| source University of Washington (X) |
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department History of Asia (X) |
Religions, literature, philosophy, politics, arts, and history of India from earliest times to the Mughal empire.
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The Islamic impact, British conquest, and contemporary India. Emphasis on the rise of nationalism, social organization, and contemporary life and history. Offered: jointly with SISSA 202.
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Intensive survey of Chinese civilization from earliest times to today. Introduces all students, including East Asian history majors, to the general sweep of Chinese history. Social, cultural, and intellectual developments.
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From earliest times to the present. Development of Korean society and culture in terms of government organization, social and economic change, literature, and art. Offered: jointly with SISEA 212.
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Surveys Southeast Asian civilizations at the outset of Western colonial rule; the colonial impact on the traditional societies of Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines; nineteenth- and twentieth-century nationalist and revolutionary movements; emergence of Southeast Asia as a region in the modern world. Offered: jointly with SISSE 221.
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Japan's civilization, including its origins, government, literature, economic institutions, material culture, social organization, and religions, in relation to the development of Japan as a society and nation. Cannot be taken for credit if SISEA 341 previously taken. Offered: jointly with SISEA 241.
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Introduction to Western imperialism expansion, conquest, and colonial rule in Asia; the anti-colonial, nationalist resistances they engendered; and the resultant cultural, political, economic, and intellectual transformations in Asian societies. Covers post-1800 violence, racial hierarchies, human rights abuses, post-colonial memories, persistent strategies of domination, and structural inequities. Offered: jointly with SISA 244.
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Examines special topics in Asian history.
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Focuses on the mobilization of South Asian tribal, peasant, and ethnic communities around ecological issues to secure social equity in the colonial and post-colonial period. Examines how the complex interactions of states and peoples have changed the ways in which nature itself is conceptualized. Offered: jointly with SISSA 303.
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Routes to modernity followed by non-Western societies between 1600 and 1900. Historical experiences of non-Western societies seen in the contexts of European history and of development theory. Primary sources and techniques for posing theoretical questions of historical data. Offered: jointly with SIS 348.
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India in ancient times; emphasis on forms of political organizations and economic life, social organizations, and cultural developments.
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Medieval India; emphasis on forms of political organizations and economic life, social organizations, and cultural developments.
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Modern India; emphasis on forms of political organizations and economic life, social organizations, and cultural developments.
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Analysis of the problems in the fields of social life, international and domestic politics, education, economics, and other areas that confront India today.
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Introduces the early years of Japan's political, socioeconomic, and cultural history, culminating in the emergence of the early modern state around 1600.
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Political, social, economic, and cultural development of Japan from the late Tokugawa period to the present with special emphasis on the cultural impact of the West. Offered: jointly with SISEA 423.
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The making of modern Japan; World War II and surrender; American occupation; postoccupation rebuilding; emergence as an industrial power. Recommended: HSTAS 423 or SISEA 423. Offered: jointly with SISEA 440.
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Lecture-seminar on Japanese economic and social history from 700 to 1900. Analyses of the rise and decline of the shoen system, the rise of commerce, social change, changes in the living standard, demographic changes, and the early phases of industrialization. Political and cultural developments as related to economic and social change. Prerequisite: either SISEA 241/HSTAS 241 or SISEA 341/HSTAS 341. Offered: jointly with SISEA 441.
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Pre-imperial China.
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Traces the development of Chinese civilization form earliest times through the Song dynasty. Examines social, cultural, political, and economic history.
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Political, social, economic, and intellectual history form the time of the Mongol conquest of China to the Sino-Japanese war. Focus on the evolution of the late imperial Chinese state and the "early modern" era in China.
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Social, cultural, political, economic, and intellectual transformations and continuities in China from the end of the imperial period to the present. Offered: jointly with SISEA 454.
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Surveys major issues and approaches to the study of the role of the Chinese people in China's historical development. Historical focus of course varies with instructor. Recommended: HSTAS 211, HSTAS 452, HSTAS 453, or HSTAS/SISEA 454. Offered: jointly with SISEA 456.
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Gender in Chinese culture, women's situations in the patrilineal family system, and the ways women's situations changed as other dimensions of China's political system, economy, and culture changed from early times through the nineteenth century. Offered: jointly with WOMEN 457.
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Emergence of modernist social, political, intellectual gender formations in social activism, revolutionary writing, scientific ideologies, economic globalization. Stresses gender difference in colonial modernity, revolutionary movement, communism, post-socialist market society. Relates modern Chinese women to global flows, new division of labor, local and regional experience. Offered: jointly with WOMEN 459.
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