HIST 353 - Transnational History in Northeast Asia

Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 3 Hours
Attribute: 3 SS, CD

This course explores the history of China’s Northeast (“Manchuria”) as a site for challenging the boundaries imposed by histories of the nation-state. The histories of Japan, the United States, Britain, France, China and Russia will be interwoven to examine the region’s transformation from sparsely populated Manchu homeland, to staging ground for Japanese imperialism, to scene of Mao Zedong’s triumph over the Nationalists in the Chinese Civil War of 1945-49. Enrollment Limit: 12
Instructor: E. O’Dwyer
Prerequisites & Notes
Consent of the instructor is required. Counts toward the East Asian Studies Major.