My favorite class so far! Prof Xu is incredibly intelligent, well-spoken, and passionate, which shines through in lectures and content. In class participation isn't heavy, just do the discussion posts thoughtfully and that's it. I can't recommend this class enough, I learned so much!!

Extremely intelligent, funny, and passionate professor who wants you to succeed! The lectures are very interesting and make the class really fun to go to. He is very supportive and will go out of his way to ensure you can succeed in the class. Each week there was a new film, reading assignment, and written response. Final project as essay or video.

Professor Xu is an intelligent, kind, and caring professor. His lectures are inspiring and well organized. I love his teaching. The class is not hard in general, but the effort is required. 100% would take him again.

Incredibly well-spoken, really cares about his students. Weekly discussion post, just put the effort in. The films we watched were generally interesting and honestly became more interesting with his lectures. Lectures were expansive, great professor, definitely recommend taking this class

Lots of reading, be prepared, and test questions were overzealous for an intro class, but very passionate. Overall, a must-take class if you want to get to know more about east asian modern history

I really enjoyed his lectures, and they were very interesting and informative. He and professor Ikeuchi made EACS4B an enjoyable class overall. However the midterms and finals were a bit difficult and the assigned readings were a bit annoying to go over. However I can tell that they both really want their students to succeed. Overall recommend!