HISTORY OF MODERN CHINA, 1800-1949

ASIAN/HISTORY 103

Survey of major developments in Chinese history from 1500 B.C. to the founding of the Communist state in 1949. Emphasis on patterns and themes; equal time devoted to the classical and traditional period and the modern era.

ASIAN/HISTORY 337

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.

ASIAN/HISTORY 342

The social, economic and political transformation of China under Communism; the role of ideology in contemporary Chinese historical development; the nature of that historical development in the comparative perspective of other post-revolutionary histories.

HISTORY 854

Chinese history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with emphasis on intellectual history and the history of Chinese Communism.

ASIAN/HISTORY 458

Effects of the modern Western revolution on the established societies of Southeast Asia through colonial rule and economic and cultural change. Not open to students with credit for LCA 458 prior to Fall 2018.