Chinese Migrations

4–5 credits · Graduate

(This section is for MA students. Please contact Kai Dowding for the permission number at kdowding@stanford.edu.) This seminar will explore global patterns of Chinese migration, and consider both continuities and change within these movements. We will examine Chinese communities here in California, as well as in Asia, Africa, South America, and the Caribbean. In addition to the dynamics of specific encounters, the course examines how Chinese migrants contributed to broader patterns of nation building, colonialism, race formation, capitalist development, and global constructions of "Chinese-ness?"