printer friendly pageHISTORY 265: Writing Asian American History (AMSTUD 265, ASNAMST 265, HISTORY 365)
Recent scholarship in Asian American history, with attention to methodologies and sources. Topics: racial ideologies, gender, transnationalism, culture, and Asian American art history. Primary research paper.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-SI, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Chang, G. (PI)
HISTORY 282: The United States and the Middle East since 1945 (HISTORY 382)
Since the end of WW II, U.S. interests in the Middle East have traditionally been defined as access to oil at a reasonable price, trade and markets, containing the influence of the Soviet Union, and the security of Israel. Is this the full range of U.S. interests? How has the pursuit of these interests changed over time? What forces have shaped U.S. policy? What is the impact of U.S. policy on the region itself?
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
HISTORY 283: The New Global Economy, Oil, and Islamic Movements in the Middle East (HISTORY 383)
The integration of the Middle East into the world capitalist market on a subordinate basis and the impact on economic development, class formation, and politics. Alternative theoretical perspectives on the rise and expansion of the international capitalist market combined with case studies of Egypt, Iraq, and Palestine.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
HISTORY 291D: Colonialism and Collaboration in East Asia (HISTORY 391D)
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: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Moon, Y. (PI)
HISTORY 291E: Maps, Borders, and Conflict in East Asia (HISTORY 391E)
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.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Wigen, K. (PI)
HISTORY 292D: Japan in Asia, Asia in Japan (HISTORY 392D)
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: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Uchida, J. (PI)
HISTORY 293D: Global Intellectual History (HISTORY 393D)
Ideas have circulated globally for millennia but relatively recently have thinkers begun to conceptualize the global. Like "humanity" and "universalism," or what Marx called "international," the "global" too has complex genealogies. It is associated, often simultaneously, with empire and freedom, war and equality, commitment and treason, piracy and justice, homelessness and cosmopolitanism. Working with key 20th century texts from Italy, Britain, India, Israel, Palestine, Germany, France, and Algeria, course explores how thinking "globally" impacts the very foundations of modern political thought.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-ER, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Kumar, A. (PI)
HISTORY 295F: Race and Ethnicity in East Asia (ASNAMST 295F, HISTORY 395F)
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: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Mullaney, T. (PI)
HISTORY 92A: The Historical Roots of Modern East Asia (HISTORY 392E)
Focus is on China and Japan before and during their transition to modernity. The populous, urbanized, economically advanced, and culturally sophisticated Ming empire and Muromachi shogunate in the 16th century when Europeans first arrived. How the status quo had turned on its head by the early 20th century when European and American steamships dominated the Pacific, China was in social and political upheaval, and Japan had begun its march to empire.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
HISTORY 106C: Global Historical Geography
The sweep of human history through the medium of maps. The rise, expansion, and fall of kingdoms, empires, and other states; the spread of major religions; the paths of explorers, conquerors, and diseases; and the development and intensification of trade networks. Overview of the prehistoric period and ancient times, but focus is on the modern world.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
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