ASIA 344

This course explores the interactions of Asian peoples ' the commodities, social practices, and ideas which they produce ' across borders, both political and imagined. The course crosses disciplinary borders, as well, drawing upon divergent materials from the humanities and social sciences in an attempt to do justice to a contemporary context that could be called 'Asia in motion.' An underlying thesis holds that, since nineteenth-century colonialism, nations in the 'West' and 'Asia' participate in a global, dialectical movement in which notions of identity (national, cultural, ethnic, religious, territorial, linguistic) share moments of fluidity and fixity.

CO24 - CONN (Connections 200-400 Level), CO24 - KN (Knowledge, Identity, and Power), CORE - CN (Connections), CORE - KN (Knowledge, Identity, and Power), INTD - ASIA (Asian Studies ASIA), INTD - HUM-EMPIRE (Intd Humanities-Empire IHE)