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HIST 117 - Modern Chinese History, 1600-present

FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course covers the most recent 400+ years of China’s 4,000+ year history, from the late Ming and Qing dynasties to the Nationalist and Communist republics. Broadly speaking, this is a period marked by China’s steep decline and equally sharp rise. China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was at the height of its imperial power, but by the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries its very existence was in doubt. Now China’s fortunes have changed again, with the nation poised for superpower status on the one hand, while also facing considerable domestic and international challenges on the other. We will trace the many twists and turns of this path, learning how China struggled to survive foreign invasions and severe domestic rebellions, as well as bouts of ideological extremism and intense cultural critique, to emerge where it is today. 
This course is cross-listed with EAST 117




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