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HIST250: Modern Chinese History |
A survey of political and intellectual developments in China set against the first modern contacts with the West through to the Tiananmen riots of 1989. Themes and subjects covered will include: the background to the Opium War and the Taiping Rebellion; the Confucian response to the challenge of the West; constitutional reform and the collapse of imperial China; the rise of nationalism, and the rise of Communism; the early years of the Peoples Republic of China; the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, the death of Mao Zedong and the reform in the early 1980s and the political and intellectual crisis of 1989.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| Contact Hours: | 3 |
| When Offered: |
2007 - Offered in 2007
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| Staff Contact: |
Professor Kane |
| Prerequisites: |
6cp in history or CHN122 or CHN123
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Graded
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| Offered By: |
Department of Modern History |
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