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Freshman level  
Elementary Chinese I
CHI 101 (fa26)		 • 1st Step: An Elementary Reader for Modern Chinese by Chou et al.
Elementary Korean I
KOR 101 (fa26)		 • Integrated Korean: Beginning 1 by Cho et al.
• Integrated Korean Workbook: Beginning 1 by Park et al.
Elementary Japanese I
JPN 101 (fa26)		 • Nakama 1: Intro. Japanese: Communication, Culture, Context by Hatasa et al.
Intensive Elementary Chinese
CHI 103 (fa26)		 • A Trip to China: An Intermediate Reader of Modern Chinese by Chou
Intensive Korean I
KOR 103 (fa26)		 • Integrated Korean: Beginning 1 & 2 by Cho et al.
Intermediate Chinese I
CHI 105 (fa26)		 • A New China: An Intermediate Reader of Modern Chinese by Chou et al.
Intermediate Japanese I
JPN 105 (fa26)		 • Nakama 2: Intermediate Japanese: Communication, Culture, Context by Hatasa et al.
• Tobira I: Intermediate Japanese by Oka et al.
Intermediate Korean I
KOR 105 (fa26)		 • Integrated Korean: Intermediate 1 by Cho et al.
• Integrated Korean Workbook: Intermediate 1 by Park et al.
Sophomore level  
Writing & Culture of Premodern Korea
EAS 218 (fa26)		 • The Story of Hong Gildong by Minsoo Kang
Japanese Society & Culture
EAS 225 (fa26)		 • Lost in Transition: Youth, Work & Instability in Postindustrial Japan by Mary C. Brinton
• Learning to Be Adolescent: Growing Up in U.S. & Japanese Middle Schools by Gerald K. LeTendre
• The Too-Good Wife: Alcohol, Codependency & the Politics of Nurturance in Postwar Japan by Amy Borovoy
• Food Safety after Fukushima: Scientific Citizenship & the Politics of Risk by Nicolas Sternsdorff-Cisterna
East Asian Humanities I: The Classical Foundations
EAS 233 (fa26)		 ✔️ Analects by Confucius (my highlights)
• Zen Sourcebook: Traditional Documents from China, Korea & Japan by Addiss et al.
• The Complete Writings by Zhuāngzï
• The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
◦ A History of East Asia: From the Origins of Civilization to the 21st Century by Charles Holcombe
Junior level  
Junior Seminar
EAS 300 (fa26)		 • A History of East Asia: From the Origins of Civilization to the 21st Century by Charles Holcombe
• The Craft of Research by Wayne C. Booth
Adv. Japanese I
JPN 301 (fa26)		 • Tobira: Gateway to Adv. Japanese by Oka et al.
3rd-Year / Intensive 3rd-Year Modern Chinese I
CHI 303/305 (fa26)		 • Eyes on China: An Intermediate-Adv. Reader of Modern Chinese by Chou et al.
The Heike as History & Art
EAS 318 (fa26)		 • The Tale of the Heike
• The Dawn of the Warrior Age: War Tales from Medieval Japan by Royall Tyler
20th-Century Japan
EAS 324 (fa26)		 • Peasants, Rebels, Women & Outcastes: The Underside of Modern Japan by Mikiso Hane
• Japan at War: An Oral History by Cook & Cook
• Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower
• Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life by Sheldon Garon
• A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present by Andrew Gordon
• Naomi by Junichiro Tanizaki
Chinese Poetry
EAS 331 (fa26)		 • An Intro. to Chinese Poetry: From the Canon of Poetry to the Lyrics of the Song Dynasty by Michael A. Fuller
Postwar Japanese Narrative: Modern to Postmodern
EAS 344 (fa26)		 • Fires on the Plain by Shohei Ooka
• Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
• The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
Senior level  
Intro. to Classical Japanese
JPN 403 (fa26)		 • Classical Japanese: A Grammar by Haruo Shirane
Intensive 4th-Year Modern Chinese I
CHI 405 (fa26)		 • Anything Goes: An Adv. Reader of Modern Chinese by Chou et al.
Graduate level  
Readings in Japanese Academic Style
EAS 563 (fa26)		 • A Practical Guide for Scholarly Reading in Japanese by Nazikian et al.

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