FALL 2015 COURSES

CHINESE MIGRATIONS
SOC 280D

This course uses a world-historical approach to examine overseas Chinese migrations from the sixteenth century to the present. It examines the role of Chinese migrations in the making of the modern world economy and the contributions of overseas Chinese to the development of capitalism in the following aspects: the East-West economic integration in the early-modern era, China’s modern transformation after the Opium War (1839-1842), the making of national economies in Eastern Asia, the Americas and other parts of the world from the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century, as well as the postwar economic miracles in the Pacific Rim, including the so-called “Rise of China.” By examining the changing formations of Chinese migrants in world history during the past five hundred years, the course examines the expansion and fragmentation of Chinese communities across the world as a world-making process.

SOCIOLOGY OF CHINA
SOC 380F

PAST COURSES

• Pacific Formations (Spring 2015)
• Rural Migrant Workers in China's Reform Era (Graduate Independent Study) (Spring 2015)
• Gender & Chinese Society (Spring 2014, Spring 2015)
• Sociology of China (Spring 2014, Fall 2014)
• Rural Migrant Workers in China's Reform Era (Spring 2015)