HIST 412 - Migration and Ethnicity in Modern China

(3 units)

Prerequisite(s): Upper-division standing; Completion of GE Foundations.
The global story of Chinese emigration and internal migration, a process that is integral to the history of state and society in China since the seventeenth century. Chinese settlers faced diverse challenges and opportunities in the colonial and postcolonial states of Southeast Asia, in the settler societies of the Americas and Oceania, and in Europe. It examines major factors that have shaped Chinese emigration/migration in the modern period as well as its impact on world history.

Both grading options.