Japanese-Chinese Relations

Catalog description

Studying the past two hundred years of relations between China and Japan is integral to understanding present and future developments in East Asia. This course complements existing courses offered by Seiji Shirane (Traditional Japan; Modern Japan; War in Modern East Asia; The Japanese Empire in the 20th-Century) and Danian Hu (Traditional China; Modern China; Twentieth-Century China). Yet while these other courses briefly touch on issues related to Sino-Japanese relations, this course is the only one to focus exclusively on relations between China and Japan over the longue duree. This is a combined course.