Nature and Environment in China

T 2-5, E51-390

Focuses on the late imperial period with forays into the modern area. Explores how Chinese states and people related to and shaped their environments, which, in turn, shaped China. Considers the degree to which China’s long environmental history has integrated with global trends and ponders the historical experiences and precedents we bring to today’s environmental challenges. Explores the diverse ways in which scholars study China’s environmental history and conceptions of nature, including the use of digital humanities tools for visualizing data and analyzing geography.

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Offered Fall 2024

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Narrating the Anthropocene: Understanding a Multi-Species Universe

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Modern Japan: 1600 to Present

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Global Chinese Food: A Historical Overview

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Modern South Asia

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US Environmental Governance: from National Parks to the Green New Deal

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Global Chinese Migration, 1567- Present

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Business in China Since 1800

Not offered regularly; consult department
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Shanghai and China’s Modernization

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Three Kingdoms: From History to Fiction, Comic, Film, and Game

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World War II in Asia

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South Asian Migrations

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People and Other Animals

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