I enjoy teaching because it is an opportunity to try to explain my ideas to a wide vareity of normal people (college students), and to try to convince them to devote their lives to studying Chinese history (or at least see the world in new ways). I believe teaching requires the highest level of knowledge - from knowing, to understanding, to helping others understand. Insofar as it tests my intellect I find it rather rewarding, but whether or not my students find it rewarding or not is another story.
Courses at Hitotsubashi
Undergraduate
Introduction to Economic History (In Japanese, 経済史入門) (syllabus)
Special Issues in Economic History (Historical Data and Methods)
Economic History B (Chinese Rural Economy History) (syllabus)
Graduate
Asian Economic History (syllabus)
Past Courses at the University of Iowa
Undergraduate
Civilizations of Asia: China (syllabus)
Twentieth Century China (syllabus)
Digital History Workshop (syllabus)
Graduate
History Research Methods (syllabus)
Past Courses at Shanxi University
Graduate
Analysis and Interpretation in Quantitative Historical Social Science (Co-instructor, in Chinese) (syllabus)
Big Data and New Methods in Chinese Social History: Collection, Transcription, Analysis (Co-instructor, in Chinese) (syllabus)
A New History for a New China, 1700-2000: Comparative Perspectives on Inequality (Co-instructor) (syllabus)