Studies , Institute of Japanese Studies
  The Institute of Japanese Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, founded in 1981, is a comprehensive academic research organization with 60 fixed number of members. At present it has 46 members including 33 research fellows and 8 research assistants. Among them there are 9 research professors and 12 associate research professors. 18 research fellows have Ph.D degree and 9 have M.A degree. The institute sticks to the principle of laying equal stress on basic theory and policy studies. It is mainly engaged in the researches of Japanese politics, economy, society & culture and foreign relations. It is also engaged in educating graduate students.
  www.cass.net.cn/chinese/s30_rbs/english/english.htm - October 7, 2004

• Institute of Okinawan Studies , Hosei University
  The page of the Institute of Okinawan Studies at Hosei University. The Institute was established in l972 to do comparative research on the culture, history and linguistics of not only the Ryukyu islands, centered on Okinawa, but also surrounding areas such as China, Southeast Asia and Korea. Now that the Okinawan studies has expanded into a world-wide concern, the Institute is playing a central role in providing and exchanging information among the researchers within and outside Japan. The site will be very useful for researchers and students interested in Okinawan Culture. However, apart from introduction, all other information related to the Center's activities is in Japanese.
  www.hosei.ac.jp/english/research.htm - September 30, 2004

• International Business Lobbying: The United States, Europe and Japan , Volpe
  This course will cover topics involving federal, state, local and international business lobbying by American companies/associations/interest groups, and by foreign entities doing business in the United States. It will also survey US business lobbying abroad, including, but not limited to, Europe and Japan.
  icp.gmu.edu/course/syllabi/00sp/752.htm - September 21, 2004

• International Center, Keio University , Keio University
  The International Center is a hub for international cross-cultural activities. In addition to providing academic and pastoral support for foreign exchange students at Keio, the Center also assists Japanese students wishing to study abroad. The Center offers Foreign Studies and Japanese Studies courses, given in English, that cover culture, history, politics and economics. There are also summer school programs in both Great Britain and the United States.
  www.ic.keio.ac.jp - November 11, 2004

• Internationalism, Nationalism, and Modern Japanese Discursive Space , Cornell University
  In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, nation-states formed in Britain, France, Japan, Germany, and the United States sought to become imperial powers; and "internationalism" virtually collapsed. Focusing on Japanese examples, but not excluding other cases, we study modern national subjectivity with a view to the problems of ethnicity, colonialism, sexism, historical memory, post-coloniality, and academic knowledge.
  cuinfo.cornell.edu/Academic/Courses/CoSdetail.phtml?college=AS&number=483&prefix=ASIAN&title=Internationalism%2C+Nationalism%2C+and+Modern+Japanese+Discursive+Space+%40+%28III%29+%28KCM%29 - September 27, 2004

• Introduction to East Asian Civilization: Japan , Brown University
  A broad-based survey that begins with the formation of a distinctive lifestyle in prehistoric times and continues through Japan's emergence to a modern nation today. Particular emphasis is placed on understanding the fundamental cultural values and aspirations of Japanese who lived in various historical periods and analyzing their attempts to create particular political, social, and economic systems that would give life to those dreams and ambitions.
  boca.brown.edu/nontopicsdet.asp?year=2003&term=2&crsCode=HI0042 - August 9, 2004

• Ivy, Marilyn , Columbia University
  Associate Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University Expertise: Modernity, emphasis on Japan Professor Ivy approaches the anthropology of modernity from several perspectives. One is that of critical theory and its varied anatomies of the crises of the modern (most emblematically revealed by fascism). Her work on mass media, capitalism, and everyday life is informed by these approaches. Another, and related to her interests in critical theory, is her concern with questions of representation and interpretation opened up by semiotic and post-semiotic protocols of reading and textual analysis. Finally, she is committed to keeping the crucial importance of historical reflection in the forefront of her research, teaching, and ethnographic practice.
  www.columbia.edu/cu/weai/faculty/ivy.html - January 18, 2005

• Japan , University of California, Los Angeles
  Lecture, three hours. Overview of contemporary Japanese society. General introduction, kinship, marriage and family life, social mobility and education, norms and values, religions, patterns of interpersonal relations, social deviance.
  www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/catalog.asp?sa=ANTHRO+&funsel=3 - August 6, 2004

• Japan and the Internet , University of Toronto
  This course explores the political, technological, economic and cultural impacts of the Internet on contemporary Japanese society and how the Internet shapes our understanding and appreciation of Japanese culture in the global context. Offered only in summer.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_eas.htm#EAS496H1 - August 11, 2004

• Japan and the Samurai , University of Georgia
  Japan's military traditions and the evolution of the warrior class.
  uga.edu/cas/courses.html - January 20, 2005

• Japan as seen by ?: Reference, Apparatus, Operation , University of Toronto
  Discusses how images of Japan, charged with varied degrees of desire for empirical knowledge, have contributed to contemporary novels and plays by David Mitchell, Ruth L. Ozeki, David Mamet, Joy Kogawa, Kazuo Ishiguro, Marguerite Duras, and David Hwang. All the readings, including Japanese literary and theoretical, are available in English.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_eas.htm#EAS456H1 - January 17, 2005

• Japan Center for Michigan Universities , Japan Center for Michigan Universities
  The Japan Center for Michigan Universities (JCMU) study abroad program is a product of the strong sister-state relationship between the State of Michigan and Shiga Prefecture. It is located on the shore of Lake Biwa in the City of Hikone, Shiga Prefecture , Japan. Its programs are dedicated to building relationships between Japanese, Americans, and other nationalities through active learning and participation in language, culture, family life and society. This site includes academic programs, environmental sciences in Japan, financial aid, events, and visiting scholars.
  www.isp.msu.edu/JCMU/index.html - October 6, 2004

• Japan From Feudal to Modern State , University of British Columbia
  Japanese history from 1467 to the Meiji Restoration. Political, economic, social, and cultural forces which were involved in transforming Japan. This course is the second half of a two-semester survey of Japanese history, beginning with prehistoric times and ending with 1868, the year marked by the Meiji Restoration. The purpose of the course is to acquire a basic knowledge of the political, economic, social, and cultural lives which Japanese people have produced and experienced. Special attention will be given to the dimensions of historical factors and forces that have shaped the course of Japanese history.
  www.asia.ubc.ca/courses/history.htm - January 18, 2005

• Japan from War to Prosperity , Cornell Univeristy
  An interpretation of Japanese history from the late 1920s to present, emphasizing mobilization for total war and its continuing legacies, technology and organized capitalism, relations with the U.S. and Asian neighbors, social integration and exclusion, historical representation and consciousness, and political dynamics.
  cuinfo.cornell.edu/Academic/Courses/CoSdetail.phtml?college=AS&number=330&prefix=HIST&title=Japan+from+War+to+Prosperity+%40+%28III%29+%28HA%29 - September 27, 2004

• Japan in the 20th Century , Columbia University
  The course covers Japanese history from 1890 to the present, with particular emphasis on political, social, and economic developments.
  www.sipa.columbia.edu/CourseDescriptions/index.html - September 23, 2004

• Japan Information Access Project , Japan Information Access Project
  The Japan Information Access Project is a Washington, DC-based, independent, nonprofit research center to strengthen international understanding of Japanese and Northeast Asia science, technology, industry, security, and policy. The site contains a Washington events calendar, membership information, Asia Policy Weekly Calandar, events, Asian Science and Technology Forum, Polls, Resources for Researchers, Publications, and Special Reports.
  www.jiaponline.org/ - January 14, 2005

• Japan Since 1550 , Kansas State University
  The course examines Japan from reunification in the sixteenth century through the Tokugawa and Imperial eras to the postwar recovery. Emphasis in put  on understanding modern Japan as the product of traditional culture, the Meiji Restoration, and World War II.
  courses.ksu.edu/catalog/undergraduate/as/hist.html - September 21, 2004

• Japan Statistics Research Institute , Hosei University
  The page of Japan Statistics Research Institute at Hosei University. Founded in 1946, the Institute is known as a unique research institution in Japan with outstanding achievements in many fields. Its main task is research on statistical systems and policies of foreign and domestic governments and organizations, on the theory of statistics, and on regional statistics. Research is carried out mainly by the academic staff of Hosei University in cooperation with specialists from outside including the governmental staff. The library collection -statistical materials and reference books- is open not only to University staff but to outside users interested in statistical works. The site can be a very useful resourse for students, educators and researchers.
  www.hosei.ac.jp/english/research.htm - September 30, 2004

• Japan Studies at MSU-Bozeman , Montana State University
  Welcome to the web site of the Japan Studies program at Montana State University, Bozeman.  Our mission is to help students acquire the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in Japan and in Japanese contexts. Courses are currently available in Japanese language, history, literature, and civilization.  Japan-related coursework is an excellent complement to almost any major.  Students can spend an entire year studying at a Japanese university, including our exchange partners in Kumamoto, Montana's sister state. This site includes faculty, courses, press releases, and links.
  www.montana.edu/japan/ - January 20, 2005

• Japan Studies Program , University of Washington
  The Japan Studies Program at the University of Washington offers well-rounded interdisciplinary study of Japan as well as more specialized training in each student's particular area of interest. Courses cover Japanese history, politics, economics, society, business, law, anthropology, the arts and art history, literature, linguistics, and civilization. The research interests and expertise of the faculty cover a broad historical period, from the premodern to the present day. Variety and depth are added to regular coursework by Japan Colloquia and by occasional special symposia and conferences. Because of the crucial importance of language skills in understanding Japan, students in the Japan Studies Program are strongly encouraged to study Japanese to as advanced a level as possible. The opportunity to do so is provided by strong Japanese language teaching in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature, and the Technical Japanese Program of the College of Engineering. Courses in these departments focus on readings in literature and the humanities, natural and technical sciences, and the social sciences.
  jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/easc/JapanStudiesProgram.html - February 15, 2005

• Japan Studies Program, Teikyo Loretto Heights University , Teikyo Loretto Heights University
  The Japan Studies Program is designed to meet the needs of Japanese and non-Japanese students alike in better understanding the rich complexity, tradition, language, history, and societal characteristics of Japan. Through this knowledge, graduates will gain the cultural insights necessary to effectively work in a setting in which a sophisticated understanding of the nuances of Japanese culture is required. This site includes a course listing, news, contacts, and a public access catalog.
  www.tlhu.edu/academic/JPS2.phtm - February 24, 2005

• Japan Studies, University of Pittsburgh , University of Pittsburgh
  Japan Studies at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is committed to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge about the history, society, culture, political economy, and arts of Japan. With eighteen Japan specialists on the faculty, Pitt provides training in Japanese language and area studies through a variety of course and degree offerings. It encourages multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary research through student scholarships and faculty grants; and itfacilitates the exchange of ideas and information through seminars, conferences, and outreach activities for members of both the academic and local communities. These activities are administered by the Asian Studies Center, which is part of Pittsburgh University Center for International Studies. This site includes sections for students, faculty, academics, educational outreach, what's new, and more.
  www.ucis.pitt.edu/asc/japan_studies.html - January 20, 2005

• Japan to 1640: Foundations of Culture and State , University of Georgia
   Introduction to the history and civilization of Japan, covering four main epochs of early Japanese history.
  uga.edu/cas/courses.html - January 20, 2005

• Japan: Age of the Samurai , University of Pennsylvania
  This course deals with the samurai in Japanese history and culture and focuses on the period of samurai political dominance from 1185 to 1868, but it in fact ranges over the whole of Japanese history from the development of early forms of warfare to the disappearance of the samurai after the Meiji Restoration of the 19th century. This course concludes with a discussion of the legacy of the samurai in the modern Japanese culture and the image of the samurai in foreign perceptions of Japan.
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/eacourses.html#Description - January 5, 2005

• Japanese Bibliography and Problems of Research , University of Pennsylvania
  Weekly sessions on Japanese and English sources necessary for scholarly work in Japanese studies. Introduction to electronic access to bibliographies and databases on Japan. Review of all important Japanese reference works on religion, history, literature, social science, etc. There are weekly practical assignments. For advanced graduate students.
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/eacourses.html#Description - January 5, 2005

• Japanese Civilization , University of Southern California
  Survey of the main characteristics and development of art, literature, philosophy, religion, political and social institutions through different periods
  www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ealc/courses.php - October 2, 2004

• Japanese Civilization , University of Southern California
  Survey of the main characteristics and development of art, literature, philosophy, religion, political and social institutions through different periods. Conducted in English.
  www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ealc/courses.php - January 17, 2005

• Japanese Culture , University of Pittsburgh
  This one credit course on Japanese Culture will focus on the theme of continuity and change in Japanese Society and Culture. Students will learn about contemporary Japan and the historical precedents to contemporary society. The class will consist of a series of lectures by distinguished experts on such topics as the Japanese economy, history, family, politics, business, theater, religion, literature, education, and fine arts. Slide lectures and videos will also be part of this series.
  www.pitt.edu/~caswww/cdesc/ds043051/anth.htm#1783Japanese%20Culture - January 16, 2004

• Japanese Department , Augustana College
  The Augustana Japanese Program offers two years of language instruction. The instructor is a native Japanese speaker who specializes in language pedagogy, so students are assured of top quality instruction. ÊÊÊÊÊThe program focuses on the basic and most important skills needed to communicate and function in Japanese. Classes are full of fun activities with chances for every student to enjoy listening to and speaking Japanese. All types of instructional technology are incorporated into classrooms to accelerate students\' learning: a language lab, computer programs, word processing, as well as audio and video tapes. The program is designed to provide students with the language skills that can be utilized in real communication.
  www.augustana.edu/academ/japanese/ - February 17, 2005

• Japanese Fiction and the Nation , University of Toronto
  The focus is on modern Japanese literature, with special attention given to literature\'s relation to the nation. Students track how this literature transforms throughout Japanese modernity and how its meaning and effects function to simultaneously tie together and pull apart national identity.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_eas.htm#EAS327H1 - January 17, 2005

• Japanese for Legal ST , Duke University
  An introduction to the terminology and basic concepts of Japanese law. Reading and analysis of legal texts (codes, cases, contracts, wills). Communication about law and law-related issues in Japanese. Prerequisite: three semesters or equivalent of Japanese.
  www.siss.duke.edu/schedule/1000/LAW/650/ - September 22, 2004

• Japanese for Legal ST , Duke University
  An introduction to the terminology and basic concepts of Japanese law. Reading and analysis of legal texts (codes, cases, contracts, wills). Communication about law and law-related issues in Japanese. Prerequisite: three semesters or equivalent of Japanese. Instructor: Staff
  www.siss.duke.edu/schedule/1000/LAW/650/ - August 22, 2004

• Japanese Law and Legal Institutions , Columbia University
  Compares and contrasts Japanese and American law, with particular emphasis on the institutional and structural differences relating to regulatory control and oversight. After a brief overview of the Japanese legal system, the course compares the institutional framework within which legal issues are raised and resolved in Japan and the United States. Focuses particularly on various areas of private law and international trade.
  www.sipa.columbia.edu/CourseDescriptions/index.html - September 23, 2004

• Japanese Online Resources, Harvard-Yenching Library , Harvard University
  This site provides an extensive listing of Japan related links including library catalogs, book vendors/publishers, periodicals indexes, newspapers, dictionaries, and maps. It also provides links according to the following subjects: anthropology, art/film, East Asian Studies/ economics/finance, history, law, literature, politics/goverment, religion, sociology, statistics / public opinion polls, and other Japanese study sites.
  hcl.harvard.edu/harvard-yenching/japandatabase.html - February 24, 2005

• Japanese Popular Culture , University of Pennsylvania
  This course is based upon the premise that popular culture is a legitimate object of study in today\'s universities, and that through the careful study of objects of Japanese popular culture such as anime (animated films), manga (comic books), films, short stories and popular music, each one of us will be able to write short histories of various aspects of contemporary Japan. In order to further our individual historiographical projects, we will learn some theoretical methods for studying and writing about the relation between our everyday lives, the processes of globalization, and the pleasure or displeasure that we derive from the objects of popular culture. Through the study of Japanese popular culture, we will learn to analyze critically some of the functions of these objects as sources of meaning, escape, and identity formation in our everyday lives.
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/eacourses.html#Description - January 5, 2005

• Japanese Popular Culture and Literature , Beloit College
  Dealing with popular Japanese media--manga (comics), popular novels, film, and animation--this course offers a critical examination of how they are reflected in Japanese culture through time. To approach these popular forms of expression, various theoretical readings will be assigned for discussion. Since manga and animation are very popular not only in Japan but also in the U. S. and elsewhere, studing these media is important to understanding an increasingly global youth culture. Taught in English.
  www.beloit.edu/~academic/fields/majors/modern_languages_literature_courses.php - January 11, 2005

• Japanese Religion , University of Georgia
  Development of religion in Japan from earliest times to the present, with emphasis upon Shinto, the domestication of Buddhism, and the relationship of religion to the Japanese state and national identity. Particular attention given to the development of Zen in Japan.
  uga.edu/cas/courses.html - January 20, 2005

• Japanese Religions , University of British Columbia
  An introduction to traditional Japanese religions from the beginnings until modern times, including Shinto, Buddhism, Shugendo, Confucianism, new religions, and folklore, and emphasis on their roles in Japanese history, culture and society. This course will provide students with a balanced and systematic understanding of the innermost sources of values and ethics that have nurtured Japanese people.
  www.asia.ubc.ca/courses/history.htm - January 18, 2005

• Japanese Society , University of Pittsburgh
  Japanese social organization, including marriage and family patterns, neighborhood and community organization, gender roles, and the structure of business and labor relations in Japan, constitutes the focus of this course. Also of some concern will be other matters in the anthropological study of Japan, such as the origins of the people, language and their culture, the relationship of the Japanese language to behavior and the culture, Buddhist, Shinto and other religious beliefs and practices, the Emperor as a sacred ethnic symbol, and basic cultural values, attitudes and perceptions and their development through socialization and other means in the individual.
  www.pitt.edu/~caswww/cdesc/ds043051/anth.htm#1784Japanese%20Society - January 16, 2004

• Japanese Society: Selected Topics , University of California, Los Angeles
  Social structural characteristics and functioning of contemporary Japanese society, with focus on comparison and evaluations of functional (or rational) and cultural explanations of selected social phenomena. Topics include forms of social interaction, work organization, family, education, and equality.
  www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/catalog.asp?sa=SOCIOL+&funsel=3 - August 9, 2004

• Japanese Studies Network Forum , The Japan Foundation
  This website was created for those conducting research in Japanese studies to support networking of Japan specialists and to enable easier access to information in the field. This site Japan studies related news, grants database, Japan studies associations and institutions, resources, recently published reference books, and information on Japanese-Language software.
  www.jsnet.org/ - January 20, 2005

• Japanese Thought: Cultural Topic , University of Southern California
  Seminar on the implications of major streams of thought in Japanese culture.
  www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ealc/courses.php - October 2, 2004

• Japanese Thought: Cultural Topics , University of Southern California
  Seminar on the implications of major streams of thought in Japanese culture.
  www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ealc/courses.php - January 17, 2005

• Johnson, David T. , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  Associate Professor of Sociology and Adjunct Professor of Law; Faculty, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa Research Interests: Law, politics and society in Japan; prosecuting political corruption in Japan; Japanese Criminal Justice.
  www.hawaii.edu/cjs/faculty.html - October 13, 2004

• Kamachi, Noriko , University of Michigan- Dearborn
  Professor of History, Department of Social Science, University of Michigan- Dearborn RESEARCH INTERESTS: Japanese historiography of modern China: the Japanese interpretations of Chinese history, law and legal culture in late imperial China, Sino-Japanese relations in the modern period, Ryukyu: Cultural identity in the age of nationalism
  websvcs.itcs.umich.edu/cjs/faculty/bio.php?personid=18 - February 18, 2005

• Kano, Ayako , Center for East Asian Studies
  Ayako Kano is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and also serves as Undergraduate Chair of its Asian Section at the University of Pennsylvania. Born in Tokyo, Japan, and raised in Frankfurt, New York, and Yokohama, Professor Kano received her B.A. from Keio University, Tokyo, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Cornell University in 1995. Professor Kano's research focuses on the intersection of gender, performance, and politics, as well as on Japanese cultural history of the late 19th to early 20th century.
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/bios_kano.html - November 5, 2004

• Karan, P.P. , University of Kentucky
  Professor of Geography, Japan Studies Core Faculty, University of Kentucky He is a former chair of the Deparment of Geography at UK, and has held professorships at distinguished universities in the United States, Japan, Europe, and India.
  www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/RAE/Japan/faculty.html - February 11, 2005

• Kasaya, Kazuhiko , International Research Center for Japanese Studies
  Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies Specialized Fields: Historical science (Japanese early modern history, a sociological study of the Samurai family) Current Research Themes: The national system and imperial system in the Tokugawa period: Ideology and Behavioral Patterns in Japanese Chivalry
  www.nichibun.ac.jp/research/staff1/KASAYA_Kazuhiko2_e.html - February 24, 2005

• Keio Communications Review , Institute for Media and Communications Research
  The periodical covers results of the most recent research on media influence on politics, language, culture, and daily life of Japanese society.
  www.mediacom.keio.ac.jp/english/publication.html - November 11, 2004

• Keio University , Keio University
  The home page of Keio University - one of the most famous and prestigious educational establishment in Japan. The site contains information about academic programs, courses, faculty and events of the University. The site will be particularly useful for the students considering recieving education in Japan.
  www.keio.ac.jp/index-en.html - September 28, 2004

• Komatsu, Kazuhiko , International Research Center for Japanese Studies
  Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Japan Specialization: Anthropological Study of Folklore. Research Interest: Comparative Research on Asian Folk Religions.
  www.nichibun.ac.jp/research/staff1/KOMATSU_Kazuhiko2_e.html - February 24, 2005

• Kuriyama, Shigehisa , International Research Center for Japanese Studies
  Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Japan Specialized Fields: Comparative history of medicine; history of science Current Research Themes: Tension in western medicine and science; money and the body in Edo Japan; \"fire\" in Chinese medicine
  www.nichibun.ac.jp/research/staff1/KURIYAMA_Shigehisa2_e.html - February 24, 2005

• Kyushu University , Kyushu University
  The home page of Kyushu University. The site contains information of the academic programs, faculty, and facilities of the university. This web page will be particularly interesting for the students considering studies in Japan.
  www.kyushu-u.ac.jp/english.new/eng/index.html - September 28, 2004

• Levin, Mark Alan , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  Associate Professor of Law, Faculty, Center for Japanese Studies; University of Hawaii at Manoa Research Interests: Japanese law and society; US-Japan business transactions.
  www.hawaii.edu/cjs/faculty.html - October 13, 2004

• Liu, Jianhui , International Research Center for Japanese Studies
  Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Japan Specialized Fields: Comparative literature and culture between Japan and China Current Research Themes: History of cultural exchange between modern Japan and China
  www.nichibun.ac.jp/research/staff1/LIU_Jianhui2_e.html - February 24, 2005

• Making Waves , Schencking, Charles J.
  This book examines how Japan’s naval leaders worked at both the elite political and local levels in society to secure the vast financial support necessary to assemble the world's third-largest naval force between 1868 and 1922.
  www.sup.org/cgi-bin/search/book_desc.cgi?book_id=4977%20 - February 22, 2005

• Mason, Robert J. , Temple University
  Associate Professor, Department of Geography & Urban Studies Environmental Studies Program, Temple University Dr. Mason\'s research and instructional program is related to environmental policymaking and land-use management. He teaches courses in basic human-environment interactions, environmental policy issues in the United States, environmental problems in Asia, and environmental aspects of tourism.  
  astro.temple.edu/~rmason/ - February 18, 2005

• Master of Diplomacy / Master of Asia-Pacific Studies , The Australian National University
  The Master of Diplomacy Combined Degree Program is a key under-taking of the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy and is composed of two Master degrees. The first Master Degree can be in a range of specified areas in which a knowledge of contemporary diplomacy would be an advantage. (This first degree is referred to as your field of study Master Degree.)
  info.anu.edu.au/StudyAt/_APCD/Postgraduate/Programs/_7885XMDIPL.asp - August 9, 2004

• Matsuo, Naoko , Monterey Institute of International Studies
  Expertise Japanese language and culture; pedagogy; business Japanese; current issues in Japanese media.
  www.miis.edu/gslel-faculty.html?id=110#top - October 2, 2004

• McClain, Jim , Brown University
  Professor of History and East Asian Studies, Brown University James L. McClain, Professor and Chair of History who teaches early modern Japan. He has taught at Brown for nearly a quarter century and is author of an award-winning book on Kanazawa: A Castle Town in Seventeenth-Century Japan (Yale University Press, 1982), and more recently a 700-page textbook, Japan: a Modern History, published in 2001 by W.W. Norton. He has further co-edited two volumes on Japanese cities, Edo and Osaka, in addition to articles in important venues. His research has won support over the y ears from Japan Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
  www.brown.edu/Departments/East_Asian_Studies/faculty.html - January 20, 2005

• Medicine, Literature and Culture in Japan , University of Pennsylvania
  This seminar is in many ways an exercise in comparison-by looking at how the practice of medicine in Japan differs from that in America. Japan, where people enjoy good health and live very long lives, not only combines "Western" with "Eastern" medical practices but also is a place where questions of medical ethics and biotechnology are often faced differently than they are in America. The fact that in modern times many Japanese writers had medical educations makes Japanese literature, studied here in translation, a rich context for exploring a wide range of such questions. Film too will be a tool for our studies.A comparative look at what we might think about the body, the mind, and healing or dying processes will be the central focus of this seminar.
  - January 5, 2005

• Meiji University , Meiji University
  The home page of Meiji University. It contains information on various activities of the University, its research centers and graduate and undergraduate schools. The page will be partucularly useful for the students considering studies in Japan.
  www.meiji.ac.jp/cip/english/ - September 30, 2004

• Milhaupt, Curtis J. , Columbia University
  Fuyo Professor of Japanese Law and Legal Institutions; director, Center for Japanese Legal Studies, Columbia University Expertise: Comparative corporate governance, Japanese law, financial regulation, law and economics, and new institutional economics
  www.columbia.edu/cu/weai/faculty/milhaupt.html - January 18, 2005

• Modern Japan , Iowa University
  The course covers the period from the early nineteenth until the end of the twentieth century, a period when Japanese society changed enormously. We will examine such topics as the end of feudal society, the establish of the institutions of a modern nation-state after 1868, rapid industrialization and social transformation, the acquisition of a modern colonial empire, Japan's brief career as a military rival of the Great Powers, Japan's devastating defeat in the Second World War and the political, socio-economic and cultural changes in the second half of the twentieth century. Coursework includes quizzes and short writing assignments, a midterm and a final examination, and a longer paper on assigned readings.
  isis2.uiowa.edu/isis/courses/detail/39J:173:001 - January 12, 2005

• Modern Japanese History since 1800 , Universiity of British Columbia
  Modern Japanese History since 1800. The building of a modern state, its crisis in the 1930s, and its postwar recovery; topics include business institutions, politics, imperialism, intellectual syncretism, social change, and Japan\'s growing influence in the world.
  www.asia.ubc.ca/courses/history.htm - January 18, 2005

• Modern Japanese Intellectual History , University of Toronto
  Survey of ideas behind major problems of Japanese history since 1600. Confucianism and National Studies in the Tokugawa period, 19th century westernization, 20th century nationalistic reaction, democratic and secular thought since 1945.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_his.htm - January 17, 2005

• Modern Japanese Society , University of Victoria
  A consideration of Japan's re-emergence as an industrialized nation in the post-war period and prospects for further development in view of the world energy crisis, environmental degradation, and other domestic and foreign problems. Emphasis will be upon the socio-political effects of Japan's post-war economic transformation.
  web.uvic.ca/calendar2003/CDs/PACI/321B.html - September 22, 2004

• Modern Japanese Society , University of Victoria
  A consideration of Japan's re-emergence as an industrialized nation in the post-war period and prospects for further development in view of the world energy crisis, environmental degradation, and other domestic and foreign problems. Emphasis will be upon the socio-political effects of Japan's post-war economic transformation.
  web.uvic.ca/calendar2003/CDs/PACI/321B.html - August 22, 2004

• Modern Japanese Society , Akami
  This course is an introductory course on modern Japanese society, which provides students with basic understanding and introduces key issues and various perspectives to analyse these issues. While it covers major economic and political events after the Meiji restoration of 1868 to the present, its main focus is on the consequences of these events on social, intellectual and cultural aspects. The course aims to provoke questions about assumptions behind the perspectives, such as the notion of an East/West dichotomy and the totality of national culture. It also tries to see the historicity of conventional understandings of modern Japanese society. It sets out to examine when, how and why these understandings were constructed, and it considers the implications of recent events. Students will be encouraged to bring in a comparative perspective in tutorials and essays.
  info.anu.edu.au/StudyAt/_Asian_Studies/Postgraduate/Courses/_ASIA6010.asp - January 11, 2005

• Morris-Suzuki, Tessa , Australian National University
  Professor of Japanese History, Division of Pacific and Asian History Australian National University Research Interests: The social history of Japanese technology; national identity and ethnic minorities in Japan; the history of indigenous peoples in Northeast Asia; modern Japanese historiography; globalisation processes (with particular reference to Northeast Asia).
  rspas.anu.edu.au/people/personal/morrt_pah.php - January 23, 2005

• Napier, Susan , University of Texas
  Professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of Texas Research: Modern Japanese literature and culture
  www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/asianstudies/faculty/profiles/napier/susan/ - December 26, 2004

• National Association of Japan-America Societies , National Association of Japan-America Societies
  NAJAS's operations are threefold: to assist member societies centers with their administration, publicity and program implementation; to provide cultural, educational and business programs; to host an annual conference for its member organizations; and to pursue national programs on behalf of its members. This site contains an event calender, centers, sponsors, US-Japan links, FAQs, and a job bank.
  www.us-japan.org/# - November 8, 2004

• National Clearinghouse for U.S.-Japan Studies - Indiana University East Asian Studies Center , Indiana University
  Funded by a grant from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership, the National Clearinghouse for U.S.-Japan Studies at Indiana University specializes in providing educational information about Japan to K-12 students, teachers, specialists, and curriculum developers. This site includes state academic standards, Japan information packet, children\'s literature, online games and activities, digests, lesson plans, U.S.-Japan database, internet guides, clearinghouse publications, teaching resources, internet resources, Shinbun (a newsletter), and a \"What\'s New\" section.
  www.indiana.edu/~japan/ - January 20, 2005

• Nichibunken-International Research Center for Japanese Studies , Inter-University Research Institute Corporation-National Institutes for the Humanities
  This International Research Center for Japanese Studies site includes outreach programs and events, research activities, databases, general information, library, employment and study,sitemap, and related links.
  www.nichibun.ac.jp/welcome_e.htm - February 24, 2005

• Niigata University , Niigata University
  The home page of Niigata University. The site contains information about the university, faculty, research institutes, centers and facilities. The site will be particularly useful for students interested in studies in Japan.
  www.niigata-u.ac.jp/index_e.html - September 28, 2004

• Notehelfer, Fred , University of California Los Angeles
  Professor, Department of History, UCLA Research Interests: Pre-modern & modern Japanese history  
  www.isop.ucla.edu/eas/Notehelf.htm - January 20, 2005

• O'Bryan, Scott , Indiana University
  Assistant Professor, EALC and History, Indiana University Research Interests: Twentieth-century Japan Economic nationalism Consumption and consumer culture Environmental history Peace thought and practice.
  www.indiana.edu/~ealc/people/faculty/individual/obryan.html - October 25, 2004

• Ooms, Herman , University of California Los Angeles
  Professor, Department of History, UCLA Research Interests: Tokugawa intellectual & social history
  www.isop.ucla.edu/eas/Ooms.htm - January 20, 2005

• Ouchi, Takashi , Tohoku University
  Professor, Graduate School of Law, Transnational Law and Policy Research Fields: Basic Science of Law Western Legal History American Legal History Research Subjects: Historical Study on the Rise of the American Legal Profession Historical Study on the Formation of American Law
  www5.bureau.tohoku.ac.jp/e_detail/1000005891.html - February 17, 2005

• Papers on Japan , Nautilus Institute
  A list of publications with active links to actual papers on various issues of political, economic and financial life of Japan. A large amount of papers is devoted to energy sector.
  www.nautilus.org/papers/regional.html#japan - November 23, 2004

• Pekkanen, Saadia , University of Washington
  Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor of International Studies, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington Areas of Interest: Iinternational law; International political economy; WTO law on Japan’s foreign trade diplomacy
  depts.washington.edu/eacenter/japanf.shtml - February 11, 2005

• Piggott, Joan , University of Southern California
  Gordon L. MacDonald Chair in History, University of Southern California. Research Interests A premier Japan historian, Professor Piggott is an expert of premodern Japan and East Asia. Her specialty includes the development of kingship and church-state relations in ancient Japan. Her seminal study, "The Emergence of Japanese Kingship" combined written records with archaeological evidence to illuminate the reigns of seven ancient Japanese monarchs between the third and eighth centuries. While at Cornell, she organized a series of workshops on reading kambun, a premodern Sino-Japanese.
  www.usc.edu/assets/college/faculty/profiles/848.html - January 23, 2005

• Pincus, Leslie B. , University of Michigan
  Associate Professor of History, RESEARCH INTERESTS: Modern Japanese history, especially intellectual and social history; cultural studies; studies in nationalism and colonialism; social movements
  websvcs.itcs.umich.edu/cjs/faculty/bio.php?personid=31 - February 18, 2005

• Political Economy of Japan , Harvard University
  This course examines the history of Japan\'s political economy, its recent success and its current problems. Why did Japan succeed in becoming the first non-Western society to industrialize? Did Japan develop a particular brand of capitalism? What role did the political system play? What are its advantages and disadvantages of the Japanese model? Can it overcome the current technological changes and global pressures? Or is it no longer a viable model to emulate?
  www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~gov1273/ - August 24, 2004

• Politics and Political Economy in Japan , Harvard University
  This course studies Japanese politics and political economy in comparative perspective. Analyzes the: 1955 system and post-1993 changes; political economy debates; changing role of parties and bureaucracy; electoral system effects; social policy choices; and problems of marginality. Open to qualified undergraduates.
  www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~gov2262/ - July 18, 2002

• Pre-Modern Japanese History , University of Pennsylvania
  Ames 095 is a survey of Japanese history from its origins to the middle of the 19th century.This course covers not only internal Japanese development-political, social, and cultural trends-but also places Japan within the larger East Asian context. This means that influences from China and Korea, and contacts-including warfare-with these nations will be addressed as well. AMES 095 will be primarily lecture in format, but there is ample opportunity for discussion of issues of consequence in Japanese history in periodic discussion series. This course precedes HIST 091, Modern Japanese History, in the spring semester.
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/eacourses.html#Description - January 5, 2005

• Premodern Japan , University of British Columbia
  Japanese history (political, economic, social, and cultural) to 1466. This is a survey course of Japanese history, beginning with prehistoric times and ending with 1868, the year marked by the Meiji Restoration. The first part of the course concerns the period up to 1466, and the second part concerns 1467 to the Meiji Restoration. The purpose of the course is to acquire a basic knowledge of the political, economic, social, and cultural lives which Japanese people have experienced. Special attention will be given to the dimensions of historical factors and forces that have shaped the course of Japanese history.
  www.asia.ubc.ca/courses/history.htm - January 18, 2005

• Proseminar in Japanese Cultural History , University of Southern California
  Intensive readings, chronologically arranged, in interpretive issues in the study of Japanese cultural history. Readings in English.
  www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ealc/courses.php - January 17, 2005

• Reading Japan: Postwar Literature and Society , Brown University
  Examines works of postwar Japanese literature on four critical issues: World War II in retrospect and the continuing military presence; minorities and other outsiders; the status of women; and pressures and disruptions in a 'high-growth' economy. Students read fiction and poetry along with background essays in history and the social sciences that provide contexts for literary works.
  boca.brown.edu/nontopicsdet.asp?year=2004&term=2&crsCode=EA0146 - January 12, 2005

• Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library- Japanese Internet Resources , University of California Los Angeles
  This site includes Japan related general information, government information, statistics, humanities, social sciences, academic societies universities, libraries, museums, think tanks, books, articles, newspapers, booksellers, and image data.
  www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/eastasian/japan.htm - January 20, 2005

• Ruoff, Ken , Portland State University
  Assistant Professor, Department of History, Portland State University Fields of Expertise: Japanese History, esp. Modern Japan.
  web.pdx.edu/~murphy/history/pages/faculty/ruoff.htm - October 22, 2004

• Sasakawa Peace Foundation , Sasakawa Peace Foundation
  The Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF), endowed by the Nippon Foundation (formerly the Sasakawa Foundation) and the Japanese motorboat racing industry, was established in September 1986. A private nonprofit organization (NPO) that conducts international activities in the realm of the public interest from a global perspective, SPF aims to contribute to the welfare of humankind and to the development of a sound international community in order to foster world peace. This web site includes news, projects, grant opportunities, publications, and related links.
  www.spf.org/e/index.html - October 27, 2004

• Savery, Lynn , Savery, Lynn
  Lynn Savery, BA Ed (Melbourne State College), BA (Hons) (Deakin), is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of International Relations. Lynn has recently submitted her Phd entitled International Norms of Sexual Non-Discrimination and Changing State Practices: A Comparative Study of Germany, Spain, Japan, and India. This study examines the diffusion and effects of systemic norms of sexual non-discrimination on state behaviour. In particular, it investigates why these norms on the whole have had a relatively limited influence on state behaviour at a time when international human rights norms in general have increasingly defined what constitutes a legitimate state in international society. Her research interests also include international relations theory, and transitional justice and gender.
  rspas.anu.edu.au/ir/savery.htm - October 12, 2004

• Scheiner, Irwin , University of California Berkeley
  Professor, Department of History, University of California Berkeley Research Interests: Japan, Far East, intellectual, social, late Tokugawa.
  ieas.berkeley.edu/faculty/scheiner.html - January 20, 2005

• Scheiner, Irwin , Scheiner, Irwin
  A member of the East Asian Faculty, professor of the Department of History. Professional Interests include Japan, Far East, intellectual and social Tokugawa.
  history.berkeley.edu/faculty/Scheiner/ - February 22, 2005

• School of Japanese Studies , Far Eastern National University
  English-language web site of the School of Japanese Studies, a division of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Far Eastern National University, Vladivostok, Russia.
  www.fenu.ru/?a=page&id=193 - September 30, 2004

• Seminar on Postwar Japan , University of Victoria
  A close examination of a major issue on post-war Japan such as the Allied Occupation, the evolution of the labour movement, the post-war political economy, or Japan in the international division of labour. Consult instructor for specific topic.
  web.uvic.ca/calendar2003/CDs/PACI/422.html - May 19, 2004

• Seminar on Postwar Japan , University of Victoria
  This course is a close examination of a major issue on post-war Japan such as the Allied Occupation, the evolution of the labour movement, the post-war political economy, or Japan in the international division of labour.
  web.uvic.ca/calendar2003/CDs/PACI/422.html - August 22, 2004

• Seminar: Japan , University of Southern California
  Social, economic, political, and cultural problems in modern Japan. Bibliographic and reference materials.
  www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ealc/courses.php - September 21, 2004

• Seminar: Japan , University of Southern California
  Social, economic, political, and cultural problems in modern Japan. Bibliographic and reference materials.
  www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ealc/courses.php - January 17, 2005

• Seminar: Selected Topics in Japanese Society , Boston University
  Use of primary and secondary source materials to treat changes in Japanese society since 1868, emphasizing developments since 1945. Topics include population and labor force, employment, diversity and stratification, affluence and consumer culture, ideologies and public opinion.
  bu.edu/sociology/undergrad/courses.html - August 12, 2004

• Senda, Minoru , International Research Center for Japanese Studies
  Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Japan Specialized Fields: Historical geography, cultural geography Current Research Themes: Origin and genealogy of cities in East Asia
  www.nichibun.ac.jp/research/staff1/SENDA_Minoru2_e.html - February 24, 2005

• Shimane University , Shimane University
  The home page of Shimane University. The site contains information on the academic programs, faculty, and facilities of the institution. The site will be particularly useful for the students planning to study in Japan.
  www.shimane-u.ac.jp/cgi-bin/odb-get.exe?WIT_template=UBCS1E010&t=UBCS1&l=E&f=&p=&o=155::1118::1026&r=9348 - September 28, 2004

• Smith II, Henry , Columbia University
  Professor of Japanese history, department of East Asian languages and cultures; faculty director, Donald Keene Center Chushingura and the relationship between history and legend in early modern and modern Japan; history of modern Tokyo; history of modern Japanese architecture
  www.columbia.edu/cu/weai/faculty/smith.html - January 18, 2005

• Smith, Kerry , Brown University
  Associate Professor, History (Japan Track), Brown University Kerry Smith contributed a chapter to Rural Histories: Farmers and Village Life in 20th Century Japan (Ann Waswo and Nishida Yoshiaki, eds.), published this spring by Routledge/Curzon. His article "The Showa Hall: Memorializing Japan's War at Home," received The National Council on Public History's G. Wesley Johson Prize for the best article to appear in The Public Historian in the past year. He continues work on a book about the social and cultural histories of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923.
  www.brown.edu/Departments/East_Asian_Studies/faculty.html - January 20, 2005

• Social Change in Japan: Conference Course , Harvard University
  This course is designed to provide an introduction to the social institutions structuring life in contemporary Japan and to engage students in some of the debates surrounding Japan's transformation in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The semester is structured around several questions: 1) How is social order created and maintained in Japanese society? How do the key institutions of family, education, work, and the state create social order through the way they are formally structured and through the social values and norms they convey? How have symbols from Japanese "tradition" been deployed by schools,  employers, the state, and others to maintain order? 2) How do the major social institutions (family, school, and work) through which all citizens pass create a common among Japanese while at the same time structuring divergent paths through life? How do characteristics such as gender, age, social class, and ethnic identification structure people's actual life experiences in contemporary Japan? 3) What are some of the major social issues facing Japan in the early 21st century? How does a "sociological imagination" help us understand these issues and the range of possible solutions to them?
  www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~soc180/syllabus/Soc180_Syllabus.pdf - August 24, 2004

• Social Structure and Social Change in Japan , University of Victoria
  This course will concentrate upon the transformation of Japanese society from the early 19th century up to the end of World War II, paying particular attention to the interlocking themes of economic development and political and social change.
  web.uvic.ca/calendar2002/CDs/PACI/321A.html - September 22, 2004

• Social Structure and Social Change in Japan , University of Victoria
  This course will concentrate upon the transformation of Japanese society from the early 19th century up to the end of World War II, paying particular attention to the interlocking themes of economic development and political and social change.
  web.uvic.ca/calendar2002/CDs/PACI/321A.html - August 22, 2004

• Sonoda, Hidehiro , International Research Center for Japanese Studies
  Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Japan Specialized Fields: Social history, comparative social history
  www.nichibun.ac.jp/research/staff1/SONODA_Hidehiro2_e.html - February 24, 2005

• Stalker, Nancy , University of Texas
  Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of Texas Research: 20th-century cultural history, new religious movements, gender
  www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/asianstudies/faculty/profiles/stalker/nancy/ - December 26, 2004

• Steinhoff, Patricia , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  Professor of Sociology, Faculty, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa. Research Interests: Japanese society, sociology of conflict, social movements.
  www.hawaii.edu/cjs/faculty.html - October 13, 2004

• Studies in Japanese Thought , University of Southern California
  Influence of native traditions and imported Chinese traditions on Japanese civilization; religious, ethical, esthetics, and political aspects.
  www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ealc/courses.php - October 2, 2004

• Studies in Japanese Thought , University of Southern California
  Influence of native traditions and imported Chinese traditions on Japanese civilization; religious, ethical, esthetics, and political aspects.
  www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ealc/courses.php - January 17, 2005

• Takenaka, Toshiko , University of Washington
  Director, Center for Advanced Study & Research on Intellectual Property, Associate Director, Intellectual Property Law and Policy LL.M. Program, Washington Research Foundation/W. Hunter Simpson Professor of Law, University of Washington She teaches courses on patent law, comparative patent law, intellectual property seminar and intellectual property innovation in science and technology.
  www.law.washington.edu/Faculty/Takenaka/ - February 11, 2005

• Talking in Japan and the US: Language, Identity and Beyond , St. Olaf College
  This course looks at language as it creates and responds to its cultural and social environments. Students compare and contrast major aspects of language use in Japan and the United States. Students explore the general underlying elements of talk (e.g., standard vs. regional dialects, language attitude and ideologies, politeness, gendered speech patterns, communication styles) and learn to understand how speakers convey subtle meanings, sometimes unconsciously. Knowledge of Japanese is helpful but not necessary. Taught in English.
  www.stolaf.edu/depts/asian-studies/courses/ - January 19, 2005

• Tanaka, Stefan , University of California San Diego
  Director, Japanese Studies Program, Associate Professor for the Department of History, University of California San Diego His research includes Modern Japanese History and the history of childhood.
  japan.ucsd.edu/pages/people.html - January 25, 2005

• Taylor, Veronica , University of Washington
  Director, Asian Law LL.M. Program, Professor, School of Law, University of Washington Areas of Interest: Japanese law and society; commercial law in Asia; contracts and international transactions
  depts.washington.edu/eacenter/japanf.shtml - February 11, 2005

• The Historiographical Institute , University of Tokyo
  The site of the Historiographical Institute at the University of Tokyo. The Institute has as its primary objective, rather than historiography in general, analysis, compilation, and publication of historical source materials concerning Japan. The Institute has become a major center of Japanese historical research, and makes historical sources available through its library, publications, and recently, databases. The site contains informations about the center, its organization and activities. It will be of a particular interest to researchers specializing in Japan studies.
  www.hi.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index.html - September 28, 2004

• The History of Japan's Emergence as a World Power , Matsukata, Naotaka
  The course examines series of socio-political and ideological transtions that Japan has made starting from the mid-nineteenth century, focusing on the coutry's perspectives for the future.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/asiaoverview/readinglists/japanreadinglists/JapanEmergenceMatsukata.pdf - September 20, 2004

• The Journal of Japanese Studies , Project Muse
  The Journal of Japanese Studies is the most influential journal dealing with research on Japan available in the English language. Since 1974, it has published the results of scholarly research on Japan in a wide variety of social science and humanities disciplines, as well as translations of articles from Japanese and substantive book reviews.
  muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_japanese_studies/ - February 24, 2005

• The Keio Research Institute at SFC , Keio University
  The Keio Research Institute at SFC was established as a base for advanced research with the aim of making contributions to 21st century society through research results. In addition to this, the Institute promotes bi-directional coordination between education and research at the Shonan-Fujisawa Campus of Keio University and related activities conducted by businesses, government and academia in Japan and throughout the world.
  www.kri.sfc.keio.ac.jp/english/index.html - November 11, 2004

• Tonomura, Hitomi , University of Michigan
  Associate Professor of History, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women\'s Studies, University of Michigan RESEARCH INTERESTS: Premodern Japanese history; violence and gender in warrior society; peasants and merchants in medieval community and economy; family and property relations; representations of the body and sexuality; ancient myths and legends; law and sexual transgressions; reproduction and political power; modern Japanese gender relations; women\'s autobiography
  websvcs.itcs.umich.edu/cjs/faculty/bio.php?personid=40 - February 18, 2005

• Topics in Japanese Cultural History I , University of British Columbia
  Focuses each year on a specific topic related to the courtly or warrior culture of Japan. Aristocrats and warriors.
  www.asia.ubc.ca/courses/history.htm - January 18, 2005

• Topics in Japanese Cultural History II , University of British Columbia
  Focuses each year on a specific topic related to the culture of early modern Japan.
  www.asia.ubc.ca/courses/history.htm - January 18, 2005

• Topics in Japanese Culture and Society , University of Texas at Austin
  Study of various aspects and periods of Japanese culture and society. May be repeated for credit when the topics vary. Topic 1: Intellectual and Cultural History of Modern Japan. Same as History 382N (Topic 3: Intellectual and Cultural History of Modern Japan. Topic 2: Japan since 1945. A survey of political, social, and cultural change from 1945 to 1980. Topic 3: Japanese Culture and Identity. Only one of the following may be counted: Asian Studies 380T (Topic: Japanese Culture and Identity), 383 (Topic 3), Japanese 380 (Topic: Japanese Culture and Identity Topic 4: Japanese Politics. Same as Government 390L (Topic 20: Japanese Politics). Additional prerequisite: Twenty-four semester hours of coursework in government or related fields, and consent of the graduate adviser.
  www.utexas.edu/student/registrar/catalogs/grad03-05/ch4/la/ans.crs.html - January 18, 2005

• Topics in Japanese Thought , University of Pennsylvania
  Course focuses on a few selected topics for close attention. Topic will be examination of Japanese approach to certain kinds of social and ethical questions, for instance, the propriety of organ transplantation; abortion; political corruption; internationalization, etc. Readings will include pre-modern materials that influence the current discussions. Seminar format. Papers.
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/eacourses.html#Description - January 5, 2005

• Traditional Japan , University of Pittsburgh
  Japan from prehistory to 1880. The course will emphasize the origins of the Japanese people, the influence of Chinese civilization, the rise of the warrior class, and rise and fall of centralized feudalism. Extensive required reading in the scholarly Western literature on Japan and selected readings in translation. Class time will be divided between lecture and discussion, and slides and films will be shown.
  www.pitt.edu/~caswww/cdesc/ds043051/hist.htm#1431Traditional%20Japan - January 20, 2005

• Traphagen, John , University of Texas
  Assistant Professor and Director, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Texas Research: Medical anthropology, gender and aging, globalization, family and kinship, religion and ritual
  www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/asianstudies/faculty/profiles/traphagan/john/ - December 26, 2004

• Uno, Kathleen , Temple University
  Associate Professor of History, Temple University Her general teaching interests range from modern Japan to Third World and Japanese women\'s history and social theory. She offers graduate courses on the History of Japanese Urbanism; Japan: Revolution, Empire and War; Women in Industrializing Societies; and Seminar in Comparative Women\'s History. Her research interests center on Japanese social history -- especially women\'s, children\'s, family, and gender history -- and related conceptual frameworks.
  www.temple.edu/history/uno.html - February 18, 2005

• Upham, Frank K. , New York University School of Law
  Wilf Family Professor of Property Law, Department of Law, New York University Expertise: Property Law and Society in Japan Law and Development Global Public Service Lawyering: Theory and Practice
  www.law.nyu.edu/faculty/profiles/fulltime/uphamf.html - November 8, 2004

• Visual Anthropology of Modern Japan , Chalfren, Richard
  This course offers an anthropological approach to systems of visual communication that are central to understanding Japanese society and culture. Themes and perspectives from visual anthropology will be applied to visual sign systems of everyday life (writing, clothes, food, etc.), to the prevalence and influences of popular culture emphasizing mass mediated forms as manga (comic books), advertisements, etc. The course will also include ethnographic films about Japanese culture as well a review of how Japanese culture is communicated to mass audiences through classic and contemporary feature films as well as network television. We will try to \"unpack\" or \"unwrap\" some of the stereotypic reductions common to superficial knowledge of Japan and Japanese culture.
  astro.temple.edu/~rchalfen/anthro338.html - February 18, 2005

• Watanabe, Masako , International Research Center for Japanese Studies
  Associate Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Japan Specialized Fields: Sociology, comparative education Current Research Themes: A comparison of styles of reasoning in Japan, the United States, and France; international comparisons of history and language arts education
  www.nichibun.ac.jp/research/staff1/WATANABE_Masako_Ema2_e.html - February 24, 2005

• Way of Tea in Japan History and Culture , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  Note: In order to access the course description, select the course from the list. Inquiry into the cultural history of Japan with focus on the evolution of the tea ceremony. Among the related subjects covered are aesthetics, Zen Buddhism, architecture, ceramics, calligraphy, and gardens.
  www.hawaii.edu/shaps/asia/courses_next_sem.html - January 13, 2005

• Witteveen, Guven Peter , University of Michigan
  RESEARCH INTERESTS: Citizen movements and civil society; Japanese social analysis (social change, cross-cultural comparison to U.S.); museum studies and the politics of cultural representations; historicity (culturally tinged understanding of the past); the intersection of language & culture (implications for Japanese language pedagogy); outreach & precollegiate (cultural) anthropology
  websvcs.itcs.umich.edu/cjs/faculty/bio.php?personid=42 - February 18, 2005

• Women in Japanese History , University of Georgia
  Changing political, social, and economic positions of women in Japan from ancient times to the present.
  uga.edu/cas/courses.html - August 26, 2004

• Worlds Apart: Cultural Constructions of "East" and "West" , University of Pennsylvania
  Multiculturalism increasingly characterizes our political, economic, andpersonal lives. This course will focus on real and perceived differences between the so-called "East" and "West". Taking a case study approach, we shall read and compare literary materials from classical Greece and Rome, a major source of "Western" culture, and Japan, an "Eastern" Society.Through analysis of these texts, we shall explore some of the concepts, values, and myths in terms of which "East" and "West" define themselves and each other: e.g. gender, sexuality, rationality, religion, society, justice, nature, cultural diffusion, work, leisure, life, and death. Readings will include selections from Greco-Roman and Japanese myths, poetry, drama, essays, history, and philosophy.
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/eacourses.html#Description - January 5, 2005

• WWII in American and Japanese History , Columbia University
  From the separate and differing viewpoints of the two nations, an examination of the war as a central experience in the recent history of both. Emphasis on the meaning and impact of the war on social, political, and intellectual life in the period from Versailles through the Vietnam War.
  www.sipa.columbia.edu/CourseDescriptions/index.html - September 23, 2004

• Yamaguchi, Kazuo , University of Chicago
  Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago He is interested in models (statistical models for social data and mathematical models for social phenomena), life course, rational choice, exchange networks, stratification and mobility, demography of family and employment, process of drug use progression, and Japanese society. His current research focuses on models of exchange networks and the predictors of gender-role attitudes among American and Japanese women and men.
  sociology.uchicago.edu/faculty/yamaguchi/ - January 25, 2005

• Yen, Louis , University of Michigan
  Assistant Research Scientist, Health Management Research Center, University of Michigan RESEARCH INTERESTS: The differences in health behaviors and health risk between Japanese and American middle-aged workers
  websvcs.itcs.umich.edu/cjs/faculty/bio.php?personid=44 - February 18, 2005

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• Ethnology of Korea: Re-Presenting Lives in Contemporary South Korea , University of California, Los Angeles
  Examination of South Korea's contemporary structural positioning, with focus on its dynamic development out of a history of colonialism and war to capitalism; multiple and conflicting linkages of Korean people involving class, gender, family/kinship, and nation.
  www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/catalog.asp?sa=ANTHRO+&funsel=3 - August 6, 2004

• A Country Study: North Korea , The Library of Congress
  A conprehensive overview ofÊpolitical, social, security, and economic situation in theÊcountry. The site can be a valuable resource for researchers and students interested in North Korea.
  lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/kptoc.html - March 22, 2005

• AsianInfo , AsianInfo
  AsianInfo.org is devoted to introducing Asian culture, traditions and general information to the world through the internet.Ê The authorsÊbelieve each country in Asia is unique and beautiful with a lot to offer the world.ÊÊAccording to theÊcreators of the site, \"the world needs to be more cognizant of Asia and the internet revolution is the best way to connect globally.Ê\"ÊIt can be a valuable resource for profile
  www.asianinfo.org/asianinfo/about_asianinfo.htm - March 22, 2005

• Center for Korean Studies , Far Eastern National University
  The FENU Center for Korean Studies was established in 1999 with the support of Korea Foundation to organize research dealing with the issues of Russian - Korean relations in the Far East. The Center incorporates the leading specialists of the University in history, economics, political science, philology, and archaeology.
  www.fenu.ru/?a=page&id=397 - October 4, 2004

• Center for Korean Studies , University of Hawaii at Manoa
  The University of Hawai‘i Center for Korean Studies was established in 1972 to support and coordinate the activities of students and faculty with Korea-related teaching and research interests. Now with more than twenty faculty members offering academiccourses and conducting research related to Korea in fields such as Asian studies, dance, economics, history, language, linguistics, literature, music, political science, and sociology, the Center is home to the oldest and largest Korean studies program outside of Korea. The Center for Korean Studies Online also hosts several important resources for Koreanists and others interested in Korea.
  www.hawaii.edu/korea/ - February 15, 2005

• Center for Korean Studies , University of California, Berkeley
  The Center for Korean Studies (CKS) is a unit of the Institute of East Asian Studies within International and Area Studies at UC Berkeley. The Center is one of the nation\'s most active academic centers for the study of Korean humanities and social sciences. Our goal is to use the academic resources of the University of California to promote international cultural, economic, and political understanding.
  ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/ - February 17, 2005

• Center for Korean Studies, University of California, Berkeley , UC Berkeley Center for Korean Studies
  The Center is one of the nation\'s most active academic centers for the study of Korean humanities and social sciences. Our goal is to use the academic resources of the University of California to promote international cultural, economic, and political understanding. This site includes events, faculty bios, courses, visiting scholars, K-12 teaching project, library, publications, Korea links, and a mailing list.
  ieas.berkeley.edu/cks - October 2, 2004

• Choson History , University of Toronto
  This course examines various approaches - economic, social, gender, political, international, and cultural - to the history of Choson Korea.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_eas.htm#EAS373H1 - January 17, 2005

• Contemporary Korea , University of Southern California
  Social, economic, political, intellectual, and cultural effects of modernization in contemporary Korea; comparison of contemporary culture with traditional culture.
  www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ealc/courses.php - October 2, 2004

• Contemprorary Korean Culture , University of British Columbia
  An introduction to the literature, drama, music, and art of Korea today. Particular attention will be paid to the continuing influence of traditional themes and forms, as revealed in short stories, novels, films, paintings, dances, and popular songs. This course will adopt an historical approach, tracing the forging of a modern Korean cultural identity under the impact of Japanese colonial rule, the Korean War, the division of the peninsula into North and South Korea, and the rapid industrialization of the last three decades.
  www.asia.ubc.ca/courses/history.htm - January 18, 2005

• Culture and Society of Korea , University of Alberta
  No course description at this site.
  www.arts.ualberta.ca/~eastasia/course_offerings.htm - September 22, 2004

• Early Korean History , University of Toronto
  This course is a survey of issues in early Korean history with particular attention to theuses of and approaches to ancient history in contemporary Korea.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_eas.htm#EAS372H1 - January 17, 2005

• Eberstadt, Nicholas , American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
  Eberstadt researches demographics, foreign aid, poverty, infant mortality, health disparities, and economic development. He has written extensively on Korea, East Asia, and countries of the former Soviet Union. His books include "The End of North Korea" and the forthcoming "North Korean Economy".
  www.aei.org/scholars/scholarID.62,filter.all/scholar.asp - October 22, 2004

• Education Fever: Society, Politics, and the Persuit of Schooling in South Korea , Seth, Michael J.
  This volume explains how Koreans' concern for achieving as much formal education as possible appeared immediately before 1945 and quickly embraced every sector of society. Through interviews with teachers, officials, parents, and students and an examination of a wide range of written materials in both Korean and English, Michael Seth explores the reasons for this social demand for education and how it has shaped nearly every aspect of South Korean society. He also looks at the many problems of the Korean educational system: the focus on entrance examinations, which has tended to reduce education to test preparation; the overheated competition to enter prestigious schools; the enormous financial burden placed on families for costly private tutoring; the inflexibility created by an emphasis on uniformity of standards; and the misuse of education by successive governments for political purposes.
  www.hawaii.edu/korea/pages/Publications/book_review.htm#education_fever - February 15, 2005

• Em, Henry , Em, Henry
  Professor Em teaches courses on Korean history and does research on modern Korean intellectual history, with focus on colonialism, nationalism and historiography. Professor Em\'s most recent article, \"Minjok as a Modern and Democratic Construct,\" appears in Colonial Modernity in Korea, Shin and Robinson, eds. (Harvard University Asia Center, 1999). Currently, he is working on a book on historians and history writing in modern Korea. Ê
  www.umich.edu/%7Eiinet/ksp/facultystaff/em.html - February 17, 2005

• Ethnographic Literature on Korea: Class, Gender & Family , University of Toronto
  This course addresses writing ethnography as a cultural critique through the anthropological literature dealing with Korean women, marriage, gender and class.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_eas.htm#EAS462H1 - January 17, 2005

• Flake, L. Gordon , The Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs
  L. Gordon Flake was appointed Executive Director of the Mansfield Foundation in February 1999. He is a regular contributor on Korea issues in the U.S. and Asian press, and he has traveled to North Korea on four occasions. Mr. Flake has published extensively on policy issues in Asia. He completed his M.A. at the David M. Kennedy Center for International and Area Studies.
  mansfieldfdn.org/about_fdn/lgflake.htm - October 11, 2004

• Higher College of Korean Studies , Far Eastern National University
  English-language web site of the Higher College of Korean Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Far Eastern National University, Vladivostok, Russia.
  www.fenu.ru/?a=page&id=195 - September 30, 2004

• History of Choson Dynasty: Conference Course , Korea Institute
  Reading and discussion of Chosôn society and culture. We will try to understand social and political structures and institutions by examining the daily life of various groups of people from top to bottom.
  www.fas.harvard.edu/~korea/courses/history.html - February 16, 2005

• History of Korean Religion , University of Toronto
  This course offers a broad overview of Korean religious tradition.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_eas.htm#EAS389Y1 - January 17, 2005

• History of Korean Thought , University of British Columbia
  An examination of Korean religious, philosophical, and scientific thought from the earliest written records to the present day, with particular focus on Shamanism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and, in the present century, Christianity. Some attention will also be paid to Taoism in Korea as well as to Korea\'s new religions. Geomancy and Oriental medicine will also be discussed. Emphasis will be on how Korean approaches to the natural and supernatural realms have shaped as well as reflected Korean values, behavior, and self-identity.
  www.asia.ubc.ca/courses/history.htm - January 18, 2005

• Intercultural Institute of California , Intercultural Institute of California
  The Intercultural Institute of California (IIC) is a private, independent, nonprofit organization, offering Korean studies programs for students. The IIC also hosts a special on-going lecture series and online discussions, promotes research, and publishes selected books and articles. The IIC community of scholars and students is committed to collaboratively engaging the culture, art, language, politics and historical legacy of Korea, examining its relevance to the present and envisioning its prospects for the future, to include issues of particular interest to Korean Americans.
  www.iic.edu/Main/frame_About.html - February 21, 2005

• Introduction to Korean Civilization , University of Toronto
  The historical development of the Korean political system and society; philosophical, religious, artistic and literary aspects of its culture. Korea's relationship to Chinese civilization and its role in transmitting civilization to Japan. Films and slides may be used for illustration.
  www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/ofr/calendar/crs_eas.htm#EAS270Y1 - January 13, 2005

• Introduction to Korean History and Culture , Stanford University
  This course presents a broad survey of Korean historical experiences and cultural forms from antiquity to the present. (It focuses, however, on thenineteenth and twentieth centuries.) Topics for study include, intera alia:mytho-history and archaeology; ancient regional cultural contacts and stateformation; premodern socio-cultural and political-economic structures/dynamics; intellectual and artistic traditions; the tragedies and legacies of colonialism and the Korean War; state-society relations in North and South; diasporic (i.e. Korean-American) experiences and identities; globalization and youth culture; various issues of ethnicity,class, and gender. In an attempt to consider a wide array of historical interpretations and (too often neglected) voices, we will engage these topics through a variety of sources: Primary documents and Secondary academic analytical writings, literature, documentary and feature films,Internet forums, etc.
  ksp.stanford.edu/courses/801/ - January 12, 2005

• Keimyung University , Keimyung University
  Keimyung University was founded in 1954 to provide Christian higher education for the southern part of Korea. Its immediate task was to nurture young minds for the reconstruction of a war-torn country. A sense of dedication  to excellence, whether in scholarship or service, has been the motivating force behind the founders and other dedicated people at Keimyung University. Today, Keimyung University proudly continues to cultivate the minds of future international leaders and experts who can contribute to the world peace and welfare. We constantly develop and renew academic partnerships with foreign institutions in order to enhance our international programs. The University offers unique courses to help foreign students capture the flavor of Korean culture, history, and society and gain practical knowledge of the Korean language, economy, and business.
  www.kmu.ac.kr/e_kmu/index.shtml - February 15, 2005

• Korea Country Analysis , American Military University
  Instead of examining just North or South Korea, this course will examine the Korean peninsula as a whole, as one cannot truly understand the policy of either North or South Korea without understanding both.
  apus.edu/AMU/Academics/CourseDescriptions.aspx?Prefix=IN - September 21, 2004

• Korea Institute , Harvard University
  The Korea Institute is Harvard University's only non-departmental entity for the support and development of Korean Studies at Harvard. Originally established in 1981 as part of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, it became a completely autonomous organization in 1993.
  www.fas.harvard.edu/~korea/index.html - February 15, 2005

• Korea Studies Program , University of Washington
  The University of Washington maintains one of the oldest programs in the United States providing undergraduate and graduate training in Korean studies in a variety of disciplines. Courses are offered in Korean language, literature, history, social organization, and politics. The language program consists of three years of modern language and advanced reading. The history courses cover the full range of the Korean experience, from the origins of the Korean people in the archaeological record to contemporary times. Undergraduate and graduate courses on Korean history and society cover the period under Japanese colonial rule in the first half of the twentieth century, the liberation of Korea after 1945, the Korean War, and the political, economic, social, and cultural development of both South Korea and North Korea. Graduate seminars provide opportunities for research in Korean and other non-Western languages on a variety of topics in the political, social, economic, and intellectual history of the country. Regular course offerings are supplemented by visiting faculty from political science, economics and economic development, law, folklore, and literature. The objective of the program is to provide students at the BA and MA degree levels with a broad background for use in a variety of professions.
  jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/easc/KoreaStudiesProgram.html - February 15, 2005

• Korea Web , Hoffman, Frank
  A very extensive database on various issues related to Korea and Korean studies.
  koreaweb.ws - February 16, 2005

• Korean Cinema , Korean Institute
  An introduction to the world of Korean cinema focusing on the diverse aesthetic strategies of prominent Korean filmmakers. The class will draw examples from neo-realistic representations of turbulent Korean society after the Korean war (1950-1953) by Yu Hyon-mok, horror films by Kim Ki-yong that allegorize the disintegration of masculinity and patriarchy in the 1970s, emotional exploitations of human relationships by Jang Sun-woo in the 80s, and brutally painful portraits of degraded intellectuals by Hong Sang-soo in the 90s.
  www.fas.harvard.edu/~korea/courses/new.html - February 16, 2005

• Korean Civilization , University of Southern California
  Survey of the main characteristics and development of Korean art, literature, philosophy, religion, political and social institutions through different periods.
  www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ealc/courses.php - October 2, 2004

• Korean Civilization , University of Pennsylvania
  Survey of the civilization of Korea from pre-historic times to the present.
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/eacourses.html#Description - January 5, 2005

• Korean Cultural Identitues , Korea Institute
  Surveys articulations of Korean cultural identity in literature, art, and the writing of history from the Unified Silla Kingdom in the 7th century, through the succeeding Koryô and Chosôn dynasties, and into the first half of the 20th century. Then examines event and aftermath of the Japanese colonial occupation, 1910-1945; liberation, division, and the Korean War, 1945-1953; and the separating cultural spheres in north and south. Considers the re-production of identity issues in the context and course of the first century of Korean-American history, 1903-2003.
  www.fas.harvard.edu/~korea/courses/index.html - February 16, 2005

• Korean Food, Korean Identity; The Impact of Globalization on Korean Agriculture , Feffer, John
  In a divided country, cold noodles serve as an important reminder of a common culture. They also represent a unique contribution that the economically weaker North Korea can bring to the reunification process. But however tasty Pyongyang-style mul naengmyen may be, cold noodles ensure neither a sustainable livelihood for every North Korean defector nor an equal place at the reunification table for North Korea. The author explores intricate details of recent history of the Korean Peninsula making unique observations revealing some very interesting links between the agricultural practices and political realities.  
  ksp.stanford.edu/publications/20815/ - February 21, 2005

• Korean History 111. Traditional Korea , Korean Institute
  Survey of the history of Korea, from earliest times to the 19th century. Examines various interpretive approaches and issues in the political, social, economic, intellectual, cultural, and diplomatic history of premodern Korea.
  www.fas.harvard.edu/~korea/courses/history.html - February 16, 2005

• Korean History: A Bibliography , Robinson, Kenneth R.
  This bibliography covers many features of Korean history. The subjects include not only political, diplomatic, and economic history, but also historical linguistics, art history, literature, philosophy and religion, and overseas Koreans, for example. Chronologically, coverage concludes in the 1960s. For studies of South Korea's politics and economy, 1961 is the stopping point; for South Korean foreign relations, coverage continues through the 1965 treaty with Japan and the Vietnam War. Coverage of North Korea continues into the late 1960s. I have not sought to compile a comprehensive list for each subject. Rather, I have provided publications that have appeared since the publication in 1980 of the annotated bibliography Studies on Korea: A Scholar's Guide and recent publications not cited in that work. This bibliography, then, is both an updating of and a supplement to that venerable reference.
  www.hawaii.edu/korea/bibliography/biblio.htm - February 15, 2005

• Korean Law , University of British Columbia
  Overview of Korean laws and legal systems with emphasis on South Korea.
  courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/main?pname=subjarea&tname=subjareas&req=3&dept=LAW&course=335 - August 5, 2004

• Korean Studies , Provine, Rob
  Korean Studies is an international, English-language, nonpartisan, moderated electronic discussion group on Korea. The list welcomes academic discussions on any aspect of Korean Studies. It may also be used for posting announcements of publications, job vacancies, and so forth. However, the KoreanStudies list adheres to strict academic standards and limits frequent participation to academics and other professionals in Asian studies. Presently, the list has about 750 subscribers, many of whom are established Korea specialists. Only messages with substantial Korean Studies content or with content that will be of wide interest within the discipline will be posted. Please also note that a scholarly discussion list such as this should not be used as a source for people\'s e-mail addresses, except as a last resort; discussion is the primary purpose. Therefore, requests for bibliographical information or e-mail addresses should be sent to the list only after all other means of search have been exhausted. All postings will be permanently stored online.
  koreaweb.ws/ks/ - February 16, 2005

• Korean Studies ,