EAST 122 - Modern China

FC SSCI CD

4 credits
This history of China from the founding of the Manchu Qing (Ch’ing) dynasty in 1644 takes a China-centered perspective. Along with political and institutional developments, long-term changes in the society and economy of China are stressed and the indigenous bases for those changes are explored so that China’s 20th-century revolutionary upheaval will be seen to be more than a ‘response to the Western impact’ or an ‘emergence into modernity.’

This course is appropriate for new students.
This course is cross-listed with HIST-106