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SOCIAL AND INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF CHINA, 589 AD-1919

ASIAN/HISTORY 337
Course Description

The culture of the literati in the T'ang; major trends of Neo-Confucianism during the Sung and Ming; the Confucian response to the West in the nineteenth century; the emergence of the modern Chinese intelligentsia and iconoclasm in the early May Fourth period.

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Sophomore standing

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