The Power, Art, and Technology of Writing in East Asia

Harvard FAS

How does writing as art and technology shape the ways in which humans imagine, generate, and use power?This course examines how humans experience, use, and build meaning around the shape of writing, focusing on East Asia across time, place, and media. Centered on a broad, enduring question about writing’s role in society, students engage with materials from literature, art history, history of the book, linguistic anthropology, archaeology, and philosophy. By using materials that are both…