HIS 551 Origins of Modern China

This reading-based field seminar will focus on China's early modern and modern period. It will offer a general narrative of the history of China from the seventeenth-century to the end of the Cultural Revolution with an emphasis on the various interpretative paradigms. It will also examine in depth some important themes of the period addressed by weekly reading, which include commercialization and urbanization in Ming-Qing China, China in world-historical time, and the developments of nationalism and communism. Ultimately this course will help students to understand the formation of a modern nation-state in a non-Western historical context.

Credits

3