CLHUMHI016 - Modern Japan: Culture, Society and History
Explore the modern history of Japan from 1600 to the present with social and cultural historian Dr. Sidney Lu. Examine the forces that shaped the development of Japanese culture, society and history, including emperorship, warrior culture, engagement with the West, modernization and industrialization, empire, militarism, the role of women, democracy and popular protest, war, and economic growth. This engaging course includes lectures, discussion and in-class activities to deepen your understanding of Japan from feudalism to its birth as a postwar nation.
Course Details
Sidney X. Lu, Ph.D., is an associate professor and the Annette and Hugh Gragg Chair of Transnational Asian Studies at Rice University. He is a social and cultural historian of 19th- and 20th-century Japan and East Asia, with research interests in the areas of migration, settler colonialism, gender, race and transpacific connections. He earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania in 2013. Dr. Lu is author of “The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism: Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868–1961” and coeditor of “Japanese Empire and Latin America.” He is completing a new book, “Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empire.” Dr. Lu teaches Modern Japan, Modern East Asia, Introduction to Transnational Asian Studies and Asian American History. He serves as an academic adviser of the Japanese American Collaborative Historical Project, which makes Japanese American immigrants’ archival material accessible to the public.
Online--Synchronous
This course will be delivered in a synchronous format online. Participants will receive login instructions to the course page which will provide access to the virtual classroom link and other resources. All online classes are held at Central Standard Time.
- Day of Warriors: Feudal and Early Modern Japan
- Leaving Asia: Meiji Restoration
- The Rise of the Japanese Empire
- Taisho Democracy and WWI
- Returning to Asia: Militarism, Pan-Asianism and WWII
- U.S. Occupation and the Birth of the Postwar Nation
Chao Center for Asian Studies, Department of History and Department of Transnational Asian Studies, Rice University