Nomads and China
As the final installment in our exciting series of syllabus posts I present my last class for the semester, Nomadic Empires and China It is a topics class, so i...
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Rice Paddies
Following Jonathan’s lead, here is my syllabus for History of East Asia, more commonly known as Rice Paddies. I suppose the first question to answer is wh...
Lumpy Chinese History
There are a few places to go for archived syllabi — H-Net, ExEAS, I had a printed collection at one point, as well, then there’s the GMU Syllabus Fi...
Raise high the flag, whatever it stands for
This is a Japan/Manchukuo propaganda poster showing the harmony between the Chinese, Japanese, and Manchurians. I found it on the Hoover website and am using on...
The Chairman vanishes (but is found again!)
One of the nice things about teaching modern China is that the Communists, as a text-centered party, wrote a lot of things. A lot of them have been translated i...
Viewing Africa from Asia
(This is a comment on Tim Burke’s syllabus on Images of Africa cross-posted from his blog. I am putting it up here to see if anyone has any suggestions on image...
Oe and Millenarian Movements
I have spent the last few days working on a syllabus for a course titled “Anthropology of Social Movements,” and I figure I could use some help from...