Learning Outcomes:
-a sensibility toward social and cultural differences between Atlantic and Asian societies & legacies
-the skill set to distinguish across time, place and scale. Asia never was one and the same.
-a understanding of how Asian modernisations affected individual lives, group identities and international aspirations
-an appreciation of how the long global past continues to shape Asia and supplements living memory
Indicative Module Content:
Our module will explore and cover by week:
1) Values and the state in modern Asia
2) Confucianism, hierarchies and Asian cultures of advancement
3) For the nation’s sake: self-cultivation and the politics of progress
4) Universities as drivers of modernity in Asia
5) Still imperialism or already internationalism? Modern professions and a changing Asia
6) Frying pan into the fire? Postgraduates in wartime
7) Global impact: Asian pioneers abroad
8) Technologies of the ascendant state: science, engineering, industry
9) Law for Asia and the World
10) Teaching America about Asia
11) Ambition for what? Generational history and Asia’s knowledge of the world