College/School
School of Liberal Arts
Course Description
The course explores the development of modern Chinese history from the nineteenth century to 1949, covering the last days of China’s Qing dynasty and the Republican period (1911-1949). The course will examine not only historical events such as the Opium War, the 1911 Republican Revolution, and the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), and the Chinese Civil War (1945-1949) but also important historical concepts such as tradition, modernity, imperialism, nationalism, feminism, Marxism, and fascism.
Grade Modes
Pass/Fail (P), Standard (S)
Course Attributes
Diverse Perspectives (SEDP), Humanities (GEHU)