Instructors
Gi-Wook Shin - Stanford University

How can we understand East Asia's transformation from a struggling agrarian region to an industrial powerhouse? How has Asian communism survived and what will be its future? What led to the recent economic down turn and how has it affected the region? What is the current state of US relations with East Asian nations? Are we properly handling the North Korean issue? Will the 21st century be the Pacific century? These questions will be discussed from a historical-comparative perspective, especially in the larger context of the Asia-Pacific relations. This course is not aimed to survey a general history of these countries but to discuss major issues in social change and development using East Asian experiences.

Level
Graduate and undergraduate

Department
Department of Sociology
School of Humanities and Sciences