HIS 387 - Memory and Identity in the People’s Republic of China

This course explores how the government of the People’s Republic of China defines and manages ethnic and religious diversity within China, and how in turn, various ethno-religious groups in China negotiate their own sometimes fraught positions. How have local understandings of identity in China been influenced by state-driven narratives about China’s collective past? How is historical memory in China incarnated in physically tangible and symbolically meaningful places, such as museums and memorials? This course draws on historical and anthropological approaches to identity, ethnicity, language, modernity, religion, nationalism, and memory to explore these questions in detail. 

Satisfies a requirement in the History major.
Satisfies a requirement in the East Asian Studies major.
Satisfies a requirement in the Chinese Studies minor.
Satisfies a requirement in the East Asian Studies interdisciplinary minor.
Satisfies a requirement in the International Studies interdisciplinary minor.
Satisfies an Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.