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Campus | Haverford |
Semester | Fall 2021 |
Registration ID | HISTH347A001 |
Course Title | Topics in East Asian History: The Art of Governance in High Qing China |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | East Asian Languages and Cultures |
Instructor | Akcetin,Elif |
Times and Days | Th 01:30pm-04:00pm
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Room Location | UN114 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2235 This seminar explores the cultural operations of state agencies during China’s long eighteenth-century, as they unfolded in bureaucratic and legal systematization, knowledge making, textual production, bodily performances and gestures, the taxonomization of space, people, and material objects, and the representation of social, gender and ethnic identities, among others. We will ask: How did governing elites structure the social world and translate it into administrative language and practice? What strategies of representation and technologies of rule did they develop to enhance their capacity for control and their ability to grasp the complexities of the territories and people under their governance?; Crosslisted: History, East Asian Languages & Cultures; Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing and above or instructor consent. Social Science, B: Analysis of the Social World, A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (Hav: SO, B, A) |
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