HI 373

Modern China Since 1890

From Imperial ‘basket-case’, Republican warlord chaos, Communist revolution(s) and economic powerhouse, China has fascinated outside observers. This course focuses on the massive social and cultural change China has experienced, on political struggles between the Communists and the Nationalists, on the economic campaigns that have decimated and rejuvenated China, and the forces (intellectual, national, religious, economic, ecological and political) that challenge the Chinese state at the beginning of the new millennium. {G} {S} Exclusions: HI346m.