Senior Seminar: China's Turning Points

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This course examines contingency, exploring moments when political or intellectual choices—sometimes subtle, sometimes dramatic—reshaped the trajectory of Chinese history. The specific turning points examined in class will vary from year to year, but will be key moments from modern and pre-modern Chinese history that have reverberated down to the present. Rather than inevitable steps in a predetermined story, the course invites students to consider how history and the world we live in today have been shaped by often unpredictable decisions. 001130