| Lecture | Topic | Time | Place |
| Lecture 1 | The Significance of the Qing Empire 大清国 (1644-1911) in Chinese History | Tuesday Oct 14, 5-7 pm |
Main Building B302 |
| Lecture 2 | Decline, Imperialism, Rebellion, and Revolution: Understanding the Long Nineteenth Century in China | Tuesday October 28, 5-7 pm |
Main Building B302 |
| Lecture 3 | Modernity, Politics, and War in Republican China (1912-1949) | Tuesday November 11, 5-7 pm | Main Building B302 |
| Lecture 4 | The People’s Republic under Mao Zedong (1949-1976) | Tuesday November 25, 5-7 pm | Main Building B302 |
| Lecture 5 | China after Mao: Topics and Issues (1976-Today) | Tuesday December 9, 5-7 pm |
Main Building B302 |
Academic Biography of Brent Haas
(Brent Haas 简介)
M.A. (2007) & Ph.D. (2013) in East Asian History from University of California San Diego
B.A. (2001) Georgetown University. Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa. Honors in History major, minor in Chinese.
Research Interests
Modern China; Qing Dynasty; Republic of China; Chinese frontier history; transition from imperial to national state formations in China; Local history (Qinghai Province, Yunnan province, and Beijing); history of modern Chinese education; modern Chinese visual culture; historical depictions in shown in Chinese film and television.
Short Biography
A native of Charlotte, North Carolina (USA), Brent Haas began his study of China as a university student. A survey course of Chinese history in his first year of college changed the course of his studies and career, leading him to begin studying Chinese. He made his first trip to Beijing as a student in the Princeton in Beijing (PIB) language program at Beijing Normal University in the summer of 1999. After graduating from Georgetown with a major in history and minor in Chinese, he again returned to Beijing as a foreign student, this time at the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies (IUP) at Tsinghua University. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from University of California San Diego, where he studied modern Chinese history under the guidance of Joseph W. Esherick and Paul G. Pickowicz. He has taught lecture courses on East Asian civilization, modern Chinese history, the history Sino-American relations, Chinese images of the “West”, and Chinese borderlands and minorities for Duke Study in China (DSIC), Duke University, and St. Mary’s College of Maryland. He is now the Resident Director of the University of California Education Abroad Program’s (UCEAP) Beijing Center, overseeing University of California study abroad programs at Beijing Normal University, Peking University, and Tsinghua University. He will teach a modern Chinese history course for international students at Peking University next spring.
