Youth Revolution in China

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This course examines the role young people played in shaping China's modern revolutionary period (1850-present) and immerses students in the revolutionary writings of some of China's key Communist leaders. From college students in the early twentieth-century Republican Era to Red Guards who waged war on traditional culture during the Cultural Revolution, China's youth have both inspired change and complicated the way China thinks about it's past and present. No prerequisite. (Offered every spring term).