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4.00 Credits
See description under Hebrew and Judaic Studies.
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4.00 Credits
See description under Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies.
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4.00 Credits
Explores various problems in contemporary China. Starting with an overview of contemporary China, the course then concentrates on social, intellectual, and environmental issues. The specific areas of inquiry change with changing circumstances. The reading load is quite heavy, and students are asked to write frequently.
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4.00 Credits
Explores facets of gender identity and the lives of males and females in the domains of the Ottoman Empire (both European and Middle Eastern) from Department of History the 14th through the 18th centuries. Primary and secondary sources, as well as images from the period, are used to study various contexts for and influences on women's and men's lived experiences, including class and religious identity; law and politics; wealth and charity; crime and punishment; and gendered spaces. We also read an historical novel that takes up some of these issues. Requirements include a midterm and essay assignments.
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4.00 Credits
See description under Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the history of U.S.-Japan relations, beginning with the first official contacts in the mid-19th century, and continuing to the present. Students use primary and secondary sources to study changes and continuities in Japanese images of the United States, and American images of Japan. The class considers the opinions and works of political leaders, academics, military figures, popular writers, filmmakers, social activists, and minorities in studying the evolution of exchange and mutual representation. The aim is to address the broader question of how images of others and the self are mutually constituted and are always affected by the changing relations of power.
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4.00 Credits
Material culture and the nature of consumption in China, 1550-1900. Aims to introduce students to the theoretical framework of current scholarship on material culture and consumption and their relationship to modernity and its antecedents in different parts of the world; to give students a strong sense of Chinese elite social and cultural life during this period; and to provide students with a sufficient basis of knowledge on which to begin grounding comparative judgments. Themes include periodization ("early modern" versus "late imperial" and other labels); urbanization; commercialization and globalization; sex and gender, explored through such specific aspects of material culture as books and publishing; art, including collecting and connoisseurship; textiles; food; opium; and architecture and gardens.
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4.00 Credits
Examines 20th-century Taiwan and China in their interrelationship and their divergent paths. It is not a diplomatic or international history course. Rather, it takes up crucial issues in the history of each polity and society, focusing primarily on Taiwan, thus allowing students to gain an understanding of the complexities of Taiwanese history and society and of this contested region of the world. The reading and writing load are heavy, and students are expected to participate in class. Some background in China's or Taiwan's history is desirable and presumed.
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4.00 Credits
Survey of developments in 19th- and early 20thcentury East Asia: modernization, Westernization, and war, with emphasis on the different responses of China and/or Japan to Western economic encroachment and ideological change.
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4.00 Credits
Surveys the main political, social, economic, and intellectual currents of the 20th century. Emphasis is on historical background and development of current problems in the region. Topics include imperialism, nationalism, religion, Orientalism, women, class formation, oil, the Arab-Israeli crisis, and the Iranian revolution.
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