MDST: japanese anime

• Anime: A Critical Introduction by Rayna Denison
• Frames of Anime: Culture and Image-Building by Tze-yue Hu
• "Your Name | Kimi no Na wa: Interpreting Progress in Gender and Rule-breaking"
• Magic, "Shōjo", and Metamorphosis: Magical Girl Anime and the Challenges of Changing Gender Identities in Japanese Society by Kumiko Saito
• "Oni in Manga, Anime, and Film" from Japanese Demon Lore: Oni from Ancient Times to the Present by Noriko T. Reider
• "Sex and the Single Cyborg Japanese Popular Culture Experiments in Subjectivity" from Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime by Sharalyn Orbaugh
• "The Psychology of the Otaku" from Beautiful Fighting Girl by Saito Tamaki
• media:
  • Momotaro Divine Sea Warriors (1945)
  • Sailor Moon (1992) (Episode 1 and 2)
  • Elfen Lied (2009)
  • Tetsuwan Atomu (1963)
  • Astro Boy
  • Tatsumi (2011)
  • Princess Knight (1967) (Episode 1)
  • Ranma ½ (1989) (Episode 1)
  • Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997) (Episode 1)
  • Your Name (Makoto Shinkai, 2016)
  • Puella Magi Madoka Magica (2011) (Episodes 1-8)
  • Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1985)
  • Anne of Green Gables (1979) (Episode 1)\
  • Barefoot Gen (Masaki Mori, 1983)
  • Grave of the Fireflies (Takahata Isao, 1988)
  • Ghost in the Shell (Oshii Mamoru, 1995)
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion (Anno Hideaki, 1996) (Season 1)

MDST: korean popular culture globalization

HIST: e.a. civilizations

• The Open Empire: A History of China to 1800 by Valerie Hansen
• Japan and the Shackles of the Past by R. Taggart Murphy
• Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World: A Concise History by Rebecca Karl
• The Koreas Charles K. Armstrong
• A conversation on The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
• “How Opium Made the World Go Round” by Kenneth Pomeranz and Steven Topik
• "A Search for Korean Uniqueness" by James Palais
• Book review written by Gari Ledyard of Beyond Birth: Social Status in the Emergence of Modern Korea by Kyung Moon Hwang
• "Individual Petitions: Petitions by Women" from Epistolary Korea: Letters in the Communicative Space of the Choson, 1392-1910 by JaHyun Kim Haboush (ed.)
• A conversation on The Samurai
• A conversation on Shinto
• “Taklamakan Misdelivery” by Bae Myung-hoon from Tower

HIST: history of modern korea

• A History of Korea by Kyung Moon Hwang
• Dead Bodies in the Postwar Discourse of Identity in Seventeenth-Century Korea: Subversion and Literary Production in the Private Sector*
• What (Not) to Wear: Refashioning Civilization in Print Media in Turn-of-the-Century Korea*
• Korean “Comfort Women”: The Intersection of Colonial Power, Gender, and Class*
• The Korean War by Bruce Cumings
• The Koreas by Charles Armstrong
• Substance and Shadow* by Hyun Kilon
• Advantage Pyongyang* (Richard Lloyd Parry)
• The Origins and Development of the Northeast Asian Political Economy: Industrial Sectors, Product Cycles, and Political Consequences (Cumings)
• Korea’s Transition to Modernity: A Will to Greatness (Eckert)
• The Making of Minjung: Democracy and the Politics of Representation in South Korea by Namhee Lee
• On the Eve of the Uprising and Other Stories from Colonial Korea by Sunyoung Park

ENGL: american literature II

• Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• Hondo by Louis L'Amour
• The Notebook by Nicolas Sparks
• "First Bones" by Kathy Reichs
• "What Do You Do?" by Gillian Flynn
• "Cat Person" by Kristen Roupenian
• "Night Surf" by Steven King
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

POLS: east asian political systems (saved readings)

• Asia, a Civilization in the Making
• East Asian Civilization and the Problem of Region Making
• Stateness and Democracy: Evidence from Asia and cross-regional comparisons*
• Development and Democracy in Asia*
• Democratic deconsolidation in East Asia: exploring system realignments in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan*
• Democratic Regression in Asia: Introduction*
• Confucian meritocracy, political legitimacy and constitutional monarchy*

ENGL1102

• iGen by Jean Twenge
• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy

ENGL1101

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

PHIL: ethics from a global perspective

• Cosmopolitanism by Kwame Anthony Appiah