ASIAN 40
Foundations of East Asia: Philosophical and Literary Traditions
Lecture and discussion.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 6 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 84 minutes ago.
Grades
3.84
Average grade awarded in ASIAN 40. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
84%
of the 38 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
3%
1 of 1 student passed
The registrar's own records: 38 grades over 1 term, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 1 · 2.6%
- A 27 · 71.1%
- A- 4 · 10.5%
- B+ 4 · 10.5%
- B 2 · 5.3%
- P 1 of 39
Percentages are of the 38 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P).
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WANG, SIXIANG reviews ↗ | 3.82 | 3.84 | 38 | 1 | 84% | - | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
Workload and assignments
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
There are no BruinWalk reviews of this course on record as of about 1 month ago, so nobody has told dibs what kind of work it sets. That is dibs holding no reviews at all, and not reviewers who wrote without mentioning the work.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Orientation of foundational philosophical and literary texts in the classical Chinese or Sinitic/East Asian tradition. Shared by modern China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, these texts provide the rhetorical, intellectual, and ethical framework for premodern cultural tradition; and also serve as political, aesthetic, and moral anchors for contemporary media, art, and social discourse. Reading of classical texts from the pre-Qin Chinese received tradition (Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism). Exploration of the religious canon of Mahayana Buddhism. Engagement with classical literary works representing Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese traditions. Students relate the philosophical and literary works to their own lived experiences. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so a discussion's status is the one that decides whether you get in. A lecture can read open while every discussion under it is full.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 10 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 TR 9:30am-10:45amWaitlist
Duthie, N.N.
3.78predicted, all instructors · 38 grades1 of 18 places taken. 120 of 120 enrolled high risk
6 discussions, none open. The way in is the lecture's waitlist, at 1 of 18.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (9)
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Dis 1A
F 9:00am-9:50am · Public Affairs Building 1278
Waitlist0 of 3 places taken.
20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1B
F 10:00am-10:50am · Public Affairs Building 1278
Waitlist0 of 3 places taken.
20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1C
F 11:00am-11:50am · Haines Hall A24
Waitlist1 of 3 places taken.
20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1D
F 9:00am-9:50am · Public Affairs Building 1264
Waitlist0 of 3 places taken.
20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1E
F 10:00am-10:50am · Public Affairs Building 1264
Waitlist0 of 3 places taken.
20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1F
F 11:00am-11:50am · Bunche Hall 2168
Waitlist0 of 3 places taken.
20 of 20 enrolled
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Dis 1G
F 9:00am-9:50am · Public Affairs Building
Cancelledno enrollment count published
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Dis 1H
F 10:00am-10:50am · Public Affairs Building
Cancelledno enrollment count published
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Dis 1I
F 11:00am-11:50am · Renee and David Kaplan Hall
Cancelledno enrollment count published
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: 39 a term over 1 term, summer excluded, most recently 39 in Winter 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
What a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Lec 1 · Duthie, N.N. · 120 of 120 enrolled
Filled by 21 over about 2 months
How readings and alerts work
A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.