printer friendly pageHISTORY 84S: Between Toleration and Persecution: Iran and its Minorities in the Twentieth Century (JEWISHST 84S)
What does it mean to be Jewish or Christian in a country where most citizens are categorized as Shi'i Muslims? How have Kurds and Azeris figured into Iranian national and political rhetoric? What has it meant to identify as transgender or transsexual? This course explores religious, ethnic, and sexual minority groups in Iran in the twentieth century. Topics include minority rights, identity formation, minorities¿ involvement in political movements, the impact of westernizing efforts on minorities, and the Iranian diaspora. Priority given to history majors and minors.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Farah, D. (PI)
HISTORY 85B: Jews in the Contemporary World: Faith and Ethnicity, Visibility and Vulnerability (CSRE 85B, JEWISHST 85B, REES 85B)
(Same as
HISTORY 185B. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 185B.) This course explores the full expanse of Jewish life today and in the recent past. The inner workings of religious faith, the content of Jewish identify shorn of belief, the interplay between Jewish powerlessness and influence, the myth and reality of Jewish genius, the continued pertinence of antisemitism, the rhythms of Jewish economic life ¿ all these will be examined in weekly lectures, classroom discussion, and with the use of a widely diverse range of readings, films, and other material. Explored in depth will the ideas and practices of Zionism, the content of contemporary secularism and religious Orthodoxy, the impact Holocaust, the continued crisis facing Israel and the Palestinians. Who is to be considered Jewish, in any event, especially since so many of the best known (Spinoza, Freud, Marx) have had little if anything to do with Jewish life with their relationships to it indifferent, even hostile?
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI, WAY-EDP
HISTORY 91B: 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: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Lewis, M. (PI)
HISTORY 91D: China: The Northern and Southern Dynasties
(Same as
HISTORY 191D. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 191D.) 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.
Last offered: Spring 2010
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
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.
Last offered: Winter 2008
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
HISTORY 92S: Shanghai: Home of Sojourners, Gateway to the Modern World (CHINA 92S)
Shanghai is both China's most modern city and the country's gateway to the world. Among the makers of the city¿s modern preeminence were not only its indigenous peoples and ideas, but also loans from British banks, films of Hollywood, policemen from colonial India, and revolutionary thoughts imported from Japan. This course will situate Shanghai's transnational history and its role in the formation of modern China from mid-nineteenth century onward. Key themes include Western and Japanese colonialisms, the rise of Chinese capitalism, WWII, the Cultural Revolution, and the still ongoing economic reform. This course fulfills the departmental Sources and Methods requirement.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
Instructors:
Hirata, K. (PI)
HISTORY 93: Late Imperial China (CHINA 93, FEMGEN 93)
(Same as
HISTORY 193. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 193.) 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: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Sommer, M. (PI)
HISTORY 94B: Japan in the Age of the Samurai
(Same as
HISTORY 194B. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 194B.) 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
Instructors:
Wigen, K. (PI)
HISTORY 95: Modern Korean History
(Same as
HISTORY 195. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 195.) 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.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Moon, Y. (PI)
HISTORY 95C: Modern Japanese History: From Samurai to Pokemon
(Same as
History 195C. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 195C.) 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: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Uchida, J. (PI)
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