China in Global Perspective 2: The Internationalization of Modern China

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This course studies how foreign relations have shaped modern China from the Opium War to Alibaba. Topics include commercialization, militarization, and industrialization in the making of the modern state; the international education of Chinese at home and abroad; foreigners in China; the international evolution of Chinese enterprise under capitalism and socialism; the People's Republic and the socialist world economy of the 1950s and 1960s; the 'international development of China' as conceived by Sun Yat-sen, and the birth of the modern infrastructure state; the Chinese diaspora and the re-opening of China after 1978; contemporary China's state-led and private investments abroad and the emergence of a Chinese global citizenry. 001079