Kristine Harris

Courses offered in Fall 2005: 58216 Modern China 58593 Modern East Asia Courses to be offered in Spring 2006: 58216 Modern China 58480 Women in China Other courses: 58393 Chinese Cinema 58315 History of Traditional China 58334 History of Traditional Japan 58335 History of Modern Japan

Confucian Hall, in Changhua, Taiwan, built ca. 1762

Please Note:
- Modern China is a 4-credit 200-level introductory survey -- excellent preparation for upper-level courses on East Asia
- Chinese Cinema and Women in China are each offered once every other year
- Modern East Asia is a graduate course; seniors in Asian Studies are eligible with permission from instructor

Publicity magazine cover for 1927 film production Romance of the Western Chamber [Xixiang ji] (Source: China Film Archive)

Recent Publications "The Goddess: Fallen Woman of Shanghai." In Chinese Films in Focus: 26 New Takes, edited by Christopher Berry. London: British Film Institute, 2003. "The Romance of the Western Chamber and the Classical Subject Film in 1920s Shanghai." In Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai, 1922-1943, edited by Yingjin Zhang. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999, pp. 51-73. "A Symposium on Peony Pavilion." Co-author. Theater review of Sellars production at UC Berkeley, in Threepenny Review XX (78), 2 (Summer 1999): 34 "The New Woman Incident." In Transnational Chinese Cinemas, edited by Sheldon Hsiao-peng Lu. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997, pp. 277-302. "Peach Blossom Dreams: Silent Chinese Cinema Remembered." Edited by Derek Elley. Translations of early Chinese documents on cinema for a dossier published in Griffithiana 60/61 (October 1997): 126-179. Current Research History of Film in Early Twentieth-Century China

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Shanghai Customs House, vintage postcard

East Asia