Faculty & Staff
Faculty
Prasenjit Duara, Ph.D.
Professor in History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations.
Teaching/Research Interests:
Social and cultural history of Modern China and Japanese imperialism in China.
I wrote Culture, Power and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942 (1988, 1990) which won the Fairbank and Levenson awards; I teach a course in this field called Civilization and Popular Culture in China which concerns the relationship between elites, state and peasants in popular culture. I also wrote Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China (1995, 1996) which examines the historical and theoretical relationship between nationalism and history and Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern (2003, 2004). I also teach several other East Asia courses: on nationalism and imperialism, history and literature, and the frontier, and history courses on historiography and history and theory. I am currently working on religion and citizenship in East Asia and Hong Kong in the Cold War (1950s).
Courses
- Empire and Nation in East Asia (Autumn 2005, Winter 2006)
- Historiography colloquium (Spring 2006)
- Chinese Overseas
- Civilization and Popular Culture in China
- History and Literature in Modern China
- History and Theory
- Introduction to Civilizations of East Asia
- The East Asian Modern in the 20th Century
