Su, Huafan | Department of East Asian Studies

Su, Huafan (苏桦凡) is currently a PhD student in the Department of East Asian Studies with a concentration on Chinese films. She received her master’s degree in literary and comparative studies from Hong Kong Baptist University, where she completed her master’s project on Italian films. Her research interests include contemporary Chinese films and literature, culture, and critical theory.

suhuafan@arizona.edu

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Su, Huafan

Graduate Associate

Su, Huafan (苏桦凡) is currently a PhD student in the Department of East Asian Studies with a concentration on Chinese films. She received her master’s degree in literary and comparative studies from Hong Kong Baptist University, where she completed her master’s project on Italian films. Her research interests include contemporary Chinese films and literature, culture, and critical theory.

Currently Teaching

EAS 201 – Myth, Memory, Mind: Introduction to Traditional East Asia

What would it be like to visit China, Japan, and the Korean Peninsula in premodern times? What is East Asian Studies? This course offers an introduction to the histories, cultures, languages and scripts, religions, and literatures of traditional East Asia. It also invites students to participate in the interdisciplinary knowledge production that is East Asian Studies. While we explore what has been historically shared among these East Asian societies, our emphasis is on how East Asia has always been diverse and heterogeneous. We encourage students to debunk the popular myths about East Asia--particularly premodern East Asia--as an exotic and homogeneous place. This will not only inform our understanding of today's East Asia in its historical context, it will also prompt us to actively address the historical legacy of orientalism.

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