HIST250 Modern Chinese History
Credits
4 credit points
Lecturer
Professor D Kane
Unit Description
A survey of political and intellectual developments in China set against the first modern contacts with the West through to the Tiananmen riots of 1989. Themes and subject covered will include: the background to the Opium War and the Taiping Rebellion; the Confucian response to the challenge of the West; constitutional reform and the collapse of imperial China; the rise of nationalism, and the rise of Communism; the early years of the People Republic of China; the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, the death of Mao Zedong and the reform in the early 1980s and the political and intellectual crisis of 1989.
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