2009 Course Handbook
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: | D2 - Day; Offered in the second half-year |
| Staff Contact: | Professor Daniel Kane |
| Prerequisites: | 12cp |
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| Unit Designations: | -- |
| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: |
Department of Modern History, Politics, International Relations and Security |
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