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HIST224

Modern China HIST224 SP

Crosslistings: EAST224

Spring 97 Availability (Last Updated on Thu Apr 17 05:00:17 EDT 1997 )

Section  Limit  Enrollment  Available
  01       44      0         44

After beginning with the collapse of the Ming dynasty and the last flourishing of imperial China under the Qing, we will then explore the various social, economic and political forces confronting China in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Compelled toward change, China over the past two centuries presents a truly epic story, featuring both grand (and utopian) visions and unimaginable hardships. One of the themes of this course will be to examine what the Chinese themselves have had to say: how they have struggled to come to terms with their own cultural history, and to redefine what it means to be China (and Chinese) in the modern world.

MAJOR READINGS

Text: Jonathan D. Spence, THE SEARCH FOR
MODERN CHINA
Others to be announced, including translations and articles
in photocopy.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Occasional quizzes, midterm final, two or three short papers (limited options available).

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Discussion Lecture Occasional Videos

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UG Credit: 1.00 Gen Ed Area & Dept: SBS HIST

Prerequisites: None

Section 01: Wheeler, K; Times: .T.T... 1:10PM;; Grading Mode: A/F; Registration Preference (1 high to 6 low, 0=Excluded) Sr: 1, Jr: 1, So: 1, Fr: 1; Major Preference Given

Last Updated on MAR-10-1997

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Reference:

HISTORY OF THE 20TH CENTURY. U.S.A.: Derbibooks, 1976

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