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Kim, Kwangmin

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  • Kwangmin Kim specializes in early modern China and East Asia. His research focuses on the history of empire, borderlands, and transnational relations.

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  • Chinese history; East Asian history; world history; early modern history

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Teaching

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  • HIST 1618 - Great Wall Exchange: China and the Nomadic Conquerors, 500 BC � 1500 AD
    Primary Instructor - Summer 2018 / Fall 2018 / Summer 2019 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2024
    This course surveys the intertwined history of China and the Inner Asian nomads. Major themes include but are not limited to 1) the origins of Chinese and Inner Asian civilizations, 2) the Great Wall and nomadic conquests of China, 3) the Silk Road and trans-Eurasian trades, 4) Chinggis Khan and the Mongol empire, 5) Buddhism, Islam, and Confucianism, �6) the tribute system and Asia, and 7) China and the Indian Ocean. Approved for GT-HI1.
  • HIST 1800 - Introduction to Global History
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2018 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024
    The first cornerstone course for history majors applies a broad perspective to the global past in order to illuminate how common historical patterns and processes, as well as unique elements, shaped the human experience. Using a thematic approach, all topical variations of this course highlight cross-cultural interactions among societies, and, when relevant, how historical processes that began centuries ago still impact the contemporary world. Topics will vary by section. Department enforced prerequisite: 3 hours of any history coursework.
  • HIST 3109 - Seminar in Asian History
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2022
    Capstone seminars are designed for advanced history majors to pull together the skills they have honed in previous courses. This seminar focuses on Asian history, and will include readings and discussions in a small seminar setting. In relation to the course topic, students will develop an individual research project and write a substantial and original paper based on primary sources. Previously offered as a special topics course.
  • HIST 3800 - Seminar in Global History
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2019 / Fall 2022
    Organized around themes that change year to year, this seminar allows students to explore and research processes, phenomena, and events of global significance in historical context. Stress will be upon subjects that span multiple world areas. Possible topics include: the international arms trade; slavery; health and disease; youth culture; women's rights; genocide. See department for current theme. Recommended restriction: History GPA of 2.0 or higher. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.
  • HIST 4618 - From Genghis Khan to the Opium War: Early Modern China
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2019 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024
    Examines political, social, and cultural history of China from the Song Dynasty (960-1279) to the opium War (1839-1842). Topics covered include the development of imperial political institution and gentry society, Conquest Dynasties, Neo-Confucianism, China's "medieval economic revolution", Chinese world order in East Asia, Qing multiethnic empire, Chinese overseas migration, and the coming of the West. Recommended prerequisite: HIST 1618 or HIST 1628 or CHIN 1012. Same as HIST 5618.
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