HIS338

HIS

338

Undergraduate

MODERN HISTORY OF CHINA

Prerequisite: Upper-division status. The history of China from the rise of the last imperial dynasty (Qing) in the mid-seventeenth century to the present. Topics include the fall of the Ming dynasty and the Manchu conquest of China, the Chinese state and society under the Qing dynasty, the development of relations between China and the West, the decline of the Qing imperial order, the emergence of modern nationalism and the rise of the Chinese Communist Party, Japanese imperialism and World War II, and the establishment of the People's Republic of China. Offered occasionally.

Non-Western Civilization,IF14;, Non-Western Civilization, IF;, Other World Civilizati, GE2KA;