HIS 270 - Modern China

Three Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016

An introduction to the dramatic transformations in China’s political, economic and socio-cultural life from the seventeenth century to the present. The course will cover transitions from dynastic to republican to communist rule, encounters with the West, socio-economic reforms, and the challenges of modernization in the world’s oldest continuous civilization and bureaucratic state.

Considered a World History.

Course may be applied to the Anthropology minor.