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HST271: Modern China

From 1600 to the present

  • Syllabus HST271: Modern China (S23)
  • Weekly schedule (Spring ’23)
    • Slides
    • Show and Tell 5
    • Week 15: Wrapping up
    • Week 14: Economic lift-off
    • Week 13: Opening up
    • Show and Tell 4
    • Week 12: Cultural Revolution and “Rapprochement”
    • Week 11: Great Leap Forward
    • Week 10: Building a new China
    • Show and Tell 3
    • Week 9: WWII and Civil War
    • Week 8: Guomindang, Communists, and Japanese
    • Show and Tell 2
    • Week 7: End of Empire and Revolution
    • Week 6: Boxers, end of Empire
    • Week 5: Taiping and Chinese Exclusion Act
    • Week 4: Opium Wars (and more)
    • Show and Tell 1
    • Week 3: High Qing
    • Week 2: Early Qing
    • Week 1: Introduction and navigation
    • First Reflection
  • Participants’ posts
  • General resources
    • Map
    • Timeline
    • In the news
    • I want to read more!
  • East Asian history at ‘berg
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Slides

  • Footnotes and why
  • Jan. 18: Intro and orientation
  • Jan. 20: Modernity and China
  • Jan. 25: Manchu conquest
  • Jan. 27: Manchu conquest/early Qing continued
  • Feb. 3: High Qing
  • Feb. 17: Late Qing
  • Feb. 22: What can I do with a Bergbuilds Domain
  • Feb. 24: Boxer rebellion
  • March 1: End of Empire
  • March 3: a new Republic
  • March 8: Nationalists in power?
  • March 10: Communist survival
  • March 22: WWII
  • March 24: Civil war (against WWII background)
  • March 29: Founding the PRC
  • March 31: Korean War and Dissidents
  • April 5: Great Leap Forward and Great Famine
  • April 12: Cultural Revolution
  • April 14: Mr. Nixon goes to China
  • April 19: Opening up after Mao
  • April 21: 1980s and Tian’anmen
  • April 28: Environment
  • May 3: Internet; semester overview

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