printer friendly pageHISTORY 390E: Movies and Empire in East Asia (HISTORY 290E)
Cinema was invented in the 1890s and simultaneously introduced to East Asia. This colloquium explores how this new medium changed the cultural and social landscape of East Asia and how the visual power of films also affected the culture politics of empires in the region. The themes include cinema and urban spaces, cultural imperialism, film images and gender discourse, colonial modernity, Americanism and Asianism, the visual and the textual, wartime propaganda, and Hollywood movies and cold war empires.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Moon, Y. (PI)
HISTORY 391: East Asia in the Early Buddhist Age
Evolution of cities in imperial China through early imperial, medieval, and early modern periods. Topics include physical structure, social order, cultural forms, economic roles, relations to rural hinterlands, and the contrast between imperial capitals and other cities. Comparative examination of cases from European history.
HISTORY 391B: The City in Imperial China
The evolution of cities in the early imperial, medieval, and early modern periods. Topics include physical structure, social order, cultural forms, economic roles, relations to rural hinterlands, and the contrast between imperial capitals and other cities. Comparative cases from European history. Readings include primary and secondary sources, and visual materials.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Lewis, M. (PI)
HISTORY 392: The Two Koreas (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: Aut
| 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: Spr
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Uchida, J. (PI)
HISTORY 392F: Traditional Korea: History and Culture (HISTORY 292F)
Korea before 1800 and how iconic features of Korean tradition were created and reinvented. Themes include Korea's ancient kingdoms, the aristocracy and military in the Koryo dynasty, the print culture and Korean alphabet, ideologies and religions, the social status system and the life of women, the kingship and court culture of the Choson dynasty, and Korea's place in premodern East Asia. The modern and contemporary debates.
Last offered: Spring 2011
HISTORY 393B: Homosexuality in Historical and Comparative Perspective
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: Winter 2013
HISTORY 395: Modern Korean History (HISTORY 195)
(Same as
HISTORY 95. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 195.) Themes include status, gender, and monarchy in the Choson dynasty; intellectual life and social transformation in the 19th century; the rise of Korean nationalism; Japan's colonial rule and Korean identities; culture, economy, and society in colonial Korea; the Korean War, and the different state buildling processes in North and South after the Korean War.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Moon, Y. (PI)
HISTORY 396D: Modern Japan
Introduces students to the major historical problems and historiographic trends in the study of modern Japan from the Meiji period to the present. Themes include approaches to late Meiji culture and politics, the formation of imperial subjects and citizens, agrarian society and politics, gender in modern Japan, empire and modernity, total war and transwar state and society, U.S. occupation, and postwar Japan.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Uchida, J. (PI)
HISTORY 397: The Cold War and East Asia (HISTORY 297)
Explores how East Asia negotiated superpower rivalry and global ideological competition during the Cold War. Considers the ways in which China, Japan, and Korea were more than battlegrounds for US-Soviet contestation and played active roles in defining the nature and dynamics of the conflict. Re-examines conventional narratives and periodizations against alternative conceptual models and interpretive frameworks highlighting the constructed nature of the struggle as well as the role of historical and cultural factors in shaping the East Asian experience.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Tow, E. (PI)
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