Modern China: 1839-1949

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The course explores the development of modern Chinese history from the nineteenth century to 1949, covering the last days of China’s Qing dynasty and the Republican period (1911-1949). The course will examine not only historical events such as the Opium War, the 1911 Republican Revolution, and the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), and the Chinese Civil War (1945-1949) but also important historical concepts such as tradition, modernity, imperialism, nationalism, feminism, Marxism, and fascism.