HISTORY 89S: Chinese Diaspora and the Making of the Pacific World, 1750-1911
What do the city of Singapore, ICE, the abolition of the slave trade, and the latex condom have in common? All are entangled with the merchant princes, people-smugglers, indentured laborers, and rubber planters that made up the Chinese diaspora in the 'long' 19th century. This course will introduce the primary sources and interpretive techniques that historians use to understand the Chinese diasporic past by focusing on four main themes: autonomy and assimilation, indenture and forced labor, race and immigration, and intellectual and material exchanges.
Last offered: Spring 2021
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 90: Early Chinese Thought (HISTORY 190)
This lecture course examines the emergence of critical thought in early China. After a brief study of the social and political changes that made this emergence possible, it looks at the nature and roles of the thinkers, and finally their ideas about the social order, the state, war and the army, the family, the cosmos, and the self (both physical and mental). Some brief comparisons with early Greek thought.
Last offered: Spring 2025
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 91B: The City in Imperial China
(Same as
HISTORY 191B. 91B is 3 units; 191B is 5 units.) 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.
Last offered: Winter 2022
| Units: 3
HISTORY 92S: How to Divide a Country: The Making of Two Koreas in the Post-1945 World
From nuclear crises to the Korean Wave, much of what defines contemporary Korea traces back to the circumstances of its division into North and South Korea in 1948. Rooted in the history of Korea, but keeping in comparative view the cases of Germany, Ireland, South Asia, and others, this course brings together sources from literature, popular media, propaganda, and declassified government documents to examine the global phenomenon of partition.
Last offered: Autumn 2024
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 93: The Chinese Empire from the Mongol Invasion to the Boxer Uprising (CHINA 93, FEMGEN 93)
(Same as
HISTORY 193. 93 is 3 units; 193 is 5 units.) A survey of Chinese history from the 11th century to the collapse of the imperial state in 1911. Topics include absolutism, gentry society, popular culture, gender and sexuality, steppe nomads, the Jesuits in China, peasant rebellion, ethnic conflict, opium, and the impact of Western imperialism.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Sommer, M. (PI)
;
Zou, Y. (TA)
HISTORY 93S: Beyond the Modern Girl: Gender, Sexuality, and Empire in Japan and Korea, 1900-1955 (FEMGEN 193S)
In the 1920s and 1930s, the fashionable and iconoclastic "modern girl" appeared in media in Tokyo, Seoul, and beyond. Yet what, if anything, did she have to do with empire? And what other gendered experiences, identities, and movements emerged alongside her? From "new women" to "comfort women," from the "sons of the empire" to "sensitive young men," along with discourses on same-sex love, this course examines gender in Japan and Korea from the colonial period through the postwar occupations.
Last offered: Spring 2023
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 94B: Japan in the Age of the Samurai
(Same as
HISTORY 194B. 94B is 3 units; 194B is 5 units.) From the Warring States Period to the Meiji Restoration. Topics include the three great unifiers, Tokugawa hegemony, the samurai class, Neoconfucian ideologies, suppression of Christianity, structures of social and economic control, frontiers, the other and otherness, castle-town culture, peasant rebellion, black marketing, print culture, the floating world, National Studies, food culture, samurai activism, black ships, unequal treaties, anti-foreign terrorism, restorationism, millenarianism, modernization as westernization, Japan as imagined community.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
HISTORY 94S: Savoring Japan: Food and Society in Global Perspective
Sushi, Sukiyaki, and Ramen--why are they considered "Japanese?" This course provides insight into this question by exploring the transformations that the Japanese diet underwent in the early 20th century. While the course centers on modern Japan, we will often draw on food histories from other times and places.
Last offered: Autumn 2021
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 95: Modern Korean History
(Same as
HISTORY 195. 95 is 3 units; 195 is 5 units.) This lecture course provides a general introduction to the history of modern Korea. Themes include the characteristics of the Chosôn dynasty, reforms and rebellions in the nineteenth century, Korean nationalism; Japan's colonial rule and Korean identities; decolonization and the Korean War; and the different state-building processes in North and South, South Korea's democratization in 1980s, and the current North Korean crisis.
Last offered: Spring 2025
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 95C: Modern Japanese History: From Samurai to Pokemon
(95C is 3 units; 195C is 5 units.) Japan's modern transformation from the late 19th century to the present. Topics include: the Meiji revolution; industrialization and social dislocation; the rise of democracy and empire; total war and US occupation; economic miracle and malaise; Japan as soft power; and politics of memory. Readings and films focus on the lived experience of ordinary men and women across social classes and regions.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Uchida, J. (PI)
;
Hou, X. (TA)