East Asia Since 1800 (September 16 - December 19, 2024)

Topics include:

• demographic change and the role of geography and the natural environment
• economic, social, cultural and technological developments within East Asia
• exchanges within and beyond East Asia
• challenges from within and from the West
• war, revolution and nation-making
• China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, North and South Korea, and Japan today
• the region's influence on and responses to global trends
• evolving ties with the United States

Content

• readings
• pre-recorded video presentations 
• online forum participation
• weekly live online Zoom discussion 

Benefits (Must complete seminar requirements)

• Resources and materials

• 6 USC Rossier School of Education Continuing Education Units (processing fee $210 covered by the US-China Institute)

• 2 LAUSD Salary Point 

• Certificate of completion

Lecturers

Clayton Dube, USC: As director of the USC U.S.-China Institute from 2006–24, Clayton Dube oversaw a variety of research, training and outreach initiatives. Dube first lived and taught in China in 1982-85. A historian, he examined how economic and political change in China since 1900 affected the lives of ordinary people. He’s gone on to focus on how Americans and Chinese see each other and how governments work to influence those views. He’s currently focused on 1) the promise and limits of U.S.-China economic, scientific and cultural collaboration and 2) strengthening teaching about China and the rest of East Asia through the USCI’s professional development programs.

Elyssa Faison, University of Oklahoma: Professor Faison’s first book, Managing Women: Disciplining Labor in Modern Japan, was published by the University of California Press in 2007. She is co-editor with Dr. Ruth Barraclough (Australian National University) of Sexing Class: Gender and Labor in Korea and Japan, which was published by Routledge in 2009. She teaches courses on East Asian and Japanese history, and in 2012 was the recipient of the Regents’ Award for Superior Teaching. She is currently working on two book-length projects. The first is titled Atomic Memories: Legacies of the Cold War in Japan and the United States. The second is a social and political history of twentieth century Japan in the form of a biography of the socialist feminist Yamakawa Kikue (1890-1980).

Susan H. Kamei, USC: Susan H. Kamei is Managing Director of the Spatial Sciences Institute housed in the University of Southern California Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences (USC Dornsife). She directs the Institute’s strategic initiatives and its daily administration, including external relations and the development and operations of the Institute’s undergraduate and graduate academic programs.

Rylan Sekiguchi, Stanford SPICE: Rylan Sekiguchi is Manager of Curriculum and Instructional Design at the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE). Prior to joining SPICE in 2005, he worked as a teacher at Revolution Prep in San Francisco. Rylan’s professional interests lie in curriculum design, global education, education technology, student motivation and learning, and mindset science. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Symbolic Systems at Stanford University.