HST 911 - Modern China 1800-1949

3 Credit(s) The course focuses on China between the Opium War of 1840-1842 and the Communist triumph of 1949. It examines many of the key issues that greatly influenced modern Chinese history including Western imperialism, the Taiping and Boxer movements, the Republican Revolution, the Nationalist Revolution, the Sino-Japanese War, and the Victory of the Communist Party.
Not open to students who have received credit for HIS 771N.