Asian Studies (ASIAN)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2017-2018.

ASIAN 1110

Long before the steamship, the airplane, the iPad and Snapchat, Buddhist monks, merchants, pilgrims and adventurers created a Buddhist network across the space of the Indian Ocean, including much of what ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17673 ASIAN 1110   SEM 101

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.

ASIAN 1111

This First-Year Writing Seminar is about Asian Literature, Religion, and Culture and provides the opportunity to write extensively about these issues.  Topics vary by section. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Political Cinema, Cinematic Politics

  • 17718 ASIAN 1111   SEM 101

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Relgion and Ecology in Modern South Asia

  • 17720 ASIAN 1111   SEM 102

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Women on the Verge

  • 17719 ASIAN 1111   SEM 103

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

ASIAN 1193

By posing seemingly simple questions such as what is love and who has the right to love, this introductory-level lecture course surveys how love has been experienced and expressed from the pre-modern period ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 1940HIST 1930LGBT 1940

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10140 ASIAN 1193   LEC 001

ASIAN 2208

This course introduces key questions in the study of Southeast Asia (Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam) and its diasporas. It combines a ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion.

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9057 ASIAN 2208   LEC 001

  •  9058 ASIAN 2208   DIS 201

  •  9059 ASIAN 2208   DIS 202

ASIAN 2211

This course provides a general introduction to the study of Japan in the humanities and social sciences.  Taking modern Japanese "national histories" as our framework, we will explore how Japan-the-nation ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion.

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8322 ASIAN 2211   LEC 001

  •  8323 ASIAN 2211   DIS 201

  •  8324 ASIAN 2211   DIS 202

  •  8325 ASIAN 2211   DIS 203

  •  8326 ASIAN 2211   DIS 204

ASIAN 2245

This course combines hands-on instruction in gamelan, Indonesia's most prominent form of traditional music, and the academic study of the broader range of music found in contemporary Indonesia, including ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: MUSIC 1341VISST 2744

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6430 ASIAN 2245   LEC 001

ASIAN 2258

In August 1945, Japan was a devastated country – its cities burned, its people starving, its military and government in surrender.  World War II was over.  The occupation had begun.  What sort of society ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 2315

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16571 ASIAN 2258   SEM 101

ASIAN 2273

This course introduces the academic study of religion. The topics vary from year to year. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: NES 2273RELST 2273

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Sensational Religion

  • 16390 ASIAN 2273   LEC 001

ASIAN 2279

Students will study Chinese myths from the earliest times. Focus will be on understanding how people have used myth to create and convey meaning, on examining the form Chinese myths take, and on considering ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16744 ASIAN 2279   LEC 001

ASIAN 2297

The Crossroads of the World. The Pivot of History. The heart of the Silk Road. For all its grand nicknames and associations, Inner Asia remains a region little-studied in the West. This course endeavors ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 2797RELST 2297

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17372 ASIAN 2297   LEC 001

ASIAN 2299

This course will explore the Buddhist tradition from its origins in ancient India to its migrations throughout Asia and eventually to the West. The first part of the course will deal with Indian Buddhism: ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: RELST 2299

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16035 ASIAN 2299   LEC 001

  • 16271 ASIAN 2299   DIS 201

  • 16272 ASIAN 2299   DIS 202

ASIAN 3307

The course is attached to the Cornell Contemporary China Initiative lecture series, which brings high profile speakers on various aspects of contemporary China to Cornell most Mondays throughout the semester.  ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit Graded

  •  9034 ASIAN 3307   LEC 001

ASIAN 3310

This course will explore a variety of ways people have envisioned and prepared for the afterlife. We will concentrate on how Buddhists and Christians have described supreme states of bliss, have warned ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: RELST 3310

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16037 ASIAN 3310   LEC 001

ASIAN 3312

If you have ever wondered what the Vietnam War was all about, how did it begin, how was it fought, why was it so controversial, why did the American people turn against it, why was it important, why were ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 3312

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16606 ASIAN 3312   LEC 001

ASIAN 3318

Beginning with the mid-nineteeth century, the course traces dynamic relays and reciprocal influences among woodblock prints, maps, fiction, films, anime, comics, and digital arts in Japan. We will consider ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 3150VISST 3318

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9489 ASIAN 3318   LEC 001

ASIAN 3327

Study of the dramatic rise of China through reviewing major developments in contemporary Chinese foreign policy since the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC), and concentrating ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CAPS 3827GOVT 3827

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16043 ASIAN 3327   LEC 001

ASIAN 3331

Examines the new cinemas of Southeast Asia and their engagement with contemporary discourses of gender and sexuality. It pays special attention to the ways in which sexuality and gendered embodiment are ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16044 ASIAN 3331   LEC 001

ASIAN 3370

This course traces the development of travel writing from the Han dynasty (206 B.C.–A.D. 221) to the Song dynasty (960–1279). Special attention is paid to the ways in which Chinese writers have ceaselessly ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 6670CAPS 3370

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16867 ASIAN 3370   LEC 001

ASIAN 3380

The course will be thoroughly comparative in order to highlight both the specificity of each country as well as more generalizable dynamics of 21st century development. It will be divided into a number ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17383 ASIAN 3380   LEC 001

    • TR Ives Hall 115
    • Friedman, E

      Kuruvilla, S

ASIAN 3381

As an island nation east of the Asian continent, Japan developed a unique culture that reflects both continental and indigenous characteristics. This course examines pre- and post-contact with continental ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 3820

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16483 ASIAN 3381   LEC 001

ASIAN 3388

For a long time area studies have overlooked the over-determined links of gender, race/ethnicity, and social class in fields related to East Asia and the trans-Pacific regions. Little attention has been ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16057 ASIAN 3388   LEC 001

ASIAN 3393

Examines the development of the Chinese economy and the evolution of China's economic system between the early 1950s and late 1990s. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CAPS 3380ECON 3380

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9025 ASIAN 3393   LEC 001

ASIAN 3397

This course examines Southeast Asia's history from earliest times up until the mid-eighteenth century. The genesis of traditional kingdoms, the role of monumental architecture (such as Angkor in Cambodia ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 6697HIST 3950HIST 6950

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9348 ASIAN 3397   LEC 001

ASIAN 4401

Supervised reading and research on the problem selected for honors work. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  6728 ASIAN 4401   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Blackburn, A

  • Prerequisite: admission to honors program. Enrollment limited to: seniors.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7889 ASIAN 4401   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Boucher, D

  • Prerequisite: admission to honors program. Enrollment limited to: seniors.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8078 ASIAN 4401   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Fuhrmann, A

  • Prerequisite: admission to honors program. Enrollment limited to: seniors.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8068 ASIAN 4401   IND 604

    • TBA
    • McCrea, L

  • Prerequisite: admission to honors program. Enrollment limited to: seniors.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7890 ASIAN 4401   IND 605

    • TBA
    • McNeal, R

  • Prerequisite: admission to honors program. Enrollment limited to: seniors.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7891 ASIAN 4401   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Taylor, K

  • Prerequisite: admission to honors program. Enrollment limited to: seniors.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8069 ASIAN 4401   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Warner, D

  • Prerequisite: admission to honors program. Enrollment limited to: seniors.

ASIAN 4402

The student, under faculty direction, prepares an honors essay. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7828 ASIAN 4402   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Blackburn, A

  • Prerequisite: admission to honors program.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7887 ASIAN 4402   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Boucher, D

  • Prerequisite: admission to honors program.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8359 ASIAN 4402   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Fuhrmann, A

  • Prerequisite: admission to honors program.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7988 ASIAN 4402   IND 604

    • TBA
    • McCrea, L

  • Prerequisite: admission to honors program.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7888 ASIAN 4402   IND 605

    • TBA
    • McNeal, R

  • Prerequisite: admission to honors program.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7875 ASIAN 4402   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Taylor, K

  • Prerequisite: admission to honors program.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8070 ASIAN 4402   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Warner, D

  • Prerequisite: admission to honors program.

ASIAN 4403

Intensive reading under the direction of a member of the staff. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6451 ASIAN 4403   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Blackburn, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7934 ASIAN 4403   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Boucher, D

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8360 ASIAN 4403   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Fuhrmann, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8067 ASIAN 4403   IND 604

    • TBA
    • McCrea, L

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7935 ASIAN 4403   IND 605

    • TBA
    • McNeal, R

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7936 ASIAN 4403   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Taylor, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7980 ASIAN 4403   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Warner, D

ASIAN 4415

Visions of bodily corruption preoccupy ruler and ruled alike and prompt campaigns for moral, medical, and legal reform in periods of both stability and revolution.  This seminar explores the links between ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16662 ASIAN 4415   SEM 101

ASIAN 4446

This course will treat the classical Indian tradition as a case study in comparative poetics.  We will read works of Sanskrit poetry in translation, along with selections from the works of both Sanskrit ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 6648

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16559 ASIAN 4446   SEM 101

ASIAN 4463

This course will survey the history of the novel in India in English over the past hundred years, from colonial rule, through the consolidation of the Indian nation, to the growing pressures of globalization. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4996SHUM 4613

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16834 ASIAN 4463   SEM 101

ASIAN 4473

China, a cultural giant of East Asia, made a passive entrance into modernity. With the advent of Western and American colonialism and imperialism, coupled with recent successes in westernization by the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 4816ARTH 6816ASIAN 6673

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 16486 ASIAN 4473   SEM 101

ASIAN 4475

This course focuses primarily on China's evolving role in both Asia and world politics. While China may not necessarily be the sole determinant of the type of security order that will prevail in Asia, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CAPS 4870GOVT 4877GOVT 6877

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16094 ASIAN 4475   SEM 101

  • Government seniors and juniors given preference. This class fulfills the government senior seminar requirement.

ASIAN 4498

This seminar is an advanced introduction to political economy in contemporary South, Southeast, and East Asia. Our central task is to uncover the political underpinnings of economic performance across ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 4194

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15956 ASIAN 4498   SEM 101

ASIAN 6615

Visions of bodily corruption preoccupy ruler and ruled alike and prompt campaigns for moral, medical, and legal reform in periods of both stability and revolution.  This seminar explores the links between ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17263 ASIAN 6615   SEM 101

ASIAN 6619

The course provides an introduction to various aspects of translation theory, and emphasizes relations between translation theory and trauma theory, post-structuralism, post-colonial theory, and debates ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 6160VISST 6619

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9253 ASIAN 6619   SEM 101

ASIAN 6631

Examines the new cinemas of Southeast Asia and their engagement with contemporary discourses of gender and sexuality. It pays special attention to the ways in which sexuality and gendered embodiment are ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16049 ASIAN 6631   LEC 001

ASIAN 6648

This course will treat the classical Indian tradition as a case study in comparative poetics.  We will read works of Sanskrit poetry in translation, along with selections from the works of both Sanskrit ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 4446

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16741 ASIAN 6648   SEM 101

ASIAN 6670

This course traces the development of travel writing from the Han dynasty (206 B.C.–A.D. 221) to the Song dynasty (960–1279). Special attention is paid to the ways in which Chinese writers have ceaselessly ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 3370CAPS 3370

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16869 ASIAN 6670   LEC 001

ASIAN 6673

China, a cultural giant of East Asia, made a passive entrance into modernity. With the advent of Western and American colonialism and imperialism, coupled with recent successes in westernization by the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 4816ARTH 6816ASIAN 4473

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 16488 ASIAN 6673   SEM 101

ASIAN 6680

The course will be thoroughly comparative in order to highlight both the specificity of each country as well as more generalizable dynamics of 21st century development. It will be divided into a number ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17388 ASIAN 6680   LEC 001

    • TR Ives Hall 115
    • Friedman, E

      Kuruvilla, S

ASIAN 6688

For a long time area studies have overlooked the over-determined links of gender, race/ethnicity, and social class in fields related to East Asia and the trans-Pacific regions. Little attention has been ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16060 ASIAN 6688   LEC 001

ASIAN 6697

This course examines Southeast Asia's history from earliest times up until the mid-eighteenth century. The genesis of traditional kingdoms, the role of monumental architecture (such as Angkor in Cambodia ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one discussion. Combined with: ASIAN 3397HIST 3950HIST 6950

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9350 ASIAN 6697   SEM 101

  • 16693 ASIAN 6697   DIS 201

    • TBA
    • Tagliacozzo, E

ASIAN 7703

Guided independent study for graduate students. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6685 ASIAN 7703   RSC 701

    • TBA
    • Blackburn, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7892 ASIAN 7703   RSC 702

    • TBA
    • Boucher, D

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8539 ASIAN 7703   RSC 703

    • TBA
    • Fuhrmann, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7893 ASIAN 7703   RSC 704

    • TBA
    • McCrea, L

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7894 ASIAN 7703   RSC 705

    • TBA
    • McNeal, R

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7895 ASIAN 7703   RSC 706

    • TBA
    • Taylor, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7896 ASIAN 7703   RSC 707

    • TBA
    • Warner, D