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This course uses one of the major cultures of East Asia (e.g., Japan, China, or Korea) as a focal point for investigating the history of the region. Students will gain a broad-based historical and cultural understanding of East Asia in its global context, beginning with the origins of this culture, and including its inter-regional connections and its encounters with the west. The theme of all sections of this course is "Contact and Change," which will afford an opportunity to examine two of the principle challenges facing historians: accounting for change and understanding people and societies separated from us by space and time. This course fulfills the Historical Studies requirement in the core curriculum.
This course uses one of the major cultures of East Asia (e.g., Japan, China, or Korea) as a focal point for investigating the history of the region. Students will gain a broad-based historical and cultural understanding of East Asia in its global context, beginning with the origins of this culture, and including its inter-regional connections and its encounters with the west. The theme of all sections of this course is "Contact and Change," which will afford an opportunity to examine two of the principle challenges facing historians: accounting for change and understanding people and societies separated from us by space and time. This course fulfills the Historical Studies requirement in the core curriculum.
HIST 298-03 Topics: Modern East Asia In this course, we will read about and discuss the development of "modern" societies in China, Korea, and Japan from early modern times to the present. We will focus on problems such as empire, historical memory, and the formation of modern nation-states. Readings include memoirs and other personal writings as historical texts, as a way to understand the times.
Dr. Kameya comes to us from Kent State, where she has been teaching a variety of courses in Japanese history and East Asian civilizations, including Samurai Thought and Gender and Pre-Twentieth-Century East Asia. She especially enjoys using literature and art as media for teaching history. Her current research focuses on ethics, economics and aesthetics among eighteenth-century Japanese eccentrics as described in Kinsei kijinden (Eccentrics of our Times). Other research areas include Japanese intellectual history and the influences of cultural spaces on the formation of national identity.
