HIST 445 - China since 1600

Credit(s): 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
When Offered: Spring - Odd

This course explores the historical transformation of China from an empire to a modern state to global super power. It examines the social, cultural, and institutional features of the Qing dynasty and its troubled encounters with the West in the nineteenth century, the internal and external conflicts and contentions in the process of China’s transformation into the two modern states of the Republic of China and the People’s Republic of China, and the significance of present-day China in the world and the current problems confronting China.