Dynastic China

Examines the first dynasty to 1800. Traces the rise of the world’s first centralized bureaucratic state, the development of the world’s oldest living written culture, and the formation of the pre-modern world’s largest single commercial market. Studies women and men as they founded dynasties, engaged in philosophy, challenged orthodoxies, and invented technologies used around the globe. Explores China’s past to understand the country’s present, and reflects on what its stories mean for the global world.

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Offered Spring 2025

Catalog	Subject	Faculty	Level	HASS
21H.154	Inventing the Samurai TR 9:30-11, 26-168	Hiromu Nagahara	Introductory	HASS-H
21H.352 21G.042	Three Kingdoms: From History to Fiction, Comic, Film, and Game TR 1-2:30, 14E-310	Emma Teng	Seminar	HASS-H
21H.354	World War II in Asia T 1-4, 1-136	Hiromu Nagahara	Seminar	HASS-H

Not Offered This Term

Catalog	Subject	Faculty	Level	HASS
21H.107 21G.043	From Yellow Peril to Model Minority: Asian American History to 1968	Emma Teng	Introductory	HASS-H
21H.152	Modern China	Tristan Brown	Introductory	HASS-H
21H.155	Modern Japan: 1600 to Present	Hiromu Nagahara	Introductory	HASS-H
21H.156 21G.045	Global Chinese Food: A Historical Overview Not offered regularly; consult department	Staff	Introductory	HASS-H
21H.157	Modern South Asia	Sana Aiyar	Introductory	HASS-S
21H.186	Nature and Environment in China	Tristan Brown	Introductory	HASS-H
21H.247	Looking East/Looking West	Catherine Clark Hiromu Nagahara	Intermediate	HASS-H
21H.253 21G.075	Global Chinese Migration, 1567- Present Not offered regularly; consult department	Emma Teng	Intermediate	HASS-H
21H.350	Business in China Since 1800 Not offered regularly; consult department	Staff	Seminar	HASS-H
21H.351 11.153	Shanghai and China’s Modernization Not offered regularly; consult department	Staff	Seminar	HASS-H
21H.357	South Asian Migrations	Sana Aiyar	Seminar	HASS-H