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Course Info for HIST - 364 - 01, Spring 2026
Class number: 2706 Title: Women Early Modern & Mod China Department: History
Career: Undergraduate Component: Seminar Session: Regular
Instructor's Permission Required: No Grading Basis: Regular Units: 1.00
Enrollment limited to 15 Current enrollment: 14 Available seats: 1
Start date: Tuesday, January 20, 2026 End date: Friday, May 8, 2026 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: MWF: 11:00AM-11:50AM, LSC - 131 Instructor(s): Alejandrino, Clark
Prerequisite(s): None
Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities and Global Requirements
Course Description:
This seminar explores how women experienced and shaped China's transition from the early modern to the modern. What did it mean to be a woman with bound feet in the commercializing late Ming empire? How did class, ethnicity, and status shape a woman's experience in the multi-ethnic Qing empire? How did a woman negotiate questions and demands of modernity and revolution on their gender roles, bodies, and sexualities? How did Qing, Republican, and Communist regimes manage gender norms, sexualities, and deviances? How does a woman exercise agency in a patriarchal system? Students will read, discuss, and write about material (in translation) by women and about women such as novels, films, letters, and poetry.