Description of Papers
The teaching for the East Asian Studies option will consist of the following:
Paper 1 - (EA.1) Issues in Modern East Asian History
This course will consist mainly of weekly lectures and fortnightly seminars in Michaelmas & Lent Terms on topics relating to the whole of East Asia, focusing on China, Japan and Korea; since all students accepted will have some familiarity with the history of one of these societies at least, the object is to encourage them to engage with commonalities in the history of East Asian societies; amongst the topics to the covered are Western and East Asian concepts of Asia, the organization of knowledge, war in recent East Asian history, etc. Students will take turns in the fortnightly seminars to present short papers to for the basis for discussion.
This Paper will normally be assessed by means of an 8 - 10,000 word essay to be submitted by 31 May 2012.
Paper 2 - (EA.2) The Cold War in East Asia
This course is compulsory for all students taking the East Asian Studies option. It is seminar based and runs for sixteen weeks during the Michaelmas and Lent Term. It is taught jointly by Drs Swenson-Wright and Kushner and will be assesed by means of a 8 - 10,000 word essay to be submitted by 31 May 2012.
Paper 3 - (EA.3) Elective Essay - not assessed
A choice of several options will be offered, some of which are existing courses available for students taking either the Chinese option of the MPhil or Part II of the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Tripos. The precise range of options will vary from year to year. Please note that no option will be offered if fewer than two students choose to take it. These options will be assessed informally either by means of a three-hour examination in June or by an alternative exercise, typicaly an extended essay. Assessment for these papers will NOT count towards the official degree result, but written work should be returned at the same time as Papers 1 and 2.
In 2011-2012 the following options are expected to be available:
* Korean: A course in written and spoken Korean (Dr Michael Shin)
* Topics in Modern Korean Anthropology: (Dr Hyun-Gwi Park)
* Contemporary Chinese Society (Dr Robert Weatherley)
* Chinese Literature and Modernity (Dr Susan Daruvala)
* The Politics of China (Dr Kun-Chin Lin, POLIS)
* China and Warfare (Professor Hans van de Ven)
* Body, Illness and Healing in Chinese History (Dr Daniel Trambaiolo)
* Topics in Japanese Culture and Society (Dr Brigitte Steger)
Dissertation
In their dissertation, students will be encouraged to demonstrate research competence in one or more of the languages of Northeast Asia (Chinese, Japanese or Korean) and to conduct research that addresses contemporary and/or historical issues normally of relevance to two or more of the countries of East Asia (incorporating both Northeast and Southeast Asia). Students are required to submit a plan of their dissertation by the beginning of the Easter Term.
The dissertation must be submitted by Friday 17 August 2012, 12 noon to the Faculty Office.
