Teaching
This is a brief overview of the courses I teach now, as well as those I have designed and taught in the past. Syllabi available upon request.
Pepperdine University, 2024-
ASIA305: Survey of East Asia
ASIA/HIST 330: Traditional Chinese Culture
ASIA/HIST331: Modern Chinese History
ASIA499: Directed Study (Modern Chinese FIlm)
(small undergraduate lecture- and discussion-based courses)
Stanford University, 2019-2023
EASTASN261/361: War and the Making of Modern China
(mixed undergraduate and graduate seminar)
COLLEGE107/THINK65: Preventing Human Exinction
COLLEGE102: Citizenship in the 21st Century
COLLEGE101: Why College?
THINK55: Understanding Modern China Through Film
THINK60: American Enemies
(first year seminars and discussion sections for large lecture courses)
University of California, Berkeley, 2010-2024
History 116D: Twentieth-century China
(undergraduate lecture course)
History 103F: War and State Violence in the Making of Modern China
History R1B: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and History in Modern East Asia
(undergraduate seminars)
Political Economy 101: Contemporary Theories of Political Economy
International Area Studies 45: Survey of World History
History 6B: History of China, Mongols to Mao
History 6A: History of China, Origins to the Mongol Conquest
(discussion sections for large lecture courses)
University of San Francisco, 2015-2023
Asia Pacific Studies 601: Asia Pacific Histories and Modernities
(core graduate seminar for MA in Asia Pacific Studies)
San Francisco State University, 2022
HIST362: Modern China
(asynchronous online lecture course)
