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1.50 Credits
Staff Topics have included: China and Christianity; The Cultural Revolution. Offered occasionally.
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1.50 Credits
Staff Offered occasionally.
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1.50 Credits
Rosenbaum This seminar will examine the Chinese experience in World War II. We will study the ways in which World War II altered the course of Chinese history by weakening the government of Chiang Kai-shek and facilitating the rise of the Chinese Communist movement. Topics include the origins of the war, military operations, the Nanjing Massacre, resistance and collaboration, the American role in the China Theater, and how the war was experienced and remembered by different groups of Chinese, Americans, and Japanese. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Kumar We will look at a dozen exemplary figures in South Asia: Vishwamitra, Shankara, Kabir, Akbar, Rammohan Roy, Ghalib, Iqbal, Bankimchandra, Phule, Tagore, and Nehru. They include saints, teachers, philosophers, poets, rulers, reformers, and novelists. The aim is to understand what it is about historical constructs at different times that gives them the status of 'great.' We will also aim tounderstand their male-ness, and how it was inevitable that the 'great' people should have been 'men.' Offerevery other year.
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1.50 Credits
Staff Offered occasionally.
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1.50 Credits
Staff Offered occasionally.
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1.50 Credits
Staff In 2009-2010, the topic will be and will be taught by Professor Leonard V. Smith. The course description is as follows:
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1.50 Credits
Staff Students who have the necessary qualifications and who wish to investigate an area of study not covered in regularly scheduled courses may arrange for independent study under the direction of a faculty reader. See "Academic Policies and Procedures" for details. Offeredevery semester.
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1.50 Credits
Kumar This course uses South Asian literature in English translation to recover a picture of social, cultural, and political life in the period 1700 to the present. The literature includes diaries, poetry, novels and essays. It provides data on the everyday life of the period, but also on questions such as, What was the experience of modernity And, how are gendered and class identities experienced Students will read literature but learn how to think historically. Offered every other year.
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1.50 Credits
Kumar This course is the first of two parts of an introduction to the civilization(s) of historical India, or present-day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The course is organized both thematically and chronologically. Topics will include: The state and the people; attitudes to the body, male and female; community; caste and class; religions and sects; and the arts. The readings and lectures are organized around these topics with special emphasis on changes over four major time periods: Harappan civilizations, Classical India, The Delhi Sultanate, and the Mughul Empire. Offered every fall semester.
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