HIST 476 - Modern China

2019-2020 Catalog Year

Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This course examines the momentous changes in modern China from 1911 to the present. It covers major historical events such as the 1911 Revolution, the 1949 Communist Revolution, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and Deng Xiaping’s reform in the 1980s and 1990s. Based on first person accounts and specialized studies, this course calls attention to the multiple factors- -historical, cultural, social, and economic- -that have shaped contemporary China.

Prerequisite(s): HIST 302 (HIST 301 also recommended).
Offered: Not on a regular basis