HIST 238 Modern China
This course surveys the main economic developments, social and political institutions, and historical movements of China from late 19th century to the present. Topics to be examined include: the family in late traditional Chinese society, Western contacts and imperialist penetration, 1911 Revolution and the founding of republican China, May-Fourth Movement and Chinese cultural renaissance, peasant rebellions and Communist revolution, and China’s rising economic and political power in contemporary world.
Cross Listed Courses
Same as
IS 238