HISTORY 392B: Law and Society in Late Imperial China (CHINA 392B)
Connections between legal and social history. Ideology and practice, center and periphery, and state-society tensions and interactions. Readings introduce the work of major historians on concepts and problems in Ming-Qing history.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Sommer, M. (PI)
HISTORY 392D: Japan in Asia, Asia in Japan (HISTORY 292D, JAPAN 392D)
(
History 292D is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units;
History 392D is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) 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
Instructors:
Uchida, J. (PI)
HISTORY 392F: Culture and Religions in Korean History (HISTORY 292F)
This colloquium explores the major themes of Korean history before 1800 and the role of culture and religions in shaping the everyday life of Chosôn-dynasty Koreans. Themes include the aristocracy and military in the Koryô dynasty, Buddhism and Confucianism in the making of Chosôn Korea, kingship and court culture, slavery and women, family and rituals, death and punishment, and the Korean alphabet (Hangûl) and print culture.
Last offered: Autumn 2021
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 392G: Modern Korea
Examines seminal works and major historical debates in the study of modern Korea. Topics include the state and society in the Choson dynasty, reform and rebellion in the nineteenth century, colonization, gender and colonial modernity, national identity and assimilation, wartime colonial Korea, decolonization and the North Korean revolution, the Korean War and its aftermath, the Pak Chung Hee regime and labor relations, and democratization.
Last offered: Winter 2022
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 393: Frontier Expansion and Ethnic Statecraft in the Qing Empire (CHINA 393)
The legacy of the Qing dynasty in the territorial boundaries claimed by the People's Republic of China including the frontier zones that lie outside China proper. How the Qing acquired and ruled its frontier territories. Growth and migration of the Han Chinese population. How the dynasty's Manchu rulers managed ethnic difference. Consequences of Qing expansionism and ethnic statecraft for subject peoples and for the dynasty itself. At what point and by what processes did the Qing become China.
Last offered: Winter 2024
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 393A: State, Society, and Economy in Qing Dynasty China (CHINA 393A)
Historical scholarship on China during the Qing period, including the gentry, civil examinations, and the debate about social mobility; merchants, cities, and the debate about civil society/public sphere; taxation, local security, and famine relief; heterodoxy, collective violence, and rebellion; and rival approaches (neo-Malthusian, neo-conservative, and neo-Marxist) to understanding the high Qing economy.
Last offered: Autumn 2022
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 393D: Queer and Trans History in Comparative Perspective (FEMGEN 293D, FEMGEN 393D, HISTORY 293D)
This course explores the comparative history of queer and transgender desires, relationships, and identities through highlights of recent and classic scholarship on different periods and parts of the world.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Sommer, M. (PI)
HISTORY 393E: Female Divinities in China (FEMGEN 293E, HISTORY 293E, RELIGST 257X, RELIGST 357X)
This course examines the fundamental role of powerful goddesses in Chinese religion. It covers the entire range of imperial history and down to the present. It will look at, among other questions, what roles goddesses played in the spirit world, how this is related to the roles of human women, and why a civilization that excluded women from the public sphere granted them a dominant place, in the religious sphere. It is based entirely on readings in English.
Last offered: Autumn 2024
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 393F: Chinese Politics and Society (HISTORY 293F, SOC 217B, SOC 317B)
(Doctoral students register for 317B.) This seminar examines scholarship on major political developments in the People's Republic of China during its first four decades. The topics to be explored in depth this year include the incorporation of Tibet and Xinjiang into the new Chinese nation-state during the 1950s, political violence during the Cultural Revolution in the late 1960s, and the nationwide political upheavals of 1989.
Last offered: Winter 2022
| Units: 3-5
HISTORY 394K: Chinese Migrations
(This section is for MA students. Please contact Kai Dowding for the permission number at kdowding@stanford.edu.) This seminar will explore global patterns of Chinese migration, and consider both continuities and change within these movements. We will examine Chinese communities here in California, as well as in Asia, Africa, South America, and the Caribbean. In addition to the dynamics of specific encounters, the course examines how Chinese migrants contributed to broader patterns of nation building, colonialism, race formation, capitalist development, and global constructions of "Chinese-ness?"
Last offered: Spring 2022
| Units: 4-5