Our East Asian History faculty offer rigorous comparative and interdisciplinary training in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and transnational Asian history. While our research interests intersect in significant areas, we represent, collectively, a wide range of methodological approaches and areas of interest. Our faculty and students also participate in a vibrant scholarly community at UW-Madison that encompasses the Center for East Asian Studies, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and the East Asia Graduate Student Association.<br><br>Our faculty’s special strengths include the social, cultural, political, and political-economic history of pre-modern, modern, and global China; gender in modern China; Chinese environmental history and the Chinese borderlands; the cultural and social history of post-colonial Korea; the social, cultural, political history of early modern Japan and modern Japan; and transnational Asia, including intellectual history, migration, and diaspora.