EALC 520

Spring 2014

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Problems in Chinese History
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Credit: 4 hours.

Same as HIST 520. See HIST 520.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
32416
Discussion/
Recitation
A
3:00PM -4:50PM
M
215 Davenport Hall
Chow, K
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/21/14-05/07/14
Section Info:
Description: This course introduces students to recent scholarly works on the approaches, methodologies, and major issues in the study of Qing China, focusing on the intersections of identities, empire, colonies, and law. In the first part of the seminar, we will examine works on political and cultural identities involving the Han Chinese and Manchus. How were these identities constructed and deployed by different agents within the Qing Empire? Was maintenance of identities critical to the management of the Qing Empire and its bureaucracy? Did these identities undergo transformation when European powers intruded to disrupt the politics of identities? What are the implications of the answers to these questions for a comparative study of Empires in Asia and Europe? In the second part of the seminar, we will read studies on the expansion of the Qing Empire. Did the Qing Empire resemble its European counterparts? In what ways they diverged? Were there similarities in the ways the Qing Empire and European Empires used law in its control over their colonies? In the last part, we'll examine debates and issues regarding how clash of empires since the Opium War gave rise to exploitation by European imperialists of a binary approach to civilizations - modernity and barbarity, which served as a legal base for economic exploitation and the practice of extraterritoriality. We will also examine how the issue of sovereignty and extraterritoriality came to occupy different discursive spaces in European imperialism. The history of international law involving the Qing Empire will be interrogated in the context of asymmetric power relationship with European Empires.
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Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
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