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HISTORY 391D: Colonialism and Collaboration in East Asia (HISTORY 291D)

The roles and problems of collaboration in the rise, sustenance, and fall of empires. Themes include conceptual definitions of collaboration and empire, collaboration of traditional elites, accommodation of religious communities, assimilation and collaboration, local intermediaries, and class and empire. Regional focus is East Asia; also cases from other colonial situations.
Terms: Win | Units: 4-5
Instructors: Moon, Y. (PI)

HISTORY 391E: Maps, Borders, and Conflict in East Asia (HISTORY 291E)

The nature of borders and border conflicts in N.E. Asia from the 17th to the early 20th century. Focus is on contact zones between China, Russia, Korea, and Japan. The geopolitical imperatives that drove states to map their terrain in variable ways. Cultural, diplomatic, and imperial contexts. European pressures and contributions to E. Asian cartography; the uses of maps in surveillance, diplomacy, identity, and war. Student projects focus on a contested border zone.
Last offered: Winter 2009

HISTORY 391F: China: The Northern and Southern Dynasties

Examines one of the most dynamic periods of Chinese history with the emergence of the institutional religions (Buddhism and Daoism), the development of the garden as an art form, the rise of landscape as a theme of verse and art, the invention of lyric poetry, and the real beginnings of the southward spread of Chinese civilization.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4-5
Instructors: Lewis, M. (PI)

HISTORY 392: The Korean War: The Origins, Outbreak, and Aftermath (HISTORY 292)

Examines major themes and scholarly works to understand the origins, outbreak, and consequences of the Korean War. One focus will be the division of Korea into ROK and DPRK and their subsequent developments. Themes include World War II in East Asia; Korean communist movements during Japanese colonial rule; the Cold War in East Asia; the roles of the US, China, and USSR in the Korean War; the ideas of key North and South Korean leaders, and the consolidation of the two Koreas after the Korean War.
Terms: Win | Units: 4-5
Instructors: Moon, Y. (PI)

HISTORY 392D: Japan in Asia, Asia in Japan (HISTORY 292D)

How Japan and Asia mutually shaped each other in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Focus is on Japanese imperialism in Asia and its postwar legacies. Topics include: pan-Asianism and orientalism; colonial modernization in Korea and Taiwan; collaboration and resistance; popular imperialism in Manchuria; total war and empire; comfort women and the politics of apology; the issue of resident Koreans; and economic and cultural integration of postwar Asia.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4-5
Instructors: Uchida, J. (PI)

HISTORY 392F: Traditional Korea: History and Culture (HISTORY 292F)

How iconic features of Korean tradition were created and reinvented. Themes include Korea's ancient kingdoms, the creation of Korean alphabets and its aftermath, commerce and travelers, Korean food and art, religions, the life of women and ordinary people, the kingship and court culture of the Choson dynasty, and Korea's place in premodern East Asia. The modern and contemporary debates.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4-5
Instructors: Moon, Y. (PI)

HISTORY 393B: Homosexuality in Historical and Comparative Perspective (HISTORY 293B)

Comparative history of homoerotic desire, relations, and identity through scholarship on different historical periods and parts of the world: the classical Mediterranean, early modern European cities, late imperial and modern China, Tokugawa and modern Japan, and the U.S.
Last offered: Spring 2009

HISTORY 393D: Empire and Cosmopolitanism: Traveling Ideas in Global Political Thought (HISTORY 293D)

Last offered: Spring 2009

HISTORY 395B: Early Modern Japan

Terms: Win | Units: 4-5
Instructors: Wigen, K. (PI)

HISTORY 395F: Race and Ethnicity in East Asia (HISTORY 295F)

Historical, cultural, political and theoretical perspectives. Commonly misunderstood as an ethnically homogeneous country, the People's Republic of China is home to 55 officially recognized minority groups, many of whom inhabit the strategic border regions of the country. How similar assumptions of ethnic and racial homogeneity in Taiwan, Japan, and Korea are being reexamined by scholars in disciplines including anthropology, history, and political science.
Terms: Win | Units: 4-5
Instructors: Mullaney, T. (PI)
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