China and the Modern World

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This course would stretch from the 19th century to the present day, placing China alongside of its major regional and global interlocutors of each era. Thus, the course would engage with East and South Asian maritime history, Japanese and Korean history, Soviet and Russian history, US history in several time periods, and so on. This course would serve as a launching pad for students to further explore Chinese, Asian and transnational history.