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3.00 Credits
(Formerly 247). Intensive reading, discussion, and short papers on selected themes in Chinese social and cultural history. Particular topics vary from semester to semester. May be taken more than once if there is no overlap with a prior offering. Serves as repeat credit for students who completed 247 prior to fall 2008.
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(Formerly 156). Confucianism and Philosophical Daoism. The Confucian Four Books, the Daodejing (Laozi), Zhuangzi, and Neo-Confucianism. Prerequisite: 106. Serves as repeat credit for students who completed 156 prior to fall 2008.
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Strategic motivations and behaviors of international actors. Simulations of the decision-making process during critical historical moments in the East Asian context through role-playing and video games. Offered on a graded basis only.
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3.00 Credits
(Formerly 251). Cultural history of Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868), with emphasis on daily life and popular entertainment in the capital of the warrior government, Edo (present-day Tokyo). Woodblock prints, pleasure quarters, kabuki theatre, commoner carnivals, and popular literature. Serves as repeat credit for students who completed 251 prior to fall 2008.
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3.00 Credits
(Formerly 250). Japanese culture and society from the 1930s to the present. Impact of war experiences on postwar Japan, and the political nature of cultural production. Serves as repeat credit for students who completed 250 prior to fall 2008.
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3.00 Credits
(Formerly 238). Russian history from the early nineteenth-century old regime through the Russian Revolution of 1917. Culture, society, and serfdom; the Great Reforms, ideology, and radicalism; industrialization; modernity in an agrarian society; twentieth-century revolutions. Serves as repeat credit for students who completed 238 prior to fall 2008.
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3.00 Credits
(Formerly 239). Russian history since the 1917 Revolution. Overview of the old regime; revolution and civil war; the Soviet "Roaring ’20s"; Stalinism and the totalitarianized society; World War II. Postwar Soviet society and culture; de-Stalinization and the sixties generation; Gorbachev, perestroika, and disintegration; contemporary history. Serves as repeat credit for students who completed 239 prior to fall 2008.
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3.00 Credits
Mughal history from 1500-1750. The early modern world and Islamic empires. Akbar and Hindu-Muslim interactions in South Asia. Oriental despotism and the idea of the monarch. Gender and authority. English, Dutch, and Portuguese views. Trade and the decline of Mughal authority. Globalization, the rise of Indian entrepreneurs, and the East India company.
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Cultures along the Indian Ocean coastline from Roman times to 1800, especially South Asia. Coastal societies and politics, Islam, pilgrimage and trade, economic zones, and cultural ties. Pirates, seafarers and merchants; diasporas and genealogies. The entry of European trading companies and debates on trade and empire.
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3.00 Credits
(Formerly 257). Early Arabian society, Judaism and Christianity in Arabia; Muhammad and the birth of Islam, the conquests, Islamization, Arabization; Jewish influences in early Islam, the medieval Islamic world. Serves as repeat credit for students who completed 257 prior to fall 2008.
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