EAST ASIA: TRADITION AND TRANSFORMATION.

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Satisfies: a university graduation requirement–global studies. Explores the diverse societies of China, Mongolia, Japan, and Korea from 1200 B.C.E. to present. The first half covers traditional beliefs, practices, political systems, concepts of justice, and the role of women. The second half examines how East Asians resisted and negotiated the post–1800 European new world order and its existential challenges: Western imperialism, capitalism, industrialization, democracy, communism, fascism, achieving a synthesis of tradition and transformation.