Twentieth-Century China

Catalog description

This graduate seminar is an introduction to English-language works and controversies in Chinese history from the early twentieth century through the People's Republic of China, the latter of which has only recently been studied by historians. Because the period from 1950 on was considered the purview of political scientists and sociologists until recently, this course aims to provide graduate students an overview of the scholarly literature in history, as well as the social sciences, on the People's Republic. The course will focus on issues that have been most prominent in contemporary scholarship, including state-building, modernization, the consolidation of CCP power, and the uneven effects of revolutionary change.