This course explores shared and divergent gender principles and gendered practices in pre-modern and modern China, Korea and Japan. Focusing on women's experience, it examines such topics as women and work, religion, medicine, sexuality, and cultural production.
This course uses a cultural historical approach to examine the question of Chinese modernity. It focuses on the processes, technologies, and social agents that transformed Chinese culture in the tumultuous period from the first Opium War in 1842 to the 1949 Communist Revolution. The course begins with an introduction to cultural historical methodology. We read […]
In 20th-century China, education reform has been an important factor in social, political and ideological upheavals. This course examines education and society in China since the 18th century; other East Asian societies may be brought in for comparison.Note: Priority is given to History, East Asian Studies and Social Science Honours majors and minors who have […]
The experience of the Second World War and its aftermath in China, Japan and the larger Pacific region, including the rise of Communism in China and the transformation of Japan during and after the American occupation.
A comparative study of the foreign policies in China, Japan and India, with an emphasis on policy-making and policy outputs. Examples will be drawn from territorial, security and economic issues.Prerequisite: GL/POLS 2920 6.0 or permission of the instructorDegree Credit Exclusion: GL/POLS 4010 3.0 (Fall/Winter 2001-2002)
Using Southeast Asia as its focus, this course addresses questions relating to economic development, political change and regional security in the emerging global order. It stimulates interest in politics and international relations of developing countries in Southeast Asia.Themes: Development and Inequality in the Global South; Global Politics; Political Economy and Political Power.
Using Southeast Asia as its focus, this course addresses questions relating to economic development, political change and regional security in the emerging global order. It stimulates interest in politics and international relations of developing countries in Southeast Asia.Themes: Development and Inequality in the Global South; Global Politics; Political Economy and Political Power.
This course examines advanced topics in the politics of contemporary China, and compares competing social science research methods for field investigation. The course is organized according to two major topics in Chinese politics: 1) political reform in China; 2) the political economy of China's transition. Students will be expected to apply key Chinese terminology used […]
This course examines Korean foodways, this is, the language, history, society, traditions, and economics of Korean (and Korean-Canadian) food culture. Topics include the relationships between Korean food and globalism/localisation, national identities and socio-economic status in Korean food culture, the role of food media in the contemporary Korean foodways, and the cultural beliefs encapsulated in food […]
Analyzes two forms of media, the book and the photograph, and two moments in their histories, East and West. In the first instance, examines the separate Western and Eastern trajectories in the development of print. In the second, the ways the Western technology of photography was appropriated in the East. We read both canonical and […]